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Johannes Ecker

@johannesecker.com
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Freelance UI/UX Designer living in Vienna 👨🏻‍💻 Posting mainly about Design, Current Events, Books & plant based Food Слава Україні 🇺🇦 www.johannesecker.com For casual content in German, follow @haenschen.omg.lol

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haenschen @haenschen.omg.lol · 27/09/2026
Weekend Reading: Lest diesen Blog Eintrag von @tante.cc
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The Test
Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being sa...
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tonight I took the car and drove across all of Kyiv, just to see how my beloved city feels at this time. It’s a strange feeling.
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/09/2026
I just want one killer app before we get a killer robot.
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Samo Korošec @samokorosec.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That there is no one in the whole organization who could say: "Ladies. Gentlemen. These examples do look quite desperate, if I may so myself. Do we have anything actually useful to show, or should we, perchance, skip this during the presentation?" is so, so very Corporate America in 2026, too.
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 10/09/2026
Three observations from yesterday's Apple Event that show how detached Silicon Valley people are from normal life and how they want to force technology on everyday interactions, always searching for things to solve that need no solving 🫠
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 09/09/2026
These are not serious people
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 08/09/2026
»But we gotta keep making the most unpleasant and unrelatable people on the planet rich. That’s the main driving force of the last decade. And it leaves us all poorer, not just economically but scientifically, spiritually and emotionally.« 💯
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You’ll find that some “uncharted waters” are actually well charted but the people driving the boat are not interested in looking at maps, because wrecking ships is just part of nautical culture.
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 05/09/2026
Ridiculed Zelensky for his outfit but sends his own son in law like this to Putin 🙃
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 26/08/2026
Oh Look. Another one of those super insightful essays of a „tech leader“: “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice…” Wow so deep 🙄
theverge.com
Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet
Microsoft’s cofounder used to be optimistic about AI, now he’s concerned it could be ‘the worst source of injustice.’
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oddly relatable
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 05/08/2026
Reading a NL about AI & Design Systems and of course it‘s written by AI. The paragraph still looks normal. The sentences build upon each other. It stops being an engaging read altogether. 😑
A teammate renames one variant. Someone pastes a hex value over a colour token because the token picker was two clicks away. A hover state gets lost during a cleanup. None of that shows up as a red flag. The file still opens. The component still renders. It just quietly stops being what you agreed it would be.
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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 30/07/2026
Es ist doch verblüffend: Da wählt die CDU einen 70-Jährigen aus der Provinz zum Vorsitzenden und zum Kanzler, der noch nie regierte, nichtmal auf Lokalebene, der zwar immer "Wirtschaft" brüllt, aber noch nie ein Unternehmen führte, und schon erweist er sich als Pfeife! www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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(S+) Anatomie eines politischen Versagens: Wie die CDU an ihrem Kanzler verzweifelt
In der Parteispitze beobachten sie fassungslos, wie Friedrich Merz seine Autorität verspielt. Der SPIEGEL hat sich in der Union umgehört: Dass der Kanzler noch eine Zukunft hat, glaubt niemand – ein W...
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 30/07/2026
Seems like situational awareness only gets you so far… 🥁
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 29/07/2026
Please use AI…
shawnsmucker.substack.com
Please Use AI
Be sure to use AI when making
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Eduardo García-Molina @egarcmol.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fire in the sky, political fracturing, a reduction in naval trade, economic uncertainty, agriculture is suffering due to plague, and the Odyssey is premiering? Welcome back, Greek Dark Ages.
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Roter Bär @roterbaer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wilhoits Gesetz schlägt wieder zu. Spahn ist ehrlich genug nochmal deutlich zu machen, was Konservatismus wirklich will: In-Groups (Spahns Familie), die vom Gesetz beschützt aber nicht gestraft werden & Out-Groups (wir), die vom Gesetz gestraft aber nicht beschützt werden.
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milalim 🇪🇺 @milalimofino.eurosky.social · 14/07/2026
Which cluster of the EU-accession does this affect? 😂
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oh, those European bottle caps :)))
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haenschen @haenschen.omg.lol · 07/07/2026
FIFA? more like FAFO 🤓
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Russia hit a residential building in Podil. ㅤ Another Kyiv home was torn open tonight — not a trench, not a base, not a military target. ㅤ This is Russia’s terror when it cannot break Ukraine at the front: it comes for ordinary life. Support link is in our Bio.
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 02/07/2026
»Goldman Sachs builds an altar to Benjamin in their lobby and cuts out the heart of a junior analyst on it every Friday. They call it “Blood Sacrifice Friday.” The name isn’t catchy, but the event becomes a management favorite nonetheless.«
mcsweeneys.net
AI Economics for Dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"And yet it funks," mutters Galileo
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
3 DAYS TO KYIV 3 DAYS TO KYI 3 DAYS TO KY 3 DAYS TO K 3 DAYS TO 3 DAYS T 3 DAYS 3 DAY 3 DA 3 D 3 30 30 L 30 LI 30 LIT 30 LITE 30 LITER 30 LITERS 30 LITERS ONLY 20 LITERS ONLY 10 LITERS ONLY 0 LITERS
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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 27/06/2026
Wenn wir statt "Künstliche Intelligenz" oder "KI-Software", nur noch "Maschine", "Gerät" oder "Automat" sagen, verschwindet sofort der Harry-Potter-trifft-2001-Vibe, von dem die "KI"-Branche profitiert, und Sätze wie: "Ein Automat formuliert meine Texte" hören sich einfach viel ehrlicher an.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
How would you caption this image? I'll start: "Did you see the lid blown off?"
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Suse Lichtenberger @suselicht.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Versteh beim besten Willen nicht, warum das nicht alle wollen.
Grafik, die zeigt, wie die Luftqualität in Paris sich verändert hat. Radwege und Parks statt Autos und Abgase. 6 Grafiken von 2007-2024, von ganz rot bis quasi ganz grün, gemessen wird die durchschnittliche Stickstoffdioxinkonzentration. 
Quelle Kontrast.at
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 11/06/2026
this sounds like a very cool thing? 💙
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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This review perfectly sums up Widow’s Bay: “[…] a horror-comedy that manages to be both an incredibly funny and dense laugh-out-loud joke machine and a genuinely scary and menacing fright fest. Neither generic marker takes precedence over the other; they are mutually, ecstatically intertwined.”
newrepublic.com
Widow’s Bay Is a Menacing and Hilarious Mash-up
At a time when much TV recycles familiar formulas, the Apple TV series feels like something new.
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 08/06/2026
via @daringfireball.bsky.social - a provocative take on the AI industry players and their fake beliefs. Recommended reading
thealgorithmicbridge.com
What Apple Knows About AI That Silicon Valley Won't Admit
Apple looked at AI and said: this changes nothing
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 05/06/2026
Spotify's desktop client is so enshittified, you no longer have a one click share option. instead you have to hover over the right sidebar to reveal a share-icon. Why do you hate your users so much!? 😭
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 31/05/2026
Ich kapier es echt nicht. Auf ORF at steht das selbe: „SPÖ Vorstoß“ „neuer Vorschlag“ etc aber das 6+2 Modell kommt doch genau so wie das von der ÖVP favorisierte (8+2) von der eingesetzten Wehrpflicht Komission und liegt seit Monaten so vor!?
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SPÖ-Vorstoß: Neuer Schwung für Wehrpflichtdebatte
Die SPÖ plädiert in der Debatte über die Verlängerung der Wehrpflicht für einen „Plan der Mitte“. Von drei Parteien würden sich „zwei einander mit Maximalforderungen“ gegenüberstehen, hieß es seitens ...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 27/05/2026
Imagine a party with 100 guests and 100 slices of pizza, divvied up according to US household wealth. "1 person gets 30 slices" and "50 people get 0.05 slices each". [kottke.org]
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American Wealth, Sliced Up
Using the Federal Reserve’s Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989 data, Ryan Thorpe imagines a pizza party with 100 guests and 100 slices of pizza as a stand-in for the United States: We’
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 27/05/2026
Schöne kurze Einordnung von @klingebeil.bsky.social in welche verschiedenen "Blöcke" sich das was wir ehemals unter Social Media verstehen konnten entwickelt hat.
klingebeil.substack.com
Was war Social Media?
Dieser Newsletter wurde auf dem Balkon mit einem Espresso Tonic geschrieben, während ich mich im Kopf noch von der Re:publica erhole.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A+ thought leader game over at the Vatican.
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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Wir sollten uns nicht von russischer Propaganda in die Irre führen lassen. Es ist Russland, das immer weiter eskaliert und immer neue Vorwände für seine Kriegsverbrechen sucht.
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 25/05/2026
okay what? coincidence or genius move by @vivaldi.com ? I installed the browser, and checked "put icon in dock" so that I don't forget to use it… and the icon wasn't placed at the end of my dock icons but instead right next to my other browsers, Safari & Chrome? 🧐
a screenshot of some macOS dock icons, showing 
Finder, Settings, Calendar etc. 
and then three browser icons: Safari, Chrome and Vivaldi
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 24/05/2026
Unbelievable resilience 🇺🇦❤️‍🩹
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 23/05/2026
Anybody here using Vivaldi as their main browser?
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Eva Konzett @evakonzett.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Was, wenn es ein Rezept gegen die Rechtspopulisten gäbe? Was, wenn deren Aufstieg kein Naturgesetz ist? Schauen wir uns doch einmal genauer an. Schimpansen kommen auch vor.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/05/2026
Nobody can remain neutral in the conflict between Russia and Europe, I told the Austrians... orf.at/av/video/onD...
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ORF.at Video/Audio
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Hirschi (mini generoso era) @eliashirschl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Top3 dinge i couldnt live without - Schwerkraft, extrem unterschätzt, super gut um ned den Boden unter den Füßen zu verlieren - mittlerer abstand zur sonne, alder was würde ich ohne die mediane distanz machen wüsste ned wo anfangen tbh - feinabstimmung der naturkonstanten - wo wäre ich ohne dich rr
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 15/05/2026
Yeah so… finally time to switch to Apple Music !? 🤨
Screenshot of the App Update Screen in iOS showing the new Spotify App Icon that looks like a glittering disco ball 🪩
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Map showing the approximate flight paths of Russian missiles and UAVs during tonight’s attack on Ukraine. Russians still claim they want peace.
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haenschen @haenschen.omg.lol · 14/05/2026
Guten Morgen an alle meine Freundinnen und Freunde hier in unserem Doomsday Bunker! 🌞😌 @garbageday.email
Excerpt from the latest Garbage Day Newsletter on the state of BlueSky:

Now, here's where I'll say that none of this matters if you are a normal person who just wants a chill place to spend your time online. If you aren't an activist or a journalist or a creator or anyone who has to care about the attention economy in anyway, then this is actually probably a good thing. But the general consensus I see from Bluesky users is a sort of indigence or confusion as to why the rest of the world is trapped in a right-wing echo chamber that they don't care about. And it's because their little doomsday bunker has not really affected the apocalypse raging beyond their walled garden.
Which, again, is fine if you don't care about that.
But I sorta think most Bluesky users do care.
Which means you're either going to have to make your bunker more attractive to new members or venture out and face the horrors outside.
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 13/05/2026
Sooo Google goes all in with an AI Laptop, and again they are struggling to showcase actually useful applications for an always-on-always-there AI "dream up widgets" … and Gemini builds a Widget for you to e.g. "organize a Tokyo vintage shopping trip" WHAT youtu.be/VUthq-JuxxE
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Introducing Googlebook
YouTube video by Android
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Johannes Ecker @johannesecker.com · 11/05/2026
The kids are alright
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Sabermane @homelessrobot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"We built the Torment Nexus, and we believe it is acting like it did because of "Do Not Build the Torment Nexus""
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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Alles, was es zu den Schlagzeilen um Putin und Schröder zu sagen gibt.
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