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
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?
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.
How to Harness Your Behavioural Wake to Amplify Culture
Every interaction we have, whether in a high-stakes meeting or a casual coffee chat, leaves a wake. Is yours calm, or chaotic?
AI #160: What Passes For a Pause
A lot happened, but by today’s standards this felt like a quiet week.
HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts
The consensus reaction to the OpenAI Technical Report is that it contains and confirms a lot of good information.
Keir Starmer to stand down as MP to focus on world affairs
Former PM says it is right time to go, which will trigger byelection that Greens’ Zack Polanski could target
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.
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
The overreaction to this Hugging Face thing is driving me nuts. Come flay me for being wrong but... 1/x
Stephen Wild
Does anyone know of a good counterpoint (eg, the Hugging Face incident was no big deal, it's better than you think, etc) to this? I am genuinely curious to read it to see what the counter-arguments are.
