Florin Hasler
@florihas.bsky.social
Institute for Public Sector Transformation, BFH #OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource | 💙 #rstats | he/him
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...
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...
“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...
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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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 3mo agoThe single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.
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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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! 💚
Hilf dem Kino im Kocher!
Für weitere zehn Jahre Open Air Kino im Kocherpark
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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-...
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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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!
🌐 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! 😉
Call for Issues 2026 | igf.swiss
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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.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."
😤 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! 👇
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.
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...
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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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
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
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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 😻.
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.
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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.
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Baby, wach auf, all die staatskritischen Freidenker kraulen dem Autokraten die Eier, damit er ihre Gegner tritt. Please Mr Rubio, please! 👅
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...
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If you're anti #Antifa, you're fa(scist).
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 8mo agoThere 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...
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...
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
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.”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 8mo agoBystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting
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.
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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...
