Johannes Klingebiel
@klingebeil.bsky.social
Designer and researcher. STS & media stuff. Researching Hype. Doing mischief @media-lab.de. Forward deployed zine maker. Optimist aus Notwehr. โจ ๐ johannesklingebiel.de
Re: resistance to change. It's almost never irrational but often self-inflicted by bad management practices. repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/server/api/c...
Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil.bsky.social ยท 2d agoAs was foretold pressgazette.co.uk/publishing-s...
โFar from being resistant to change, journalists emerge as bricoleurs, improvising with the resources at hand to sustain mission-driven reporting.โ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
โLiving Amoeba of an Organizationโ: Organizational Bricolage as an Adaptive Strategy in Digital Journalism
Journalismโs future is often narrated through disruption and decline, yet this framing obscures the everyday creativity through which newswork persists under constraint. This article advances organ...
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This is so frustrating to read from The New Yorker. Reward hacking *long* predates LLMs. The Coast Runners paper on reward hacking (in reinforcement learning, pre-LLMs) is 10 years old! Reward hacking is not new, and not a sign of a breakthrough intelligence, much less sentience. Did AI write this?
Some people read this as if people using "generative AI" don't know what's up. But these lines just show how the "AI" industry keeps cycling through terms hiding the same systems in order to not have to admit that the invest and outcome don't match.
conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social ยท 3d agolots of neat stuff but this one is amusing if you see the phrase โgenerative AIโ as a bit of a tell about the speaker
I really wonder what cooked the brains of some tech billionaires that thoroughly www.wsj.com/tech/a-tech-...
A Tech Founder Wanted to Start a New Country. An Actual Country Got in the Way.
Balaji Srinivasan says he believes America is descending into anarchy. His solution: Build a new country from scratch.
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โTrump Media and Technology Group officially rolled out its new subscription-based data service on Saturday, giving paying customers faster, real-time access to Truth Social posts from Trump and other high-profile accounts.โ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption
Truth Social, where Trumpโs account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per month
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Exponentiality is that one thing SV needs to see in everything it does. So narratives and data are fitted around that idea. Does not mean things are not happening, but it's almost always downstream from that expectation, not the other way around. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
You could make the bubble argument based on the amount of marketing blunders alone www.wired.com/story/meta-d...
Metaโs New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
The clip features the David Bowie track โFive Years,โ which includes lyrics such as โEarth was really dying (dying).โ
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original โMinionsโ Epic Poem Slams โSexless, Bloodlessโ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIAโIn a 4,500-word essay published in Harperโs Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a โsexless, bloodlessโ ...
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Calling your hedge fund "situational awareness" and getting whiped out because you didn't pay attention is oh so ironic www.ft.com/content/2803...
Leopold Aschenbrennerโs Situational Awareness seeks to raise capital after AI rout
Hedge fund has held talks with existing investors and lenders in recent days
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"Meet the artists behind Noble Signs, a Brooklyn-based design studio that specializes in custom hand-painted and neon signs for restaurants all over New York... Noble Signs is also preserving and rescuing classic signage from shuttering businesses..."
The Dying Art of Hand-Made Restaurant Signs | NYT Cooking
YouTube video by NYT Cooking
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formats evolve over decades, apps over months, intelligence is evolving every day in terms of pace layers "file over app" defines priorities: invest deeply in proven formats, and don't expect anything at the intelligence layer to last very long
This is absolutely a myth! Here's a collection of papers showing the reality, which is that any negative effect from social media use is tiny (for both teenagers and adults) and a small number of overall users, and far more people get a positive effect: bsky.app/profile/raha...
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social ยท 4mo agoI am tired of pasting dozens of links at people, so I've loaded a bunch of the papers into Paperpile and exported a bibliography. You can find a collection of 34 papers on social media's effects on teenagers (and sometimes adults) and alternate hypotheses here: paperpile.com/shared/smMqS...
It's weird (and not that surprising) how little HCI work is present in the current 'AI' discourseโฆ that one is from 2013. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/658...
โScams are particularly important to understand now because the boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate capitalism are in flux, and the technological and social systems that make those distinctions are being rebuilt.โ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Nice invocation of interpretive flexibility & boundary objects as a way of understanding 'AI', though I'd argue empty signifier is the more helpful at times. untangled.substack.com/p/why-everyo...
Why everyoneโs talking past each other about AI โ and what to do about it!
Everyoneโs Talking Past Each Other About AI
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I do think that using the time and words to construct some kind of Bluesky-specific tribalism, instead of engaging with expert critiques of OpenAI's PR department, does a huge disservice to the discourse www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...
A big week for AI denialism
In the wake of OpenAIโs cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications
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FINALLY we are getting the cyberpunk future we were promised
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social ยท 2w agoFacing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driverโs license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didnโt match the marmots in the videos.
Update on my dated tech predictions from Jan 1, 2018. Most dates were for the first ten years (spoiler alert: I was overly optimistic when everyone thought I was being a pessimist). New analysis every Jan 1st for 24 more years, on the remainder plus 5 new themes. rodneybrooks.com/house-cleani...
House Cleaning My January 1, 2018 Predictions โ Rodney Brooks
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You have to work truly hard to be that embarrassing
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social ยท 2w agoMy favorite part is when Musk says more Europeans die from heat than Americans die from guns. Musk asks why The Economist doesn't write about air conditioning. She explains they do. "Pro-air conditioning?โ asks Musk. โVery pro-air conditioning,โ she responds. โYou should read us sometime.โ
There were two big lapses in the Hugging Face / OpenAI hacking story: the lack of security protections on OpenAI's end, and Hugging Face's vulnerable production database. That should worry anyone who uses AI with sensitive data. werd.io/ai-vendors-c...
AI vendors can't be trusted to secure their systems. Newsrooms need to act accordingly
There were two big lapses in the Hugging Face / OpenAI hacking story: the lack of security protections on OpenAI's end, and Hugging Face's vulnerable production database. That should worry anyone who...
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It's not often that I screengrab an email to put it on here, but this one is worth it. Welcome, New York Review of Finance, cousin of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
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โIn one extreme case, I have seen an executive confess that they had never even used ChatGPT or any AI tool in their life, immediately after producing a technical strategy for an organisation with $2B+ in revenue which was entirely centered around AI.โ ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making โ Ludicity
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You'd never guess from this post what the company is doing nowโฆ
Julie Carpenter, PhD@jgcarpenter.com ยท 3w agoNow, Realbotix. I've been researching this company for years. It didn't start in education. It started as Tokens.com, a crypto/metaverse company, then acquired RealDoll's parent company. RealDoll has spent decades building hyperrealistic sex dolls and sex robots. 5/