Campaigning
What gets adopted is what everyone knows and what helps today
Why useful tools fail to take hold in local groups — and which questions matter more than the choice of software.
The brake is a business model
Four AI chiefs want to slow down together, officially out of concern. In reality the race can no longer be paid for, and an agreement protects the lead of those at the top.
What resistance to data centres actually achieves
From Beringen to Virginia, protest against data centres is taking shape. Look at the cases soberly and one thing stands out: visible protest puts the issue on the map — reliable impact tends to come only where it plugs early into planning, permitting and participation procedures.
The bus says «Authiis». What can actually be changed about a wrong announcement.
A synthetic voice mispronounces my village's name on the bus. Before assigning blame, the sober question is what can actually be changed — and who decides.
Manus is free again. Something else is what unsettles me.
Manus is pulling free of Meta again — on the orders of China's regulator. But the most revealing moment of my research wasn't the deal. It was a silence.
Flamingos vs. billionaires: what Albania teaches us about campaigning
250,000 people, a pink bird and the EU card: what Albania's «Flamingo Revolution» against a Kushner-linked resort teaches us about symbols, reframing and international leverage in campaigning.
Campaigning
A cockroach beat a cabinet minister. Here's the campaigning playbook.
India's satirical Cockroach Janta Party went from a six-word joke to a cabinet minister's resignation in 36 days — no party, no money, no seats. Seven transferable lessons for campaigners and organisers.
Campaigning
Today I'm releasing the Campaigning Wiki
campaigning.wiki — a practical knowledge base for campaigning craft. Strategy, organizing, tactics, digital, training, research, plus 650 worked case studies. English now, German/French/Spanish soon, CC BY-SA, built to be used the same day you look it up.
Transcribe Swiss German locally: what AI still cannot do
I wanted to transcribe my voice memos locally — on the Mac, no US server, data stays on the device. I did my research, found the favorite: Whisper Notes with Whisper Large V3 Turbo. Downloaded the model, started recording, spoke in Swiss German, as I always do...
I built a campaigning wiki — and it's not finished yet
A few weeks ago someone asked me how to set up a dilemma action. I wanted to refer to a good source — and didn't have one. Once again not.
The end of full employment fear: Why we politicize differently today
As I dug through the last seven years of Swiss worry-barometer reports for a current project, one thing became crystal clear: we are in the middle of a massive paradigm shift that is completely turning our political work upside down. These developments are so exciting that I absolutely have
Microsoft, the army and the cloud: Why we need to talk about our digital independence now
A Wake-Up Call ” The letter from Swiss Army Chief Thomas Süssli regarding Microsoft dependency is one of the most interesting statements from the Swiss Army in recent years. The now-public letter has accordingly stirred up quite a bit of dust — with articles in all major leading media outlets