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Die Macht der Kunst gegen Diktatoren

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

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I am mentioned on Sailing Uma

names of patreons written inside the hull of Uma

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.

↬www.leobard.net/blog/2020/02/01/why-i-watch-sailing-channel-videos-and-not-netflix-or-tv-anymore-because-this-is-the-future-of-media/

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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.

Denny Vrandečić

@nichtich that's really cool! The world is so densely interconnected.

2025-10-17, 06:38 0 boosts 0 favorites

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:

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.

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My “Tenet” interpretation: instead of war, the future is peace

Ives, the algorithm, the protagonist sitting at rest

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:

  1. watch Tenet
  2. watch Tenet again
  3. combine all clues in the movie and write your own answers to below questions
  4. then read this post

My main questions:

  1. How is the Tenet organization financed?
  2. Who built the turnstiles?
  3. What does “inverted entropy” mean in the real world?
  4. What is the “Algorithm” and what is it for?
  5. What does this mean for me?
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