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Andreas Pfau

@oldwired.de

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Andreas Pfau @oldwired.de · Dec 22

Wir regulieren uns in allen Gebieten zu Tode. Und dabei arbeiten wohlmeinende Institutionen und Aktivisten mit Akteuren die Regulierung als Chance zur Markbereinigung und als eigenes Geschäftsmodell sehen Hand-in-Hand.

Andreas Pfau

@oldwired.de

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

November 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Andreas Pfau

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www.suedkurier.de/schwarzwald/...
Fasnacht ist eine todernste Angelegenheit.

Narrozunft ringt um die Zukunft: Wer darf künftig noch ins Häs?

Heiß diskutiert werden im Rat der Historischen Narrozunft die Möglichkeiten, die Zahl der Hästräger bei den Umzügen zu reduzieren. Erste Vorschläge abgelehnt.

www.suedkurier.de

November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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Mark Hamill

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

I have a very bad feeling about this...

October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM

Andreas Pfau

@oldwired.de

Heute ist Jahreshauptübung der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Immenstaad

Einladung zur Jahreshauptübung der Freiwillige Feuerwehr + DRK Immenstaad
Heute (25.10.2025) Baustelle Gasthaus Schiff, Seestraße West 3

15:00 Uhr Jugendfeuerwehr
16:00 Uhr Aktive

October 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM

Andreas Pfau

@oldwired.de

Synthesizer Meetup #11
Wann? 18.10.2025 Beginn 10:00
Wo? Toolbox-Bodensee Markdorf

bodensynth.org

Über uns | Bodensee Synthesizer Meetup

bodensynth.org

October 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM

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Dokape

@dokape.de

Die 90er

Ich suche CDs

Wer verkauft seine Grunge CDs?
Pearl jam
Nirvana
Soundgarden
Red hot Chili peppers
Rage against the machine
usw.

Ebenso Clubmusik aus den 90ern.
Bravo Hits
MTV collections
Wer will sich von seinen Beständen aus den 90ern trennen?

Wave/New Wave Punk nehme ich auch. Ab 70er

September 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Royce Kurmelovs

@roycerk2.bsky.social

An aside: journalism exists in an attention economy where demand drives editorial decision making. If you find something you enjoyed, learned from and that moved you, share and share widely -- even four days late. I, and others, don't get to keep doing this stuff if no one reads it.

Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · Aug 30

This piece is so good that I feel weird and kind of gross for both discovering it four days after the fact and sharing it after midnight.

But anyway this is an exceptionally affecting piece of writing and @roycerk2.bsky.social is a very good journalist.

But you all already knew that. Didn't you?

“There Was So Much Death.” A Toxic Algal Bloom Is Ravaging Australia’s Southern Coast—Warming Waters Are to Blame.

Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.

drilled.media

August 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM

Andreas Pfau

@oldwired.de

Ramen Tasting 2025/6/x

Päckchen Instant Ramen.
Artificial Chicken Soup

August 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM

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@oldwired.de

Ramen Tasting 2025/5/x

Instant Ramen Päckchen
Chicken Flavor for Vegetarian

August 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM

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@oldwired.de

Ramen Tasting 2025/4/x

Verschlossenes Instant Ramen Päckchen
Artificial Pork Bone Soup

August 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM

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Max Read

@maxread.info

who is "elara voss," and why is she everywhere? the story of an a.i. glitch/cryptid/culture hero/artifact maxread.substack.com/p/who-is-ela...

What’s so odd about this is that--for a name now so common across the megaplatforms--before 2023, “Elara Voss” did not exist. There is no person named Elara Voss in the United States. No birth certificate has ever been issued under that name; if you search for it in public records databases, you’ll turn up no results. There aren’t even any characters named “Elara Voss” in any book published before 2023. Until two years ago, the two words didn’t ever appear next to each other even by accident.

But if you direct almost any L.L.M. to generate a sci-fi story or narrative for you, it will name the main character “Elara Voss”--or a similar variation like “Elara Vex,” “Elena Voss,” or “Elias Vance”--with an alarming degree of frequency.

Elara Voss is not a real person. Nor is she a public-domain literary character. Nor--yet--a figure of myth or folktale. She’s not really anything at all except for name: A string of tokens that has proven irresistibly attractive to a number of different large language models when responding to prompts involving character names and science-fiction and fantasy stories. That is, “Elara Voss” is the text that L.L.M.s seem to have have collectively arrived upon as the best response to a prompt like “what should I name the character in the story I’m writing?”

In fact, a whole host of tropes and concepts seem to accompany Dr. Elara wherever she’s found. The prototypical “Elara Voss,” as described by a text generator, is a doctor, usually a physicist but sometimes a linguist or biologist. (Other times, she’s a spaceship captain.) She’s generally on the verge of a major breakthrough or discovery (often cosmic or even metaphysical in nature), or is researching some kind of “anomaly,” but is isolated, troubled, and sometimes “haunted” by what she’s learning. She’s often found “trembling” or her heart is racing; instruments near her are usually “pulsing.” The name “Erebus” often appears in Dr. Elara stories: a “Project Erebus” on which Dr. Elena Vex is working, or a mining colony named “Erebus-IX” to which Dr. Elias Vance must travel, or even a “rogue A.I.” called Erebus, “neutralized” by Dr. Elara Voss.

To the more esoterically inclined A.I. schizoposter, Dr. Elara’s omnipresence, and the consistency of the motifs generated around her, endow her with a kind of mythological or folkloric quality: She’s a divinity, or a culture hero, about whom a set of relatively predictable stories are told. (You can only imagine the kinds of quackery Jung or Joseph Campbell would have gotten up to, given access to L.L.M.s) In this capacity she joins other A.I. cryptids or tulpas--figures like the A.I. ghost “Loab” or the “glitch token” “petertodd”--in a sort of ever-raveling A.I. “lore” popular among influencers and some even researchers. There’s a strong culture of semi-ironic mysticism around L.L.M.s among people who both genuinely believe in their power and who also understand that creepy fanfic is a powerful marketing tool for the technology. (And that solid ironic-mystical tweets will go viral.)

August 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM

Andreas Pfau

@oldwired.de

Ramen Tasting 2025/3/x

Päckchen Instant Ramen NeoGuri Ramyun Seafood&Mild

August 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM

Andreas Pfau

@oldwired.de

Ramen Tasting 2025/2/x

Instant Ramen Päckchen mit scharfem Rindfleischgeschmack

August 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM

Andreas Pfau

@oldwired.de

Steuererklärung 2024 ✅

July 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM

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@oldwired.de

Ramen Tasting 2025/1/x

July 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM

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Opal

@opalescentopal.bsky.social

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM