#DNIP Briefing #19: Memes, Macht und Microsoft

Unter anderem zur Frage, ob die US-Clouds noch EU-Kompatibel sind, und ob man Legacy-Software mal so über Nacht neu schreiben kann.

https://dnip.ch/2025/04/01/dnip-briefing-19-memes-macht-und-microsoft/

Car office

🇱🇺>>🇩🇪>>🇨🇭

Ein Posten ist seit heute Morgen besetzt: https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/bundesratswahl-2025-live-bundesrat-pfister-fuehle-mich-in-kaserne-und-bundeshaus-wohl

Bonne chance, Madame Amherd.

Dienstags ist Briefing-Tag bei DNIP.ch:

https://dnip.ch/2025/03/11/dnip-briefing-16-das-netz-ist-politisch/

To learn and understand and what I read in preparation for my reporting trip to the Philippines is Patricia Evangelista’s «unflinching account of the ensuing violence, a Filipina trauma journalist narrates six years of the country’s drug war», as the New Yorker writes, «Some People Need Killing»:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/06/some-people-need-killing-the-boy-from-kyiv-wound-and-this-is-salvaged

«Rodrigo Duterte, Philippine Ex-President, Is Arrested on I.C.C. Warrant. The International Criminal Court has been investigating the deadly crackdown that Mr. Duterte, who was detained in Manila on Tuesday, oversaw while in power.»

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/world/asia/icc-philippines-rodrigo-duterte.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Spring semester has started.

«Lima: I talk to AI like a friend to give myself fake hope»:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0l16424w1pt?post=asset%3A9e5358b6-aab9-4972-b27c-12e4ac4f8bd5#post

Currently reading:

Slashing the U.S. quarterly GDP forecast by 5.1%—from +2.3% to -2.8%—in a single week …
The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model looks grim: https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow — of course, even this can still be twisted, manipulated, reinterpreted. To fit the chosen lie.

📊 Data source: Atlanta Fed. 🔗 GDPNow

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/opinion/friedrich-merz-germany-chancellor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Auf dem grossartigen #Winterkongress war auf einigen der besten Talks (danke!) der dunkle Folienhintergrund unten und rechts mit einer störenden weissen Linie «dekoriert».

Mich hat das #LibreOffice-Problem vor zwei Jahren auch geärgert. Da das Problem auf etlichen Geräten immer noch besteht, habe ich mal was geschrieben:

1️⃣ Wieso gibt es das Problem (immer noch)?
2️⃣ Lösung 1: Formatänderung (hatte ich gemacht)
3️⃣ Lösung 3: Hintergrundrechteck (würde ich heute machen)

https://marcel-waldvogel.ch/2025/03/02/libreoffice-praesentation-weisser-rand/

Postcard from Manila by Pacita Abad.

«In recent years, the kinship between Trump and Putin has become somewhat unfashionable to point out. After Robert Mueller disappointed liberals by failing to prove a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, conventional wisdom on much of the center and left of the political spectrum came to treat the scandal as overblown. But even the facts Mueller was able to produce, despite noncooperation from Trump’s top lieutenants, were astonishing. Putin dangled a Moscow building deal in front of the Trump Organization worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and Trump lied about it, giving Putin leverage over him. Trump’s campaign chair, Paul Manafort, was in business with a Russian intelligence officer. Russia published hacked Democratic emails at a time when they were maximally useful to Trump’s campaign, and made another hacking attempt after he asked it on television to find missing emails from Hillary Clinton. The pattern of cooperation between Trump and Putin may not have been provably criminal, but it was extraordinarily damning.»

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/zelensky-trump-putin-ukraine/681883/

As always, Ezra Klein explains:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ehBfDtBNTpKLCudnGMY9f?si=CX-mV6xWSM6ExMxefSeKDA — including staged diplomatic meltdowns.

How to keep up whilst working in different time zones:

https://bsky.app/profile/robertshrimsley.bsky.social/post/3lj3s7r3kvs2y

Die Schweiz sucht:
— Verteidigungsministerin
— Armeechef
— Chef des Nachrichtendienstes

https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/naechster-knall-im-vbs-armeechef-suessli-und-der-chef-des-nachrichtendienstes-haben-gekuendigt-ld.1872672

Guten Morgen aus Manila 🇵🇭, wo mein Wahlabend erst beginnt:

Dienstags ist Briefing-Tag bei DNIP.ch:

https://dnip.ch/2025/01/21/dnip-briefing-9-gefaehrliche-machtspiele/

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