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Florin Hasler

@florihas.bsky.social
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Institute for Public Sector Transformation, BFH #OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource | 💙 #rstats | he/him

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Prof der TU Darmstadt behauptet im ZDF „Ethnopluralismus“ (völkischer Rassismus fancy ausgedrückt) sei einfach regulärer Teil des demokratischen Ideenaustauschs. Das geht jetzt ganz schnell.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.
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Open Technology Research @opentechresearch.org · 18/05/2026
The Call for Proposals for the first Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 is OPEN until July 5! 📅 26–27 Oct 2026 📍 Barcelona, Spain 🔗 Register/Submit: symposium.opentechresearch.org More info ⬇️ opentechresearch.org/blog/otr-res...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Open Data Kanton Zürich @opendatazh.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Wir bekommen Regeln! 🎊 Die DOBDV (Verordnung über den Datenkatalog und die offenen Behördendaten) regelt open-by-default in der Kantonsverwaltung – und ist jetzt in öffentlicher Vernehmlassung. Bis nach den Sommerferien kannst Du dich dazu äussern: evernehmlassungen.zh.ch/de/totalrevi...
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E-Mitwirkung
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Dieses Jahr feiern wir 10 Jahre kostenloses Kino im Kocherpark. 🥳 Seit einer Dekade schaffen wir gemeinsam jeden Sommer einen besonderen Ort der Begegnung und Kultur in Bern. Um sicherzustellen, dass es das Kino im Kocher auch in Zukunft geben wird, brauchen wir Deine Unterstützung! 💚
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Hilf dem Kino im Kocher!
Für weitere zehn Jahre Open Air Kino im Kocherpark
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Open Data Beer Switzerland @opendatabeerch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Das Open Data Beer Nr. 34 findet am 4. Juni bei #LIIP in #Zürich statt. Bitte melde dich nur an, wenn du auch wirklich kommen kannst. Die Platzzahl ist beschränkt. Mit Präsentationen von @florihas.bsky.social (openparldata.ch) und @tomvaillant.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ch/e/open-data-...
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Open Data Beer Nr. 34
Das Open Data Beer, 34. Ausgabe. Data Professionals - sowie Leute, die das werden möchten - treffen sich für zwei Inputs und ein Bier.
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
How can we run OpenParlData.ch, a 🇨🇭 legislative data infrastructure, sustainably and in the public interest? This question will be at the center of our next public meeting: we will present the first iteration* of our principles, business model & governance requirements & want to hear your feedback!
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Photo: Hansjörg Keller, Unsplash
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🌐 AI and Big Tech regulation? Digital rights? OSS funding? Which digital issues matter most to you? Submit your idea to the Swiss IGF by tomorrow to help shape Switzerland's digital future: igf.swiss/en/swiss-igf... It only takes 2 min to fill out the form, so agenda setting has never been easier! 😉
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Call for Issues 2026 | igf.swiss
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tante @tante.cc · 12/03/2026
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

The text in the Tweet says:
SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/03/2026
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
😤 Arbeitest Du mit Daten im öffentlichen Sektor und hast ein Problem, bei dem Du nicht auf einen grünen Zweig kommst? 💡 Hast Du eine Idee, mit #Daten von Bund, Kantonen oder Gemeinden Mehrwert zu schaffen? Dann reiche Deine Challenge beim GovTech Hackathon ein und arbeite gemeinsam an Lösungen! 👇
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Johannes Hillje @jhillje.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Das Wunschdenken über die AfD-Wählerschaft:
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Marius Brülhart @mariusbrulhart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Höhere #Lohnbeiträge oder #Mehrwertsteuer: darauf beschänkt sich derzeit die finanzpolitische Diskussion in Bundesbern. Beide belasten überwiegend den #FaktorArbeit. Das würde die eh schon zunehmende steuerliche Privilegierung des Faktors Kapital (👇) weiter verstärken.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
for some reason the left (goldman sachs) refuses to take AI seriously
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/02/2026
NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...
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Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
How can we sustainably operate an (open) data infrastructure in the public interest? This question lies at the heart of my current work for OpenParlData.ch, an open API for harmonized data from 🇨🇭 parliaments. 1/3
Man presenting with slide in the background explaining openparldata.ch:    Access to harmonized open data from 78 national, cantonal, and municipal 🇨🇭 parliaments    → Researchers, journalists and civil society organizations: analyze and monitor    → Transparency, participation, and innovation in 🇨🇭 politics
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Sara Petti @sarapetti.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
If you are filled with FOMO like me because you could not attend #FOSDEM this year, remember everything is live streamed. I just heard a great talk from @florihas.bsky.social about how they harmonized the access to Swiss #ParlData with OpenParlData.ch : live.fosdem.org/watch/aw1120
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FOSDEM 2026 - Stream AW1.120
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I'm on my way to Brussels for @fosdem.org #fosdem where I'll present our 🇨🇭 legislative data infrastructure OpenParlData.ch at @fosdemresearch.bsky.social : fosdem.org/2026/schedul.... Let me know if you wanna have a coffee and talk public interest tech, #DigitalPublicGoods or cute 😻.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech. If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
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Opinion | Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick: In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech.
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/12/2025
also, this happened this year: Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:

When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"

If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!

But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.

It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
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Anton Rainer @antonrainer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Baby, wach auf, all die staatskritischen Freidenker kraulen dem Autokraten die Eier, damit er ihre Gegner tritt. Please Mr Rubio, please! 👅
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Dank Elon ist klar: Behördenkommunikation darf nicht der Willkür von Tech-Konzernen ausgesetzt sein. 🇨🇭 Behörden sollten X sofort verlassen und offene und digital souveräne Alternativen (wie #Mastodon) unterstützen! #ItsTimeToAbolishX #eXit #DigitalSovereignty blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-...
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The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodo...
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
If you're anti #Antifa, you're fa(scist).
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/12/2025
There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat. The claim collapsed because it’s a cover. Check my latest… open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
Elon pinned tweet: Either the suicidal empathy of Western civilization ends or Western civilization will end
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/12/2025
All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed. “Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”
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Dominik Gross 🌍 @domigross.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Würde die Anti-SRG-Initiative im März angenommen, liefen SRF, RTS und Co. wohl bald nur noch in Altersheimen. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/srg-initiati...
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Härtere Folgen als angenommen: Ein Ja zur SRG-Initiative wäre das Ende des heutigen Onlineangebots von SRF
Nimmt das Volk die Halbierungs­initiative an, müsste die SRG ihre heutigen News-Apps und ihre Social-Media-Aktivitäten wohl komplett einstellen.
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Mit #LawasCode zum proaktiven, fairen und effizienten Staat? Gesetze sind oft in komplexen, schwer verständlichen Texten formuliert, die für Laien und sogar Fachleute schwierig zu interpretieren sind. Die Umsetzung von neuen Gesetzen in (digitale) Verwaltungsprozesse passiert oft manuell und...
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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 10/12/2025
Die korrekte Reaktion auf anti-EU-Pöbelei wäre europäisches Selbstbewusstsein. Was wir bekommen ist retro-nationalistisches Duckmäusertum. Bitte habt uns lieb, wir hören für euch auch auf, Europäer zu sein! Es ist so eine Schande. bsky.app/profile/pete...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/12/2025
Smugglers, money launderers and people facing sanctions once relied on diamonds, gold and artwork to store illicit fortunes. Now, criminals are turning to stablecoins, a cryptocurrency tied to the U.S. dollar that exists largely beyond traditional financial oversight.
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How Stablecoins Can Help Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are difficult to trace, experts say.
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 03/12/2025
“Maybe we’re onto something.” “How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
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Franziska Schutzbach @fschutzbach.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Mein Buch «Die Rhetorik der Rechten» ist leider sehr aktuell. Ich schaffe es zeitlich nicht, eine überarbeitete Neuauflage zu veröffentlichen. Das Buch ist mittlerweile vergriffen.Ich habe mich entschieden, es gratis zum Download zur Verfügung zu stellen: www.franziskaschutzbach.com/die-rhetorik...
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CORRECTIV @correctiv.org · 31/10/2025
In der #Schweiz wehrt sich eine Allianz aus Bürgerlichen und Wirtschaftsverbänden gegen höhere Steuern für Reiche – mit dem Vorwand, #Familienunternehmen zu schützen. Recherchen von CORRECTIV.Schweiz und der WOZ zeigen: Sie zahlen ohnehin kaum #Steuern.
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Viel Vermögen – wenig Steuern: So profitieren Super-Reiche
Milliardäre drohen mit Wegzug wegen höheren Steuern. Recherchen von CORRECTIV.Schweiz und der WOZ zeigen, wie wenig sie heute schon zahlen.
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#Stablecoins sind stabil – bis sie es nicht mehr sind. 🫠 Das ist weder "sicher" noch "vetrauenswürdig" und hat schon gar nichts mit "#digitaleSouveränität" zu tun. @marcel@waldvogel.family @adfichter.bsky.social @maemst.bsky.social www.finews.ch/news/banken/...
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Twint öffnet Plattform für Stablecoins und E-ID
Die Bezahl-App Twint will sich zu einer zentralen Infrastruktur für digitale Währungen und Identitätslösungen in der Schweiz entwickeln.
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Even though Switzerland has one of the most elect. successful far-right parties, I often hear ppl say: “The SVP is different” I’m not sure many realize the radicalization of its youth wing, which has close links to the i//dentit. mov which just held a pan-European meeting here to discuss “re//mig"
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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Ähnlichkeiten mit historischen Vorgängern sind nicht rein zufällig, sondern beabsichtigt.
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Donald Trump, the AI slop of US presidents 💩
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
(Wieder mal) aus gegebenem Anlass 💖 youtu.be/Uz-htW9DTus...
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Team Scheisse – "FA" | ZDF Magazin Royale
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Digitale Gesellschaft @digitale-gesellschaft.ch · 27/08/2025
2021 haben wir die privatisierte E-ID gestoppt – nun haben wir das E-ID-Gesetz 2.0 mitgeprägt: privatsphäre-freundlich, datensparsam & sicher, basierend auf digitaler Selbstbestimmung. Warum wir überzeugt Ja sagen & trotzdem kritisch bleiben: www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2025/08/27/d...
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Digitale Gesellschaft sagt Ja zum neuen E-ID-Gesetz - Digitale Gesellschaft
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
If you are a journalist, political scientist, developer or someone interested in #data on political affairs, parliamentary proceedings, political actors, decrees, etc., please test our #OpenAPI and give us feedback on your observations, any issues or missing options! ❤️opendata.ch/news/test-ou...
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Test Our Open Parl Data API – Opendata.ch
46 cities. 26 cantons. 2 countries (🇨🇭🇱🇮). For a year, we have been collaboratively building our open API for harmonized parliamentary data to promote transparency, innovation and participation in Swiss politics. Our data infrastructure imports data from 74 national, cantonal and municipal parliaments (some APIs, mostly websites) and partially* cleans, harmonizes and publishes them openly
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
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Cédric Wermuth @cedricwermuth.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Zollkrise - der Sonderfall ist tot. 3 Illusionen müssen weg: 1) Die Schweiz braucht keine Freunde in Europa 2) Die Schweiz kann mit allen Business machen, aber keine Verantwortung tragen 3) Die Schweiz fährt am besten als Verrichtungsbox für das globale Kapital www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zollkrieg-mi...
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Zollkrieg von Donald Trump: Die Schweiz muss sich von Illusionen lösen
Brauchen wir neue Steuer­privilegien für Gross­konzerne? Die Antwort des Bundesrats auf Trumps Zollhammer ist leider die falsche.
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Florin Hasler @florihas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
If you are a journalist, political scientist, developer or someone interested in #data on political affairs, parliamentary proceedings, political actors, decrees, etc., please test our #OpenAPI and give us feedback on your observations, any issues or missing options! ❤️opendata.ch/news/test-ou...
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Test Our Open Parl Data API – Opendata.ch
46 cities. 26 cantons. 2 countries (🇨🇭🇱🇮). For a year, we have been collaboratively building our open API for harmonized parliamentary data to promote transparency, innovation and participation in Swiss politics. Our data infrastructure imports data from 74 national, cantonal and municipal parliaments (some APIs, mostly websites) and partially* cleans, harmonizes and publishes them openly
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This is very good. www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
AI is a tool (sorry!) that people who are bad at their jobs will use badly and that people who are good at their jobs will maybe, possibly find some uses for. People who are terrible at their jobs (many executives), will tell their employees that they “need” to use AI, that their jobs depend on it, that they must become more productive, and that becoming an AI-first company is the strategy that will save them from the old failed strategy, which itself was the new strategy after other failed business models.

The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.
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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.
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