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Friedemann Bürgel

@friedepeace.eurosky.social
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Freedom, Democracy and Dignity Leadership, Opensource, digital sovereignty, critical thinker. Amiga, @spreadpoint.net, retro computing and music enthusiast.

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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 19h
Fifty years after #Kraftwerk released their magnificent album “Radioaktivität”, this fan-made remake of „Die Stimme der Energie“ is, in my humble opinion, a great anniversary release. Remember the lyrics „Ich bin Ihr Diener und Ihr Herr zugleich“ - fits well for AI today. youtu.be/Jbz9PfHjObA
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Kraftwerk - Die Stimme Der Energie (KD Remix 2025)
YouTube video by Klaus Devore Electronic Alternative Darkwave Synth
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
www.eenewseurope.com/en/chips-act...
eenewseurope.com
Chips Act 2.0, Part 1: Europe’s second semiconductor push
Chips Act 2.0 shifts EU semiconductor policy towards demand, faster permits, strategic projects and technological sovereignty.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
Was erhoffen sich Menschen im Kanton St. Gallen von einer Schweizer KI? Im Rahmen des Swiss National AI Dialogue hat Public AI Switzerland Stimmen aus der ganzen Schweiz gesammelt. Eine davon aus St. Gallen: Eine KI, die die Schweiz unabhängiger vom Ausland macht www.linkedin.com/posts/public...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026
The Technical Report for Apertus 1.5 is now available Apertus 1.5, extends the 8B and 70B Apertus 1.0 models with image understanding, an optional thinking mode, a four times longer context window, improved instruction-following, and better tool use. apertus-ai.org/articles/202...
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Apertus AI
Fully Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
HBR - The 6 Essential Skills Your Workforce Needs to Keep Pace with AI Work-Orchestration Skills • Problem Formulation • Systems Thinking • Strategic Foresight Oversight and Governance Skills • AI Judgment and Risk Mitigation • Human-AI Mediation • Ethical Leadership hbr.org/2026/10/the-...
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The 6 Essential Skills Your Workforce Needs to Keep Pace with AI
AI upskilling efforts often leave employees feeling overwhelmed and organizations feeling disappointed. Instead of creating an ever-expanding checklist of skills, Gartner research has identified two c...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
ai.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...
ai.ethz.ch
AI Foundry: ETH Zurich launches its first dedicated programme for AI spin-offs
With AI Foundry, ETH Zurich is launching its first programme dedicated to AI spin-offs. The programme targets ambitious founders who want to build the next frontier labs, pursue big ideas on novel arc...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
European sovereignty is not measured by where a server physically sits — it is a question of who controls the company that operates it. This page lays out, factor by factor, how we decide a model's label and its Sovereignty Score. Apertus is available on this reseller getfrontiereai.eu/sovereignty
getfrontiereai.eu
How Frontière AI scores EU sovereignty, model by model
How Frontière AI decides a model's EU sovereignty: four questions, the SecNumCloud principle, why location isn't enough and the Sovereignty Score formula.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026
Find Out Who’s Selling Your Data in 60 Seconds: Paste This Prompt Mitch Jackson | 12.10.2026 www.linkedin.com/pulse/find-o...
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Find Out Who’s Selling Your Data in 60 Seconds: Paste This Prompt
Not long ago, I published a post on my Privacy in America Substack titled HIPAA Won’t Save Your Health Data: The Privacy Law Gap Letting Apps Sell Your Secrets. In that post, I shared a prompt that sh...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
In Taiwan, chipmaker TSMC’s employees make up around 0.3 per cent of the population but were parents to 1.8 per cent of Taiwanese babies in 2023. It has created an environment in which children are highly visible,
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026
Interesting thesis: Network effects can explain the remarkable similarities between falling birth rates across very different places and cultures. www.ft.com/content/160f...
ft.com
Why people don’t want to have children any more
Social contagion can help explain falling birth rates — and offers a way out of the demographic trap
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
SMEs have concerns about copyright, legal and regulatory issues, though negative attitudes towards gen AI are rare. The findings highlight the promise of gen AI but also the need for structured policy support to close digital and skills gaps between SMEs and larger firms www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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Generative AI and the SME Workforce
This report examines the potential for generative AI – tools that generate text, images, video or audio, such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Midjourney – to help SMEs address labour and skill needs. It prese...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
Das Staatssekretariat für internationale Finanzfragen vertritt die Interessen der Schweiz in Finanz-, Währungs- und Steuerangelegenheiten. Es erarbeitet Grundlagen für die Finanzmarktpolitik und -regulierung sowie den Steuerstandort Schweiz. www.sif.admin.ch/de/besteueru...
sif.admin.ch
Besteuerung digitalisierte Wirtschaft
Die Digitalisierung verändert die Wirtschaft und viele Geschäftsmodelle. Die Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD) erarbeitet deshalb Vorschläge, wie die Unternehmensb...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
www.onprem.ai/en/knowhow/r...
onprem.ai
Run Apertus AI v1.5 70B with vision, tool calling, and up to 229k tokens of context on a single enterprise GPU: RTX 6000 Blackwell - onprem.ai
Apertus v1.5 70B ships as approximately 145 GB (135 GiB) of BF16 weights that officially need two H200 datacenter GPUs. We show how to run it on a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell with 96 GB VRAM,...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
www.playbern.ch/playbern-kin...
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Kindergame Preis 2026 | PlayBern
Bei PlayBern bringen wir digitale und analoge Welten zusammen und zeigen so, dass Kreativität keine Grenzen kennt. Deshalb bieten wir am PlayBern Festival auch immer wieder anderen Künsten eine Plattf...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
9 work strategies in three tiers really do make a difference: * Initiative * Networking * Self-management * Perspective * Followership * Leadership * Teamwork * Organizational savvy * Show-and-tell None of the stars they studied excelled in all nine. polinarussell.substack.com/p/9-top-perf...
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Top performers aren’t smarter. They work differently.
Researchers tested 45 traits at Bell Labs and 3M and found that not one of them separated the top performers. What did was nine learnable work strategies.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026
8bit / oldskool demoscene: Bits Brew by Pulpo Corrosivo & Futurs “Bits Brew” is a 2026 Amstrad CPC invitation demo by Pulpo Corrosivo and Futurs, created for the Benediction Coding Party #6 "81kb of samples played at 16kHz. No DMA or Paula involved!" youtu.be/nvroLwRh48Y
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Bits Brew (Pulpo Corrosivo and Futurs')
YouTube video by toms / Pulpo Corrosivo
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Der Bundesrat wird beauftragt, am Geneva AI Summit 2027 aktiv auf international abgestimmte Mindeststandards für die extremen Risiken der leistungsfähigsten KI-Modelle hinzuwirken, die sich an deren Fähigkeiten und Auswirkungen orientieren.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Motion 26.4653 von Andrey Gerhard 20261002: Internationale KI-Sicherheit mit Schweizer Führungsanspruch gestalten www.parlament.ch/de/ratsbetri...
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Geschäft Ansehen
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
european.social
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The European Social Stack · An open declaration
An open declaration: The European Social Stack. Open Social Platforms and Private Messaging.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
stateofsurveillance.org/news/w-socia...
stateofsurveillance.org
European Commission Moves Bluesky Accounts to W Social
Elena Rossini reported June 17, 2026 that the European Commission, von der Leyen, the ECB, and Christine Lagarde moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Aus „Lernen und Künstliche Intelligenz - Fünf Dimensionen für den Unterricht“ von @joschafalck.de * Lernen mit Kl * Lernen ohne Kl * Lernen über Kl * Lernen trotz Kl. * Lernen durch Kl
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Erik Grundmann (He) @erikgrundmann.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Auf jeden Fall eine interessante und gewinnbringende Methode, mit der man auf vielen Ebenen arbeiten kann. Lernen mit, durch und über KI mit @joschafalck.de: joschafalck.de/lernen-und-ki/
joschafalck.de
Lernen und künstliche Intelligenz
Fünf Dimensionen für den Unterricht
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Humans have been working on management for a very long time without fully figuring it out. It seemed like a thing that would need to be designed by people, at least for a while. It turns out that organizing work is just one more thing AI can learn to do. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-dot-an...
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The Dot and the Swarm
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
Musk is a 2026 documentary film directed by Alex Gibney. It follows the billionaire businessman Elon Musk, and his enormous influence in right-wing contemporary politics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Gi...
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Alex Gibney - Wikipedia
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/09/2026
Voters should ask candidates: Speeches about democracy are nice, but what are you actually going to do to take on big money? And then hold them to their promises. bit.ly/4d1GYVr
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$1 Billion in Secret Cash Is Reshaping the Midterms
We may never know where most of the money came from.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026
… underwater cables to link Europe and Canada, and jointly constructing data centers, cloud storage and new satellite networks beyond the reach of American tech giants. Carney is pushing to lay the pipelines Canada needs to redirect gas to European allies anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/canadas-co...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%C3%B...
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Phönizier – Wikipedia
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the better am the many name tools mondonomo.ai
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mondonomo - bringing the world together by names
Mondonomo - bringing the world together by names! Explore co
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
We have heard the story before: our magical models are becoming so powerful that they are “too dangerous to release.” Remember GPT-2 in 2019? Today, nobody cares because the model is useless for almost any serious application. Jay Latta | 15.09.2026 www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-dra...
linkedin.com
Is AI drama the new soap opera?
For days, the debate has been raging again about whether “AI” is too dangerous. The warnings are not new.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Max Tegmark explained that machines exceeding humans across cognitive tasks might produce the best or worst event in history, but that a good outcome wouldn’t happen automatically. “That’s why I’ve written this book,” he said medium.com/@timventura/... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Teg...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
📅 18–19 October 2026 2-tägiger Hackathon zum Thema Künstliche Intelligenz. Bis zu 100 Hacker messen sich an 3 Challenges und kämpfen um ein Preisgeld von 7000 CHF. WORKSPACE & MORE, Waldeggstrasse 34, Liebefeld app.sprintd.org/events/hack-...
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«Hack Apertus» Liebefeld · sprintd
Together, we help accelerate the adoption of APERTUS.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s ambassador-designate to the EU: “We haven’t landed on what the name of it should be,” he added. “[We] need to see what the shape of it is at the end of this before, you know, how you might want to characterise it.” www.ft.com/content/7295...
ft.com
Canada plays down EU ‘associate member’ label
‘We’d rather people focus on the substance,’ says ambassador-designate to the EU
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
The paper talks about “access” consciousness. In a nutshell, a thought counts as access-conscious if it’s available for verbal report, reasoning, and deliberate control. Using that narrower definition, the paper finds evidence that Claude shows some elements of consciousness.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
... The talk circled one of AI’s most common fears: will AI replace us? ... The discussion was lively, but the reassuring words and attitude of the priest gave all of the participants a feeling of being grounded, a rarity in Silicon Valley. swissnex.org/sanfrancisco...
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Mindset Matters: AI Thinks, Therefore AI Is - Swissnex in San Francisco
Connecting Switzerland, North America and the world in science, education, innovation, and the arts.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
In his Financial Times opinion piece, "Europe’s difficult choices on AI", Mario Draghi argues that artificial intelligence is the key lever to revive European economic growth, secure sovereignty, and fund the continent's social model. www.ft.com/content/f054...
ft.com
Europe’s difficult choices on AI
Data is the one area where it can still be sovereign and it has the greatest potential to generate growth
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Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Das Zitat stammt vom 3. Januar 1933, also nur wenige Wochen VOR Hitlers Ernennung zum Reichskanzler am 30. Januar 1933.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
Thinking about what music the title song “Flow Away” reminds me of, I came across Smokebench II by Sabres of Paradise (1993) from a Cafe del Mar compilation: youtu.be/D1U1YxZUwrE youtu.be/FOinG0QCfO0
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Gints Zilbalodis, Rihards Zalupe - Flow Away | Flow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
YouTube video by SonySoundtracksVEVO
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
Flow is a 2024 animated adventure film. A Latvian, French, and Belgian co-production, it features no dialogue and follows a cat trying to survive along with other animals in a world where the water level has risen dramatically. I liked both the film and the music en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2...
en.wikipedia.org
Flow (2024 film) - Wikipedia
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
Why enterprise AI bills are exploding, and why the invoice is still the smallest number. The usual suspicion, employees wasting tokens, explains less than people think. by Andreas Horn www.humanintheloop.online/p/the-honest...
humanintheloop.online
The honest math behind enterprise AI agents
Why enterprise AI bills are exploding, and why the invoice is still the smallest number.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
Gartner - The Hidden Workforce Costs of AI June 1, 2026 AI is reshaping workforce economics, but the greatest risks to ROI come from costs that leaders aren’t tracking. www.gartner.com/en/articles/...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
www.bk.admin.ch/de/digitale-...
bk.admin.ch
Strategie Digitale Schweiz
Die Strategie Digitale Schweiz setzt die Leitlinien der digitalen Transformation der Schweiz. Sie ist für die Bundesverwaltung verbindlich und dient allen anderen Akteuren der Digitalisierung als Orie...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
foraus.ch/blog-post/ma...
foraus.ch
Made in EU – wie Schweizer Unternehmen aussen vor bleiben könnten - Foraus
Die EU rüstet auf – nicht nur militärisch, sondern auch ökonomisch. Experten sprechen von einer „geoökonomischen Revolution“. Lieferketten werden geprüft,
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
snyder.substack.com/p/three-publ...
snyder.substack.com
Three Public Speeches on Freedom
Some Video Reminders Before the US Midterm Election
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Frontier technologies are moving faster than governments and markets can act. There is only a narrow window between the moment a scientific development becomes possible and the moment it starts to impact society, says GESDA's Director General Prof. Marilyne Andersen. www.gesda.global/geneva-scien...
gesda.global
The Anticipation Summit - GESDA Global
The Anticipation Summit in Geneva is the leading global platform where science meets diplomacy to drive impactful change.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai...
swissinfo.ch
One year on, has Swiss AI model Apertus lived up to the hype?
One year after launch, Apertus has passed four million downloads and found real-world uses, but weaknesses on key tasks still limit its competitiveness.
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026
Conference on Trustworthy AI for Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law Organised by the Council of Europe and the Albert Einstein School of Public Policy at ETH Zurich Monday 7 September 2026 10:00–17:00 CEST ETH Zurich, Audimax, HG F 30 einstein-school.ethz.ch/en/dialog/ai...
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AI Governance Forum
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026
This very futuristic 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek actually introduced the word „robot“ into English. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.
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R.U.R. - Wikipedia
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
Three horizons H3: viable world. The latent new paradigm. It reimagines the system around the logic of new innovation. This paradigm is still incubating, but it can be sensed via weak signals, “pockets of the future” that are present in the present. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/three-hori...
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Friedemann Bürgel @friedepeace.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026
FinalWriter 7.3 represents the latest evolution of one of the Amiga platform's most capable and feature-rich word processors. This release focuses on modernizing the user experience while maintaining compatibility with the workflows that users have relied on for decades. final-writer.com
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FinalWriter
Discover FinalWriter, the premier AmigaOS word processor, designed for seamless document creation and editing.
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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Amazon is officially shutting down Mechanical Turk next month. It feels like the end of an era. I've written about the platform on and off for close to a decade. We wouldn't have the AI tools we do now if it weren't for the low-paid, largely invisible labor of MTurkers
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