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
The digital lever: How you shake up shareholder activism with new tools
I sat in 1992 on the Greenpeace ship “Solo” for two weeks in Russian pre-trial detention in Murmansk. The coast guard had fired cannons across our bow as we tried to locate sunken nuclear waste. Back then, in the Russian Arctic, our greatest capital was our conviction and our
Your chatbot is not your friend: Welcome to the new data protection nightmare
Hello everyone, We need to get this off our chest. We (especially me) talk a lot about the great new possibilities of working with AI. How it helps us be more creative, work faster, maybe even save the world. But we urgently need to talk about the downsides too. And
The end of a short affair: Why I am facing a dilemma after the Meta takeover of Manus
Like many others, we keep discovering new AI tools. Each one promises to be even better, faster, or smarter. After an intense phase of using Perplexity, we stumbled upon Manus sometime last year – an AI orchestrator that had the potential to fundamentally change how we work. Manus wasn’t just