Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 11hBig Tech is giving AI agents big eyes and cute mascots so hallucinations feel less alarming. Cute stops being a differentiator the moment everyone does it. clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 010 1
Reposted by Clo WillaertsAnne Hjortshøj @annesaurus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026After tiring of the logorrhea of my LinkedIn feed, I decided to see if I could turn the first few words of ~20 posts into poetry. I present "PSA to Anyone." It's dystopian, but so is LinkedIn. 211932 119
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This week in Chaos & Amazement #2639: ➛ Maybe-conscious AI ➛ AI agents reshaping business ➛ Robots that can do the job but can’t justify the cost ➛ The growing challenge of trusting what we see online. Plus, dancing AI cats, because the internet. clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This week in Chaos & Amazement: shifting social platforms, increasingly autonomous AI agents, the gap between attention and value, and one very compelling reason to keep watching Shaboozey. clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 020 2
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026New Chaos & Amazement ➛ AI gets physical, prompts become creative acts, privacy gets murky, and the future remains gloriously weird. Enjoy! clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 010 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Kids off social media, AI leaders hitting the brakes, ads inside ChatGPT, and a highway that plays music 🎶🚗 New Chaos & Amazement is out: clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New Chaos & Amazement: Apple folds, AI agents talk to each other, Meta wants to spend your money, Wikipedia becomes a game, and a Star Trek Dutch oven costs about €500, or roughly 0.0001 Ferengi fortunes. Read #2637 ➛ clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026New Chaos & Amazement is out. The useful question this week: what changes when AI stops being a tool and becomes part of the environment we search, create and work in? Plus vintage AI, internet weirdness, and a kitten called Komatsu. clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This week in Chaos & Amazement: ➛ Meta’s $18B settlement and the rising cost of engagement ➛ NVIDIA’s reported $12.9B Hugging Face bid ➛ AI that models physics, not just language ➛ Synthetic media, trust, rockets, deep oceans Plus: the duck. 🦆 clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 030 3
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This week in *Chaos & Amazement*: ➛ Reddit vs. OpenAI ➛ $499 full-body health scans ➛ Amazon’s drone suburbs ➛ AI audio gets dramatically cheaper ➛ A handmade baby cow becomes a box-office hit The internet remains deeply strange. Thankfully. clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 010 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026New Chaos & Amazement, slightly shorter because it’s too damn hot. This week: Instagram’s rebrand, MySpace’s unlikely comeback, AI agents, Google quietly dismantling Search, and Albert the camel discovering that lemons are sour. Read it here ➛ clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 010 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Chaos & Amazement #2632 is out. This week: Google’s changing search, AI is reshaping discovery, Reddit is fighting spam, and the web remains gloriously weird. clowillaerts.substack.com/p/chaos-and-... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 01/08/2026New Chaos & Amazement is out. This week: LinkedIn's AI irony, a fundamental flaw in LLMs, why graphs are suddenly everywhere in AI, ICE's surveillance stack, plus a few wonderfully weird corners of the internet. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...open.substack.comChaos & Amazement #2631 Graph Engineering, the Gen Alpha Melody , and Horse GossipWe’re officially past the halfway point of the year, which is either a useful moment to check in on your goals or a mildly terrifying reminder that time is, in fact, happening: how are you doing? 022 2
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This week's newsletter explores a common thread: what happens when the internet is no longer built just for humans. From rogue AI agents and machine-first web traffic to Claudefishing, Spotify's fraud detection, and Jimothy. Happy reading. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 120 2
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 18/07/2026This week's Chaos & Amazement: robot cars with personalities, Google's NotebookLM becoming Gemini Notebook, why the AI super app is harder than it looks, Seth Godin on reach, and a musical rabbit hole that left me questioning reality. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 010 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 11/07/2026This week's issue of Chaos & Amazement made one thing click for me: Don't just watch what AI can do. Watch what incentives it changes. Privacy is becoming a product. Human content is becoming more valuable as AI content explodes. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 04/07/2026This week's Chaos & Amazement: the slow death of digital ownership, AI's beige design monoculture, NotebookLM's new video overviews, and a few gloriously weird corners of the internet. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 001 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 27/06/2026New Chaos & Amazement is out. Millennials use AI more than Gen Z. Polymarket's creator scandal. Robots that relearn how to walk after losing a leg. Plus Leonardo's reunited notebooks and two new blog posts. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 011 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 20/06/2026New Chaos & Amazement 🚀 This week: AI ultrasound scanners 🩻, TikTok Farlands 🕳️, flying security cameras 🚁, internet nostalgia 🌐, and John Malkovich in a Croatian ad 🇭🇷. The future remains deeply weird. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 040 4
Reposted by Clo WillaertsRichard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026🧵A somewhat niche thread. Film posters inadvertently photographed by postwar town planners. I found most in the Manchester Archives+ and Manchester Libraries archives. #1: Dr. No #cinema #socialhistory 729285 292
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Creating is getting easier. Ownership is getting harder. This week's Chaos & Amazement covers Google's AI liability problem, Apple's EU AI delay, Canva's Magic Layers, why AI-written apologies backfire, and a few wonderfully weird corners of the internet. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 07/06/2026This week shows how tightly AI + markets are intertwined. SpaceX, Anthropic & OpenAI IPO buzz = unprecedented capital concentration 💰 ChatGPT hitting 1B users in 3 years = insane adoption speed 🚀 AI is shifting from products → infrastructure inside institutions 🧠 open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 110 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Instagram is becoming a CV 📱 TikTok is becoming a shop 🛒 Gyms are becoming community hubs 🏋️ And companies are finally asking whether AI is creating actual value 🤖 The technology story is rarely the story. The behavior change underneath it is. 👀 open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 010 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026New edition of Chaos & Amazement is out. ➛ Smartphones and falling birth rates ➛ AI's shift from capability to trust ➛ What happens when a real Monet is labeled "AI" ➛ Halupedia, snowless skiing, blackout poetry, and tuned rubber chickens open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 120 2
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This week’s theme: platforms are closing, AI is speeding up content, and distribution is everything. Stop focusing only on output. Start focusing on where attention is controlled and how your work actually gets distributed inside these systems. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...open.substack.comChaos & Amazement #2620 TikTok GO, the Clippening, and the Resurrection EconomyThis week looks at how AI, media, and platforms keep sliding toward systems that monetize attention first and explain themselves later. Meanwhile, the saxophone gets louder… 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 09/05/2026New edition of Chaos & Amazement is out ✨ This week: 🤖 emotionally manipulative AI pets 📉 martech becoming AI plumbing 🧠 the rise of parasocial media 💬 websites that talk back 🍌 Korea solving banana logistics somehow open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 130 3
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 02/05/2026This week in tech: Netflix goes vertical. Vine returns selling human weirdness. OpenAI wants hardware. Lovable kills friction with mobile. OpenAI also accidentally trained models to love goblins 🧌🧌🧌 open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...open.substack.comChaos & Amazement #2618 Vine is Back, OpenAI has Goblins, and Lovable has an app👋 Hi Birdman, my only subscriber in Papua New Guinea and, by some distance, the most handsome man on the internet. Hi also to everyone else. Here's your weekly ration of internet nonsense. 010 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Chaos & Amazement #2617 is out 🚀 LinkedIn = people over brands 📉 AI tools = workflows collapsing 🤖 “Humanized” AI = new trust games 🎭 Read it, think about it, try to keep up: open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 19/04/2026New Chaos & Amazement: ➛ AI agents are running ops ➛ Identity is going ambient ➛ Tokens are rewriting cost structures open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 010 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 11/04/2026AI is eating search, “ownership” is becoming conditional, and marketing is drifting into policy, infrastructure, and power. This week’s Chaos & Amazement is less about trends and more about rewriting your mental model. Read it before your playbook expires. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...open.substack.comChaos & Amazement #2615 Google Zero, Good Taste, and Nutella in SpaceA week where AI eats the internet, autonomy comes with a paywall, and we casually debate rewriting the social contract. Just normal stuff. 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Headless human clones, AI that predicts your brain, cringe ghostwriters, and the chaos of Fruit Love Island 🍉🤖 This week’s Chaos & Amazement is a ride through tech, internet culture, and beautifully weird corners of the web Read and subscribe 👇 open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026My keynote at #AI5050 Personal Branding in times of AI www.bnox.be/2026/04/my-k...bnox.beMy keynote at #AI5050 Personal Branding in times of AIYesterday I spoke at the AI5050 conference about a hard truth: in a world of infinite AI generated content, your real voice is your only c... 020 2
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Chaos & Amazement #2613 in a nutshell: AI hype meets economic reality. Content is abundant, taste is scarce. Useful beats perfect. Skill still wins. Tech changes fast. Humans don’t. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 21/03/2026This week in Chaos & Amazement: NVIDIA building AI alliances, Karpathy causing job panic, SaaS being replaced by Claude skills, Apple doing brainrot marketing, cyborg cockroaches, Tom Scott returning, and a website that lets you translate things into LinkedIn speak. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Chaos & Amazement #2611 is out. AI agents getting their own social network, LinkedIn turning into a résumé for robots, flat-pack humanoid robots, and Cocomelon for adults. 🤖📦🎻 open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Tech keeps getting weirder. This week in Chaos & Amazement: 🐒 Companies hiring “hype monkeys” 🤖 AI that imports your personality 👓 Glasses that record your life 🌀 A few wonderfully strange corners of the internet Read it here and subscribe for the next one ↓ open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 04/03/2026On March 31 at #AI5050 I’m running a practical workshop on building real authority on LinkedIn in the age of AI. ➛ Define your Unique Value Zone ➛ Balance reach + revenue ➛ Turn posts into customers ➛ Batch a week in 1 hour Plus: free copy of Personal Branding like a PRO for attendees. 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 28/02/2026AI replacing jobs isn’t the only story. If AI shrinks white-collar income, what happens to demand, brands, and growth? New Chaos & Amazement looks at: • consumer ripple effects • LinkedIn’s algo shift • autonomous AI agents • early backlash signals open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...open.substack.comChaos & Amazement #2609 QuitGPT, LinkedIn’s New Algo, and Human-Powered AIThis week: a thought experiment about economic fragility, a backlash brewing in AI land, and a few beautifully strange corners of the internet. 054 5
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 21/02/2026From @sigilwen.bsky.social’s Web 4.0 and Snapchat’s creator pivot to a viral @ikea.bsky.social orangutan, this week’s issue covers the chaos and amazement of our digital future. Plus, why the @stephencolbert.bsky.social "cancellation" backfired open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 010 1
Reposted by Clo WillaertsJulie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...open.substack.comPrince Andrew's ArrestAcross the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter 1895335117771 33.5K
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Struggling to do more with less? Get Content Marketing like a PRO for €18,75 (was €37,50). Upskill your internal team with this step-by-step guide to content marketing strategy and execution. www.lannoopublishers.com/en/content-m...lannoopublishers.comContent Marketing like a PROTake your content marketing skills to the next level with this comprehensive handbook. Inside, you'll find everything you need to know to develop and execute a successful content marketing strategy, i... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Russia throttles Telegram. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 crosses the uncanny valley. Gradient horses run like this is normal. The slightly unhinged, Valentine-flavored edition of Chaos & Amazement #2607 is here. Read it. Forward it. Subscribe before the horses unionize. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Chaos & Amazement #2606 is out 🤖✨ Moltbook goes viral, Bandcamp draws a line 🎵, and humans keep doing bits together 🫡 The internet stays weird, and honestly, that’s the point. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026New Chaos & Amazement: TikTok microdramas make billions, WhatsApp gets VLOP’d alongside Google, Wikipedia, & Pornhub, and an AI agent renames itself twice while security experts panic. Plus vibe gaming, China’s AI surge, and Springsteen protesting again. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 010 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?... The Boss has spoken. No AI. Real, raw and from the heart.youtu.beBruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen 030 3
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 24/01/2026South Korea drops the first real AI law 🇰🇷, the EU sharpens its fines 💶, Microsoft maps who actually gets to use AI, Apple toys with an AI pin 👀, ElevenLabs releases an album, and “knowledge work” realizes it’s on the list. 🤖📉📈🧠🔍 open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 010 1
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video) youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U?... Pretty awesome. Also: compare quality of AI gen with that of Coca-Cola’s shitty Christmas ad.youtu.beGreenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)YouTube video by demonflyingfox 021 2
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Half the internet is shocked people don’t want soulless slop. The other half is busy asking if this post was written by AI. Discuss. 🍿 040 4
Clo Willaerts @clowillaerts.bsky.social · 10/01/2026Smart LEGO bricks 🧱 Influencer drinks ☕ Hand-drawn luxury ✍️ This week’s Chaos & Amazement looks at where tech feels magical again, and where it quietly changes what we trust. New edition is out. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla... 000 0