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Clo Willaerts

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πŸ—£οΈ 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

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Chaos & Amazement #2609 QuitGPT, LinkedIn’s New Algo, and Human-Powered AI This week: a thought experiment about economic fragility, a backlash brewing in AI land, and a few beautifully strange corners of the internet.

AI replacing jobs isn’t the only story.

If AI shrinks white-collar income, what happens to demand, brands, and growth?

New Chaos & Amazement looks at:
β€’ consumer ripple effects
β€’ LinkedIn’s algo shift
β€’ autonomous AI agents
β€’ early backlash signals

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28.02.2026 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From @sigilwen.bsky.social’s Web 4.0 and Snapchat’s creator pivot to a viral @ikea.bsky.social orangutan, this week’s issue covers the chaos and amazement of our digital future. Plus, why the @stephencolbert.bsky.social "cancellation" backfired

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21.02.2026 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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19.02.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 33786    πŸ” 7834    πŸ’¬ 1934    πŸ“Œ 786
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Struggling to do more with less?
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16.02.2026 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Russia throttles Telegram.
ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 crosses the uncanny valley.
Gradient horses run like this is normal.

The slightly unhinged, Valentine-flavored edition of Chaos & Amazement #2607 is here.
Read it. Forward it. Subscribe before the horses unionize.
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14.02.2026 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chaos & Amazement #2606 is out πŸ€–βœ¨ Moltbook goes viral, Bandcamp draws a line 🎡, and humans keep doing bits together 🫑 The internet stays weird, and honestly, that’s the point.
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07.02.2026 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Chaos & Amazement: TikTok microdramas make billions, WhatsApp gets VLOP’d alongside Google, Wikipedia, & Pornhub, and an AI agent renames itself twice while security experts panic. Plus vibe gaming, China’s AI surge, and Springsteen protesting again. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...

31.01.2026 08:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
The Boss has spoken.
No AI. Real, raw and from the heart.

29.01.2026 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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South Korea drops the first real AI law πŸ‡°πŸ‡·, the EU sharpens its fines πŸ’Ά, Microsoft maps who actually gets to use AI, Apple toys with an AI pin πŸ‘€, ElevenLabs releases an album, and β€œknowledge work” realizes it’s on the list.

πŸ€–πŸ“‰πŸ“ˆπŸ§ πŸ” open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...

24.01.2026 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by demonflyingfox Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video)

Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video) youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U?...
Pretty awesome.
Also: compare quality of AI gen with that of Coca-Cola’s shitty Christmas ad.

18.01.2026 08:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Half the internet is shocked people don’t want soulless slop. The other half is busy asking if this post was written by AI.

Discuss. 🍿

16.01.2026 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Smart LEGO bricks 🧱 Influencer drinks β˜• Hand-drawn luxury ✍️
This week’s Chaos & Amazement looks at where tech feels magical again, and where it quietly changes what we trust.
New edition is out.

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10.01.2026 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Chaos & Amazement just dropped: Meta, Google, YouTube, NotebookLM, Porsche, TikTok, Kapwing, AI slop, nostalgia tech, memes, dead internet vibes, and humans desperately trying to stay relevant.

Subscribe before an LLM with worse taste explains it to you.
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03.01.2026 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Killing Mario Isn't As Fun As It Sounds
YouTube video by Dorkly Killing Mario Isn't As Fun As It Sounds

Don’t forget to hug a Muncher today
Killing Mario Isn't As Fun As It Sounds youtu.be/o96eDKJMHOo?...

31.12.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This dog helping its owner fold a heavy truck tarp

29.12.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy 13th anniversary to the Barry Petchesky ER Report. It is the only day we learn that "slipping in the shower" is a leading cause of accidental diamond ring storage.

Full list (NSFW): defector.com/what-did-we-...

28.12.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chaos & Amazement #2552 is out.
TikTok’s US deal gets weirder, Meta shrugs at ad fraud, iRobot goes bankrupt, and McDonald’s reminds us AI still has no taste.
If tech feels powerful but unserious lately, you’re not imagining it.

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20.12.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new edition of Chaos & Amazement is out. Tech panic, AI nonsense, and internet weirdness, calmly curated so you do not have to doomscroll like a goblin.
Read it.
Subscribe.
Impress yourself. open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...

14.12.2025 07:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The feed is dead. The year is tired. The robots are pooping.
In this week’s Chaos & Amazement:
The real state of social media
TikTok’s $500M weekend
AI power moves
One truly cursed moment from Art Basel
Read the full drop β†’ open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...

06.12.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A raccoon entered a liquor store in Virginia and drank his fill: rum, moonshine, even peanut butter whiskey. Then it passed out on the floor of the bathroom.

Don’t worry β€” he’s OK. trib.al/R3wXGbV

04.12.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1370    πŸ” 257    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 124
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πŸŽ‰ ChatGPT turns 3.
😺 Mochi Cats are taking over AI slop.
πŸ™ Priests are raving (literally).
πŸ“± Europe wants to ban teens from social media - good luck.
In this week’s Chaos & Amazement, I decode the mess so you don’t have to:
πŸ‘‰ open.substack.com/pub/clowilla...

29.11.2025 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week's Chaos & Amazement is live and it’s a full-blown tech fever dream:
πŸ’₯ Cloudflare faceplants
🎡 AI music gets monetized, not murdered
🧠 Nano Banana goes full genius
🎭 TimothΓ©e Chalamet screams β€œSchwap” for 18 straight minutes
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22.11.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week’s Chaos & Amazement serves fresh GDPR shifts, AI shops that aren’t real, the Alive Internet Theory, long-memory chatbots like Kimi, a new book idea that escaped my notes, and a piano loving octopus 🎹🧠🌍

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15.11.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions

A wheel-like visualization of bird feathers colored from wikipedia descriptions

It took me about three months to get here but...

Here's a πŸͺΆ for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions.

10,151 species.

#dataviz #birds #data

04.11.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 348    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 11
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AI isn’t replacing marketers β€” it’s reshaping marketing.

This week’s Chaos & Amazement covers:
– Amazon vs Perplexity’s AI shopper
– Chatbots taking over daily life
– Coca-Cola’s AI Christmas ad πŸŽ„

Which matters more: automation, attention, or authenticity?

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08.11.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week in Chaos & Amazement #2545:

πŸ’š Nvidia hits $5T
πŸ€– Grokipedia questions who owns β€œknowledge”
πŸ“§ Grammarly β†’ Superhuman and the future of work
🧹 Robots that clean and spy

Tech keeps getting weirder and smarter at the same time.

Read more β†’
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01.11.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Joining Be.am, Warner Bros Rumors, and Midnight Cat Zoomies
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25.10.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ€– New Chaos & Amazement is live! This week: AI is writing 50% of the web now, OpenAI's "Mature Mode" raises eyebrows, MANGO replaced FAANG, and I found the world's most unfortunate Santa Claus doll πŸŽ…πŸ’€
Plus: are we in an AI bubble or just really expensive research?

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18.10.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week’s Chaos & Amazement is out: Europe’s DSA takes on child safety, Belgium launches an influencer certificate, and AI goes full sci-fi with Sora, Vibes, and the β€œsynthetic scroll.”
What caught your eye in tech this week? πŸ‘€

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11.10.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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First-time video editors! 🧠 Try practicing editing in your head as you film. You might not know the final cut yet, so just record a little extra footage. Then, as you edit, you'll start seeing the story and learning how to anticipate what you need next!

06.10.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0