@seav@en.osm.townI was surprised to learn that famously neutral #Switzerland 🇨🇭 has been a member of the Council of Europe 🇪🇺 (which is *not* the same as either of the European Council 🇪🇺 and the Council of the European Union 🇪🇺) since 1963. For reference, Switzerland joined the #UnitedNations in 2002.
@cdarwin@c.imDarkness draped Crans-Montana,
a ski resort in the Swiss Alps with a reputation for posh luxury.
Le Constellation, however, had few pretensions:
a cavernous venue with TV screens on the top floor to watch sport,
and a basement with low lighting, loud music and a dancefloor.
It attracted a young crowd, including under-18s, mainly from Switzerland and continental Europe,
and early on Thursday morning hundreds thronged the venue to see in 2026.
Many wo…
@cdamian@rls.socialIt still includes some road widening.
"Switzerland Unveils 2045 Transport Plan: Major Rail Upgrades and Over 30 Road Projects Scrapped" - SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/switzerland-to-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSwitzerland to boost defence spending, funded by sales tax hike (Dave Graham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/switzerland-boost-defence-spending-funded-by-sales-tax-hike-2026-01-28/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p48#a260128p48
@solawi@social.tchncs.deKennt ihr schon unsere Solawi-Karte? Dort können Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher Solawis in ihrer Nähe finden.
Wir teilen nicht nur unsere Ernte, sondern auch unsere Software! 4 #Solawi-Dachorganisationen haben sich heute zur Frage der Finanzierung der Karte getroffen. Geeinigt haben wir uns auf eine #Beitragsrunde
@servelan@newsie.socialAnti Trump protesters burn American flags in Switzerland ahead of president’s Davos trip | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-davos-protests-american-flags-burned-switzerland-b2904402.html
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Haydn, Mendelssohn, Cowell, Liszt and Nielsen from Switzerland
Barbara Hannigan conducts the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, and pianist Bertrand Chamayou joins for Henry Cowell's Irish Suite.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rfkd
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzLast week, tramping the Milford Track with my whānau (it was stunning), I ended up chatting with a lone fellow tramper from Switzerland. Got to practice my German quite a lot... turns out he's a recently retired heart surgeon, who primarily did heart transplants. 😲 Turns out he wants nothing more to do with his profession & is very pessimistic about the EU social situation heading rightward. He finds Aotearoa magical & inspiring & is busy doing as many Great Walks as he possi…
@joe@toot.worksJohnny Harris (he doesn't seem to have a presence here) has a really good video out right now on public transportation in Switzerland. "By law, every village in Switzerland, which has people living all year round, they have the right of public transportation. It can be a train, it can be a gondola, it can be a bus. Whatever." That's pretty cool.
#Switzerland #PublicTransportation #JohnnyHarris
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialLast night, I was reading a book that contained this passage about Mussolini, and it took me an hour to fully grasp what this meant:
"[his 2-year stay in Switzerland] had initiated Mussolini to a form of revolutionary socialism based not on materialism or orthodox Marxism, but on a cocktail of voluntarists and anti-rational principles derived from Pareto, Le Bon, Nietzsche, and Sorel"
@floheinstein@chaos.social
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSwitzerland launches a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to NFC tech on iPhones violate its antitrust laws (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/12/apple-pay-swiss-antitrust-probe-nfc/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPalantir sues Republik magazine that revealed Switzerland rejected its services, alleging the company was not given a sufficient right to reply under Swiss law (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/434b6d98-83d1-4ba1-a929-150341bcaea4
@edintone@mastodon.green4 Sisters Invent Electric Tractor with Mom and Dad and it’s Selling in 5 Countries https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/4-sisters-invent-electric-tractor-with-mom-and-dad-and-its-selling-in-5-countries/
@benb@osintua.euSwitzerland extradites Ukrainian over Russian-backed sabotage plot: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/23/200925.html
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng...on second thought, maybe let's not go to the mountains this weekend. Avalanche danger Level 4 (2nd highest grade) pretty much everywhere. Bit of an unusual sight, but not surprised, we had quite a lot of fresh snow in past three days, and it's getting too warm too quickly...
#Avalanche #Map
@cdarwin@c.imAs Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called
"Board of Peace" at the
World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, on Thursday,
his son-in-law Jared Kushner
presented his vision of
turning the Gaza Strip into
an upscale seaside resort
with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities.
The proposal is said to require an investment of at least $25 billion,
and Kushner’s presentation showed a map of the besieged territor…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaDays like today I miss Switzerland, I miss the people and scenery, and I miss having a six-figure, ideation-focused, two-hour-wine-lunch laptop job in a sensible, permissive country, far, far away from the Anglosphere. Why anybody willingly lives here is a mystery to me. Why I returned, even more so.
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgYesterday, a friend told me a fun linguistic experience: He and his partner (both speaking standard German) spent some time in Switzerland, both kids are born there. Kids went to crèche and kindergarten, they moved back to Germany when the oldest was 7. At home, all 4 spoke standard German. The parents only realized by visiting hours to crèche and kindergarten, that both kids were fluent in Züridütsch
1/n
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgRE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116114168563340683
And guess who wants to keep negotiating even though it should by now be clear that these tariffs are completely arbitrary and just a way for the regime to line their pockets?
Switzerland!
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgRE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116114168563340683
And guess who wants to keep negotiating even though it should by now be clear that these tariffs are completely arbitrary and just a way for the regime to line their pockets?
Switzerland!
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgRE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116114168563340683
And guess who wants to keep negotiating even though it should by now be clear that these tariffs are completely arbitrary and just a way for the regime to line their pockets?
Switzerland!
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Love conquers all: Madrigali and other Monteverdi works by La Venexiana
Monteverdi motets and madrigals performed by La Venexiana under their artistic director Gabriele Palomba at the St. Gallen Festival in Switzerland. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nptq
@steve@s.yelvington.com"Without us, you'd all be speaking German," Trump tells an audience... in Switzerland.
@rachel@norfolk.social“Without us, you’d be speaking German”, says Trump at the WEF. In Davos. In Switzerland. Where they speak German… 🤦♀️
@villavelius@mastodon.online"Niets aan de hand" volgens Trump. 😉
Trump says heavy bruise on his left hand came after he ‘clipped it on the table’ | CNN Politics https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/22/politics/hand-bruising-trump-health
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialOverview of the 5 utilities in Switzerland offering dynamic network tariffs next year: #Flexibility
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgSNF (Switzerland) restrictions proposed: only 1 concurrent research grant per PI (plus maybe one coop), only 1 proposal per year.
🔥 Hot take (since I'm not at all operating like this currently): I actually think this might be a good idea? It would curb some of the biggest "research mills", where one PI has a huge pyramid scheme underneath them, and might encourage more careful grant proposals, slower science. And might even put more emphasis back into the basic research funding (instead of the grant lotteries)?
(Maybe naive, I know, and I have no idea how this would be implemented)
#academicChatter #researchGrants
https://www.snf.ch/de/7qymWfJMG1z9XR2S/news/einschraenkungen-in-der-projektfoerderung
@markhburton@mstdn.socialFrom Monroe to Donroe, Greenland and Carney – Michael Roberts Blog https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/from-monroe-to-donroe-greenland-and-carney/
@doktrock@toad.socialGermany's population is estimated to decline by 10% by 2070, from 83.5 to 74.7 million. One of the reasons is emigration; over 250,000 people per year leave #Deutschland.
https://www.
@ncoca@social.coopWonder why this #Indonesia #fire, which I only just read about, didn't get nearly as much attention as the one that happened in #Switzerland a week later.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: UBS plans to make cryptocurrency investing available for some private banking clients in Switzerland, starting with bitcoin and ether (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-23/ubs-plans-crypto-tr…
@cdarwin@c.imConcerns over Trump’s health are coming to light once again after pictures of the 79-year-old felon showed new dark and crusty bruises on his left hand during his recent visit to Davos, Switzerland
-- different from ones that had previously been captured in his right hand.
https://bsky.app/profile/irishstar…
@brian_gettler@mas.toIn our house, affection is most often expressed through food, with cheese very much holding a special place in our hearts. So this morning I went to the local cheese shop and spent way too much. I believe St. Valentine would approve.
@ascendor@social.tchncs.deUS-Politiker sind gar nicht so zufrieden mit Europas Appeasement-Politik gegenüber Trump. Komisch.
https://apnews.com/video/california-governor-newsom-slams-europes-response-to-trump-0890db71e7b64a4ba7af92bfb1760cff<…
@benb@osintua.euImportant that Europeans were present in Switzerland, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/important-that-europeans-were-present.html
@karpi@chaos.socialIch bin in den Epstein-Files.
Also nicht ich persönlich, aber unser SWITZERLAND SECOND Video ist in den Epstein-Files. Ariane de Rothschild hat Jeffrey Epstein 2017 den YT-Link geschickt mit der Anmerkung "The Swiss love it".
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Debussy and Saint-Saëns from Switzerland
The Basel Symphony Orchestra performs Debussy's Prélude Š l'après-midi d'un faune and the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony. Plus the premiere of Dieter Ammann's viola concerto.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qjdt
@frauxirah@chaos.socialWir müssen reden. Public Eye spricht Klartext.: Zucker im Babybrei: Nestlés Doppelstandard in Afrika | Mit Manuel Abebe
Webseite der Episode: http://publiceye.ch
Mediendatei:
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.
@cdonat@hostsharing.coop#FediHire
Dear Fediverse, I'm still looking for a new job.
Place: I'd prefer Zürich area, or remote, because then I'd not have to relocate. But I'm open for jobs all over Europe, except Russia, and Belarus. I can legally work without sponsorship in the EU, and in Switzerland.
I can do: programming, preferably C , or Python; software architecture, including b…
@marcel@waldvogel.familyIrgend jemand scheint unter "Digitale Souveränität" etwas ganz anderes zu verstehen als der Rest der Welt.
#DigitaleSouveränität #DigitalSovereignty
![LinkedIn Post by Zühlke Group
"Migrating millions of email accounts to the cloud while ensuring data sovereignty and zero downtime is no small challenge.
See how we collaborated with Switzerland's leading telecommunications company to securely migrate petabytes of data to the AWS cloud! Read the full sotry: [Link]"
Post link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zuehlkegroup_migrating-millions-of-email-accounts-to-the-activity-7415307602001031168-jgPh](https://waldvogel.family/system/media_attachments/files/115/866/207/425/394/108/original/6aee6342b37b8c67.png)
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIt's January 4th and I've already got a few orders this year for my little hobby business.
One from the UK, one from Ireland, and one from Switzerland.
Last year we shipped close to 80% of the orders to the US and almost 20% to the UK, with a few other countries besides those two.
I do feel like I'm seeing fewer US sales since the beginning of 2024, file that as you will.
Overall sales were down a bit in 2024 but I did a few larger projects for folks that …
@floheinstein@chaos.socialJust an FYI, the aurora forecast just alerted me to look up at the sky - in Switzerland.
Pity I live in the fog 😔
If you are in the mountains: prepare for the show!
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchangeCurrently watching Women’s #olympics Hockey featuring Canada vs. Switzerland and the rink seems dark. Anyone else notice the same? I wonder if it affects the players? #olympics2026
@brichapman@mastodon.socialEleven organizations just won a combined $5.9M for solutions that are actually changing lives.
The 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize winners are tackling everything from AI diagnostics to eco-brick production. Since 2008, this prize has impacted over 411 million people through innovations in health, water, energy, and climate action.
@primonatura@mstdn.social"French startup unveils solar canopy for motorhomes"
#France #SolarPower #Energy
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"In 2019 a team of web development and design celebrities gathered in CERN, to build an emulator of the original web browser created by Tim Berners-Lee, known as WorldWideWeb. This emulator is available online and, fittingly enough, runs on a modern web browser.
The team included John Allsop, Kimberly Blessing, Mark Boulton, Martin Chiteri, Jeremy Keith, Craig Mod, Angela Ricci, Brian Suda, and Remy Sharp, who kept a diary of the project in his blog."
@bici@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump sounded like a fascist dictator
suffering from a brain bleed
during his speech yesterday
at Davos.
It was a national embarrassment
even by the lowly standards of modern American politics.
The president’s showing in Switzerland was so shabby that I feel compelled to share some thoughts about it.
First of all, despite what cable news chyrons would have you believe,
Trump’s screed was chillingly aggressive.
He began the Gree…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIf I hadn't left the Netherlands or Switzerland to move to the country where ambition goes to die, I could have my white whale this week. Alas. Anyway, time to go put in another day of backbreaking physical labor for no reward!
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Mahler's Tenth Symphony from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Mahler's haunting Rückert Lieder with Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča feature in this concert from Switzerland, alongside Mahler's Tenth Symphony and Boulez's Mémoriale.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002q3fg
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115931269344558718
An "issue" forced
Air Force One to turn around
and return to Maryland
less than an hour after takeoff Tuesday night
as it was headed for Davos, Switzerland,
with Trump aboard
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineIsn't it time for the UN to consider moving its headquarters away from the US? Not ro any of the so-called superpowers, but to a civilised country that is reasonably neutral? Switzerland (e.g. Geneva)? I'd be for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j
@bici@mastodon.social @mxp@mastodon.acm.org @mxp@mastodon.acm.org @mxp@mastodon.acm.org @cdarwin@c.imPolitical leaders, CEOs and opinion-makers arrived at #Davos in Switzerland ahead of the World Economic Forum ( #WEF ),
with mounting trade tensions between the US and Europe set to dominate discussions after Donald Trump’s renewed tariff threats.
Trump, who is expected to deliver a keynote address later this week…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Christoph Prégardien sings Schubert's Winterreise
Renowned lyric tenor Christoph Prégardien performs Schubert's song cycle with pianist Michael Gees at a recital given in Switzerland.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nl17
@martin@social.linux.pizzaLecker #Cholera gecraftet.
#Food #Switzerland #Valais
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Handel and Mozart from Switzerland
Countertenor Iestyn Davies joins the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conductor Robin Ticciati in Handel and Mozart arias. John Shea presents
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r48k
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaOne of my favorite modes of trolling is to wait for somebody to say something about "the greatest country in the world" and then act confused and eventually say "I don't see what any of this has to do with Switzerland"
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIf anybody has a job going in Switzerland in corporate IT management, datacenter management, vendor management, or even compliance management adjacent, I'm open to getting off this blighted island. Experience in both education and financial sectors. Technical background in network ops/eng, Linux/UNIX syseng.
@primonatura@mstdn.social"French railway operator tests solar on train tracks"
#France #SolarPower #Energy #Trains
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Rachmaninov builds a new home in Switzerland, a villa called Senar, which attempts to recreate aspects of the Russian home he'd had to leave behind.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k8cg
