Born & raised in Africa
Power of Local | Social Entrepreneurship | Inclusive Innovation | Sustainability | Climate Tech | Climate Robotics | Founder | National Geographic Explorer | PhD
Broadcasting from Swiss the Alps🇨🇭
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Born & raised in Africa
Power of Local | Social Entrepreneurship | Inclusive Innovation | Sustainability | Climate Tech | Climate Robotics | Founder | National Geographic Explorer | PhD
Broadcasting from Swiss the Alps🇨🇭
linkedin.com/in/meierpatrick
Patrick Meier invented the concept of using crisis mapping in humanitarian emergencies, and is a co-founder and the Executive Director of WeRobotics.
I’m having flashbacks to the early days of Digital Humanitarians. They used to call themselves Digital Jedi back then (15 years ago). Today, they are the Whistle Goblins and Whistle Avengers. Love it ❤️
Reposted by Paul Fisher, Patrick Meier
Scalable & Brilliant! 👏
Along with mobile phones & radios, whistles are playing a vital role in community-centered early warning systems across Minneapolis.
📷: @mostlybree.kitrocha.com
Please read this 🙏
Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Mariana Mazzucato, Stephen M. Walt , and 181 more Anne Applebaum, Mariana Mazzucato, Stephen M. Walt, Michael E. Mann, Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch, Kim L. Scheppele, Elizabeth Saunders, Rebecca Solnit, Archon Fung, Nandita Sharma, Matthew Bunn, Nancy Kanwisher, Yadvinder Malhi, Michael Wagner, John T. Jost, Stephan Lewandowsky, Robbert Sanderman, David M. Schultz, Simon Burgess, Marco Festa‐Bianchet, David M. Farrell, Will Jennings, Ashish Arora, Peter Thorne, Martin J. Attrill, Jesse M. Shapiro, Christina C. Hicks, Richard Betts, Richard J. Butler, Mattias Hallquist, Patrick A. Jansen, Jonathan A. Foley, Michael T. Meyer, Joshua S. Weitz, John R. Hutchinson, Mieke Van Houtte, Steve Peers, John McLaren, Andrew Watt, Andreas Ortmann, Tim Bale, Tom Shakespeare, Valerie P. Hans, Mark D. White, Victor Asal, Steven S. Smith, Jill Marshall, Rosemary A. Joyce, Caroline Krafft, Jürgen Maier, Leigh Sparks, Marina Jirotka, David Rothschild, Martin Gaynor, Elizabeth Stokoe, Melissa Johnson, Vincent Tiberj, Michael J. Allen, Rupert Read, Christian E. Weller, Ian M. Kinchin, Dawn J. Wright, Joseph Schafer, Hester Blum, Markus Jäntti, Anders Nilsson, Alison Phipps, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Ramón López Facal, Gerard H. Kuper, Libby Robin, David S. Cohen, Joni Lovenduski, Alan Stewart, Patrick Walsh, Sanford F. Schram, Kevin Carey, Shelly Lundberg, Inderjeet Parmar, Göran Bolin, Jussi T. Eronen, Marta Mìrazón Lahr, Raffaella Ravinetto, Smith, Peter Schöttler, Andrew Leyshon, Melanie C. Green, Janet Murray, Steven High, Jo Barraket, David R. Miller, Robert Wolfe, Duncan Bell, Jesús Rodríguez Pomeda, Patrick Svensson, Wilson McLeod, Stephen D. Murphy, Gerald Friedman, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Fabio Giglietto, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Todd Pugatch, Howard Stevenson, Stephen Ryan, Elizabeth Stevenson, Michael D. McDonald, Anne Norton, Josef Früchtl, Manuel Puppis, Graeme Warren, Talia Schaffer, Graham Dutfield, Marco Haan, Antoine Bernard de Raymond, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Paul Fisher, Michelle Williams, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Christian Fisch, Lisa Diedrich, Nicola Carr, Enrique Fatás, Philipp Sarasin, Jessica Silbey, Feargal Cochrane, Stuart White, Mary Jane Curry, Susan Strasser, Marko Lindroos, Claire L. Adida, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Caterina Froio, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Patrick Meier, Vaughan S. Roberts, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Ryan K. Brook, Florian Keusch, Andrew Rudalevige, James Connelly, Olivier Jourdan, Hisham Zerriffi, Sean P. Corcoran, Patrick Stokes, Cullen S. Hendrix, Jon Dean, Eric J. Sundquist, Guillaume Allègre, Eric J. Segall, Melanie O’Brien, Jason A. Heppler, Karen O’Leary, Uwe M. Martens, Almut Schulze, Alexander Woywodt, Thomas D. Carroll, David S. Tanenhaus, Kate Jackson, Pam Jarvis, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Mary McAuliffe, Aviel Roshwald, Pepper D. Culpepper, Émilien Ruiz, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Ryan Calo, Jaap Kooijman, Aidan O’Sullivan, Dan Immergluck, Jeannette Sutton, Fiona Armstrong, Beth Tellman, Lorna Hughes, Fabian Holt, Ernesto Castañeda, David Spurrett, Dunlap, Stuart Shapiro, David Darmofal, Lars Gamfeldt
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“The findings add to a growing body of evidence showing that early human creativity did not emerge in a single place, nor was it confined to ice age Europe.”
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The earliest cave art ever found was just (re)discovered in limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, dating back 67,800 years!
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phys.org/news/2026-01...
- Waiting for Godot (1952), by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower, in April 1945
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Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings, John McLaren , and 27 more Nandita Sharma, Will Jennings, John McLaren, Amir Attaran, Elizabeth Stokoe, Elizabeth Pisani, Malcolm MacLean, Michelle Everson, Smith, Rebecca Tushnet, Michael Zimmer, Caroline T. Schroeder, Tom Griffin, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Els Torreele, Brian Keegan, Jutta Haider, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, W Grant, Cyrus Samimi, Patrick Meier, Timo M. Kauppinen, Christina Pagel, Julien Théry, Manisha Sinha, Susan D. Amussen, Martin S. Flaherty, Dan Immergluck, David Lay Williams, Búi K. Petersen
Greetings from Switzerland 👋 🇨🇭
Check out this local field manual on nonviolent community resistance to the 🧊 occupation in Minnesota. These tactics & strategies can be applied in your cities too:
docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...
See also:
defend612.com/resources
"Real painters do not paint things as they are....They paint them as they themselves feel them to be." - Vincent Van Gogh
I appreciated their point re: it’s not market failure, it’s values failure. I’d take it one step further and suggest it’s about power and *who* gets to decide the values.
Thanks again!