Switzerland 🇨🇭 shouldn't bend because of the US 🇺🇸 Instead let's cancel the F35 procurement and buy European jets instead. Making ourselves more dependent on the USA is simply foolish. Attached is the destination of Swiss exports according to the Atlas of Economic Complexity:

The Atlas of Economic Complexity by @HarvardGrwthLab

Visualize global trade data and economic growth opportunities for every country

I'll now click "Publish" using my smart watch.... 🥁🥁🥁 🥳 Got myself a bangle watch that you can program yourself. And, I have to say, if you want a watch that just works with many nice features, this isn't for you... ...but WOW is this watch cool!! I turned it into a remote track pad for my fedora laptop in approx 2h 😍 My students will be so impressed..... in my head, at least, hehe...

Get up, make coffee, check if one of the maniacs used any nukes... Just a normal morning in 2025.

If you haven't, go try Zen Browser. It's still very Beta, but I love it

Dose of reality as authentically delivered as can be.

"Quit playing Trump's game, we're humiliating ourselves..." Rory right on the money. #Therestispolitics

They're unfit to lick Zelenskyy's boots.

In a surprise move to absolutely no-one, BP and other firms are shifting their focus to oil and gas and cutting back on clean energy. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-ditch-renewables-goals-return-focus-fossil-fuels-2025-02-24/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Sustainable-Switch&utm_term=022525&lctg=6414a4e48b8ea336ee051c7f

So that's off the bucket list 😁

"It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds ... We now have the bizarre situation that anyone with any sense can see that America is no longer a reliable partner, and that the entire US business world bows to Trump’s dictatorial will, but we STILL are doing everything we can to transfer entire governments and most of our own businesses to their clouds."

Bert Hubert's writings

It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it...

The Austrian Armed Forces provide very sober and insightful updates on the war in Ukraine. Here's the English version.

Exclusive: US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-access-starlink-internet-services-over-minerals-say-2025-02-22/

Quite the editorial -

Kyiv Post

Stabbed in the Back by Putin’s Fixers in Washington

Recoiling from the Trump administration’s abrupt blows, Ukraine and Europe have signaled they will not give in to the US president’s collusion ...

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"If Ukraine is forced to surrender its sovereign territory to Russia, it will be the greatest betrayal of a European ally since Poland in 1945." - Ed Davey.

"Why is US politics so unreasonsable?" 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇭 once fancied themselves "sister republics", sharing similar institutions & founding spirits. However, at the beginning of the 20th century, the two countries reformed their electoral systems in markedly different ways. My analysis of this divergence is now available in English in my knowledge garden. Reasonable feedback is always welcome! There you go: 👇

logikunsererzeit.ch - Domain For Sale

Hm, I just remembered Threads exists 🤔 The end.

My pupils' notes reflecting what I said in my programming intro 😅 "Important: Always think as stupidly as a computer."

...the audacity... 😲 "...the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing..."

Gizmodo

Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit

Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.

"Meta and TikTok confirmed that the code exists but said they don’t use it to snoop." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/13/facebook-instagram-data-privacy/