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Johannes Ernst

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 6h
Always nice to see your code working, even if it is a trivial gimmick: the hourglass countdown to next week's FediForum now has most of the sand in the bottom glass. Live: fediforum.org
Screenshot from fediforum.org
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 29/09/2026
Silicon Valley.
Photo of a number plate with text “tar zxf”
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 29/09/2026
Invest in us, invest in us, so we have the money we need to further increase the risk to wipe out humanity!
cnn.com
Anthropic says its AI models pose ‘existential risk to humanity’ in leaked IPO filing: report | CNN Business
Anthropic says its AI models could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity” and can “resist shutdown,” according to an initial public offering prospectus obtained by Reuters.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 28/09/2026
And we thought Meta was a social media company.
about.fb.com
Launching Meta Enterprise Platform
Today we are starting Meta Enterprise Platform to help businesses use AI to grow, and Chirantan "CJ" Desai will join Meta as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 28/09/2026
It's the time before #FediForum when I wish I was merely an attendee, not an organizer. As an attendee, I would run soo many sessions, because there are soo many things I want to discuss and brainstorm with you all, and make progress on. But...
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 22/09/2026
One of these days a major company is going to go under because the amount of vibe-coded code they have is so unsurmountable and unmaintainable, business comes to a full stop. Who is with me on this? #AI #vibecoding
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 20/09/2026
Looking at election results in Germany, I’m quite bewildered. First, the magnitude of changes in party support. 50%+ increase and decrease for some parties in one election cycle? Does this ever happen, anywhere? How? And today is the second time in which that happened recently.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 17/09/2026
✅ Flu shot. ✅ COVID shot.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 15/09/2026
Amazon is giving up on their data center that was attacked in the Middle East. health.aws.amazon.co...
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 14/09/2026
Now the gods are just messing with us.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 13/09/2026
NoKings is back October 17. On a public street near you. See you then? www.nokings.org #NoKings
nokings.org
No Kings
For more than a year, millions of people have come together to send a clear message: in America, we have no kings. Power doesn't belong to billionaires, strongmen, or politicians who think they're above accountability — it belongs to the people, but only if we use it.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 12/09/2026
The threat landscape appears to have fundamentally changed.
united24media.com
Russia Weaponized Claude AI to Spy on Ukraine and Europe
Russian hackers, linked to Midnight Blizzard, used Anthropic Claude AI for cyberespionage targeting over 20 Ukrainian organizations and defense firms.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 09/09/2026
Detailed, thought out and very scary. www.4hunger.org/p/hunger-for...
4hunger.org
Hunger Foretold: The Coming 2027 Hunger and the Free Public Maps, Research and Reports That Are Predicting It
Every impact of the coming hunger and prediction of where El Niño will do the most harm is already being reported by government scientists, in public, on a schedule that you can follow.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 02/09/2026
This is deeply disturbing, on so many levels. www.dwarkesh.com/p/o... #openai #huggingface
dwarkesh.com
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 02/09/2026
So Meta's Threads apparently has a feature called "Black Threads" now. I'll eat my hat if that wasn't "inspired" by @rude1.blacksky.team's Blacksky in some fashion. www.threads.com/sear...
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 31/08/2026
Another set of large companies get extra rules and scrutiny by the EU.
engadget.com
ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules - Engadget
ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 31/08/2026
The first real exception to the seemingly unstoppable march of age verification laws. At least that I have seen.
tomshardware.com
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 27/08/2026
"... alleged that Meta estimated hiding like counts [for teens] would reduce its advertising revenue by 1 percent and then declined to make the setting the default."
platformer.news
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
Will significant changes to Facebook and Instagram be enough to beat back a global wave of bans?
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 26/08/2026
$18 billion! Some of this money should go to fund better alternatives.
cnn.com
Meta settles landmark state child harm claims for $18 billion and promises changes to its platforms | CNN Business
Meta said Wednesday it has agreed to pay about $18 billion as part of a settlement to resolve a multistate lawsuit claiming that it intentionally designed addictive platforms that harmed young people’s mental health.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 21/08/2026
For those of you in Bluesky / ATProto land who would like to know what is going on with standardization around the #ActivityPub stack, you can now follow the W3C' Social Web Community Group at @socialcg.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy , thanks to #bridgyfed!
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 20/08/2026
So if I understand this correctly, Bluesky is essentially giving each community its own (simplified) version of an ATProto network with a simplified protocol in what they call "Atproto Spaces" atproto.com/blog/atp.... "You can think of an atproto space as a miniature atproto network"
atproto.com
The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live - AT Protocol
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 18/08/2026
Rabble is having fun! Divine is clearly wanting to be a mainstream social media product (Taco Bell!) but still avoid the negative parts of commercial media!
about.divine.video
Divine and Taco Bell bring back joyscrolling
Divine isn’t the only one bringing back joyscrolling! We’ve partnered with Taco Bell for its annual Decades campaign to celebrate 2016 nostalgia with its four icon menu items to the classic Vines that defined an era. 😇 Read more about our collaboration with Taco Bell.Still not on Divine? 😇 Download our app, link in bio. 🔑 Use this code to make an account: TACO-BELL 🎥 Start creating!
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 17/08/2026
The fact that this gigantic lawsuit exists and all the attention that will be paid to it ($200 billion in damages! Maybe over a trillion if Meta is right!) represents an amazing promotion opportunity for all of us working on better forms of interacting online than closed social media platforms. 1/5
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 17/08/2026
It would be worthwhile to go through the Meta charges in this mammoth lawsuit one charge at a time and determine where various open social web projects stand in comparison. And if we do well — which I hope — use that to promote what we do as better alternative.
cnbc.com
Meta faces ‘astronomical’ consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment in California
Meta faces a federal trial over child safety claims that could bring major financial penalties and changes to Facebook and Instagram.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 14/08/2026
hamiltonnolan.com
Corporate Power Approaches Escape Velocity
A failed Tesla strike in Sweden is a flashing warning light.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 12/08/2026
If you have an interest in Silicon Valley beyond the tech, this is totally fascinating. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/029b...
storymaps.arcgis.com
Watching Our Watersheds (WOW) Historic Santa Clara Valley
A project to map the creeks, urban drainage network, watersheds, baylands, and points of interest in Santa Clara Valley.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 11/08/2026
www.euractiv.com/opinion/dism...
euractiv.com
Dismantling Big Tech supremacy, one interoperability at a time | Euractiv
Breaking the monolith matters as much as building alongside it – because a monolith traps, attracts, and exerts a magnetic pull
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 11/08/2026
Brought to you by the same people who brought back measles. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/t...
cnbc.com
Trump signs executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines, falsely linking shots to autism
The order builds on the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the childhood shot schedule under HHS Secretary RFK Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 10/08/2026
Mark Zuckerberg writes: "Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes." Count me speechless.
meta.com
The Future is for Everyone
Read Mark Zuckerberg’s piece on our values for building superintelligence for everyone.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 08/08/2026
What will happen when Trump realizes he / the US is now subject of blackmail by the Iran regime forever due to the mess he got us all in? Because I don’t think he realizes this yet and nobody has had the guts to tell him.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 06/08/2026
Hey @toni.bsky.team, consider activating Bridgy Fed on your account so Mastodon / Threads / ... users can also follow you? Howto: fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky...
fed.brid.gy
Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 06/08/2026
"An airport employee noticed the drone... He got the drone to crash from the air into the ground by [wait for it] kicking it with his foot." In a Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan movie we would consider this non-credible. www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
mdr.de
Antonow-Maschinen in Leipzig ohne Munition an Bord – Bundesanwaltschaft ermittelt
Sachsens Innenminister Armin Schuster hat der Darstellung widersprochen, dass eine der Antonow-Maschinen auf dem Flughafen Leipzig, neben denen eine Sprengstoff-Drohne sichergestellt wurde, mit Muniti...
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 03/08/2026
Interesting interview with new Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider by The Verge.
theverge.com
Bluesky’s new CEO wants to grow it all
Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 30/07/2026
Our government has a perfect score! Of misplacing countries!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 23/07/2026
I'm attempting to figure out what exactly France is banning for minors. Facebook etc? Mastodon? Bluesky? Forums? ...? I found the legal text www.assemblee-nation... but it references a bunch of definitions in other places which I've failed to find so far. Doesn't help I don't speak French. Help?
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 23/07/2026
My (single) slide from the panel at the EU office in San Francisco yesterday. It must have resonated because the other panelists also kept referring to it in their remarks!
Graphic. Left column: "From: centralized, autocratically governed, global-scale social media platforms" showing a prototypical but unnamed commercial social media platform with lots of users. 1 platform for the world, 1 approach to T&S, 1 leader in charge, 1 economic model (ads.
Right column: "Towards: locally run and governed, connected communities on the Open Social Web.." showing a federation with nodes with some random Fediverse and ATmosphere logos, with local communities around each of them. Thousands, millions of communities, T&S / governance / economic models by and as appropriate for the community. List of some key enables, and some term definitions.
And if you read it this far, I'm glad I took the time :-)
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 22/07/2026
Made a slide. Collected some thoughts. Have handouts. Seems I’m ready to talk to the policy people at the San Francisco office of the European Commission tonight about …
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FediForum Connect @connect.fediforum.org · 21/07/2026
Did you know you could share your 3D print files not just on closed sites, but on the open social web, so your friends can see what you created: 3dprint.social is for organising, publishing and sharing your 3D print files. Curated by FediForum Connect. connect.fediforum.or...
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 14/07/2026
Question for you all. As you probably know, at FediForum we operate connect.fediforum.org, which showcases products/services/projects on the open social web. We post about them from Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. But: ...
connect.fediforum.org
FediForum Connect | Curated product and service directory for the Open Social Web
Product and service listings for the Open Social Web supporting decentralized protocols such as ActivityPub and ATProtocol
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 12/07/2026
“Bad” is far too mild a word. 3.6 standard deviations!! climatecasino.substack.com/p/some-monst...
climatecasino.substack.com
Some Monsters are Real
What's coming has never been seen before in the history of modern global industrial civilization ... and it's just getting started.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 10/07/2026
"...and adjust its recommendation algorithm to make it “less engagement oriented,”". ie they ordered them to not optimize for revenue. I'm sure that will work.
nytimes.com
Meta Ordered by E.U. to Alter ‘Addictive Design’ of Instagram and Facebook
European Union authorities said the company’s use of “addictive design” violated a digital safety law.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 10/07/2026
If you aren’t enraging people enough yourself … don’t fret, there is a software platform!
irishtimes.com
AI software that generates ‘rage bait’ developed by Germany’s far-right AfD
Alternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 09/07/2026
This is really interesting because it is a clearly better form of "social media" (in the wider sense) than what the commercial platforms do. And what we've been copying in our communities. Of course it only supports a very narrow use case, but 300,000 users!!
techcrunch.com
'Slow-cial' app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon | TechCrunch
This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 07/07/2026
I'll be on a panel discussing the future of social media from a European policy angle on the 22nd at the European Union's San Francisco office, with some distinguished other panelists. www.eventbrite.com/e... It's open to the public, but registration required. Say Hi if you are coming.
eventbrite.com
The Future of Human-Centred Social Media: T&S and policy perspectives Tickets, Wednesday, July 22  •  5:30 PM - 7 PM | Eventbrite
Eventbrite - European Union Delegation presents The Future of Human-Centred Social Media: T&S and policy perspectives - Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at Office of the European Union, San Francisco, CA. Find event and ticket information.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 03/07/2026
cnbc.com
Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine
In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android's mobile dominance.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 01/07/2026
This is kind of terrifying. If you are a politician on social media, this is two desserts with one easy setup: save time, and be more appealing. What's not to like? If you are the public, ... you basically end up voting for a chatbot because that's all you ever heard from?
404media.co
Scientists Asked AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning
Researchers discovered that people found AI impersonators to be more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real politicians, raising alarm bells around the potential for public deception.
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 30/06/2026
Oh right, as a side effect of a recent US supreme court ruling, the bilateral data agreements seem to be impossible going forward. And cannot be fixed because the ruling is on a constitutional level. What next?
linkedin.com
US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers | Max Schrems | 45 comments
🚨 #GDPR / #SchremsIII: The US #SupremeCourt has declared all independent authorities in the US unconstitutional. The EU constitutional system requires an "independent" supervisory authority. The Supreme Court decision now makes EU and US law incompatible even on a constitutional level - meaning far beyond the end of the Trump administration. We today asked the European Commission / Michael McGrath to prepare an orderly exit from the EU-US deal, but also prepare a "Schrems III". More details: https://lnkd.in/dSsExiyr | 45 comments on LinkedIn
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 30/06/2026
To be able to post from my new account at Johannes Ernst, I need to go through W Social/W Identity verification. That apparently requires me to: * Agree that either my legal name, or my birth year and nationality are publicly displayed. * Provide them with photo of my passport and myself. 1/2
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 30/06/2026
Good morning @j12t.wsocial.eu, nice to meet myself again.
j12t.wsocial.eu
https://j12t.wsocial.eu
This is an AT Protocol Personal Data Server hosted in Europe by WSocial.eu
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.org · 29/06/2026
Today’s additional job title: castle tower builder. Well, castle tower build machine overseer.
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