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No one asked me to capture the current state of my life in three words and a series of pictures, but that didn't stop me. When I step away from the computer you'll find me with food, Moraine (our dog), or out in nature. More at: huggingface.co/datasets/jsu...

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.

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.

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

Just a reminder that this is a legit status code

The rise of AI-generated workslop.

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.

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."

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

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" 💯💯💯💯

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.

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?"

Further proof that cute animals are the great distractors.

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

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”

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"

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.

And so the march to the season of darkness begins.

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...

Interoperability xkcd.com/3105/

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 😅)

A bit of reflection on being a new parent; mostly on my perception of time as a new father. TL;DR - I have less time 🤪 (but more purpose).

Forest bathing. A common Washington state pastime.

I've been working on cutting down my, "I'm sorry, I meant to be more clear in my last prompt" messages too. There is a price to being polite. Good breakdown by Julien Delavande, @sashamtl.bsky.social, and Régis Pierrard.

Just get the Windows box back up and running to troubleshoot some user reports about slow downloads in WSL. It'll be easy. I *won't* spend the entire morning downloading software and rebooting the machine.

Learned GCP was out by seeing my dog door monitor was broken (backed by a cloud SQL instance). How am I going to replay/track the events of her going in and out the dog door during this outage? These are the important questions.

🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵

As a side-effect of the @gradio-hf.bsky.social hackathon, we may have just accidentally created the largest open source collection of MCP servers. If you are curious about what can be done with MCP you should really check them out, it’s pretty wild: huggingface.co/spaces?filte...

A philosophy to live by (also, check out those beards 🧔🧔)

"It started a few years ago when Peter was raised to the rank of department head and was careless enough to leave a portrait of himself floating around." How one man's face came to be plastered all over the Bell Labs campus (including on a watertower) during the early days of Unix development.

Awk is for kids and adults alike, just like A&W's root beer floats.

I misspelled avocado once while grocery shopping. Now I only buy avacardos.