Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺. • tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns • https://berjon.com/ • DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal • ex W3C, NYT • he/him/Ishmael • Signal robin.77
28:25 👉 "Why should European MEPs pay attention to what is happening here?" 39:30 👉 "I want all of you to get prepared because we are actually going to have to rebuild large parts of the internet. I am not joking."
Robin BerjonWe had a good time speaking at @localfirstconf.com with Eileen, @pfrazee.com, @bmann.ca, and Zenna. Check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjG_...
Genuinely don't think we're hearing nearly enough about the effective youth/GenZ protest movements in middle and lower-middle income countries in the past couple of years foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/30/c...
How Gen Z ‘Cockroaches’ Beat Modi at His Own GameIndia’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.foreignpolicy.com
Germany is not going to make it.
Finbarr BerminghamGerman economy minister Reiche's answer to Chinese EV competition is to weaken vehicle emissions rules. What decade does she live in? Reiche: "It is important that Brussels now delivers on making fleet regulation flexible enough to ensure that no fines are imposed"
Flashes has a web app now (which you can actually use as a PWA until the Android app ships)
Flashes App 🌩️Flashes is now on the web: https://app.flashes.blue Browse feeds, post photos and video, watch stories, check DMs — in any browser, with the Bluesky/Eurosky/Atmosphere account you already have. This is version one. More is coming, and the Feedback link in the sidebar decides what. #news
Recommended by doctors. Approved by all spiritual leaders. Resets the nervous system. Realigns your chakras. Lowers cortisol.* Brings enlightenment in under 30 seconds. *Probably Namaste. 🕊️ youtu.be/za_urEQhuRc?...
Quelle est la philosophie du projet Eurosky ? Pourquoi passer par l'Atmosphère (l'écosystème autour de Bluesky) plutôt que par le Fédivers (celui autour de Mastodon) ? Dans @next.ink, j'en discute avec @robin.berjon.com (et un peu @renchap.oisaur.com) : next.ink/249061/souve...
Souveraineté numérique : qu’est-ce qu’Eurosky, ce projet de web social européen ?Quelle est la philosophie d’Eurosky, ce service qui fournit un nom d’utilisateur réutilisable sur divers réseaux sociaux et applications de l’écosystème…next.ink
I'm on a slow and steady mission to read a book from every country in the world. Here's the mega thread 2.0 where I'll post each new book as I read them. Happy adventures bookworms! #ReadTheWorld
This isn't news, but it's still a shocking sign of what Elon Musk has done to the platform formerly know as Twitter 2 identical posts 2x as many followers on X as on Bsky 100x more engagement on Bsky than on X
-"Je ne peux pas quitter X. C'est là que sont tous mes followers. Il n'y a personne sur Bluesky... -Regarde un peu les chiffres au lieu de dire des bêtises."
Simon EvansThis isn't news, but it's still a shocking sign of what Elon Musk has done to the platform formerly know as Twitter 2 identical posts 2x as many followers on X as on Bsky 100x more engagement on Bsky than on X
We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies. “Our main failure isn’t a technical one. It’s that we have yet to revise our thinking about lighting at night. We use LED technology just as we did the old sources of light.” [spectrum.ieee.org]
We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night SkiesBad decisions have turned efficient technology into a driver of light pollution. There is a better wayspectrum.ieee.org
academic publishing: hold my beer
Marie 🇨🇦⚜️The people in the music industry consistently say “wait, what the fuck” when they find out how some parts of the publishing industry works, and I feel like this isn’t acknowledged enough Like yeah, all corporations suck, but publishing has a particular flavour of sucking
The worst part of conferences at Hiltons is when someone's huge golf club bag is blocking the urinals
I dream of a cross protocols effort to define interoperable distributed groups/communities with role-based membership rather than acls, and ocaps/concaps/zcaps/ucans/etc for qttached services and extensibility. In my mind this would be the baseline for collective agency to rebuild computing around.
