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Overview of the 5 utilities in Switzerland offering dynamic network tariffs next year: #Flexibility

Wonder 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.

Manado retirement home fire kills 16, victims' identification ongoing
A fire at a retirement home in Manado City, North Sulawesi, on Sunday (December 28) killed 16 occupants, and local police said the identification process was ...

The USA has only a million elevators, about as many as Italy, and they cost four times as in Switzerland.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250827193631/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevato…

Opinion | Why Are Housing Costs So High? The Elevator Can Explain Why.
An illness led Stephen Smith to study why America has so few elevators. What he learned explains why housing costs are so high.

"Ghana, Switzerland partner on $200 million rooftop solar rollout"
#Ghana #Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy

Ghana, Switzerland partner on $200 million rooftop solar rollout
Ghana’s new clean energy program, backed by Switzerland’s Klik Foundation, will install 4,000 rooftop systems totaling 137 MW to expand renewable capacity and cut emissions.

I 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.

Group B
Canada
Winner of UEFA Playoff A (Italy, Northern Ireland, Wales, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Qatar
Switzerland
UNBELIVEABLE
#FIFA #worldCup

A 260 meter, 65 floor sky scraper in Zermatt... "a symbolically disruptive gesture that radicalizes the densification trend found in mountain resorts"
Very much hoping this proposal will be shut down before it gets traction! 🤬
https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/gall…

A skyscraper in the heart of the Alps: in Zermatt, the tallest tower in Switzerland
The newly unveiled concept aims to bring to the Swiss Alps the densification and verticality strategies typical of metropolitan agglomerations.

Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/04/mimic-raises-16m-build-a…

Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE
Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE

It'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 …

Group B
Canada
Winner of UEFA Playoff A (Italy, Northern Ireland, Wales, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Qatar
Switzerland
UNBELIVEABLE
#FIFA #worldCup

Spotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo

Spotify raises UK and Switzerland Premium prices again as analysts see US hike by early 2026
The 8.3% increase marks the second time in 18 months that the Swedish streaming giant has raised UK prices by £1.

Darkness 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…

You know that you’re teaching in #Switzerland when you catch the majority of students running the live broadcast of today’s #ski competition in a separate window while doing learning tasks
#AcademicChatter

Johnny 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

Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter

Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter

Tried to have two groups of students debate each other, but this doesn’t work in #Switzerland: “Well, maybe both sides have a point…"
#AcademicChatter

🔊 #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

The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.
https://www.

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland
The University of Zurich said that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, known for their work in development economics, will move from the US to Switzerland, amid Donald Trump's attacks on universities.

Nobel-winning economists Duflo and Banerjee will leave US for Switzerland (Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/10/10/nobel-winning-economists-duflo-and-banerjee-will-leave-the-us-for-switzerland_6746307_19.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p143#a251010p143

Cryptomixer platform raided by European police; $29 million in bitcoin seized https://therecord.media/cryptomixer-service-takedown-bitcoin-seized

Switzerland extradites Ukrainian over Russian-backed sabotage plot: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/23/200925.html

Baidu and Swiss Post's PostBus plan to launch Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service in Switzerland, testing in December ahead of rollout by Q1 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/baidu-expands-robotaxi-push-swit…

Switzerland is covered in solar PV — if the Swiss can see the economic benefits, then sunnier countries can get over themselves
#Switzerland #Swiss #Schweiz

«Hayek, whose company is the world’s largest watchmaker, said the CEOs’ visit sent a signal of weakness. Instead, he suggested that Switzerland — the seventh-largest investor in the US — should retaliate by threatening to cut investment, or ditch a deal to buy US-made F-35 jets.
“Are we William Tell,” he quipped in reference to the Swiss hero of folklore, “or are we a vassal?”»

Trump’s Tariffs Leave Swiss Farmers With Too Much Milk - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/switzerland-tariffs-trump-milk-cheese-cows.html

#3goodthings And it's only 10 o'clock!
1. My daughter reached France safely in the early hours of the morning, via Switzerland and Germany and train, plane and bus 🚆✈️🚌
2. What a beautiful sunny day 🌞
3. @… has fitted the new drive to…

SNF (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

A century of glaciers melting, condensed into a few seconds. Impressive video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQWfDRejcPw/?igsh=Zm51d2Qzb2xtNHM4

Michel Galati on Instagram: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (source: Swiss Academy of Sciences). What once took centuries now happens in decades. And yes, the music is The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. An homage to nature, and perhaps a reminder of what we stand to lose. 📍 Photos: @glacionaut 🎥 AI Animation: @flashologo 🗓️ Period: ca. 1875–2024 • 🇮🇹 Un secolo di cambiamento racchiuso in pochi secondi. In collaborazione con @glacionaut, ho trasformato fotografie storiche e contemporanee di alcuni ghiacciai svizzeri e austriaci in brevi sequenze animate con l’intelligenza artificiale (Dream Machine di @lumalabsai). Ogni clip mostra il passaggio dal passato al presente. Il clima è sempre cambiato, è vero, ma mai così rapidamente. Negli ultimi due anni i ghiacciai svizzeri hanno perso oltre il 10% del loro volume (fonte: Swiss Academy of Sciences). Ciò che un tempo accadeva in secoli, oggi avviene in decenni. E sì, la musica è Le Quattro Stagioni di Vivaldi. Un omaggio alla natura e, forse, un promemoria di ciò che rischiamo di perdere. 📍 Foto: @glacionaut 🎥 Animazioni AI: @flashologo 🗓️ Periodo: ca. 1875–2024 • • #ai #dreammachine #ray3 #imagetovideo #glaciers #switzerland #austria #climatchange #history"
44K likes, 814 comments - flashologo on October 28, 2025: "A century of change condensed into a few seconds. In collaboration with @glacionaut I transformed historical and contemporary photographs of Swiss and Austrian glaciers into short AI-animated sequences (Dream Machine by @lumalabsai ). Each clip shows the passage from past to present. The climate has always changed, true, but never this fast. In the past two years alone, Swiss glaciers have lost more than 10% of their total volume (sou…

Can't help but wonder if this might be relevant to the legal challenge to the orange toddler's #tarriff actions. It must be hard for the Thomas wing of the courts to ignore these abuses.
Swiss gold and Rolex gifts to Trump raise questions over personalisation of US presidential power

If Switzerland has to invest $200B in the US, perhaps they could turn Nevada into a Cocoa plantation and bring down the price of chocolate.

Some images from earlier this year, edited with #ThingUmbrella tools)...

Wow, already 3 years on the #Fediverse, meaning I have been running my #Mastodon instance just as long... crazy how fast time flies by...
My instance here in Switzerland is still small, so if someone needs a home, you may join!

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’”

Johnson urges UN panel to hold President Trump accountable for what he calls 'human rights abuses'
In a virtual appearance before a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Switzerland, Mayor Brandon Johnson invited UN experts to come to Chicago to witness firsthand the “abuses” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during raids that have wreaked havoc in neighborhoods across the…

Rumble plans to roll out a bitcoin tipping feature, developed in partnership with Tether, to its 51M creators in December; Tether has invested $775M in Rumble (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/25…

Rumble to Roll Out Bitcoin Tipping for 51M Users in December
The feature is developed with Tether and was announced at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, Switzerland. The first BTC tip was sent to content creator David Freiheit.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Beethoven and Schubert from the Chiaroscuro Quartet and cellist Christian Poltéra
Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' String Quartet and Schubert's String Quintet in C, D.956 performed in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l0b5

Switzerland is covered in solar PV — if the Swiss can see the economic benefits, then sunnier countries can get over themselves
#Switzerland #Swiss #Schweiz

If 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!

June 2nd to 4, 2026, the #WritingResearch community will meet in #Winterthur, #Switzerland, for the

🍝 The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/the-1957-spaghetti-grows-on-trees-hoax.html

The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks
In 1957, the BBC program Panorama aired one of the first televised April Fools’ Day hoaxes. Above, you can watch a faux news report from Switzerland narrated by respected BBC journalist Richard Dimbleby. Here's the basic premise:

I 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.

I 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.

I 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.

"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."

Steve Jobs
In 2019 an extraordinary team of web development and design celebrities gathered in the offices of CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, 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.

Switzerland 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/

Apple Pay Faces Swiss Antitrust Investigation Over NFC Access
Switzerland's competition authority has launched a preliminary investigation into whether Apple's terms for granting third-party access to...

"Switzerland forecasts 1.5 GW annual solar growth through 2027"
#Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Switzerland forecasts 1.5 GW annual solar growth through 2027
Swissolar's "Solar Monitor 2025" report projects annual PV additions of about 1.5 GW through 2027 and urges policymakers to sustain steady growth amid policy uncertainty and lower tariffs.

European countries proposed an alternative Ukraine peace plan on Sunday that omits some of the pro-Russia points made in the original US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected.
The counter-proposal emerged as US, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland.
The 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.
A…

Die Tessiner Nationalrätin Greta Gysin und der Waadtländer Nationalrat Raphaël Mahaim, beide Abgeordnete der Grünen, haben bei der Bundesanwaltschaft Strafanzeige erstattet. Sie fordern eine strafrechtliche Untersuchung jenes Treffens schwerreicher Schweizer Geschäftsleute mit US-Präsident Donald Trump Anfang November in Washington, das mutmasslich den Durchbruch im sogenannten Zollstreit zwischen den USA und der Schweiz gebracht hat.
https://www.woz.ch/2548/korruptionsvorwurf/gruene-zeigen-team-switzerland-an/!1MRADPBSF5BG

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- The Mendelssohn Octet
Exclusive music-making including Mozart's Prague Symphony from Switzerland and highlights from this year's Bath Mozartfest.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mcr4

"Für jede Trafostation eine LEG" [‘A local energy community for every transformer station’]
It is fascinating how local energy communities are encouraged in Switzerland (so not governed by EU law, that also creates that role), and how the (local) utilities are also actively involved in this.
https://www.

"Für jede Trafostation eine LEG"
Winterthur - Stadtwerk Winterthur will mit lokalen Elektrizitätsgemeinschaften vor allem zur Erreichung der städtischen Klima- und Energieziele beitragen. Produktmanager Roland Hongler erklärt, wie das Modell gestaltet ist: Für die Teilnehmenden sollte es attraktiv sein und für das Stadtwerk zugleich wirtschaftlich tragfähig bleiben.

I always enjoy having visitors from no-matter-which EU country discovering that no, Switzerland is not part of the EU, only Schengen
“There’s no roaming, right? I need to print and screenshot everything in advance?!”
Sure, there’s roaming, it only has a different price tag. And can you imagine, when I visit you, I pay the same absurdly high fees

Characterisation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers as charge readout operated in pure argon
G. Eurin (IRFU, CEA, Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), A. Delbart (IRFU, CEA, Universit\'e Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), R. De Oliveira (CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland), A. Drozd (CERN, The European Organization for Nuclear Research, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland), P. Granger (IRFU, CEA, Universit\&…

Characterisation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers as charge readout operated in pure argon
The gain measurements of several 1 mm-thick, 10$\times$10 cm$^2$ Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (ThGEMs), operated in pure argon at 3.3 bar and room temperature are presented. Electrostatic simulations, performed with the COMSOL MultiPhysics software, were employed to guide the design of the detectors, and the field configurations are discussed. A modified ThGEM design, incorporating two embedded internal electrodes in addition to the conventional top and bottom electrodes, was developed to…

Maybe Switzerland could have waited for Trump to discover that he can’t make Swiss watches in the US either.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-coffee-beef-fruit-4fe084c2724ec6d92096efa263fdcf76

Maybe Switzerland could have waited for Trump to discover that he can’t make Swiss watches in the US either.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-coffee-beef-fruit-4fe084c2724ec6d92096efa263fdcf76

Our department at the University of #Lausanne, Switzerland, has an opening for a junior lecturer (#postdoc) in computational humanities: 80%, up to 5 years, starting Feb 1, 2026.
Knowledge of French (~ B2 level) is required for teaching.
Check out the official job posting (in French) …

12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
Dmitry Teytelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07603

12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
This volume contains contributions submitted to the 12th Low-Level RF Workshop which will be held in Newport News, Virginia, USA on October 12-16, 2025. This workshop continues the series of successful international workshops held in Newport News, USA (2001), Geneva, Switzerland (2005), Knoxville, USA (2007), Tsukuba, Japan (2009), Hamburg, Germany (2011), Tahoe City, USA (2013), Shanghai, China (2015), Barcelona, Spain (2017), Chicago, USA (2019), Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland (2022), and Gyeong…

🔊 #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

Our department at the University of #Lausanne, Switzerland, has an opening for a junior lecturer (#postdoc) in computational humanities: 80%, up to 5 years, starting Feb 1, 2026.
Knowledge of French (~ B2 level) is required for teaching.
Check out the official job posting (in French) …

Our department at the University of #Lausanne, Switzerland, has an opening for a junior lecturer (#postdoc) in computational humanities: 80%, up to 5 years, starting Feb 1, 2026.
Knowledge of French (~ B2 level) is required for teaching.
Check out the official job posting (in French) …

If 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.

"French startup unveils solar canopy for motorhomes"
#France #SolarPower #Energy

French startup unveils solar canopy for motorhomes
France’s Genelios has developed an 8 kW modular solar canopy for motorhomes, offering manufactured-in-France construction, multiple installation options, and services that include design, monitoring, and maintenance for users across France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg.

Saturday was beautiful in the #swiss mountains, while the city was in the clouds.
Got a very nice close-up show by a bearded #vulture!
#birdwatching #Switzerland #hiking

@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.

@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.

Our conference is preceeded by a «research school» for junior researchers (typically: PhD students). The RS starts in the afternoon of day 1, then two full days (day 2 and day 3), and ends around noon of day 4 (with transportation to the main conference).
What is a typical program for such a #ResearchSchool? I can also include tourist activities or some hiking (it‘s in Switzerland,…