Tim Pritlove (born 25 November 1967 in

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, Germany) is a British/German

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and

discordianist Discordianism is a religion, philosophy, or paradigm centered on Eris, a.k.a. Discordia, the Goddess of chaos. Discordianism uses archetypes or ideals associated with her. It was founded after the 1963 publication of its "holy book," the ''Pri ...

. He lives and works in

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. Pritlove studied computer science but never graduated. From 1998 to 2005 he was the main organizer of the

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and the Chaos Communication Camps. Also, until 2006 he was in charge as managing director of the "Chaos Computer Club Veranstaltungs GmbH". He also filled a central role in the

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, where he is settled as a member. As discordianist Pritlove appeared under the pseudonym ''Theodor Prinz''. With this name he blogged until March 2008 in the MobileMacs blog. Since the beginning of April 2008 he is blogging at MobileMacs by his civic name.

Media-art

At the beginning of the 1990s Pritlove belonged to the developers of the first interactive, telephone based communication platform Die Villa. He is coordinator and co-developer of the

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. In the last years he was a scientific assistant in the ''Institut für zeitbasierte Medien'' at the

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. In 1996 he founded the first T-shirt

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of the hacker culture named ''interhemd modebewusstseinserweiterung''.

Podcasting

Pritlove was involved with Chaosradio, a radio show the

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runs with Radio Fritz. He later spun off ''Chaosradio Express'' (which was renamed into ''CRE: Technik, Kultur, Gesellschaft'' in December 2011), ''Chaosradio Express International'' and ''Chaos TV'', as podcasts. Additionally he writes his own

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called ''The Lunatic Fringe''. He is involved in the production of several, predominantly German podcasts, as well as the English podcast "Newz of the World". His podcasts are often focused on technology, such as ''Raumzeit'' he produced for the

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. In 2014 Pritlove was one of the most popular German bloggers.

Personal life

Born

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, motivated by

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, Pritlove applied for

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, which was granted on 17 October 2018.Logbuch Netzpolitik, episode 272
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References

External links

Pritlove's Weblog „The Lunatic Fringe“

Freakshow podcast (german)

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Podcast: CRE: Technik, Kultur, Gesellschaft (formerly known as Chaosradio Express) (german)
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