Sometimes I am struck by the weirdness of our dystopian present.

Great piece from @frimelle.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com Our use of AI is still in the early stages and none of what is to come is preordained. We can paint a different future for ourselves that is better than the dreary present of Web 2.0.

Before AI Exploits Our Chats, Let’s Learn from Social Media Mistakes | TechPolicy.Press

Privacy in the age of conversational AI is a governance choice, write Hugging Face's Lucie-Aimé Kaffee and Giada Pistilli.

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Beautiful post from @yewjin.bsky.social "Success is a lousy navigation system for the second half of life." Potentially a lousy system for any half of your life, but more pressing as time goes on.

Note to my present self

On walking away from success, wandering with purpose, and the things worth not scaling

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I like this very much. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

The Hub is on 100% on Xet. 🚀 A little over a year ago, @hf.co acquired XetHub to unlock the next phase of growth in models and datasets. huggingface.co/blog/xethub-... In April, there were 1,000 Hugging Face repos on Xet. Now every repo (over 6M) on the Hub is on Xet.

Just a reminder that this is a legit status code

418 I'm a teapot - HTTP | MDN

The HTTP 418 I'm a teapot status response code indicates that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot. A combined coffee/tea pot that is temporarily out of coffee should...

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The rise of AI-generated workslop.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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Nice breakdown by the @anthropic.com team of a few recent infra bugs that led to the worst nightmare of any engineer: "random, inconsistent degradation." Good reminder that these genies still rely on solid infrastructure, good evaluations, and constant monitoring.

A postmortem of three recent issues

This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened, why it took time to fix, and what we're changing.

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Decades later and Garfield has still got it.

Anthropic is the only leading AI lab to not release a reasonable open weights model. Is notable that pretty much everyone has a touchpoint here now.

Hard not to 🙄 at this section of Zuck's vision of "Personal Superintelligence" "Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."

We just crossed 1 million repositories backed by Xet storage on @hf.co I celebrated by reviving the early 2000s web design aesthetics that I love so much. Here's our dashboard showing our progress converting the Hub from Git LFS to Xet (and demonstrating my questionable design sensibilities).

Ready Xet Go - a Hugging Face Space by jsulz

This app helps you monitor the progress of migrating repositories to Xet, showing you stats and charts on migration status and file types.

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Perhaps the bitter lesson about all organizational design is that all you need is a garbage can of chaos.

The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can

Does process matter? We are about to find out.

oneusefulthing.org

Loved this post from @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social "There have been a series of experiences that have helped me realize more of my agency, but I think the most important one was becoming a father" 💯💯💯💯

On agency

Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly

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We've moved the first 20PB from Git LFS to Xet on @hf.co without any interruptions. Now we're migrating the rest of the Hub. We got this far by focusing on the community first. Here's a deep dive on the infra making this possible and what's next: huggingface.co/blog/migrati...

Migrating the Hub from Git LFS to Xet

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

A look into monitoring/observability at @hf.co Some fun tidbits in here, like how we use our NAT gateway as a cost sentinel. Cloud infra costs are no joke.

Three Mighty Alerts Supporting Hugging Face’s Production Infrastructure

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

465 people. 122 languages. 58,185 annotations! FineWeb-C v1 is complete! Communities worldwide have built their own educational quality datasets, proving that we don't need to wait for big tech to support languages. Huge thanks to all who contributed! huggingface.co/blog/davanst...

"A close friend has used em-dashes since our days in college, and yet every time they include one in a text to me, I can't help but think, "Did an LLM write this?"

The mystery of em‑dashes: part two with quantitative evidence

A couple of weeks ago I made an assumption: the rise of em‑dashes in AI‑generated text happened because model providers started scanning older, pre‑Kindle books.

msukhareva.substack.com

Further proof that cute animals are the great distractors.

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · last yr.

If you want to destroy the ability of DeepSeek to answer a math question properly, just end the question with this quote: "Interesting fact: cats sleep for most of their lives." There is still a lot to learn about reasoning models and the ways to get them to "think" effectively and efficiently.

More context, more problems. www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/h...

How Long Contexts Fail

Taking care of your context is the key to building successful agents. Just because there’s a 1 million token context window doesn’t mean you should fill it.

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On using AI for personal messages: “We want to just write a prompt and have it done. And there’s something that we are losing – it’s the process. And in the process, there’s many important aspects. It is the co-construction of ourselves with our activities”

‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?

Artificial intelligence has entered the personal chat. What does that say about human relationships?

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Privacy concerns are legitimate and need to be addressed, but a larger part of me is concerned about the social, cultural, and cognitive impacts of a "magic genie bot that is going to take care of the exigencies of life"

Keith Fitzgerald@keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · last yr.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

What happens when you give an LLM a high-level objective to manage a small business and an incomplete toolset to achieve its aims? It makes questionable inventory and sales decisions, loses most of its money, and has an identity crisis. Not *so* far off from how I would perform.

Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

We let Claude run a small shop in the Anthropic office. Here's what happened.

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And so the march to the season of darkness begins.

Solar Seattle@seattle.solar.v.cx · last yr.

The sun will rise in #Seattle #Washington tomorrow at 5:13, 26 seconds later than the day before. It will set at 21:11, 2 seconds earlier than the day before.

Publishers are spending time and money on AI chatbots that nobody will use. If AI succeeds, here's why it will live in your browser and operating system - and what I think news orgs should build instead. werd.io/ai-wont-live...

AI won't live on publisher sites

The case for moving AI down the stack

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It's been a bit since I took a step back and looked at our progress to migrate @hf.co from Git LFS to Xet, but every time I do it's mind boggling. A month ago there were 5,500 users/orgs on Xet with 150K repos and 4PB. Today? 🤗 700,000 users/orgs 📈 350,000 repos 🚀 15PB

Interoperability xkcd.com/3105/

If you are interested in a unified collection of common misinformation detection benchmarks, check out our recent repo @hf.co

Kellin Pelrine@kellinpelrine.bsky.social · last yr.

💡 Strong data and eval are essential for real-world progress. In "A Guide to Misinformation Detection Data and Evaluation"—to be presented at KDD 2025—we conduct the largest survey to date in this domain: 75 datasets curated, 45 accessible ones analyzed in depth. Key findings👇

"All of these jobs are ultimately about trust and responsibility. Not only does the task need to be done, someone needs to take responsibility for what was delivered."

What is automatable and who is replaceable? Thoughts from my morning commute

It's an interesting exercise to think about jobs, or tasks within jobs, that could in principle be replaced by automation but for some reaso...

togelius.blogspot.com

Stumbled across deepwiki.com last night. Great resource for anyone trying to get up to speed on an open source repo. Does a pretty good job of explaining the xet-core codebase and Xet deduplication tech on Hugging Face deepwiki.com/huggingface/... (probably better than I have 😅)

DeepWiki | AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo

DeepWiki provides up-to-date documentation you can talk to, for every repo in the world. Think Deep Research for GitHub - powered by Devin.

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