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Florin Hasler
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Institute for Public Sector Transformation, BFH #OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource | 💙 #rstats | he/him
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sarapetti.bsky.social
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
FOSDEM 2026 - Stream AW1.120
live.fosdem.org
February 1, 2026 at 12:34 PM
florihas.bsky.social
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 😻.
Dude (me) smiling on train
January 29, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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.
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.
www.ms.now
December 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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404media.co
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-...
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.
www.404media.co
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
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.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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antonrainer.bsky.social
Baby, wach auf, all die staatskritischen Freidenker kraulen dem Autokraten die Eier, damit er ihre Gegner tritt.

Please Mr Rubio, please! 👅
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
florihas.bsky.social
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-...
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...
blog.joinmastodon.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
florihas.bsky.social
If you're anti #Antifa, you're fa(scist).
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Dec 14
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...
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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cwebbonline.com
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...
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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thorbenson.bsky.social
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
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
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.”
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 14
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
Video shows the man rushing one of the alleged gunmen who shot dozens of people on Sunday evening in Australia * Bondi beach shooting live updates * Bondi terror attack: full report * What we know so far about the shooting in Australia A bystander tackled and wrestled a gun from one of the two alleged gunman during the Bondi beach mass shooting in which at least 12 people were killed, footage shows. Video of the scene shows the alleged gunman standing on a footpath between a grassy area and parking lot holding a shotgun and firing into the distance. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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domigross.bsky.social
Würde die Anti-SRG-Initiative im März angenommen, liefen SRF, RTS und Co. wohl bald nur noch in Altersheimen. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/srg-initiati...
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.
www.tagesanzeiger.ch
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
florihas.bsky.social
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...
December 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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florianaigner.at
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...
peterjelinek.bsky.social Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · Dec 10
"Und wenn ihr mit Europa nichts anfangen könnt, dann macht wenigstens Deutschland zu eurem Partner."

Merz, der Europäer...Unglaublich, was er hier von sich gibt. Er stößt damit allen Europäerinnen vor den Kopf.
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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nytimes.com
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.
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.
nyti.ms
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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stephenblackmoore.com
“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.”
streetroots.bsky.social Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · Nov 21
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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fschutzbach.bsky.social
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...
January 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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correctiv.org
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.
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.
correctiv.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
florihas.bsky.social
#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/...
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.
www.finews.ch
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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rfrbrghs.bsky.social
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"
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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polenz.bsky.social
Ähnlichkeiten mit historischen Vorgängern sind nicht rein zufällig, sondern beabsichtigt.
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
florihas.bsky.social
Donald Trump, the AI slop of US presidents 💩
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 19
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
florihas.bsky.social
(Wieder mal) aus gegebenem Anlass 💖 youtu.be/Uz-htW9DTus...
Team Scheisse – "FA" | ZDF Magazin Royale
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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olivia.science
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
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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digitale-gesellschaft.ch
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...
Digitale Gesellschaft sagt Ja zum neuen E-ID-Gesetz - Digitale Gesellschaft
www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch
August 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM