Leaders around the world appear to be struggling to respond to an American administration
that is no longer constrained by pretending to care about human lives, the law, or the cost of its hubris.
In Europe, only Spain refused to allow the U.S. to use its bases to attack Iran,
while France, Switzerland, and Slovenia condemned Trump’s attacks as a violation of international law,
as did Russia, China, Chile, Venezuela, and Pakistan.
And yet as the price of fuel a…
Schlangenhaus (16th century, Werdenberg, St. Gallen)
#FensterFreitag #History #Switzerland
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- Mendelssohn, Rosauro and Rodrigo from Switzerland
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and conductor Alessandro Cadario are joined by marimba player Matthias Würsch in Ney Rosauro's Concerto no 1 for Marimba and String Orchestra.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3ny
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.»
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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
At least six killed in Swiss bus fire in possible deliberate act
Police investigating blaze in Kerzers in Fribourg canton, about 12 miles west of Berne
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/10/multiple-deaths-injuries-bus-fire-switzerland?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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".
Kennt 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
Hmm, cocoa free #chocolate substitutes made by fermentation hmm. They're pushing it as ethical etc - but I wonder what the health differences are; Cocoa is pretty good.
https://www.
🤔 What's the best thing to do in #Bern if I have 2-3 hours to kill? #fedipower #switzerland
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- 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.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tcc6
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…
Mal wieder am #Dennigkofengässli
Schöne Fernsicht, auch wenn es diese Woche sicher noch besser war. #BernerAlpen #Switzerland
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
"“Scaling Small” and Governing Together: Towards a National Diamond Open Access Consortium in Switzerland" by Daniela Hahn and Susanne Aerni @ 027.2
https://doi.org/10.21428/1bfadeb6.a8e140f1
"CoDOA is a national initiative led by the Consortium of Swiss Academic Lib…
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…
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
I can't believe it's almost been a year since the Open Science Retreat in Switzerland #OSR25CH! Now I am already getting ready to go to the next two.
Two?! Yes.
I will head off to the Netherlands for a Dutch-centered retreat in the dunes and right after I'll continue on to Wales for the Open Science Retreat Global in the wonderful green nature of Wales
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.
RE: 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!
RE: 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!
RE: 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!
Days 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.
In 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.
Germany'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.
Say that the event is taking place in Switzerland without saying that the event is taking place in Switzerland
...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
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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#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…
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…
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- 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.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rfkd
@… @… Some craft breweries from around here, in case you find yourself in western Switzerland (Coop supermarkets have a selection):
@… @… Some craft breweries from around here, in case you find yourself in western Switzerland (Coop supermarkets have a selection):
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…
A heavier version of the proton, has been discovered by a team at the nuclear research laboratory CERN
It was found using the newly upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as part of its latest “beauty” experiment, known as LHCb.
Scientists spotted the particle amid a spray of debris created by colliding particles at the facility near Geneva, Switzerland.
The particle has been called
Xi-cc-plus,
(written as Ξcc⁺),
and is four times as heavy as a normal prot…
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- 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
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r48k
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- 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.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v1xb
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#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.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k8cg
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