#FolkloreMoment When a folk tale is called "The Death of the Seven Dwarves", then you know it's going to be good.
Basically, a farmer's girl lost her way in the forest and stumbled across a hut inhabited by seven dwarves. She asked them for a place to stay for the night, and received it (after the dwarves argued about who would get the honor of giving up his bed for the girl).
A short term later, a farmer woman arrived. When the girl opened the door and explained that there was no more space, the farmer woman suspected her of being the lover of all seven dwarves, called her a wanton woman, and then fetched two men who killed the dwarves, buried the corpses in the dwarves' garden, and burned down the hut (the girl, however, had managed to escape).
Almost 100 Swiss-made Leopard 1 tanks are being stored out in the open in Italy following Switzerland's refusal to allow their transfer to Ukraine, Swiss public broadcasting organization RSI reported on Aug. 26.
A comedian in #Switzerland says he asked #AI to generate a trailer for the 1937 musical drama 'Heidi.' You'll laugh or cry or both watching it. https://youtu.be/0A2-Af5JEWU
🧵 I'm browsing 'Zivilverteidigung,' the Swiss national defence book from 1969.
The Swiss took their nuclear defence very seriously. Many buildings (my own included) are still built today with nuclear bunkers in the cellars.
The UK's own 'Protect & Survive' booklet was 30 pages, whereas, the Swiss 'Zivilverteidigung' is 320 pages.
Great graphic design, too. Here's a thread of random images. #coldwar#switzerland#graphicdesign#illustration
#FolkloreMoment : A group of children once encountered a "fiery man" next to a boundary stone, and only one boy recognized him as his dead godfather.
Thus, it was determined that the boy should help save the ghost. He was given blessed items as well as a hoe and a spade, and was told to give the latter to the ghost when he was mucking around the boundary stone.
The ghost took them, and used them to move the boundary stone to its original location from where he had wrongly taken it from in life.
Then the ghost exclaimed: "Now I am saved! In exchange, you too shall enter Heaven in three days!"
"More than 60,000 protesters gathered in the Swiss capital #Bern on Saturday demanding tougher policies to combat #ClimateChange, organisers said, less than a month ahead of a national election.
Such large protests are rare in #Switzerland and show growing public frustration with the pace of policy-making to combat #GlobalWarming despite ample evidence of its impact."
The location of your data cannot guarantee freedom from #surveillance. 📷
#Switzerland has long been treated as a safe haven for your #data, but the Swiss government actively works with the EU and US by sharing data with #law enforcement and #intelligence agencies. 🚨
At this point, it seems the Swiss (federal and apparently canton, police in particular) approach to cybersecurity is to have everything and all data hacked and available on the darknet. This will make any future investment in this space superfluous since there’s nothing to hack that’s not already known.
Has anyone any idea, what species just inspected our patio?
Somehow it doesn't look like a domestic cat to me, and not just because of the stubby tail... #CatsOfMastodon#Cats#Switzerland
1/ Read this report on Swiss / Russian #oil#trading:
In #Switzerland, a key hub for oil trading, many traditional players have pulled out of the market only to be replaced by opaque, “pop up” traders whose buying and selling activity is uncannily similar to some firms based in the Alpine nation. It's almost impossible to track who is behind these new traders and whether Swiss nationals and companies are involved.
3 fmr #UnitedStates foreign policy ofcls in Trump's admin met w/ Benjamin Netanyahu & other public figures in #Israel on Mon….
The delegation was comprised of Robert O'Brien, who served as Trump's 4th & final #NationalSecurity adviser, as well as fmr Ambassador to the #UAE John Rakolta & fmr Ambassador to #Switzerland Ed McMullen….
Good morning from Switzerland. A bit damp and moody in interlaken today, though picturesque.
Later today I'll be boarding the GoldenPass Express to Montreux, then joining an international media tour that's exploring the country's lesser-known scenic rail routes.
I'll be writing about the highlights for my patrons at my Patreon, so feel free to join the gang and enjoy: https://www.patreon.com/timrichards
If you happen to be in Basel from June 10-16 for Art Basel, you can snap up one of 20 unique prints of my C-SCAPE endlessly evolving muti-cellulluar automata collection at The Digital Art Mile @ Space31, Rebgasse 31.
Just find the Generative Art kiosk organized & hosted by the fxhash team. The kiosk features a huge 86" screen showcasing realtime versions of generative art projects and single edition prints by 16 artists.
A small preview selection of C-SCAPE prints (30x30cm, 400g paper, high resolution) on offer (without watermark, of course)...
Media: Nearly 100 Leopard 1 tanks stored in the open as Switzerland rejects transfer to Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Almost 100 Swiss-made Leopard 1 tanks are being stored out in the open in Italy following Switzerland's refusal to allow their transfer to Ukraine, Swiss public broadcasting organization RSI reported on Aug. 26.