This 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-...
Clo Willaerts
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🗣️ Belgian tech speaker & author | 20+ years in digital | Exploring tech's impact on daily life | Navigating the digital age | More at https://clowillaerts.com #DigitalExpert
New 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-...
Kids 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-...
New 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-...
New 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-...
This 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-...
This 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-...
New 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-...
Chaos & 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-...
New 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...
Chaos & Amazement #2631 Graph Engineering, the Gen Alpha Melody , and Horse Gossip
We’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?
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This 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...
This 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...
This 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...
This 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...
New 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...
New 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...
🧵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
Creating 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...
This 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...
Instagram 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...
New 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...
This 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...
Chaos & Amazement #2620 TikTok GO, the Clippening, and the Resurrection Economy
This 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…
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New 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...
This 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...
Chaos & 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.
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Chaos & 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...
New Chaos & Amazement: ➛ AI agents are running ops ➛ Identity is going ambient ➛ Tokens are rewriting cost structures open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...
AI 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...
Chaos & Amazement #2615 Google Zero, Good Taste, and Nutella in Space
A week where AI eats the internet, autonomy comes with a paywall, and we casually debate rewriting the social contract. Just normal stuff.
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Headless 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...
