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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 14/09/2026

It kinda feels like the AI moment we’re living in is just all-around larping. As if everything turns into Linkedin, all around us.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 10/09/2026

btw, why would anyone quote Telekom CEO Tim Höttges? It's not long ago that he was on stage raving about the idea that Germany should get its own DOGE after Musk's example. (Why does he still have his job?)

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 10/09/2026

I'm just going to leave this here for no reason at all.

"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." - Joseph Weizenbaum (1976)

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 09/09/2026

I'm generally not a big believer in AI agents, but there's no company in the world I would trust less with an AI agent than Meta. Guess what they're building 🙄 . about.fb.com/news/2026/09...

about.fb.com

Introducing Muse: The World’s First Personal AI Agent Built for Everyone

Muse is a secure, private personal AI agent that proactively helps people meet their goals and suggests ideas.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/08/2026

Can you still run the old AI models somewhere? I imagine someone somewhere must churning out Primitive AI Slop aesthetics?

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 19/07/2026

I frequently get pinged by recruiters; most of the time it's spammy and doesn't fit my profile or interests. But getting emails from what appear to be AI recruiter chatbots just seems disrespectful enough to just blacklist the company that hires those bot firms. Respect my time, folks!

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/07/2026

Also, Germany’s list of “industries of the future” that should be prioritized and well-funded includes automotive, & pharma. Surely that’s not just because they’re already the biggest industries here? 🤔

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/07/2026

In an effort to reduce bureaucracy, the German government plans to make calling in sick illegal and instead requires a trip to the doc from day one. You can’t make this stuff up

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/07/2026

Now that we have a precedence for unlimited, debt-based investments, how about we use it *_and finally invest in climate_* now that the last 100B earmarked for climate largely trickled away into all kind of barely related nonsense. Isn’t there a political opportunity right now?

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 24/06/2026

Look, what can I say. It’s hot outside, so silly quips is all I have today

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 24/06/2026

Been getting into friction-maxxing. The other day I shared a file… by *email*

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 24/06/2026

The other day I rawdogged the whole 90 sec wait in the grocery store cash register line

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 17/06/2026

So... turns out Mistral is really bad at detecting propaganda and other information campaigns. That's such a bummer :/

Screenshot of an article summarizing a study that found that open source AI model Mistral is worse than other models at detecting propaganda and other malicious information campaigns

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 13/05/2026

Honest question: Do you feel the internet is getting... 1) more strange 2) more boring 3) something else (please explain)

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 06/03/2026

Remember when big tech companies were considered too powerful to control? I guess these last few years they very forcefully made the point that they are, in fact, very willing to submit to pressure. I'm not 100% sure what to make of that.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 04/03/2026

I just saw a website without an adblocker for the first time in a long time. MY GOD WHAT IS THIS

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 03/03/2026

Whenever I hear Sam Altman talk about potential benefits of AI (esp. GAI) I'm struck by how little he seems to understand the problem spaces he talks about, and how little journalists call him out on it.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/03/2026

Joseph Weizenbaum meant ELIZA to be a warning, not an inspiration. Looking at you, gen AI chatbots!

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/03/2026

"friction-maxxing" when I first heard the term it struck me as a neologism, something really fresh; the BBC have caught on pretty quickly, though

a screenshot of the text of a BBC article about friction-maxxing

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 18/02/2026

Has Deutsche Post been losing a lot of mail these last few months? Is that a thing?

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 17/02/2026

I keep coming back to this (it's a couple of years old by now), it's kinda stuck in my head bruces.medium.com/preliminary-...

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 17/02/2026

Sadly, this seems about right to me. We've all been burned by deceptive industry tactics. Being a gargantuan industry that has a lot to lose is a dangerous mix. Sigh. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 19/01/2026

Resilience > efficiency. Any day.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 05/12/2025

There is a special circle in hell reserved for the smart-asses who came up with the circular customer support systems where a bad error message leads to an call to action that leads back to a system that just tells you the same wrong error message. They 100% work for one of the big 4 consultancies.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 04/12/2025

Let me just say: People who can type fast and/or well with a bandaid on their finger are true heroes.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/12/2025

The longer I work in this space, the more I think that the whole framing of this recent generation of technologies as "smart" or "artificially intelligent" was an astounding success for the companies making them. So much of this should much more aptly be labeled "reactive" tech, if anything.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 10/11/2025

Every time someone presses SKIP AD on a Youtube video, the advertiser knows *for sure* they just annoyed the hell out of a potential customer. If I was in their shoes, I'd wonder why I pay for those ads in the first place.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 10/11/2025

Has anyone, like EVER, intentionally subscribed to a newsletter in that pop-up sign-up window that pops up on every website these days? To me it feels like I'm being punished as a user, having to click first on the cookie banner(s) and then close all the extra sign-ups sheets.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 05/10/2025

So OpenAI builds an AI browser and adds... a clock widget? Is this the 90s?

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 25/09/2025

Anyone got an idea for how to get "SwiftoDo for todo.txt", the iOS app, on a phone in Europe when the app isn't listed in Europe? I'd prefer not to get into any region-spoofing shenanigans because they tend to mess with other subscriptions, settings, etc...?

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 25/08/2025

Can anyone explain why Google Maps data quality has gone down so much? Or is that a Germany/Berlin specific thing?

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 14/08/2025

Coming to believe that a sizeable chunk of society is held together by people doing favors to their deceased friends’ families and spouses.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 12/08/2025

In all the book reviews I ever read, this gem, hidden towards the end of a review, might be my favorite: "I'm biased because I've been married to the author for the last 5 years, but..."

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 11/08/2025

People who describe talking to ChatGPT 4 felt "like talking to a grad student" and ChatGPT 5 "like talking to a PhD" know very different grad students and PhDs than me. To me it constantly feels like talking to an inept intern who will lie to your face to cover for their mistakes.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 09/08/2025

UPS truly has perfected the loop for sending customers from website to hotline to website and on and on. A true Computer Says No approach.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 08/08/2025

has anyone invented a travel pillow that lets its user keep some dignity?

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 08/08/2025

Thank you, Wikipedia, for having archive the sounds of landline phones (ready to dial, ringing, etc.). I was just wondering how to demonstrate to my kid what all this sounds like. In unrelated news, I feel somewhat old right now.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 08/08/2025

I enjoy writing, but enjoy fact checking and editing a lot less. Using ChatGPT nudges me to write less but spend more time on fact checking. (The other way round isn’t feasible as ChatGPT isn’t reliable as a fact checker.) So this double sucks!

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 07/08/2025

As a kid, I remember border controls across Europe. It was such a big step forward when the Schengen Zone made those border controls obsolete and it breaks my heart that we’re back in an age where it’s more and more common even within Schengen to see border controls reintroduced.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 06/08/2025

I’m hereby announcing my candidacy for German chancellor. I’ll run on a single issue, which is to either fix or completely disassemble Deutsche Bahn. Out of my last 8 connections, 3 were completely cancelled (some without as much as a notification in advance), & at least 3 more took hours too long

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 18/06/2025

The immense joy of organizing something — a trip, an event, anything! — with people who are used to organizing stuff. Where you can just trust them to think things through without doubt or second-guessing. The best!

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 16/06/2025

There should be a dedicated term for the specific frustration when you buy gorgeous, juicy-looking cherries and they taste like nothing at all.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 15/06/2025

We can't prompt our way out of the apocalypse.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 13/06/2025

Just realized I had been logged out of Threads for probably a month or more and never even noticed. So that's that, I guess.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 13/06/2025

MiniDisc had a very short future but I have to admit: Of all the outdated physical media, Minidisc are my favorite. So satisfying and gorgeous.

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Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 08/06/2025

Is there a word for the very specific frustration of having to click away the newsletter signup pop-up on a website you're trying to read?

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