Johannes Klingebiel
@klingebeil.bsky.social
Designer and researcher. STS & media stuff. Researching Hype. Doing mischief @media-lab.de. Maker of zines. Optimist aus Notwehr. ✨
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“Zau Lahtaw, a junior at Syracuse University, says he also gets his news from scrolling on TikTok, primarily from Dylan Page, as well as from a talking fish — styled after the animated news anchor that delivers “breaking news” in SpongeBob SquarePants.” www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Zoomers get all their news from TikTok — and refuse to go elsewhere
www.theverge.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“Zau Lahtaw, a junior at Syracuse University, says he also gets his news from scrolling on TikTok, primarily from Dylan Page, as well as from a talking fish — styled after the animated news anchor that delivers “breaking news” in SpongeBob SquarePants.” www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Throwing hundreds of trend reports into NotebookLM just shows a comical amount of “I have no idea what I am doing.”
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Throwing hundreds of trend reports into NotebookLM just shows a comical amount of “I have no idea what I am doing.”
Crawling articles, hoping to make a point. 👀
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Crawling articles, hoping to make a point. 👀
Reposted by Johannes Klingebiel
I think there's an interesting study of media to be done looking at who gets labeled an "expert" and who gets labeled a "skeptic". Certainly for coverage of "AI", but I wonder if there are other topics that would make interesting comparisons.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I think there's an interesting study of media to be done looking at who gets labeled an "expert" and who gets labeled a "skeptic". Certainly for coverage of "AI", but I wonder if there are other topics that would make interesting comparisons.
Rereading old Niemanlab predictions and yeah… It‘s kinda striking how some things just haven’t changed. I wrote this in 2018. www.niemanlab.org/2018/12/we-a...
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Rereading old Niemanlab predictions and yeah… It‘s kinda striking how some things just haven’t changed. I wrote this in 2018. www.niemanlab.org/2018/12/we-a...
I really really love (print) media but hated the idea of working in a newsroom.
In all honesty, this is also, in part, to blame on the one Monocle issue that sixteen-year-old me was gifted by an aunt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (I still have it.)
In all honesty, this is also, in part, to blame on the one Monocle issue that sixteen-year-old me was gifted by an aunt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (I still have it.)
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I really really love (print) media but hated the idea of working in a newsroom.
In all honesty, this is also, in part, to blame on the one Monocle issue that sixteen-year-old me was gifted by an aunt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (I still have it.)
In all honesty, this is also, in part, to blame on the one Monocle issue that sixteen-year-old me was gifted by an aunt. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (I still have it.)
Spend the afternoon reading about the use and role of flowcharts in organisations, and I couldn’t be happier doi.org/10.7560/IC51...
Project MUSE - The Multiple Meanings of a Flowchart
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Spend the afternoon reading about the use and role of flowcharts in organisations, and I couldn’t be happier doi.org/10.7560/IC51...
“This all feels much more like a flashy trend meant to convince people the gen AI is worth getting excited about.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Who is AI nostalgia slop even for?
Video generators like Sora rely on a monoculture that no longer exists.
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“This all feels much more like a flashy trend meant to convince people the gen AI is worth getting excited about.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
I mean, it's no surprise that Silicon Valley likes playing fast and loose with historical anecdotes, but I think using the railway bubble as a somewhat positive example is pretty callous. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/06/cris...
Crisis Chronicles: Railway Mania, the Hungry Forties, and the Commercial Crisis of 1847 - Liberty Street Economics
Money was plentiful in the United Kingdom in 1842, and with low yields on government bonds and railway shares paying handsome dividends, the desire to speculate spread—as one observer put it, “the con...
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I mean, it's no surprise that Silicon Valley likes playing fast and loose with historical anecdotes, but I think using the railway bubble as a somewhat positive example is pretty callous. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/06/cris...
The one thing I truly miss is japanese design twitter. 🥲
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The one thing I truly miss is japanese design twitter. 🥲
I mean… then it wouldn’t be a bubble? Because that would mean there will be the necessary cash flow available to pay for everything? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I mean… then it wouldn’t be a bubble? Because that would mean there will be the necessary cash flow available to pay for everything? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cool cool cool www.axios.com/2025/11/19/f...
Fox News hires Palantir to build AI newsroom tools
Fox News and Palantir have built three main tools to improve efficiency.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Cool cool cool www.axios.com/2025/11/19/f...
Not surprised, but also still a bit bummed out with this excerpt. longnow.org/ideas/the-es...
The Essential Art of Civilization
What the U.S. Army’s idea of “sustainment” can teach us about how systems — and civilizations — endure.
longnow.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Not surprised, but also still a bit bummed out with this excerpt. longnow.org/ideas/the-es...
Reposted by Johannes Klingebiel
just in case nobody has done it before
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
just in case nobody has done it before
OH: This is going into the field notes
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
OH: This is going into the field notes
It‘s that time of the year again… re-publica.com/de/cfp-berlin
Call for Participation | re:publica
Jetzt Programm-Idee für die re:publica 26 einreichen!
re-publica.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It‘s that time of the year again… re-publica.com/de/cfp-berlin
“Have you been feeling too sane lately? Have I got something for you! It is a company called CoreWeave.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb
The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
“Have you been feeling too sane lately? Have I got something for you! It is a company called CoreWeave.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Really having a hard time not reading "stepping stone to AR glasses" as investor bait. (The rest is pretty good.) www.theverge.com/tech/820416/...
Who is buying VR and XR headsets anyway?
Who are the people shelling out thousands for such a niche gadget?
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Really having a hard time not reading "stepping stone to AR glasses" as investor bait. (The rest is pretty good.) www.theverge.com/tech/820416/...
Fucking hell, Microsoft… Tahoe is already bad enough
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Fucking hell, Microsoft… Tahoe is already bad enough
Not sure the 1st industrial revolution was particularly joyful, though… www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
The Most Joyless Tech Revolution Ever: AI Is Making Us Rich and Unhappy
Discomfort around artificial intelligence helps explain the disconnect between a solid economy and an anxious public.
www.wsj.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Not sure the 1st industrial revolution was particularly joyful, though… www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
Reposted by Johannes Klingebiel
Olivia Nuzzi was doing journalism the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Olivia Nuzzi was doing journalism the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
Reposted by Johannes Klingebiel
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
People like to talk about technological “transformation” when “distortion” is often the more fitting term.
AI-written cover letters mean employers find it harder to spot good candidates, so offer lower pay across the board www.economist.com/finance-and-...
How AI is breaking cover letters
And leading to lower pay
www.economist.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
People like to talk about technological “transformation” when “distortion” is often the more fitting term.
I see the more obnoxious design discourse is alive and well www.wsj.com/lifestyle/se...
The Skinny Font Taking Over Tech Companies and the White House
After decades of obscurity, a bookish style of lettering is everywhere. Some typeface connoisseurs say it’s gone too far.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I see the more obnoxious design discourse is alive and well www.wsj.com/lifestyle/se...
The shitty typography, the cheap spray painted golden ornaments… all that bluster about “traditional architecture” and “beauty” but a total ignorance of craft and detail. Which tracks for a fascist government.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The shitty typography, the cheap spray painted golden ornaments… all that bluster about “traditional architecture” and “beauty” but a total ignorance of craft and detail. Which tracks for a fascist government.