Couple hours later and we’re enjoying the hug of death. Zick is away for an appointment and Meri is sleeping, meanwhile I haven’t the slightest clue what a FetchEvent oughta respondWith, so please bear with me as I do nothing to improve the situation.
Jul 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM
How to Fall Asleep in 2 Minutes or Less | The Art of Manliness
With our archives now 3,500+ articles deep, we’ve decided to republish a classic piece each Friday to help our newer readers discover some of the best, evergreen gems from the past. This article was originally published in March 2018. Have you ever unexpectedly found yourself with a snatch of time in which to steal a […]
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☕ Resting. Feeling some of the distance in legs and feet and still not home yet. Shorter days and it gets cold fast.
Ravid Shwartz Ziv on Twitter / X
The problem with Anthropic's consciousness paperMy last post got more attention than I expected, and the question I keep getting is some version of "okay, so what is actually wrong with the paper?". Let me try to explain.First, the core result is fine. Reading out…— Ravid Shwartz Ziv (@ziv_ravid) July 7, 2026
HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.
What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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☀️ 9am and on, sunlight through walnut leaves, butterflies dancing in between. The morning is warmer than expected.
One Situation After Another
Doomscrolling is over. Now everyone is “monitoring the situation.”
Are you in the right room? - Emelia’s Ramblings
There's that question of "do people feel your absence in a room?" which can be a hard one to answer.
huginn/huginn
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited
this latest “bluesky is dying” wave feels like a good time for me to reshare the talk i gave at Atmosphere Conference 2026 i’m biased of course, but i think it does a pretty damn good job of explaining how we got here and where we’re going i’ve never felt more certain that atproto will “win”
From Toilets to Moths: The Future of Social Media is Weird and Not for Everyone
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Anil Dash
It's important to understand: social networks are not meant to be one-size-fits all! When Meta (which makes Threads, as well as Facebook and Instagram) creates platforms that have hundreds of millions of users, they do things like enable genocides, where tens of thousands of innocent people die.
