Reposted by Johannes KlingebielTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Lots of conflation of “I can’t understand” with “Nobody can understand” 112918
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Also note the lettering on the side: “Fahrzeug mit autonomen Funktionen” — vehicle with autonomous functions, not autonomous vehicle. 010
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Well… that’s the first Waymo I’ve spotted here in Munich. 110
Reposted by Johannes KlingebielMax Read @maxread.info · 04/10/2026for the new york times magazine, I wrote about why everything is "gambling" now (the short answer: actually everything is the statistical style now, and gambling is just how most of us understand that)nytimes.comHow Everything Became GamblingIt’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley. 1016939
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Literally the "help, my family is dying" meme www.wsj.com/tech/ai/will... 032
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“The National Design Studio wanted government services to feel like an Apple Store. It’s almost as if, now that Silicon Valley has bent the knee to the current administration, the latter can finally appropriate the style of the former.” silviolorusso.com/publication/...silviolorusso.comUnboxing America: Notes on the US Passport Reveal — Silvio LorussoPortfolio and Archive 000
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Tarbell hat auch schon Casey’s Newsletter einen Grant gegeben… entsprechend ist es nicht so überraschend aber die Summe ist einfach absurd. 010
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If you are familiar with journalism grants you also know that this is an *absurd* number. 130
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Of course they are… bsky.app/profile/benc... 100
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pretty hard to argue that critics and AI labs are simply “talking past each other” when one side is clearly insane. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comSam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AIThe OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic. 0184
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I get it. It was meant as a reaction to an earlier argument about “labs and critics are talking past each other,” which I wanted to skewer, since one side is clearly insane. I have now deleted the post to prevent further misunderstandings. 120
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I guess I should have been a bit more explicit but yeah… I’ll delete it to prevent a pile on. 040
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I should have been more explicit, tbf. I guess sarcasm truly doesn’t translate well into text. 120
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just to be sure but my post was very much a sarcastic one. Not a critique of your work —on the contrary. 170
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This would be a compelling argument if “talking past each other” wouldn’t mean the AI labs mostly ignoring current harms of their products, instead of indulging in their wishful worries. 020
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“A live menagerie of the automata that visit this website. Every creature is drawn from its own user-agent string. No bots were harmed. Several were mildly inconvenienced.“ crawlerzoo.com/leaderboardcrawlerzoo.comBot & crawler leaderboardWhich bots crawl the most? 127 species from all enclosures, ranked by requests this week. Live figures for GPTBot, Googlebot, ClaudeBot, AhrefsBot and more. 020
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hell is an Instagram feed full of Oktoberfest rage bait videos. 010
Reposted by Johannes KlingebielMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil. 22833169
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026AI Labubus www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...theverge.comOpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitorDots are OpenAI’s answer to Meta’s Muse. 101
Reposted by Johannes KlingebielHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Those 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... 917251
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There's the argument to be made that “tech” has a very self-interested understanding of technology, which is largely ahistorical. 010
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Regardless 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.comExclusive | OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety ConcernsThe model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October. 010
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Excellent antidote productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/llms-are-j...productpicnic.beehiiv.comLLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about. 030
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Always surprised with how deeply incurious a lot of the AI thought leader pieces are. 110
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Yeah he’s a bit full of himself from the text at least. Guess that comes with the job. 010
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Depending on whose newsletter you read, Chinese AI is the existential threat to every American AI company or the great liberating force that will commoditize the frontier and hand value to the application layer." 152
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.comInvolution Without Export Is Wasted EffortA week in Beijing and Shanghai with the people building AI in China 131
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.comSpaceX pivots away from spaceStarbase, we have a problem 000
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Every 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. 020
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Look, it's a narc tamagotchi www.theverge.com/column/99999...theverge.comIt’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cuteA spoonful of cute to make the AI pill easier to swallow. 010
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I am sorry to disclose that I have apparently gone rogue and eaten the last Kardamon bun from the freezer. 010
Reposted by Johannes KlingebielEmi @coppolaemilio.com · 21/09/2026We have achieved Godot 5 internally at the Godot Foundation, but it is too powerful to be released. We need a bajillion dollars. Thanks 💸 30620104
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I 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. 010
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Thomas Haigh might fit the historian bill. He's currently writing about the history of AI as both a field and a brand. (www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Home)tomandmaria.comRecent Publications (Since 2018) | Thomas Haigh. Historian of Computing. 120
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Was @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.deThe Hype Literacy Toolkit for Journalists 030
Reposted by Johannes KlingebielIris 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.comComputational complexity for hype immunityUsing 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… 918369
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Chased down the citation and it's pretty funny and hasn't aged that badly for a 30 year old text on “agents”. www.jaronlanier.com/agentalien.h... 063
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Let's check in on how that "taste" thing is going in SV fontleague.com 010
Reposted by Johannes KlingebielJason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026HUGE 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.comInside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian SchoolPentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab. 11026671410
Reposted by Johannes KlingebielDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Based 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. 91074254
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Not 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”. 020
Johannes Klingebiel @klingebeil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Who could have possibly foreseen this? www.businessinsider.com/shopify-ceo-...businessinsider.comShopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone elseShopify CEO Tobi Lütke warns that employees' AI-generated "slop grenades" can create more work for colleagues instead of saving time. 050
Reposted by Johannes KlingebielPavel @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 151019270
Reposted by Johannes KlingebielKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026I'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 thisnytimes.comOpenAI 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. 731051320