David Bauer

@davidbauer.ch

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A curious generalist who loves making things. 👋 https://www.davidbauer.ch 📨 https://www.weeklyfilet.com 🧯 https://www.republik.ch/challenge-accepted 🕹️ https://www.youdontknowafrica.com 🤔 https://www.dataguessr.com 📚 https://www.davidbauer.ch/bookshelf

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Screenshot of the newsletter header. On top, the logo that reads Weekly Filet. Below the title: Fuck hope. What's the strategy? and a subtitle: Also, the world is turned upside down. (#551)
Dataguessr Update your knowledge of the world. One quiz at a time. With an arrow, the word "warming" is added before "world". The word Dataguessr uses the warming stripes that illustrate warming global temperatures over time as background. At the bottom, a button saying "Start now"
Stylised screenshot of davidbauer.ch website showcasing eight digital tools in a grid layout. Featured projects include: Dataguessr, a playful way to update your knowledge of the world. How I Use AI, a collection of use cases, ready to use and adapt. You Don't Know Africa, a simple game that has already humbled millions of people. Choose Impact, an online tool to compare job opportunities. Priority Compass, a tool to focus your energy on what really matters. Climate Questions, a playful conversation starter. And One Minute Challenge, a little meaningful distraction to refocus. Each tool is displayed as a card with preview images and brief descriptions.
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Viel wird zur Zeit gestritten über die Frage, ob und wie wir sprachlich verschiedene Geschlechtsidentitäten adressieren sollen. Mir scheint es schlicht eine altmodische Geste der Höflichkeit, Menschen so anzusprechen, wie sie angesprochen werden möchten. Das verlangt mitunter, von bislang üblichen Sprech- und Schreibweisen abzuweichen. Das ist nicht immer leicht. Ich probiere es vorläufig mit einem Doppelpunkt und will neben männlichen und weiblichen Personen auch nicht-binäre mit ansprechen. Ich vermute, wir werden verschiedene schriftliche und mündliche Formen ausprobieren - manche als verletzend, manche als unpraktisch wieder verwerfen. Und uns nach und nach auf etwas verständigen, das den Test des Alltags besteht. Bis dahin werden wir stottern oder holpern - aber das tue ich sonst im Leben auch. Der letzte Satz ist gelb hervorgehoben.
Bar chart with the title «Solar and wind sloooooowly push out fossil energy» comparing electricity generation changes from H1 2024 to H1 2025 across five regions. Worldwide: demand rose 369 TWh, solar and wind grew 403 TWh, while hydro fell 42 TWh and fossil fuels dropped 27 TWh. China: demand up 198 TWh, solar and wind up 247 TWh, fossil fuels down 58 TWh. United States: demand up 76 TWh, solar and wind up 49 TWh, fossil fuels up 18 TWh. European Union: demand up 9 TWh, solar and wind up 16 TWh, hydro down 33 TWh, fossil fuels up 25 TWh. India: demand up 12 TWh, solar and wind up 28 TWh, fossil fuels down 29 TWh. Source: EMBER Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Screenshot of a social media post reshare dialog. Top shows “Recently Spread by Bob Mertz and 1 others. Choose to Respread?” with profile avatars. Below displays an article preview from The New Yorker titled “The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department” by Zach Helfand, featuring an illustration of three figures running along a curved blue path. Article subtitle reads “Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.” Orange “Respread” button appears at bottom.
Screenshot from a Figjam with a message that reads: Enjoy FigJam for up to 3 days while waiting for admin review.
Productivity tip chart showing shortcut urls to instantly create new files in the browser. Row-by-row listing: doc.new creates Google doc, sheet.new creates Google sheet, meet.new creates Google video call, canva.new creates Canva design, invoice.new creates Stripe invoice, figma.new creates Figma file, zap.new creates Zapier zap, linear.new creates Linear issue, miro.new creates Miro board, transfer.new creates Wise money transfer. Simple white background with black text in monospace font.
A push message from Booking.com after booking an accommodation, saying: Accommodation in Rossinière... Next step: search and compare thousands of flights to Rossinière.
SRG wirbt für sich bei den Privaten Im Sinne einer Quersubventionierung oder unkonventionellen Medienförderung wird die SRG die Mittel für Online-Marketing in Zukunft vor allem auf den Plattformen der privaten Schweizer Medienhäuser investieren und nicht mehr auf den internationalen Tech-Plattformen. Damit werde «ein wichtiges Zeichen zur Stärkung des Werbemarkts Schweiz» gesetzt, heisst es.
A table titled "What's changed since the toll began?" displaying impacts of congestion pricing in what appears to be New York City. The table shows traffic-related metrics with their status indicators. Positive outcomes include: fewer cars on streets, faster traffic speeds and commutes, improved bus service, increased transit ridership, more taxi/Citi Bike trips, reduced car crash injuries, fewer parking violations and noise complaints, slightly improved fire response times, and fewer school bus delays. Some metrics show neutral results (traffic outside the zone "Not worse," restaurants/Broadway "Holding up") while others remain inconclusive ("Pollution" and "Lower-income commuters" both "Too soon to say"). Public opinion is listed as "Not great, but improving." The data presents a comprehensive overview of congestion pricing effects across multiple transportation and quality-of-life indicators. (Note: This Alt-Text was auto-generated using Claude 3.7)
Two area charts comparing global power generation (in TWh) and emissions (in MtCO2) from 2000-2024. Left graph shows stacked area chart of electricity sources with coal (black) at bottom, followed by gas (gray), other fossil fuels, nuclear (dark blue), hydro (blue), other clean energy (light blue), wind (dark green), and solar (light green) at top. Total generation increased from ~15,000 TWh in 2000 to ~30,000 TWh by 2024, with renewables growing significantly in later years. Right graph shows emissions rising from ~8,000 MtCO2 in 2000 to ~14,000 MtCO2 by 2024. Source: Yearly electricity data, Ember.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. By Jeffrey Goldberg
Chart titled "Global temperature anomalies by El Niño and La Niña conditions" showing temperature differences from 1950-2025 compared to 1991-2020 average. The line graph tracks world temperature anomalies in degrees Celsius (-1°C to +1°C), color-coded by: strong La Niña (dark blue), La Niña (light blue), Neutral (gray), El Niño (orange), and Strong El Niño (red). Overall, temperatures are trending up, with recent La Niña lows higher than earlier El Niño highs. Key definitions of El Niño and La Niña included below graph. Data sources: Copernicus Climate Change Service and NOAA (2025). Credit: OurWorldInData.org/climate-change (CC BY).
Screenshot of a conversation with Claude. David: thanks a lot, you've been very helpful (do you actually like compliments even though you're just a LLM Claude: Ha! You're right to question that - I try to be direct about being an AI and don't need or experience validation from compliments. But I do genuinely aim to be helpful, so I'm glad the solution worked for you. Your question is an interesting philosophical one though - while I don't "feel" anything about compliments, I think there's value in humans maintaining their natural social instincts like expressing gratitude, even with AI. It helps preserve those positive social habits for human-to-human interactions. For what it's worth - given your expertise in journalism and product management (from your preferences), I appreciate you taking a critical lens to the nature of our interaction!
Bar chart showing number of living languages spoken as first languages across 10 countries. Papua New Guinea leads with 840 languages, followed by Indonesia (710), Nigeria (530), India (453), China (306), Mexico (293), Cameroon (279), US (236), Australia (224), and Brazil (222). Living language defined as having at least one person speaker using it as their first language. Data from SIL International (2024). Chart by Our World in Data under CC BY license.
Horizontal bar chart showing lives saved globally by different childhood vaccinations between 1974-2024. Measles vaccination saved the most lives (93.71 million), followed by tetanus (27.95 million) and whooping cough (13.17 million). Total lives saved across all vaccines: 153.84 million. Chart includes data for 13 diseases, ranging from tuberculosis (10.87 million) to Neisseria meningitidis A (2,000). Source: Shattock et al. (2024), published by Our World in Data (CC BY license).
Line graph shows vaccination rates among U.S. kindergartners for measles, polio, and whooping cough from school years 2011-12 to 2023-24. All three diseases tracked closely between 94-95% vaccination rates until 2019-20, around the federal measles target of 95%. After 2019-20, rates declined to below 93% for all three diseases, falling well below the federal target of 95%. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
If you were the main character in a movie of your life, what would the audience be screaming at you to do right now?
Line chart showing the percentage of new cars sold that are electric (including both battery-electric and plug-in hybrids) from 2010 to 2023 across different regions. Norway leads at 93% in 2023, followed by China at 38%, Switzerland at 30%, European Union at 22%, and United States at 10%. World average is at 18%. Data source: International Energy Agency, Global EV Outlook 2024, via OurWorldInData.org
Teaser eines Artikels, bei dem Teile des Titels und des Leads geschwärzt sind. Alle dürfen sehen, wie der ████ ████, ausser der hat was zu verbergen Im Grundsatz müssen die Behörden jedes ████ offen­legen, das ██████ ███ ███. Doch wollen sie das nicht, ████████, um sich aus der ██████ zu ziehen. Von Basil ████, 17.12.2024
Today, we’re launching a new essay format on Every: Extendable Articles. Extendable Articles include a chat bot that lets you talk to the content that you’re reading. But there’s a twist: In an Extendable Article, we make available all of the source material—original interview recordings and transcripts, YouTube videos, news stories, articles, and more—that the writer used to put the piece together. So you don’t just get the writer’s perspective—you can chat with all of the information they used to inform it. The last sentence is highlighted in the screenshot.
Newsroom planning goes silo-free “The key is inviting everyone who touches a story from beginning to end to be a part of the conversation.” Kendall Trammell, Senior Producer, CNN Digital
A horizontal bar chart titled "Number of lives saved by childhood vaccinations since 1974" shows the impact of various vaccines. Measles vaccination leads with 94 million lives saved, shown in orange. Following in blue bars are Tetanus (28 million), Whooping cough (13 million), and Tuberculosis (11 million). Smaller impacts are shown for diseases like Haemophilus influenzae type B (2.8 million), Streptococcus pneumoniae and Polio (both 1.6 million). The chart continues with progressively smaller numbers for Yellow fever (550,000), Hepatitis B (460,000), down to Neisseria meningitidis A (2,000). The data source is attributed to Shattock et al. (2024) and published by OurWorldInData.org under CC BY license.
I've seen a a really good explanation of how big 52! actually is. Set a timer to count down 52! seconds (that's 8.0658x1067 seconds) Stand on the equator, and take a step forward every billion years When you've circled the earth once, take a drop of water from the Pacific Ocean, and keep going When the Pacific Ocean is empty, lay a sheet of paper down, refill the ocean and carry on. When your stack of paper reaches the sun, take a look at the timer. The 3 left-most digits won't have changed. 8.063x1067 seconds left to go. You have to repeat the whole process 1000 times to get 1/3 of the way through that time. 5.385x1067 seconds left to go. So to kill that time you try something else. Shuffle a deck of cards, deal yourself 5 cards every billion years Each time you get a royal flush, buy a lottery ticket Each time that ticket wins the jackpot, throw a grain of sand in the grand canyon When the grand canyon's full, take 1oz of rock off Mount Everest, empty the canyon and carry on. When Everest has been levelled, check the timer. There's barely any change. 5.364x1067 seconds left. You'd have to repeat this process 256 times to have run out the timer.
Screenshot of the Instagram editor for posting images. Music suggestions have taken the prominent spot where filters used to be, which is highlighted with an arrow pointing to it.
A ranking chart titled 'Who is leading in climate action' showing country scores from the Climate Change Performance Index 2025. The chart explains that overall scores are calculated from four categories: greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use and climate policy. The first three ranks are deliberately left empty, with a note stating 'no country is doing enough to prevent dangerous climate change.' Denmark leads at rank 4 with 78 points, followed by Netherlands (70) and United Kingdom (69). The list continues through several European and other nations, with Switzerland shown highlighted in red at rank 33 with 56 points. Each country is shown with its flag, score, and a small triangle indicating rank change (▲ for improvement, ▼ for decline) with the number of positions changed. The ranking deliberately leaves ranks 1 to 3 empty, as «no country is doing enough to prevent dangerous climate change.»
I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will. – Cory Doctorow
The World Coal Association has rebranded itself as “FutureCoal: The Global Alliance for Sustainable Coal,” Chief Executive Officer Michelle Manook said at a press conference in Delhi. “For too long our global coal value chain has allowed anti-coal sentiment to dominate and fragment us,” Manook said in a statement. That’s “resulted in a lowering of the global coal IQ,” which the group defines as an understanding of coal’s contribution to society.
Climate Action GPT Your personal guide to making a difference in the climate crisis By David Bauer