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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 5h

Which is pretty funny consodering the whole LLM stuff doesn’t have any meaningful impact on — you know — actual material production chains.

But again that’s a mighty big IF.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 10h

Yesssss

Sell journals that read like fever dreams. Drop a zine called "How to Cook for Demons (and Other Exes)." Release a PDF guide to identifying cryptids based on aura alone. Make it downloadable. Make it confusing. Make people pay $4.99 and not regret it until page 11.

Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 10h

The career advice you weren't asking for com.manychat.com/article/so-y...

So You Wanna Shitpost: A Creator’s Guide to Weaponized Nonsense | Chronically Online Magazine

com.manychat.com

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 11h

“There’s a way to age gracefully, and then there’s a Meta app” www.theverge.com/tech/791595/...

Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo

Plain old pictures are out; content is in.

www.theverge.com

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 1d

“The evidence reveals that headlines using simple words are preferred by audiences of financial professionals.”

That's a diss www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Grabbing Wall Street’s Attention: Headlines Traits that Influence Click-through Rates

Headlines are crucial for attracting click-through rates, and several factors influence audience preferences. While certain factors affect general audiences, there is a gap in the literature regard...

www.tandfonline.com

Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 1d

Canva is where good brand work goes to die, apparently.

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 1d

Wondering how much this tracks with general trust in these institutions…

rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 1d

How do people think different sectors’ use of generative AI will change their experience of interacting with them?

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 1d

@frank-swain.bsky.social if "good" is the keyword… tricky. There is a lot of speculation, but most mistake platform powers for technological affordances or indulge in determinisms. That said @felixsimon.bsky.social has done some great analytical work www.cjr.org/tow_center_r...

Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena

<p>Download the pdf here. Executive Summary Despite growing interest, the effects of AI on the news industry and our information environment — the public arena — remain poorly understood. Insufficient...

www.cjr.org

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 1d

Oh nice! I read this one over the weekend, which also argues in a similar vein that expertise itself is inherently relational. You might enjoy papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Relational Expertise: What Machines Can't Know

Professions continue to be the primary means through which societies institutionalize expertise. Recent analyses and narratives predict that artificial intellig

papers.ssrn.com

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 1d

I‘d honestly love to see an analysis of the kind of use cases OpenAI imagines for their tech. Feels kinda revealing. www.wired.com/story/openai...

In one example, OpenAI software engineer Alexi Christakis launched a chat directed at the Canva app and prompted Canva to draw up posters for a dog-walking business. From there, he asked for a pitch deck in order to raise capital for the business.

Christakis then asked ChatGPT to suggest a city that would be ideal to expand the business into (it offered Pittsburgh, for those wondering). Next he called up a Zillow ChatGPT app and asked it to show homes for sale in the city. This brought up an interactive map showing houses for sale. Christakis asked ChatGPT to refine the results to just three-bedroom houses with a yard.

Altman said that OpenAI plans to introduce new ways for developers to monetize their ChatGPT apps, including methods for buying things through the chatbot. “Soon we’ll offer an agentic commerce protocol, with instant checkout from right within ChatGPT,” Altman said.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

This was, ultimately, the point of substack: throw money at reactionary bloggers, claim that this is a new media and not just fissioning off the clicky bits from legacy publications, then let the price of media giants drop enough for all the worst people to buy them up and install their media pets.

Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 2d

lol substack's cofounder has a new post claiming the sale of weiss' grievance blog—which substack heavily promoted & shares an investor w (technofash goob marc andreessen)—proves the platform offers "an immense opportunity for ambitious new media founders to build a new generation of institutions."

The home for media startups

There has never been a better time to start a media business

post.substack.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."

But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

UX so bad that it's illegal

Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 2d

I really hate it when my areas of detached interest violently collapse like this…

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 2d

Wait wait wait… There was an Airmail (which apparently has a store?) x Anthropic branding thingy in New York. And they sold a print version of a rather weird essay by their founder?

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

Hadn't seen this "Cartography of Generative AI" before. From Estampa, a collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers working in the fields of audiovisual media and digital environments: cartography-of-generative-ai.net

“Cartography of Generative AI (2024)” shows a sprawling, diagrammatic ecosystem of how generative AI is produced and maintained. The background is light pink with turquoise and yellow highlights. The left side has a turquoise vertical sidebar with labeled sections such as AI imaginaries, Critical expertise, Data sciences, Silicon Valley, and AI harms.

The main diagram maps the flow of generative AI development from top to bottom:

Top left: A globe icon with arrows represents global energy consumption, linked to servers and calculation power (chips, GPUs, and companies like TSMC).

Top center: Rows of red server racks show data centers, connected to big data platforms and pipelines of training data (shown as orange blocks).

Top right: Yellow stacks and schematic diagrams depict the supply chain of raw materials (e.g., cobalt, lithium) and scenes of mining.

Upper right corner: A vignette labeled digital colonialism shows resource extraction sites and cables crossing oceans.

Middle section:

Blue isometric office-like spaces labeled AI start-ups and Silicon Valley venture capital, with tiny illustrated workers at desks, computers, and whiteboards.

Orange and yellow arrows and blocks represent the movement of datasets, training, and alignment processes.

A section labeled human labour shows rows of workers annotating data.

Lower section:

Gridded platforms in orange and yellow depict data extraction from the internet—social media, images, sound, text—and web scraping from sources like Wikipedia, Reddit, Flickr, YouTube.

Groups of small figures interact with large wireframe cube models labeled generative AI engines.

Other vignettes show AI products (like chatbots), digital gig work, and consumer use.

Far right:

Layers of stacked chips show advanced chip production and global supply chains.

A blue network node diagram illustrates the infrastructure economy behind AI technologies.

Boxes at the bottom describe research and governance structures.

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 4d

From the top of my head (though not research in an academic context) newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/our-a...

Our Artificial Wilderness: Virtual Beauty & Ecological Decay

newdesigncongress.org

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 5d

72h trying to decompress from life. Sorry, I was thinking about writing to you for coffee, but I wanted to keep my brain completely decoupled from anything work-related. Next time!

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 5d

I am in love ❤️ wisetype.nl/typefaces/ga...

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, I know royalty…

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 8d

A way of trying to stem the feeling of alienation in the modern office job? Also possibly as with the heritage brand obsession of hipsters: ✩‧₊˚ recession indicator ✧.*

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe it's like carcinisation? Meaning there would be another inevitable Marx?

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 9d

I am upgrading my M1 Air, and I am a bit surprised by how attached one can become to a machine. Did a lot of pretty cool stuff with this one, and it never once let me down.

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 9d

Someone woke up and chose violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The New Ideologies of Eurocentrism: Neo-feudalism, Techno-feudalism and Irrational Myths of the Present

Western social theorists have begun positing the possibility of a new feudal mode of production putting an end to capitalism. Some of these writers have called this “neo-feudalism” and others “tech...

www.tandfonline.com

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 9d

One of the more meta similarities between 2000 and 2025 is the extent to which the likelihood of a bubble is widely recognized and discussed, even as asset prices climb.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 14d

Dispatch #31: Anti-Design

Design to compensate for a lack of design

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...

Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...

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Dispatch #31: Anti-Design

YouTube video by Faster and Worse

www.youtube.com

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