NSFW

Unfortunately, there was a link-error in last week's NSFW so that potentially not everyone was correctly sent to this beautiful Instagram-Reel on Lorraine Ellison. My apologies. Here it is again:

This week's song is called "Pesanteur" and comes from Poppy Fusée.

It's a simple, perhaps even childish, melody fitting to repetitive work.

Some of the background reminds me of Donaukanal, but it's probably shot in Paris. And there are starships too. Perfect autumn music.

Retrospect

#arsboni

We had several interesting sessions. One on the impact of AI on Wikipedia,

one on how it is to work as a state prosecutor,

one with Austria's minister of justice Dr. Anna Sporrer (sitting in a large room with flags and lots of echo).

Bestseller

I'm quite proud that our AI-commentary is one of Wolters Kluwer's bestsellers in 2025.

I am very grateful to everyone who has been involved in this endeavour, in particular my fellow co-editors Ceyhun Pehlivan and Peggy Valcke - and the approximately 80 authors having contributed.

Prospect

Cable Days

On Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th of November WKO organises the Cable Days in Linz.

I may speak about "Legal Challenges in the Digital Era". The programme has many interesting speakers - and there's also some press coverage already. Horizont will (probably) publish an interview with me on this on Friday.

Digitale Arbeiterzeitung (Digital Workers' Newspaper)

Medienhaus Wien relaunched the digitalisation of Arbeiterzeitung - the social democrat party's daily newspaper. Content from (almost?) all daily editions published between 1945 and 1989 will be available to everyone again via www.arbeiterzeitung.at .

The project and its outcomes will be presented on Wednesday, November 5th, at an event at Presseclub Concordia I have the privilege to speak at (following the project leaders Dr. Andy Kaltenbrunner and Andreas Scharf, third president of the national assembly Doris Bures and Dr. Harald Sicheritz).

It's by invitation only, but if you want to participate, please register via an email to office@mhw.at and Andy will look what they can do.

#arsboni

If you are reading this on Friday (early) morning, you might still catch this episode live that starts on October 31st at 8.30 am:

I will also do two laundry sessions (one on electronic health data, one on digital humanism) I will report about next week.

Look and Feel

Albertina

I visited - thanks to my Bundesmuseencard for free - Albertina on Sunday. Despite clear signs of overtourism (this is the queue in front of the "Würstelstand" there on a Sunday afternoon),

it was a great visit as all four exhibitions currently shown are impressive.

I appreciated, in particular, the exhibition on Brigitte Kowanz in which I learned a lot about references to the internet and phenomenons like E-Mail, Google, the www and Wikipedia in her installations. Texts about the exhibition were published in Der Standard, ORF and Falter. Albertina has an interview with her on YouTube:

One of the details I had never seen consciously before in Albertina's permanent collection but admired this time as well is "Big Fish Eat Little Fish" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that "simply" hangs around there. and is a perfect metaphor for almost everything nowadays.

Worth a visit!

Die Strottern & Gamp

Klemens Lendl, David Müller (Die Strottern) and Markus Geiselhart and Peter Ahorner (Gamp) gave a concert together in Theater am Spittelberg on Tuesday and it was marvelous.

Here's a good example for what Gamp was showing

and here's Die Strottern with an Ahorner-text they performed there as well (nice Video!):

Ahorner also wrote a nice book about Austrian words

that I constantly offer to German friends, that one can buy conveniently in Buchhandlung Riedl (as well as the other books he wrote) and that he advertises in Vienna's nicest Italian bar (Hold) in an online article here:

Caffè Hold, by the way, is a gem offering advice and comfort for almost every possible situation and a nice place to have lunch (or to drink late night, but I am too old for the latter), in particular in autumn.

Hotel Rimini

will give a concert in Vienna next Thursday!

Ageing

I am a very loyal customer of Krautreporter. Their daily newsletter (Morgenpost) is often one of the very first things I read every morning, their service is - somehow - also a model for my weekly and their way of doing journalism is one I am happy to pay for.

This week they brought a German translation of a very nice Substack-post that I want to share with you. Either because you are young and then should know what's coming - or because you are somehow in my age - then you understand what they are talking about.

Daisy

appreciates vineyard-walks a lot in Indian summer and sometimes still behaves like a puppy then.

Have a wonderful week!

Kind regards

Nikolaus (Forgó)