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"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

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

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

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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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.

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

"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.

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".

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

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

🔊 #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

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.

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.

Cocoa-free chocolate arrives in Switzerland
Several start-ups are developing cocoa alternatives using barley, beans or sunflower seeds.

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…

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!

🤔 What's the best thing to do in #Bern if I have 2-3 hours to kill? #fedipower #switzerland

It's Saturday morning, and time for Metacurity's weekly round-up of the best infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to during the daily crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--Industrialized scam compounds pull out all the stops to impersonate police,
--How Switzerland's SCION aims to replace BGP,
--Grassroots local resistance to Flock surveillance is growing,
--Existing law is inadequate to govern commercial spyware,
--Russia…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 3/14/26
Industrialized scam compounds pull out all the stops to impersonate police, How Switzerland's SCION aims to replace BGP, Grassroots local resistance to Flock surveillance is growing, Existing law is inadequate to govern commercial spyware, Russia's sovereign internet is backfiring

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

"“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…

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/

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…

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.

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

Zum heutigen #FotoVorschlag 'Weite' möchte ich folgendes beitragen:
https://photo.dresden.network/p/der_raddler/824711838059139166

der_raddler (@der_raddler@photo.dresden.network)
#Seebrücke #Sellin shot with my ONDU Multiformat pinhole camera on #imago320 from Ars-imago Switzerland! #pinhole #pinholephotography #ondu #Rügen #vacation #stillshootfilm #filmisnotdead #analog #analogphotography #blackandwhite #Blackandwhitephotography #longexposure

Switzerland halts weapons exports to US due to Iran war, citing neutrality (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/switzerland-halts-weapons-exports-us-due-iran-war-citing-neutrality-2026-03-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p57#a260320p57

"Palantir vs. Republik" has arrived at the Guardian, with an excellent overview.
Cc @… @…

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

Say that the event is taking place in Switzerland without saying that the event is taking place in Switzerland

"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…

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.
toXiv_bot_toot

Fuck I miss Switzerland

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…

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…

‘Doubly charmed’ subatomic particle discovered at Cern
The finding of a previously unknown heavy type of proton could unlock the mystery of how all atomic nuclei are bound together

"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.

🔊 #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

@… @… 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…

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

“Having flown more than 2,500 hours on the CT-114 Tutor, I can say it has been an outstanding aircraft for the RCAF and for the Snowbirds.
The Tutor has served Canada for 66 years, and the team has flown it for more than five decades.
I recently had the opportunity to fly the Pilatus PC-21 in Switzerland, and I came away extremely impressed. This is not a downgrade from a jet to a turboprop; frankly, that argument misses the point entirely.”
#canpoli #rcaf #snowbirds #pc21 #cdnpoli
https://skiesmag.com/opinions/a-pilots-take-why-the-snowbirds-new-turboprop-is-the-right-choice/

According to Wiki, the Pilatus PC-21 is being used as training fleet for the air forces of:
Australia
France
Jordan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Spain
Switzerland
UAE
Indonesia (in future)
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #RCAF #Snowbirds