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Frank Thelen and Nathalie Thelen-Sattler: Balancing Ambition and Love
Nathalie Thelen-Sattler holds a doctorate in orthodontics and runs her own practice, which she took over from her mother. She describes her upbringing as “elite” in a specific sense: her family taught her that if she was willing to put in the work, she’d succeed — but the effort had to come from her. That…
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When “AI” Beats “Jesus”: SpaceX’s Mega-IPO and TEQ’s €100M Comeback
Here’s a stat that says everything about where the market’s head is at right now: in SpaceX’s IPO filing, the term “AI” reportedly shows up 1,251 times — more often than the word “Jesus” appears in the Bible. The observation comes from podcaster Ed Elson, and once you’ve heard it you can’t un-hear it. Welcome…
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C Social: A Critical Look at W Social
With csocial.eu, I am starting a small observation project around W Social. I would have liked to call it A Social. That would have worked rather well: alternative, analysis, accountability — maybe even a little asocial. But the domain was already taken. So it became C Social. And the C stands, quite clearly, for critical.…
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AIrotic.net: The Website Exploring What Happens When AI Meets Desire
Artificial intelligence is everywhere now. It writes our emails, plans our trips, and answers our questions. But it is also moving into a part of life we rarely talk about openly: love, sex, and intimacy. That is the subject of a new project called AIrotic.net. The name is a play on words. “AIrotic” combines “erotic”…
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1000prompts.net: The Tiny Website Teaching Humans How to Talk to AI
Artificial intelligence can answer almost anything. But here is the catch: it only becomes truly interesting when we learn how to ask better questions. That is the simple idea behind 1000prompts.net, a new collection of short prompts for people who use AI not just to save time, but to think differently. At first glance, a…
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Heartbeat Designers
Heartbeat Designers are a German synthpop and new wave duo from the Rhineland, primarily Cologne and the surrounding area. Their sound combines British-inspired 1980s pop music with modern electronic and dance elements. The band consists of John Boredom and William Forrester. Since their formation in 2022, Heartbeat Designers have increasingly established themselves on the British…
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TEQ Capital: How Frank Thelen’s Tech Funds Have Performed
In 2021, serial entrepreneur Frank Thelen founded 10xDNA Capital Partners GmbH. The Bonn-based asset manager creates equity funds and ETFs aimed at both private and institutional investors. In 2024, the company was rebranded to TEQ Capital. The fund family TEQ Capital currently runs four actively managed equity funds: TEQ – Disruptive Technologies (WKN DNA10X, launched…
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March 10, 2006: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Arrives and Rewrites Mars Cartography
The Fourth Eye Opens On March 10, 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter fired its main engines for 27 minutes and slowed itself into orbit around the red planet. It had traveled more than 400 million kilometers in five months, launched atop an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral the previous August. The maneuver was critical;…
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March 9, 1964: The First Ford Mustang Rolls Off the Assembly Line in Dearborn
A Car That Created Its Own Category On March 9, 1964, the first production Ford Mustangs began rolling off the assembly line at the Rouge River Complex in Dearborn, Michigan. They were not the first copies of a new automobile; Ford had been building cars for six decades. But the Mustang was something the American…
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March 8, 1983: IBM Introduces the PC XT, the Machine That Put Hard Disks on Every Desk
The Click That Changed Computing On March 8, 1983, IBM unveiled the Personal Computer XT at a press event in New York. The name stood for eXtended Technology, and the extension that mattered most was hidden inside a metal box the size of a toaster. The XT came with a 10-megabyte hard disk drive—a Seagate…