Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
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
This is going to be a slow burn story that gets people more and more angry the more they hear about it. Some asshole billionaires are blowing holes in the Moon, a thing everyone loves.
There are so many business models and uses for 3p app stores: protocols, curation for kids, curation for niche tastes, a way to distribute news to benefit newspapers, new tech ideas, nonprofit certifications like low carbon footprint, etc!
Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 9h agoThis aligns with another thing I've been thinking about (but perhaps harder): in the EU, you can now have alternate app stores on your phone. What if we had on-protocol app stores? @trezy.codes covers a lot of the bits below, content moderation handles safety, social graph recommendations. Neat?
This aligns with another thing I've been thinking about (but perhaps harder): in the EU, you can now have alternate app stores on your phone. What if we had on-protocol app stores? @trezy.codes covers a lot of the bits below, content moderation handles safety, social graph recommendations. Neat?
Trezy@trezy.codes · 22h agoHere's the short version: - Creator uploads work somewhere - Creator makes a space that contains access to the work - User purchases the work thru a storefront - User is added to the space with access to the work - User copies work into their own space (e.g. their library)
Just installed the Zemble plugin for Zotero. To test it, I shared some literature linked to the "Democracy at work" report we wrote for the Spanish government. Literally one click in Zotero. @semble.so is going places. #atproto #atprotoscience See here: semble.so/profile/benb...
𝕮@chrisshank.com · 3w agoJust released an early preview of Zemble, a @zotero.org plugin for @semble.so! - Augment you Zotero library with all of the activity happening on Semble/Atmosphere. - Easily save and view items in Zotero on Semble. - Publish Zotero collections as Semble collections.
If you switch to using @mu.social to access Bluesky (which is easy, just go there and log in with your Bluesky account), you can have an edit button right now.
Le meme conseil régional qui a sucré une aide d’1.5 millions d’euros aux pompiers franciliens pas plus tard qu’il y a deux ans ? 🤨🤨
Libération@liberation.fr · yesterdayLe conseil régional dirigé par Valérie Pécresse s’estime directement touché par les incendies qui ont ravagé environ 2 000 hectares du massif forestier, soit 10 % de sa surface totale. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/r0J
Many EU leaders are collapsing under a moment’s pressure on Ceuta but the hypocrisy of Meloni is particularly sickening. All those demands that Europe help Italy out on Lampedusa, and no-one asked for Italy to be excluded from Schengen. But as soon as a Social Democrat faces problems….
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 Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 2d agoWe 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 Game
India’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.
foreignpolicy.com
The only sane tab behaviour is open to the right of current and close to immediate left. It means that open+close returns you to where you were and the only option that keeps large volume manageable. That it's not in common use shows how much cargo-culting goes into UI design.
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · last wk.I'm trying floorp & for an inveterate tab-multiplier like me 2 problems keep sending me back to chrome: there's not "new tab to the right" function (that I've found), meaning new tabs send me off to casa del carajo; and the tab icons don't squinch into tinier & tinier forms as I add to them. recs?
So let's talk about immigration instead.
Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 2d ago"The Rhine has never been so low"
So let's talk about immigration instead.
Teresa Ribera@teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 3d agoGlobal heating made hot, dry and windy weather at least 20 times more likely in Spain and twice as likely in France, according to the World Weather Attribution consortium. Blame on the heating caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal. Climate change threats. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Flashes has a web app now (which you can actually use as a PWA until the Android app ships)
Flashes App 🌩️@flashes.blue · 7d agoFlashes 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
"Bellingcat (…) published the walkthrough under the headline Who to Trust, Google or the Russian MoD? In 2015 that was a rhetorical question." www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
digitaldigging.org
Massive heat wave, thousands dead, one of the worst fire seasons on record: 🦗🦗🦗. Morocco playing games amplified by Russian propaganda: 20 EU heads of state write outraged letters. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 This is how you lose a hybrid conflict.
Alice Stollmeyer@stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 4d agoUkraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
We 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_...
Eileen Wagner,Robin Berjon,Paul Frazee,Boris Mann,Zenna Fiscella — Data Ownership Beyond Local First
YouTube video by Local-First Conf
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One thing I've been dwelling on is how computing engineering and discourse rely thoroughly on a substance ontology of information, with dumb consequences. I've just found out that @romainbrette.bsky.social, looking at the same in neuroscience, calls it "epistemic phlogiston." I'm so stealing that.
Dog Steals Pizza
Alt: Dog Steals Pizza slice
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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 Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 2w agoThis 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
Pendant qu'on y est, expulsons Bolloré au passage. www.liberation.fr/internationa...
La France ordonne une mesure d’expulsion à l’encontre de Xenia Fedorova, propagandiste russe et égérie de la bollosphère
L’ancienne patronne de RT France vit et travaille dans l’Hexagone depuis dix ans. Son avocat s’est vu remettre un arrêté ministériel d’expulsion ce mercredi 29 juillet.
liberation.fr
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 Skies
Bad decisions have turned efficient technology into a driver of light pollution. There is a better way
spectrum.ieee.org
