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Johannes Klingebiel

@klingebeil.bsky.social
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Designer and researcher. STS & media stuff. Researching Hype. Doing mischief @media-lab.de. Forward deployed zine maker. Optimist aus Notwehr. ✨ 🌐 johannesklingebiel.de

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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI Labubus www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor
Dots are OpenAI’s answer to Meta’s Muse.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Those who think AI is going to largely automate white collar jobs in the next couple of years don’t understand the nature of work - @sarahoconnorft.ft.com nails it www.ft.com/content/4aad...
It is not obvious that AI agents could eliminate the need for this type of work, since it involves persuasion, contestation and the exchange of tacit knowledge and experience that is spread across different departments, and often exists inside people's heads rather than in a neatly codified handbook on the intranet.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's the argument to be made that “tech” has a very self-interested understanding of technology, which is largely ahistorical.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Regardless of where you stand on the topic it’s fascinating how much distrust and ill will the industry has attracted in such a short time that even the top comment here argues this is “marketing hype” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
wsj.com
Exclusive | OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns
The model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Always surprised with how deeply incurious a lot of the AI thought leader pieces are.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah, very on brand
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The American conversation about Chinese AI runs almost entirely on analogy and generalization. Sputnik. The Cold War. Japan in the eighties.“ earnedintuition.substack.com/p/involution...
earnedintuition.substack.com
Involution Without Export Is Wasted Effort
A week in Beijing and Shanghai with the people building AI in China
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Europe has spent years, and enormous amounts of money and institutional energy, trying to build a European SpaceX. But what if it has been competing with a mirage — and in the process, mistaking SpaceX’s dizzying growth for evidence of a dazzlingly large launch market?" www.ft.com/content/0fd1...
ft.com
SpaceX pivots away from space
Starbase, we have a problem
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every time I visit any of the “AI-powered” or “AI native” news websites, it's just heaps and heaps of rewritten press releases. Journalism simulations, trying to sell themselves as the future.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Look, it's a narc tamagotchi www.theverge.com/column/99999...
theverge.com
It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute
A spoonful of cute to make the AI pill easier to swallow.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am sorry to disclose that I have apparently gone rogue and eaten the last Kardamon bun from the freezer.
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Emi @coppolaemilio.com · 21/09/2026
We have achieved Godot 5 internally at the Godot Foundation, but it is too powerful to be released. We need a bajillion dollars. Thanks 💸
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I guess a nice side-effect of all that talk about "machine gods" is that there's certainly less oxygen in the room for talking about the economics of the said god.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Was @dennishorn.de sagt. Ich kann an der Stelle auch nur nochmal auf den Hype Literacy Online Kurs, an dem ich für @akademie.dw.com mitgeschrieben hab, verweisen. akademie.dw.de/hype-literac...
akademie.dw.de
The Hype Literacy Toolkit for Journalists
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity against hyped claims about “AI” capabilities." irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/09/12/c...
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
Computational complexity for hype immunity
Using some of my own work, I set out to clear up a few relevant concepts from theoretical computer science and computational cognitive science that can help to build conceptual hygiene and immunity…
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sunday
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Let's check in on how that "taste" thing is going in SV fontleague.com
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Re: agents
These questions and statements illustrate why one observer of human-computer interaction defined the term “agent” as: “A computer program whose user interface is so obscure that the user must think of it as a quirky, but powerful, person ...” (Lanir, 1995, p. 68).
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not that important, but for all intents and purposes, whatever the people at Anthropic and OpenAI believe about AI is better described as “animism” rather than “religion”.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Who could have possibly foreseen this? www.businessinsider.com/shopify-ceo-...
businessinsider.com
Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke warns that employees' AI-generated "slop grenades" can create more work for colleagues instead of saving time.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Hid mistakes and made up data" used to be called by the cozy term "hallucination" up until it became vitally important for the IPO that AI is now evil
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026
I'm fascinated by U.S. tech and business journalism because it doesn't adhere to literally any rules of actual journalism. There's no effort to actually explain objective truth; they can't even so much as hint at the fact there's funny math here and the company isn't worth anything close to this
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OpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation (Gift Article)
The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world’s most valuable private company.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*sigh* www.npr.org/2026/09/16/g...
npr.org
Casey Newton and Kevin Roose partner with NPR to launch 'Machine Gods'
The video-first, twice weekly show from the creators of 'Hard Fork' will unpack the most consequential technology stories of our time for broadcast and digital audiences.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The absolutely bizarre thing with the current AI discourse is that there‘s an undercurrent of well-informed technical analysis, which is completely ignored or even made fun of by the people looking at those same tools and deciding "huh, guess it’s just smart" github.com/humanlayer/a...
github.com
advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/wsff.md at main · humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents
Contribute to humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This looks pretty (and pretty interesting) www.atlasofdatacenterpolitics.com
atlasofdatacenterpolitics.com
Atlas of Data Center Politics
An interactive research atlas mapping the territorial politics of data centers: facilities, policy, political events, and the actors that connect them.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/07/2026
New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/
Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal that invokes some form of the stochastic parrot metaphor to puncture hype, and pragmatic accommodation that treats LLM capability improvements as grounds for updating the critique. We argue that both misdiagnose the problem as the issue is not whether or not LLMs work, but what kind of working is happening and at whose cost. Drawing on meta-theoretical frameworks of cognitive science, feminist labor analysis and critical pedagogy, we propose a conceptual reorientation. We develop this claim through registers of (i) the cognitive, examining what is forfeited when statistical pattern-matching substitutes for the iterative, grounded processes that constitute thinking; (ii) the pedagogical, examining how “AI literacy” as currently deployed is itself a symptom of the confusion it purports to address; and (iii) the political, examining how the infrastructure framing of AI naturalizes asymmetric labor displacement, particularly of feminized cognitive and reproductive work. The stochastic parrot, deployed with mechanistic precision rather than mere rhetorical convenience, specifies what is forfeited when cognitive labor is delegated, who bears the cost, and why a literacy adequate to this moment must begin from the epistemology of those most harmed by the systems it describes. We conclude with underlining that critical AI literacy, which this paper embodies an instance of, is the only sensible way forward.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Finde ja immer noch “TK” wäre der bessere Kürzel gewesen, aber congrats @simon.berlin und Team! ✨ tbd.land
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Home | tbd.land
Wir gründen ein neues Medium und fragen vorher Menschen in ganz Deutschland, welchen Journalismus sie sich wünschen. Wir, das sind Ann-Kathrin Hipp, Simon Berlin, Moritz Klein und Bojan Albers.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“The people who work in AI are not gurus and most of their predictions have been wrong. Working in the industry makes them less reliable commentators, not more” www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...
thenewworld.co.uk
Apocalyptic AI fantasies are a stupid, annoying distraction from its real problems
The people who work in AI are not gurus and most of their predictions have been wrong. Working in the industry makes them less reliable commentators, not more
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Kinda in love with Mur Mur, though having a hard time with the gadget part of it www.murmur.living
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mur mur — a speaker with a world inside
A speaker with a world inside — an endless ambient soundscape generated in real time by a tiny living world. Not a loop, not a playlist.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I mean, sure…
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
aiguide.substack.com
Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Decade by decade, he writes, the childhood he enjoyed has been replaced by a new way of growing up. And the result, he argues, has been an ongoing decline in the happiness and mental health of young people.” www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
newyorker.com
The Current and Anxious State of Childhood
Experts say that childhood is suffering. They just can’t agree on the cause.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)
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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maybe it’s just me but publishing a 166pg paper with just 22 citations doesn’t feel very scienc-y to me… openai.com/index/navier...
openai.com
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 08/09/2026
There's a lot of focus right now on employers’ plans for AI. But if you're worried about your job being automated, the more proximate threat could be that colleague of yours with a Claude subscription and a manic glint in their eye. www.ft.com/content/ed21...
ft.com
AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at work
Boundaries between different occupations are blurring at the cost of a collaborative company culture
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Feeling this one deep in my bones davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/a-few-note...
davekarpf.beehiiv.com
A few notes on the state of AI right now
A.I. isn't vaporware. But the A.I. future ABSOLUTELY is.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I guess this is an excellence piece of work but I can’t fathom watching four hours(!) of Musk variety.com/2026/film/re...
variety.com
‘Musk’ Review: Alex Gibney’s Definitive Documentary Puts the Pieces of Elon Musk Together — It’s a Lacerating Portrait of Technocratic Brilliance, Power Lust and Crackpot Delusion
"Musk" is a lacerating portrait of technocratic brilliance, power lust and crackpot delusion.
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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 Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Pretty obvious that this is all about gambling and crucially gambling addiction with a cool story around it. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
wsj.com
For Many Individual Traders, Prediction Markets Are Hot—and Crypto Is Not
As bitcoin loses its cool, traders are spending more time and money betting on sports, elections and Fed rate decisions.
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 04/09/2026
as.ft.com/r/ba7983f9-2...
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Luckin Coffee killed our lunch spot. Here’s what that says about geopolitics
Half a decade on from a fraud scandal, the Chinese chain is thriving in New York City — and pushing out the locals
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A very graceful piece on the data centre discourse. (Notably, it’s always a sign of a bad or disinterested writer if critique and resistance are framed as uninformed or irrational.) www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/data-ce...
civicsoftechnology.org
More than"AI Populism": Investigating Data Centers With K-16 Students — Civics of Technology
Genuine inquiry into AI's socioenvironmental impacts requires multidisciplinary thinking, critical education, and rigorous, community-led research.
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 01/09/2026
This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...
thetechbubble.info
The Future Is Not Tech-Forward
On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
These things are coming to Munich. As someone familiar with public transport during Oktoberfest, these will be nasty in record time.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A rather long-winded way of saying the people in charge are bumbling idiots
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Jump scare
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026
Microsoft purged the data of over 170,000 nonprofits with little to no warning. Yet another entry in the ledger of “big tech should not be surprised that people hate them now.”
slate.com
The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
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Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This looks so so so bad for OpenAI. Letting 10.000 agents run for days without supervision, combined with a shitty sandbox… my god. That's millions of dollars in tokens, simply burning in the background. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
Two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the OpenAI-Hugging Face cybersecurity incident, many of them previously unreleased.
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