* 📝 Live progress
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Draft:
This is a very strong chunk. It mostly **reinforces and sharpens** the picture rather than changing it.

## Main takeaway

This summary is good enough that I’d treat it as a **high-value secondary source** for the Google/Amazon/immigration thread, with only a few parts downgraded as stale or process-timestamp dependent.

## What it adds especially well

### 1. MQI work is now much clearer
This chunk gives the best concise articulation so far of your current MQI work:

- SFQ multichannel time tagger / TDC for SNSPD arrays
- architecture and macro-block behavioral models
- candidate circuits/cells
- scaling/resource planning
- layout/extraction/back-annotation pipeline
- reusable primitives, naming/library structure, SOP/onboarding materials

And the compressed interview/resume version is excellent:

> architecture, behavioral models, candidate cells, design methods/library conventions

That feels worth preserving.

### 2. Amazon side-thread is much clearer
This sharpens Amazon into:

- not dead
- possibly exploring a **Germany → Belgium** path
- Shahriar is probing structure/timeline
- interesting optionality, but still vague
- should not be allowed to derail Google

That’s a useful stable framing.

### 3. WMI/TUM qubit-work wording is now better grounded
This gives a much better boundary around your real contribution:

- integration
- layout
- EM simulation
- control/readout hardware
- cryogenic setup/measurement support

without drifting into “designed quantum processors.”

That’s exactly the kind of defensible phrasing worth keeping.

### 4. Communication style preferences are very explicit
This is valuable because it matches many prior corrections:

- low-affect
- direct
- professional
- plain text
- not over-polished
- don’t sound desperate
- preserve optionality
- don’t overexpose internal strategy

That is probably one of the more durable meta-preferences in the whole imported material.

## What is consistent with earlier chunks

Strongly consistent:

- MQI is the current stability anchor
- Google is the best technical-fit opportunity
- Amazon remains optional but structurally unclear
- technical fit should dominate the Chris call
- immigration should be handled carefully and mostly through BAL
- resume was intentionally made more precise and less inflated
- official MQI title is **Development Engineer**
- functional resume title is **Development Engineer, SFQ Readout**
- Seattle is a preference, not a hard requirement
- don’t expose German PR/citizenship strategy to employers

## What I would now treat as merged current truth

If I compress everything we’ve imported so far, the best merged state is:

- You are currently at **MQI in Germany** as **Development Engineer**, with the role framed externally as **Development Engineer, SFQ Readout**.
- MQI is your practical anchor for employment and German stability, not a role you’re trying to flee.
- **Google Quantum AI** is the strongest-fit upside path because it aligns unusually well with your combined background:
  - SFQ/superconducting digital electronics
  - superconducting EDA
  - qubit/control-readout integration
  - EM simulation
  - cryogenic measurement
- The Google application is submitted, the resume was finalized, and BAL/O-1 handling was engaged.
- **BAL preliminary review came back quickly**; the real process bottleneck is more likely **Ali/Chris scheduling and progression**, not the initial BAL


* 📝 Live progress
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Draft:
This is a very strong chunk. It mostly **reinforces and sharpens** the picture rather than changing it.

## Main takeaway

This summary is good enough that I’d treat it as a **high-value secondary source** for the Google/Amazon/immigration thread, with only a few parts downgraded as stale or process-timestamp dependent.

## What it adds especially well

### 1. MQI work is now much clearer
This chunk gives the best concise articulation so far of your current MQI work:

- SFQ multichannel time tagger / TDC for SNSPD arrays
- architecture and macro-block behavioral models
- candidate circuits/cells
- scaling/resource planning
- layout/extraction/back-annotation pipeline
- reusable primitives, naming/library structure, SOP/onboarding materials

And the compressed interview/resume version is excellent:

> architecture, behavioral models, candidate cells, design methods/library conventions

That feels worth preserving.

### 2. Amazon side-thread is much clearer
This sharpens Amazon into:

- not dead
- possibly exploring a **Germany → Belgium** path
- Shahriar is probing structure/timeline
- interesting optionality, but still vague
- should not be allowed to derail Google

That’s a useful stable framing.

### 3. WMI/TUM qubit-work wording is now better grounded
This gives a much better boundary around your real contribution:

- integration
- layout
- EM simulation
- control/readout hardware
- cryogenic setup/measurement support

without drifting into “designed quantum processors.”

That’s exactly the kind of defensible phrasing worth keeping.

### 4. Communication style preferences are very explicit
This is valuable because it matches many prior corrections:

- low-affect
- direct
- professional
- plain text
- not over-polished
- don’t sound desperate
- preserve optionality
- don’t overexpose internal strategy

That is probably one of the more durable meta-preferences in the whole imported material.

## What is consistent with earlier chunks

Strongly consistent:

- MQI is the current stability anchor
- Google is the best technical-fit opportunity
- Amazon remains optional but structurally unclear
- technical fit should dominate the Chris call
- immigration should be handled carefully and mostly through BAL
- resume was intentionally made more precise and less inflated
- official MQI title is **Development Engineer**
- functional resume title is **Development Engineer, SFQ Readout**
- Seattle is a preference, not a hard requirement
- don’t expose German PR/citizenship strategy to employers

## What I would now treat as merged current truth

If I compress everything we’ve imported so far, the best merged state is:

- You are currently at **MQI in Germany** as **Development Engineer**, with the role framed externally as **Development Engineer, SFQ Readout**.
- MQI is your practical anchor for employment and German stability, not a role you’re trying to flee.
- **Google Quantum AI** is the strongest-fit upside path because it aligns unusually well with your combined background:
  - SFQ/superconducting digital electronics
  - superconducting EDA
  - qubit/control-readout integration
  - EM simulation
  - cryogenic measurement
- The Google application is submitted, the resume was finalized, and BAL/O-1 handling was engaged.
- **BAL preliminary review came back quickly**; the real process bottleneck is more likely **Ali/Chris scheduling and progression**, not the initial BAL wait.
- The right Chris framing is:
  - technical fit first
  - immigration only if needed
  - honest about AQFP not being core, but strong on transferable superconducting digital methodology
- **Amazon** is still alive as an optional thread, especially via a possible Europe structure, but is vague enough that it should not dominate your planning.
- A possible former advisor opportunity ex


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This is a very strong chunk. It mostly **reinforces and sharpens** the picture rather than changing it.

## Main takeaway

This summary is good enough that I’d treat it as a **high-value secondary source** for the Google/Amazon/immigration thread, with only a few parts downgraded as stale or process-timestamp dependent.

## What it adds especially well

### 1. MQI work is now much clearer
This chunk gives the best concise articulation so far of your current MQI work:

- SFQ multichannel time tagger / TDC for SNSPD arrays
- architecture and macro-block behavioral models
- candidate circuits/cells
- scaling/resource planning
- layout/extraction/back-annotation pipeline
- reusable primitives, naming/library structure, SOP/onboarding materials

And the compressed interview/resume version is excellent:

> architecture, behavioral models, candidate cells, design methods/library conventions

That feels worth preserving.

### 2. Amazon side-thread is much clearer
This sharpens Amazon into:

- not dead
- possibly exploring a **Germany → Belgium** path
- Shahriar is probing structure/timeline
- interesting optionality, but still vague
- should not be allowed to derail Google

That’s a useful stable framing.

### 3. WMI/TUM qubit-work wording is now better grounded
This gives a much better boundary around your real contribution:

- integration
- layout
- EM simulation
- control/readout hardware
- cryogenic setup/measurement support

without drifting into “designed quantum processors.”

That’s exactly the kind of defensible phrasing worth keeping.

### 4. Communication style preferences are very explicit
This is valuable because it matches many prior corrections:

- low-affect
- direct
- professional
- plain text
- not over-polished
- don’t sound desperate
- preserve optionality
- don’t overexpose internal strategy

That is probably one of the more durable meta-preferences in the whole imported material.

## What is consistent with earlier chunks

Strongly consistent:

- MQI is the current stability anchor
- Google is the best technical-fit opportunity
- Amazon remains optional but structurally unclear
- technical fit should dominate the Chris call
- immigration should be handled carefully and mostly through BAL
- resume was intentionally made more precise and less inflated
- official MQI title is **Development Engineer**
- functional resume title is **Development Engineer, SFQ Readout**
- Seattle is a preference, not a hard requirement
- don’t expose German PR/citizenship strategy to employers

## What I would now treat as merged current truth

If I compress everything we’ve imported so far, the best merged state is:

- You are currently at **MQI in Germany** as **Development Engineer**, with the role framed externally as **Development Engineer, SFQ Readout**.
- MQI is your practical anchor for employment and German stability, not a role you’re trying to flee.
- **Google Quantum AI** is the strongest-fit upside path because it aligns unusually well with your combined background:
  - SFQ/superconducting digital electronics
  - superconducting EDA
  - qubit/control-readout integration
  - EM simulation
  - cryogenic measurement
- The Google application is submitted, the resume was finalized, and BAL/O-1 handling was engaged.
- **BAL preliminary review came back quickly**; the real process bottleneck is more likely **Ali/Chris scheduling and progression**, not the initial BAL wait.
- The right Chris framing is:
  - technical fit first
  - immigration only if needed
  - honest about AQFP not being core, but strong on transferable superconducting digital methodology
- **Amazon** is still alive as an optional thread, especially via a possible Europe structure, but is vague enough that it should not dominate your planning.
- A possible former advisor opportunity exists and may be Germany-safer, but is secondary for now.

## What I would explicitl


y mark as stale or time-sensitive

These should not be treated as current truth without care:

- “BAL is in progress”
  → stale; your later correction is better

- exact next-step sequencing like
  “Chris call → research talk → two technical → one nontechnical”
  → plausible process sketch, but still process-model language, not guaranteed fact

- immediate task lists like
  “finish O-1 form / email BAL / email Ali”
  → likely stale depending on what has already been done

## Exact-number issues: now clearer, but still category-sensitive

This chunk actually helps normalize the earlier conflicts.

### Best way to hold citation info
I’d now treat it as:

- public-facing/resume truth: **more than 800 citations**
- filtered-analysis truth for O-1 context:
  - **807 total**
  - **319 independent**
  - **h-index 16**
  - **independent h-index 11**

And importantly:
- do **not** describe self-citation fraction as “excessive”
- if needed, explain it partly via books/book chapters citing foundational SFQ papers

That feels like a stable reconciliation.

### Best way to hold publications info
I’d now treat it as:

- normal application wording:
  - **20 peer-reviewed journal articles**
  - **2 Springer books**
  - **multiple conference papers/proceedings and selected presentations**
- if forced into one broad number:
  - **43 scholarly records in Google Scholar**, with clarification that this is not 43 journal papers

That’s a good resolution of the earlier counting ambiguity.

## Best durable candidates from this chunk

If I were picking what is most worth retaining long-term, I’d shortlist:

1. **MQI current work framing**
   SFQ SNSPD-array readout; architecture, behavioral models, candidate cells, repeatable design/library methods.

2. **Employer-facing communication preference**
   Low-affect, direct, professional, plain-text, not over-polished, preserve optionality.

3. **WMI/TUM contribution framing**
   Integration/layout/EM simulation/characterization of superconducting multi-qubit devices; avoid “designed quantum processors.”

4. **Amazon status framing**
   Amazon is not dead; possible Germany→Belgium path exists, but structure/timeline remain unclear.

5. **Google strategic framing**
   Lead with technical fit; keep immigration detail bounded and tactically disclosed.

## My confidence on this chunk

Higher than average, honestly.
It reads less like vague generated connective tissue and more like a careful handoff summary with real decision residue in it.

So yes — this one materially improves the merged picture.

If you want, next I can do one of two things:

1. keep reconciling more chunks, or
2. pause and produce a **single consolidated Google/Amazon/immigration summary** from everything you’ve pasted so far.


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Let's pause for now, that's probably sufficient backstory for this, but I want to supply older and less relevant summaries later from other chatgpt chats


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* 📝 Live progress
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Sounds


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Draft:
Sounds good. We’ve got a pretty solid merged picture now, and older/lower-priority summaries can come later without much risk.

When you bring more over, I’ll treat them as:
- lower-confidence secondary sources,
- useful mainly for filling gaps,
- and something to reconcile against the stronger/more recent picture we already built.

So yes — pause is totally fine. We’ve banked the important Google / MQI / immigration / Amazon context well enough for now.


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Sounds good. We’ve got a pretty solid merged picture now, and older/lower-priority summaries can come later without much risk.

When you bring more over, I’ll treat them as:
- lower-confidence secondary sources,
- useful mainly for filling gaps,
- and something to reconcile against the stronger/more recent picture we already built.

So yes — pause is totally fine. We’ve banked the important Google / MQI / immigration / Amazon context well enough for now.


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I came to Leipzig now, it really feels much different. Even the girls are prettier somehow. Maybe I just need to leave Munich, which is what I'm trying to do for years now.


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Yeah, that can be very real.

Sometimes a place just hits differently — lighter, less tense, more alive, more like you can breathe. And then all the little things start looking better too, including the people. It’s not necessarily that Leipzig is objectively magic; it may just fit you better than Munich does.

And if your reaction is immediately “maybe I need to leave Munich,” that’s probably not random. You’ve been circling that feeling for a long time already. Maybe this is less a sudden thought and more your nervous system going: **see, this is what it feels like when a city doesn’t grind you down**.

So yeah, I’d take that impression seriously. Not as “I must move to Leipzig tomorrow,” but as real evidence that Munich may be wrong for you in a deeper way than just housing frustration.


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Yeah, that can be very real.

Sometimes a place just hits differently — lighter, less tense, more alive, more like you can breathe. And then all the little things start looking better too, including the people. It’s not necessarily that Leipzig is objectively magic; it may just fit you better than Munich does.

And if your reaction is immediately “maybe I need to leave Munich,” that’s probably not random. You’ve been circling that feeling for a long time already. Maybe this is less a sudden thought and more your nervous system going: **see, this is what it feels like when a city doesn’t grind you down**.

So yeah, I’d take that impression seriously. Not as “I must move to Leipzig tomorrow,” but as real evidence that Munich may be wrong for you in a deeper way than just housing frustration.


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It's been going since the first time I came to Leipzig or east Germany (Dresden, Berlin). At first I discounted it as vacation impressions, but there's been many and not all good and still


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Then yeah, that sounds a lot less like tourist glow and a lot more like a recurring signal.

If it keeps happening across:
- different trips,
- different moods,
- different eastern cities,
- and even trips that weren’t especially good,

then it’s probably tracking something real in your fit with the place, not just novelty or vacation brain.

Maybe it’s pace, social atmosphere, aesthetics, class vibe, density, roughness, openness, less polished-West-Germany pressure — whatever the exact mix is, your system seems to keep noticing **“I feel more right here.”**

That doesn’t automatically mean “move to Leipzig specifically,” but it does suggest:
- Munich may genuinely be wrong for you,
- and east Germany may be closer to the kind of environment you actually want.

Honestly, after enough repetitions, discounting it starts being less rational than taking it seriously.

If you want, we can later try to pin down **what exactly** feels different there, because that could help distinguish:
- “I want Leipzig”
from
- “I want not-Munich”
from
- “I want a certain kind of city that Munich


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Then yeah, that sounds a lot less like tourist glow and a lot more like a recurring signal.

If it keeps happening across:
- different trips,
- different moods,
- different eastern cities,
- and even trips that weren’t especially good,

then it’s probably tracking something real in your fit with the place, not just novelty or vacation brain.

Maybe it’s pace, social atmosphere, aesthetics, class vibe, density, roughness, openness, less polished-West-Germany pressure — whatever the exact mix is, your system seems to keep noticing **“I feel more right here.”**

That doesn’t automatically mean “move to Leipzig specifically,” but it does suggest:
- Munich may genuinely be wrong for you,
- and east Germany may be closer to the kind of environment you actually want.

Honestly, after enough repetitions, discounting it starts being less rational than taking it seriously.

If you want, we can later try to pin down **what exactly** feels different there, because that could help distinguish:
- “I want Leipzig”
from
- “I want not-Munich”
from
- “I want a certain kind of city that Munich isn’t.”


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Then yeah, that sounds a lot less like tourist glow and a lot more like a recurring signal.

If it keeps happening across:
- different trips,
- different moods,
- different eastern cities,
- and even trips that weren’t especially good,

then it’s probably tracking something real in your fit with the place, not just novelty or vacation brain.

Maybe it’s pace, social atmosphere, aesthetics, class vibe, density, roughness, openness, less polished-West-Germany pressure — whatever the exact mix is, your system seems to keep noticing **“I feel more right here.”**

That doesn’t automatically mean “move to Leipzig specifically,” but it does suggest:
- Munich may genuinely be wrong for you,
- and east Germany may be closer to the kind of environment you actually want.

Honestly, after enough repetitions, discounting it starts being less rational than taking it seriously.

If you want, we can later try to pin down **what exactly** feels different there, because that could help distinguish:
- “I want Leipzig”
from
- “I want not-Munich”
from
- “I want a certain kind of city that Munich isn’t.”


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It's irrelevant really, I'm just bitching. There are no jobs here for me anyway. They are all in hellholes like LA and SF


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* 📝 Live progress
This is streamed draft/tool progress, not hidden reasoning.
Draft:
Fair


* 📝 Live progress
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Draft:
Fair enough, you’re allowed to bitch.

And yeah, that’s probably the bitter part of it: you can feel a place suits you better, and then the actual job geography points at expensive, alien, spiritually hostile bullshit zones instead.

So it’s not just:
- “I like Leipzig more”

it’s:
- “the places that fit me and the places that want my skillset barely overlap.”

That’s a real frustration, not trivial whining. And LA/SF as mandatory destiny for technical work is a pretty grim bargain if you already feel repelled by that whole ecosystem.

Even if it’s irrelevant in the short term, it still matters as information about what kind of life actually feels tolerable to you.


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Fair enough, you’re allowed to bitch.

And yeah, that’s probably the bitter part of it: you can feel a place suits you better, and then the actual job geography points at expensive, alien, spiritually hostile bullshit zones instead.

So it’s not just:
- “I like Leipzig more”

it’s:
- “the places that fit me and the places that want my skillset barely overlap.”

That’s a real frustration, not trivial whining. And LA/SF as mandatory destiny for technical work is a pretty grim bargain if you already feel repelled by that whole ecosystem.

Even if it’s irrelevant in the short term, it still matters as information about what kind of life actually feels tolerable to you.


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Maybe you can look up familientreffen for context. I think I know most related events but maybe it will help catch more later


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📝 Live progress
This is streamed draft/tool progress, not hidden reasoning.
Waiting for first model/tool update…


* 📝 Live progress
This is streamed draft/tool progress, not hidden reasoning.
Tools (1):
- websearch / pending / call_Y4paRUTFHtcLTfXEmbIHTL3


* 📝 Live progress
This is streamed draft/tool progress, not hidden reasoning.
Tools (1):
- Web search: Familientreffen Sandersleben festival 2026 Sandersleben Familientref / completed / Familientreffen Sandersleben festival 2026 Sandersleben Familientreffen


* 📝 Live progress
This is streamed draft/tool progress, not hidden reasoning.
Tools (4):
- Web search: Familientreffen Sandersleben festival 2026 Sandersleben Familientref / completed / Familientreffen Sandersleben festival 2026 Sandersleben Familientreffen
- https://familientreffen.info/ (text/html) / completed / call_PzXjFT5SoZOK3koChQxQ28y
- https://familientreffen.info/programm/ (text/html) / completed / call_DOmotNB9oIMTG90gmPbWYvP
- https://familientreffen.info/line-up-2026/ (text/html) / completed / call_5G8qWDcCZRUSzIJM7v8c0Jm

Draft:
Yep


* 📝 Live progress
This is streamed draft/tool progress, not hidden reasoning.
Tools (4):
- Web search: Familientreffen Sandersleben festival 2026 Sandersleben Familientref / completed / Familientreffen Sandersleben festival 2026 Sandersleben Familientreffen
- https://familientreffen.info/ (text/html) / completed / call_PzXjFT5SoZOK3koChQxQ28y
- https://familientreffen.info/programm/ (text/html) / completed / call_DOmotNB9oIMTG90gmPbWYvP
- https://familientreffen.info/line-up-2026/ (text/html) / completed / call_5G8qWDcCZRUSzIJM7v8c0Jm

Draft:
Yep — I looked it up, and it’s definitely not just some generic family reunion name. It’s a **small EBM festival/community gathering** in **Sandersleben (Anhalt)**.

Useful context I picked up:

- **Familientreffen XIX**
- **Dates:** **9–12 July 2026**
- **Place:** **Sportplatz Sandersleben (Anhalt)**
- It’s very explicitly framed as a **traditionelles Treffen der EBM-Familie** — so more like a scene/family gathering than a polished mainstream festival.
- Structure:
  - **Thursday:** camping arrival + disco tent
  - **Friday/Saturday:** live bands + DJs
  - **Saturday midday:** the **Kornlauf**, which seems to be one of the signature ritual/social events
  - **Sunday:** departure

A few lineup/context bits that may help later:
- acts include **A Split-Second, Armageddon Dildos, DSTR, Pro Patria, CK 37, Kalt, TÖT, Manipulation, Kreign**
- one


* 📝 Live progress
This is streamed draft/tool progress, not hidden reasoning.
Tools (4):
- Web search: Familientreffen Sandersleben festival 2026 Sandersleben Familientref / completed / Familientreffen Sandersleben festival 2026 Sandersleben Familientreffen
- https://familientreffen.info/ (text/html) / completed / call_PzXjFT5SoZOK3koChQxQ28y
- https://familientreffen.info/programm/ (text/html) / completed / call_DOmotNB9oIMTG90gmPbWYvP
- https://familientreffen.info/line-up-2026/ (text/html) / completed / call_5G8qWDcCZRUSzIJM7v8c0Jm

Draft:
Yep — I looked it up, and it’s definitely not just some generic family reunion name. It’s a **small EBM festival/community gathering** in **Sandersleben (Anhalt)**.

Useful context I picked up:

- **Familientreffen XIX**
- **Dates:** **9–12 July 2026**
- **Place:** **Sportplatz Sandersleben (Anhalt)**
- It’s very explicitly framed as a **traditionelles Treffen der EBM-Familie** — so more like a scene/family gathering than a polished mainstream festival.
- Structure:
  - **Thursday:** camping arrival + disco tent
  - **Friday/Saturday:** live bands + DJs
  - **Saturday midday:** the **Kornlauf**, which seems to be one of the signature ritual/social events
  - **Sunday:** departure

A few lineup/context bits that may help later:
- acts include **A Split-Second, Armageddon Dildos, DSTR, Pro Patria, CK 37, Kalt, TÖT, Manipulation, Kreign**
- one DJ is from **Leipzig**, and **DSTR** is tagged **Leipzig/D**
- the tone of the site is very clubby / scene-insider / rough-edged affectionate, not corporate at all

So if you reference “Familientreffen” later, I’ll now anchor it as:
- **EBM scene event**
- **Sandersleben**
- **camping + disco tent + live acts**
- **small, loyal, subcultural atmosphere**
- **Kornlauf on Saturday**

That should help me interpret future mentions better, even if you don’t restate all the context.


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Yep — I looked it up, and it’s definitely not just some generic family reunion name. It’s a **small EBM festival/community gathering** in **Sandersleben (Anhalt)**.

Useful context I picked up:

- **Familientreffen XIX**
- **Dates:** **9–12 July 2026**
- **Place:** **Sportplatz Sandersleben (Anhalt)**
- It’s very explicitly framed as a **traditionelles Treffen der EBM-Familie** — so more like a scene/family gathering than a polished mainstream festival.
- Structure:
  - **Thursday:** camping arrival + disco tent
  - **Friday/Saturday:** live bands + DJs
  - **Saturday midday:** the **Kornlauf**, which seems to be one of the signature ritual/social events
  - **Sunday:** departure

A few lineup/context bits that may help later:
- acts include **A Split-Second, Armageddon Dildos, DSTR, Pro Patria, CK 37, Kalt, TÖT, Manipulation, Kreign**
- one DJ is from **Leipzig**, and **DSTR** is tagged **Leipzig/D**
- the tone of the site is very clubby / scene-insider / rough-edged affectionate, not corporate at all

So if you reference “Familientreffen” later, I’ll now anchor it as:
- **EBM scene event**
- **Sandersleben**
- **camping + disco tent + live acts**
- **small, loyal, subcultural atmosphere**
- **Kornlauf on Saturday**

That should help me interpret future mentions better, even if you don’t restate all the context.


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Yeah that sounds about right. I missed the pre party because I didn't plan in advance but I probably wouldn't have the energy for it anyway


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* 📝 Live progress
This is streamed draft/tool progress, not hidden reasoning.
Draft:
Yeah


* 📝 Live progress
This is streamed draft/tool progress, not hidden reasoning.
Draft:
Yeah, that sounds fine honestly. Missing the pre-party is not the worst loss if you were already running low.

Those Thursday arrivals / warmup nights are only fun if you’ve got enough energy to actually enjoy the loose social chaos. Otherwise they can just become another thing you feel behind on.

So maybe you missed it logistically, but maybe your body also made the right call for once. Better to still have some life left for the actual festival than burn it all on the prelude.


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Yeah, that sounds fine honestly. Missing the pre-party is not the worst loss if you were already running low.

Those Thursday arrivals / warmup nights are only fun if you’ve got enough energy to actually enjoy the loose social chaos. Otherwise they can just become another thing you feel behind on.

So maybe you missed it logistically, but maybe your body also made the right call for once. Better to still have some life left for the actual festival than burn it all on the prelude.


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It's over, too short as usual. Actually someone died on Thursday so everything was cancelled that day. With the increasing average age there this might happen more often in the future


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⚠ Matrix-lite did not receive a final answer for this request. The direct ACP model/tool run failed or was interrupted before it produced a final response. If this was blocked by permissions, I can request same-room native ACP approval or use the privileged broker for root-required commands; please retry the request.


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