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I have always been partial to red wine. Suddenly, I can't drink it anymore. My nose itches when I do, and I get splitting headaches the day after, no matter how little I've drunk. Turns out, this is a symptom of perimenopause. Another I've never heard of. This sucks.

Time in Kazakhstan - Wikipedia

I live my life on the clock. Timekeeping is very important to me. Kazakhstan is proving to be my nemesis.

YOU CAN'T JUST SWITCH TIMEZONES LIKE THIS *shakes fist* (I was at the museum an hour early today because my phone still had the UTC+6 time for Almaty)

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The return of Kokpar as Kazakhstan’s modern national sport Since independence, kokpar has made a comeback as part of a broader revival of nomadic traditions. The World Nomad Games, launched in 2014, showcase sports such as archery, wrestling, and kokpar.

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There are still some resilient helium-filled sharks on the ceiling that come down in inappropriate moments. I have yet to master "business casual", but I'm acing "Nerd cosplaying at adulting" which will look great on TV, I'm sure.

Yes. It's indeed a normal Friday in the office.

I'm sitting in a wildly delayed train. At 3pm, a TV crew is scheduled to come film us for a tourism segment (?). My team is currently building a singing swamp and a sled for our robot dog. Someone has unearthed some influencers who want to come, too. A startled resident is 3D printing in a corner.

Project Singing Swamp is a Go!

So tomorrow I'm hosting a Weisswurstfrühstück for the residents (and my colleagues), have a budget meeting for 2026, and go swamp-hunting for a singing swamp installation tomorrow. Great fun!

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

Deleuze des Tages: "Und jedesmal, wenn man einen Toten verzehrt, kann man sagen: wieder einer, den der Staat nicht kriegt."

I went to our archives today, to talk about a project based on a historical event. This was lying randomly on the table: a newspaper from the day of the moon landing.

Normal stuff at ZKM.

I am reading essays about "9 Evenings" and E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) in the 1960s and thoroughly enjoying how much of an epic failure this project was thought to be by contemporary critics. Sometimes it takes a few decades for a projects' contribution to be recognized.

Deleuze des Tages: "Man hat nur die Wahl zwischen dem Arsch des Bockes und dem Antlitz Gottes"

I spent the last two days with a guy who remembers the time he could read the whole of the www each morning. And be done with it before the 2nd cup of coffee.

Such an unexpected gem of a person at a theatre conference, no less.

Stimmt, das wär in der Pause natürlich cool gewesen. Aber ich verstehe echt beide Seiten. Als Spieler:in würde ich nicht cool finden, in der Garderobe oder Kantine gefilmt zu werden.

Ja. Aber. Wäre es nicht total toll, hätte er nicht nur aus den Pausen und vom Essen berichtet, sondern wäre in der Lage gewesen die spannendsten Momente zu zeigen?

Ich weiss schon, warum das nicht geht. Würde ich im Theater arbeitend auch nicht wollen. Aber als sein Follower wärs schon gut gewesen

Before the year is out, I will see the vast Kazakh steppe and stand on a singing Dune.

Zuse Z22

Wir haben am ZKM in Karlsruhe einen funktionierenden Zuse Z22 und in unserer spielbaren Computerspiele-Ausstellung Gameplay mindestens einen DDR Spieleklassiker.

My day went from "Robopet autopsy" to "lying in a surround screen lab looking at Indian mudras (hand gestures)" to "spending some lovely one-on-one time with an injured guest artist in the emergency room" real fast (artist is okay)

Sometimes, a colleague passes by my office saying: "come look at what I made!" and then, no matter what was my plan to do that day, I get to spend an hour seeing and listening to stuff and thinking up ways to use it in projects. Emails can wait. Seeing ppl curious & learning never can.

I know times are tough. But I've been getting a taste lately of how desperate things really are for the under-30-crowd. It's heartbreaking.

There must be TikTok influencers out there teaching how to get ahead in seven easy steps or so. I've been positively swamped by people wanting jobs, internships, mentoring - anything and everything. And being extremely assertive about it.

Deleuze of the Day: "Eine Biene ist keine Relaisstation."

‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn’t long before I wanted this experime...

They've abandoned Stephenson's Snow Crash for a dip into Stephenson's Diamond Age, another dystopia novel I would rather not live within.

It feels like I'm spending so much of my time on the road. Well, tracks, actually.

Lithium is a finite resource. All the lithium we could ever need is already on the surface, but mostly unrecycled. It doesn't degrade through recycling, it's endlessly usable. This is brilliant, brilliant news.

Offering up an option of Weisswurst Frühstück in Baden-Württemberg will be a culture shock for all involved. Looking forward to it.

Yes, this guy. Well done googling ^^

I've been putting off reading Deleuze for the longest time, because of his famous dense writing style. I was an idiot. Every page is just oozing with pure love and curiosity about the world. It is such a calm pleasure.

Today I'm learning how to make a zine one-page spread in order to better prepare material for the zine workshop next week.

Thanks for the explanation! I've been wondering about this.