In 2001 I was introduced into one to multi-day fasting through the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, which I occasionally do since then. In spiritual tradition, fasting helps to focus the mind on prayer. Physically, fasting changes the body. One statement I heard repeatedly over the years from multiple friends is that fasting reduces muscle tissue not fat , for which I found no scientific evidence yet. I rather found studies confirming fasting reduces fat long-term and saves muscle strength. Do you know more scientific studies?
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Stefan Grissemann: Ich finde es immer seltsam, wenn Leute meinen, Kunst könne nichts verändern. Was in den Köpfen der Menschen etwas bewegt, verändert auch die Welt.
Vicky Krieps: Das ist längst bewiesen. Deshalb wird in autoritären Regimen stets als Erstes die Kunst abgeschafft. Weil sie eine Gefahr darstellt.
Stefan Grissemann: Diktatoren haben offenbar vor nichts so große Angst wie vor Künstlerinnen und Künstlern.
Vicky Krieps: Weil wir Ausdrucksformen haben für Gefühle und Meinungen. Ich kann auf eine Bühne gehen und 300 Leute dazu bewegen, dasselbe fühlen. Darin bin ich unglaublich mächtig.
Interview „Hollywood ist ein Herrenbündnis“: Vicky Krieps über Schauspiel, Macht und Musik
2026-02-21 profil
Solarpunk Optimism
“Optimism means envisioning our desired future and actively pulling it closer” said Christiana Figueres. I am thankful that others envision Solarpunk art.
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Level 2025 completed! What is our score and was our story for this year? This post summarizes our year from the perspective of Ingrid and Leo Brunner-Sauermann. We start with where we touch the global and end with the local.
Continue reading “Thanks for 2025!”Mein Mantra – Für das Leben
Dieses Mantra verwende ich oft um mich zu erden, auf die Prinzipien nach denen ich leben will. Ich entwickelte es selbst aufgrund der verschiedenen religiösen und philosophischen Praktiken, denen ich begegnet bin. Zusammen mit Snowwhite habe ich es am Schönburn 2025 auf einer Bühne gelesen, nun auch hier.
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I am happy to be a patreon of “Sailing Uma”, the sailing channel run by Dan and Kika. They make great videos where they sail around the world. Currently they are improving their boat Uma by rebuilding it.
In February 2025, they wrote the names of all Patreons inside the hull, including “Leo Sauermann”, as you see in the features image of this post. This will never be visible again, but knowing my name is written in Uma gives myself a physical representation within the boat I follow on YouTube.
This direct relationship with the artists I pay and follow is another example why I watch Sailing Channels, as I have longer written in Why I watch Sailing Channel Videos and not Netflix or TV anymore – because this is the future of media.
Continue reading “I am mentioned on Sailing Uma”Project Xanadu and the missing editor for the Semantic Web
The world wide web is great to publish and find information, but it suffers from fake news and quality journalists not getting paid for their content. Wouldn’t it be great to finally have an editor that allows authors to charge micropayments and quote their sources?
This post is inspired by @vrandecic sharing “Project Xanadu – The Internet That Might Have Been” and seeing @nichtich picking it up.
Right, Denny, and it should be connected even more.
Technically, the web is a perfect basis to share information and it can well be extended to add the parts from Xanadu that were identified as making it more humane:
- micropayments, for example using W3C micropayment initiative
- backlinks (transclusion) using something like the ActivityPub shares collection but for longer texts.
I already wrote that I am willing to pay for content, and the more people pay for content they want to see, the more positive content will follow. I also want a Semantic Web editor. In this post I share some thoughts about this.
Continue reading “Project Xanadu and the missing editor for the Semantic Web”My “Tenet” interpretation: instead of war, the future is peace
Have you seen the Christopher Nolan movie “Tenet” from 2020? I did. After a couple of days, I realized that main elements in the movie are distractions. Beneath the lies, I found a positive story about nuclear disarming leading to world peace. This changed my thinking about planning the future and acting in the present.
Spoiler Alert: Please do your future self a favor and use this text in the following order:
- watch Tenet
- watch Tenet again
- combine all clues in the movie and write your own answers to below questions
- then read this post
My main questions:
- How is the Tenet organization financed?
- Who built the turnstiles?
- What does “inverted entropy” mean in the real world?
- What is the “Algorithm” and what is it for?
- What does this mean for me?
Always be knolling
abk … always be knolling. Knolling: while working with things, arrange them in a way pleasing to the eye. Makes work a pleasure. Rethink the things currently on the table.
Continue reading “Always be knolling”Ars Electronica 2025 – Panic/Yes/No
We are visiting Ars Electronica Festival 2025 in Linz. Here a post with impressions, buzzwords, associations of mine. More about me and inspiration than about Ars. Attending is highly recommended.
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