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‍☠️ “Hack the System – At Least a Little”: Why Precision Matters in the 21st Century

admin October 29, 2025 October 29, 2025

A journalistic and editorial assessment of the presentation by Schoresch Davoodi (Pirate Party) at the Hack the Promise Festival 2025, Basel Where does freedom end when algorithms decide? How do you hack power without taking it over? These core questions were the focus of this year’s “Hack the Promise 2025.” A highlight: the keynote speech by Schoresch Davoodi, Board Member of the Pirate Party International (PPI), who redefined the attitude of the “Hacker” – as a necessary tool for democratic resilience. From Radical Upheaval to Precision: The New Hacker Stance In his presentation, Davoodi spanned the arc from the idealised freedom myths of the turn of the millennium (from …

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After recount, Pirates winning a seat at the local council of Ostermundigen (CH)

Gregory Engels November 4, 2020 November 4, 2020

The Pirate Party of the Swiss Canton Berne has successfully appealed the official election result in the town of Ostermundigen, which has got its first pirate councilor. The elections in the town of Ostermundigen (population 17000) has faced a debacle that leaves a lot of question open. On the election day of September 29th, all went well according to the plan, and the final election results have been published right at 19:00. According to it, the Pirate Party has got only seven ballots that had not been altered by the voters (we are not going into much detail here, but the fact that voters have as many votes as there …