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"Switzerland to fund research on PV module, battery, heat pump recycling"
#Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy

Switzerland to fund research on PV module, battery, heat pump recycling
The Swiss federal government has launched a funding call for research projects on energy and resource-efficient industrial processes, including the circular economy related to solar modules, batteries, heat pumps and electrolyzers. The deadline to submit pre-proposals is June 30.

For those looking for a sign re: the Canada-Switzerland match, today is la Saint-Jean, a day that could hardly be more (French) Canadian.

Entertaining final minutes as Switzerland holds on to win the group. Canada was great for 25 minutes, but unfortunately for them, the game is 90
#SUICAN #WorldCup #fedifc

Middle East live: Trump threatens Iran after JD Vance hails 'great progress' made in Switzerland talks (Marina Dunbar/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jun/21/iran-us-israel-war-middle-east-lebanon-peace-talks-switzerland-vance-trump-strait-of-hormuz-latest-news-updates
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p19#a260621p19

It was always going to be like this.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/21/us-iran-talks-jd-vance-switzerland-strait-of-hormuz-lebanon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

US-Iran talks strained as Trump threats spark Iranian walkout
Negotiations continue via mediators after US president threatened to bomb Iran and kidnap negotiating team unless strait of Hormuz reopened

What is the Globemaster doing so low above Zug?
#adsbexchange #c17 #globemaster

Switzerland’s right-wing SVP party is urging voters to “send a clear signal” to policymakers to curb what it calls “overwhelming” population growth.
If Swiss voters back the population curb proposal, the country’s Federal Council and parliament will have to roll out measures to curb population growth until 2050.
Immigration systems would be tightened if the population exceeded 9.5 million at any point over the next 24 years,
with asylum and family reunification programs fir…

Switzerland is voting on whether to cap its population at 10 million. Here's what to know
Switzerland votes on a population cap that could tighten immigration and put its EU free-movement agreement under pressure.

Iran shuts Strait of Hormuz over Israel’s attacks on southern Lebanon that have killed at least 32 people since dawn.
https://aje.news/o3j66i

Iran war updates: Tehran shuts Hormuz, Vance on way to Switzerland
These were the updates from US-Israel’s war on Iran and Israel’s attacks on Lebanon from Saturday, June 20, 2026.

Vance Delays Trip to Switzerland for Direct Talks on Iran Deal (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/vance-delays-trip-to-switzerland-for-direct-talks-on-iran-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260618/p147#a260618p147

Chocolate: Barry Callebaut issues profit warning as cocoa prices fall
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/chocolate-barry-callebaut-profit-earnings-cocoa-prices-switzerland.html

"Is Switzerland tired of prosperity? I can think of no other reason for our next foolish referendum"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/09/switzerland-tired-prosperity-foolish-referendum-population…

Is Switzerland tired of prosperity? I can think of no other reason for our next foolish referendum
Capping the population at 10 million is a far-right fantasy. It would dismantle the openness that has made the country rich, says Guardian Europe contributor Joseph de Weck

We should produce and buy european weapons as much as possible...
https://www.reuters.com/world/united-states-informs-switzerland-delays-price-hike-patriot-delivery-2026-05-13/

UK and Switzerland record hottest ever June day as health emergencies surge in Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/25/highest-june-minimum-temperature-record-broken-cardiff-savage-heatwave-continues?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Symphonic Fairy Tales from Switzerland
The St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra performs Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade suite, alongside Dohnšnyi's Symphonic Minutes and Gyula Dšvid's Viola Concerto with soloist Dana Zemtsov.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v1xb

US-Iran talks strained as Trump threats spark Iranian walkout (Patrick Wintour/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/21/us-iran-talks-jd-vance-switzerland-strait-of-hormuz-lebanon
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p47#a260621p47

Aldi Suisse has inaugurated 🇨🇭 Switzerland's largest rooftop solar installation, with a capacity of 10 MWp / 8 GWh, at its distribution centre in Domdidier.
https://www.aldi-suisse.ch/de/unternehmen/med…

Schlangenhaus (16th century, Werdenberg, St. Gallen)
#FensterFreitag #History #Switzerland

Hier mal eine positive Nachricht über Online-Archive aus der Schweiz aber auch wider KI:
(Der Begriff KI ist eine breit gefächerte Formulation für Automatisierung)
«Internet Archive erhält Standort in der Schweiz:
Internet Archive Switzerland hat am 5. Mai 2026 seine operative Arbeit aufgenommen. Die Stiftung will Schweizer Inhalte sichern, KI-Modelle archivieren und gefährdeten Dokumenten einen digitalen Zufluchtsort bieten.»
🗃️

Internet Archive erhält Standort in der Schweiz
Internet Archive Switzerland hat am 5. Mai 2026 seine operative Arbeit aufgenommen. Die Stiftung will Schweizer Inhalte sichern, KI-Modelle archivieren und gefährdeten Dokumenten einen digitalen Zufluchtsort bieten.

Iran Says Trump's Threat Halted Talks With the US, Fars Reports (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-21/iran-says-trump-threat-halted-us-talks-in-switzerland-fars-says
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p29#a260621p29

Watching from Sweden, I’m relieved that the Swiss rejected the SVP/UDC’s initiative that aimed to restrict the population of Switzerland to 10 million.
But they will keep trying, and a pretty big part of voters is clearly sympathetic to their position that foreigners and the EU are to blame for all problems.

Watching from Sweden, I’m relieved that the Swiss rejected the SVP/UDC’s initiative that aimed to restrict the population of Switzerland to 10 million.
But they will keep trying, and a pretty big part of voters is clearly sympathetic to their position that foreigners and the EU are to blame for all problems.

Watching from Sweden, I’m relieved that the Swiss rejected the SVP/UDC’s initiative that aimed to restrict the population of Switzerland to 10 million.
But they will keep trying, and a pretty big part of voters is clearly sympathetic to their position that foreigners and the EU are to blame for all problems.

Fuck I miss Switzerland

Zurich - Cape Town - McMurdo - Honolulu - Zurich
You can basically set your bearing to 173° and fly along a straight line to see Switzerland, South Africa, Antarctica and Hawaii.
https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=ZRH-CPT-NZIR-HNL-ZRH

Palantir loses its legal bid to force Swiss magazine Republik to publish Palantir's responses to coverage of Switzerland's rejection of the company's services (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7ffcace7-9dc0-4e7e-9912-895ac073f979

Easter bunny got desperate!
https://apnews.com/article/nestle-switzerland-candy-bar-stolen-kitkat-51073cce27a0e193651aa7f31aaa506e

Nestlé's KitKat shipment vanishes in Italy en route to Poland
Nestlé says thieves have stolen a huge shipment of KitKat bars from a truck heading from Italy to Poland. On Friday, the company said the vehicle and its cargo still have not been found. The bars disappeared last week while moving between production and distribution sites. Nestlé says the load totals about 12 tons, or more than 400,000 bars. The company says the bars were meant for sale across Europe. Nestlé warns they could show up in unofficial markets. It says each bar has a batch code. S…

Vance postpones Iran talks trip (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/19/us-iran-talks-vance-switzerland-trip-postponed-white-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/260618/p142#a260618p142

from my link log —
Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers.
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/ipv6-link-local-support-in-browsers/
saved 2021-11-18

Something about being German very consciously, after all those years living in Switzerland, and science history
I'm currently in Mannheim, hotel prices are triple the usual, almost all hotels fully booked. I learned that’s because of “der Kongress ist bis Samstag!”
1/n

Ich lach auch Jahre nach unserer Recherche noch jedesmal, wenn ich das da sehe #dnip #swisscows

Glocal Roots ist eine Organisation mit Sitz in Zürich. 'Solidarity with people on the move'
«Integration ist eine Investition in die Gesellschaft und nicht einfach nur Gutmenschentum.» Liska Bernet, Politikwissenschafterin, Aktivistin
#switzerland #Greece

Glocal Roots | Solidarität mit Menschen auf der Flucht
Wir bilden Netzwerke und Strukturen, die vertriebene Menschen darin unterstützen, resilient und wieder autonom zu werden!

Yesterday, I ordered a new pair of hemp shoes from 8000kicks.
UPS says they had in in Leiria, Portugal 2 hours ago - and plan to deliver it to me BY END OF DAY. That's about 2000km in less than 12 hours.
I'm not sure if that means I have to clear the field outside our house for landing of a freight plane or a helicopter - or if I just should expect a giant crater.

Mal wieder am #Dennigkofengässli
Schöne Fernsicht, auch wenn es diese Woche sicher noch besser war. #BernerAlpen #Switzerland

Their friends are making $100 million. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up.
Venture capitalist Jenny Xiao noticed a change in her Bay Area social circles as the artificial intelligence boom swelled in recent years.

“When I met these people back five years ago, they lived in the shittiest apartments and they were cheap AI researchers,” she said.
“Now every other weekend someone’s in Hawaii [or] vacationing in Switzerland.”

Xiao is among those in tech preparing…

Their friends are making $100 million. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up.
As SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI go public at historic valuations and new millionaires and billionaires are minted, other tech workers worry about their futures.

"Switzerland deploys 1.52 GW of solar in 2025"
#Switzerland #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables…

Switzerland deploys 1.52 GW of solar in 2025
Switzerland’s photovoltaic market slowed in 2025, with newly installed capacity falling 15% to 1,526 MW, according to Swissolar. Despite the decline, growth in residential storage, building electrification, and EV integration points to a gradual market recovery.

US and Iran Begin Talks in Switzerland on Permanent Peace Deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-21/us-and-iran-poised-to-begin-swiss-talks-on-lasting-ceasefire
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p6#a260621p6

Swiss Link - Authentic Military Surplus and Quality Outdoor Goods
#bookmarks

Swiss Link | Authentic Military Surplus and quality outdoor goods
Swiss Link Military Surplus offers authentic military gear from Switzerland, Britain, Germany, and across Europe. Based in Northern California since 1996, we provide durable, battle-tested surplus and new products at unbeatable prices.

U.S. and Iran to talk Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran says it closed Strait of Hormuz again | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-and-iran-to-talk-sunday-in-switzerland-as-tehran-says-it-closed-strait-of-hormuz-again

@… @… This may have been the case, but I think it’s less true today. It’s more complicated.
Also note that French-speaking Switzerland is generally pro-EU, resulting in the characteristic “röstigraben,” the divide …

@… @… This may have been the case, but I think it’s less true today. It’s more complicated.
Also note that French-speaking Switzerland is generally pro-EU, resulting in the characteristic “röstigraben,” the divide …

Die #WMO prognostiziert für 2026 bis 2030 anhaltende #Rekordtemperaturen.
Mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit wird mindestens ein Jahr die Marke von 1,5 Grad über vorindustriellem Niveau überschreiten. Auch der Fünfjahresmittelwert könnte darüber liegen.
Besonders die

New report suggests more global temperature records ahead
Geneva, Switzerland (WMO) - Global average temperatures are likely to continue at or near record levels in the next five years, with Arctic temperature anomalies expected to continue to be higher than the global mean, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), produced by the UK’s Met Office.

Thunderbolts and lightning.
In Switzerland.
In effing April.
At 4 o'clock.
https://kachelmannwetter.com/ch/blitze/schaffhausen/20260419-0210z-20260419020388000007096.html
Update: we found my wife's servi…

US and Iran hold crunch talks in Switzerland (Andrew England/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1014643-940c-4874-998a-0a52eb517c49
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p13#a260621p13

🔊 #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. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xf3f

Wow, Qatar draws level deep into stoppage time. Quality cross and a thumping header.
Switzerland have been far better, but wasteful. Massive point for Qatar.
#QATSUI #worldcup #fedifc

No Denmark 😔
#openaccess for all authors from 11 supporting countries:
🇦🇹 Austria
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇮🇹 Italy
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇪🇸 Spain
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Now "incentivize" institutions to make this the default #publishing option. #openscience

US Vice President JD Vance arriving in Switzerland to launch talks with Iran on its nuclear program (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-vance-trump-nuclear-negotiations-2edf9268aae550883252080014013963
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p12#a260621p12

So. For sports lovers, today is the big game.
And no, not the Champions League final, you silly people.
The IIHF World Championships semi final beween Norway and host Switzerland, of course!
Heia Norge! 🇳🇴🏒🥅
Actually, a pretty good day for sports lovers…3 great games to enjoy (in order of priority)
1. Norway - Switzerland semi final @ the hockey worlds
2. Arsenal - PSG Champions League final
3. Canada - Finland semi final @ the hockey worlds
An id…

In future, Open Research Europe (ORE) will no longer be open solely to projects funded under the EU Framework Programmes for Research; instead, all research institutions in the participating countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) will be able to use the platform free of charge, regardless of whether their projects receive funding.

A new era for Open Research Europe
European Commission to co-fund new phase of operation for open access publishing platform.

Immediate Signs of Strain as Iran Talks Kick Off in Switzerland (Brett Bachman/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/president-trump-iran-negotiations-strained-strait-of-hormuz
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p49#a260621p49

Already?
"U.S.-Iran talks in Switzerland planned for Friday were cancelled ​as fighting flared in Lebanon, creating new uncertainty about the timing ​of negotiations vital to ensure the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping."
#Trump #Iran #StraitOfHormuz

The "Islamabad Declaration" will be signed in Geneva, checks map, Switzerland?
#Iran #war #agreement #Islamabad #Geneva #Switzerland

Vance says US willing to 'fundamentally transform' Iran relationship ahead of peace deal negotiations in Switzerland (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/21/us-news/vance-says-us-willing-to-fundamentally-transform-iran-relationship/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p14#a260621p14

A new data release from Eurostat shows just how much the public #EV charging network in Europe has improved in recent years. A single charging point doesn’t make spring, but a network certainly does. More and more Europeans now have five or more charging points within a relatively short distance.
In much of north-western Europe, even within 3 kilometres. Coverage with multiple charging points i…

To conclude this thread, I arrived on time (as one can expect in Switzerland) in Renens, and @… met me there, and we had lunch at the Pancake Mafia.
Fin

To conclude this thread, I arrived on time (as one can expect in Switzerland) in Renens, and @… met me there, and we had lunch at the Pancake Mafia.
Fin

Austria is the latest to take a stance against directly aiding the U.S. and Israel’s war.
Also citing its neutrality principles, Switzerland announced in March that it had halted all weapons export licenses to the U.S. and other involved countries since the first U.S.-Israeli bombardments on February 28,
and would continue doing so “for the duration of the conflict.”
Spain has opposed the war from the start, with its socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sšnchez proclaiming “no a…

Austria Becomes Latest EU Country to Deny US Military Use of Its Airspace
The country’s defense minister said it’s denied military airspace requests from the US since the outset of the war.

Switzerland votes 'no' in referendum on population limit (Victor Jack/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/switzerland-votes-no-in-population-limit-referendum/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260614/p36#a260614p36

In #Switzerland they have wheelchair swings 🇨🇭
#accessibility #wheelchair #playground

I asked Reddit AI for hidden gems in Switzerland 🇨🇭 .
Here's what it suggested:
Marmot Wrestling Rings in Valais: A quirky and unique experience.
Aromat Mines Under Olten: A peculiar and interesting visit.
Cheese Wars in the South: Witness a 100kg wheel of Emmental launched by a trebuchet

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Mozart and Tchaikovsky from Switzerland
Nelson Goerner performs Mozart's Piano Concerto no 23 with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Jonathan Nott. Later, Tchaikovsky's rarely performed Third Symphony.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tcc6

"Die nationalen Sommer- und Winterspiele von Special Olympics Switzerland sind die grössten und bedeutendsten Sportevents für Menschen mit geistiger Beeinträchtigung in der Schweiz. Sie bieten jedoch viel mehr als sportlichen Wettbewerb, sondern schaffen eine Plattform, um Vorurteile und Berührungsängste im Umgang mit beeinträchtigten Menschen abzubauen und die #Inklusion voranzutreiben.&qu…

US-Iran peace talks in Switzerland called off, clouding prospects for lasting truce (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-iran-peace-talks-geneva-called-off-clouding-prospects-lasting-truce-2026-06-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p6#a260619p6

LombardoGraphia: Automatic Classification of Lombard Orthography Variants
Edoardo Signoroni, Pavel Rychl\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28418 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28418 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28418
arXiv:2603.28418v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Lombard, an underresourced language variety spoken by approximately 3.8 million people in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland, lacks a unified orthographic standard. Multiple orthographic systems exist, creating challenges for NLP resource development and model training. This paper presents the first study of automatic Lombard orthography classification and LombardoGraphia, a curated corpus of 11,186 Lombard Wikipedia samples tagged across 9 orthographic variants, and models for automatic orthography classification. We curate the dataset, processing and filtering raw Wikipedia content to ensure text suitable for orthographic analysis. We train 24 traditional and neural classification models with various features and encoding levels. Our best models achieve 96.06% and 85.78% overall and average class accuracy, though performance on minority classes remains challenging due to data imbalance. Our work provides crucial infrastructure for building variety-aware NLP resources for Lombard.
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Early results show Swiss voters reject right-wing's bid to cap population at 10 million (Jamey Keaten/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-referendum-population-10-million-03b42363567cfa9ff29c0995bb4ff711
http://www.memeorandum.com/260614/p21#a260614p21

Thinking about buying a seismic sensor for my Raspberry Pi.
"Yeah, I know we're moving away from the seismically active zone of Switzerland, but you could record the shockwaves when he-who-must-not-be-named uses the nukes, you'd have first hand data! You'd be among the first to know that mankind is gonna end!"
Some days I'm not sure about the mental health of some of my inner voices. Especially since it said "when", not "if".

BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU&si=LGNjBaw5ZowDSv9W

A paradise for foreign capitalists? Expenditure-based taxation in Switzerland, 1916–2020
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/pauschalbesteuerung-so-lockt-die-schweiz-superreiche-an-461310920285

Switzerland weighs Franco-Italian alternative to US air defences (Mercedes Ruehl/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/730666c8-0821-4e7f-a928-74a3ff973492
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p25#a260608p25