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Robin Berjon

@robin.berjon.com
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Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺. • tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns • DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal • ex W3C, NYT • Signal robin.77

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 08/09/2026
The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. Maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't be the worst thing if pro-democracy people stopped being ridiculously naive about social media. berjon.com/media-media/
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The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. It wouldn't be the worst thing if the pro-democracy camp stopped being naive about social media.
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Eli Mallon @iame.li · 2h
Just scanned through this and hit the sentence "If the floral arrangement of milquetoast nothingburgers were an art form, they'd be keeping it with the Mona Lisa" so we're gonna have to read this one on stream next time I do storytime
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 5h
Successful online spaces, explained.
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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 7h
Hugely excited that this now sees the light of day. Aster will not only serve science and scientists, it will help deliver #trust signals to online communities.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 7h
The social internet — for science! I'm super excited to see @aster.id launching. It's an Atmosphere service provider (like @eurosky.social) for researchers, hosted by your friends at the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social. Why does it matter? Thread time! 🧵
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 8h
We're so excited to see the arrival of Aster ID as a home for researchers on the open web and to welcome them to the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social family. Very lucky that we've been able to support their tech stack at Eurosky 💖
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David @david.athumi.eu · 9h
How can Europe build digital infrastructure that is both resilient and sovereign, without closing itself off from the world? Great to have @robin.berjon.com joining us at #Trefdag26 to explore that question, and how interoperability and open ecosystems can strengthen Europe’s digital resilience.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 16h
An open weights model wouldn't have made this mistake.
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Roomy @roomy.space · 15/09/2026
Help fund our lil indie operation! Larger legacy communities on Discord can now pay $30/month to unlock live bridging at scale for the purpose of either safe-keeping or incrementally transitioning their community to Roomy and the atmosphere. should we add a $5/month good-vibes-only supporter plan?
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Roomy Pro
Scaling sustainability as an indie company
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026
time is a flat circle
 Are Linux and Open Source Un-American?
Community
by Steve Coe
on February 21, 2001

Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows operating system chief, was quoted in an article about open source last week. I advise any Linux user to go and read it if you haven't already, as it's great comedy material.

According to the hive mind of Microsoft, open source should be made illegal. There's no way around it, this is the bottom line. Want to write your own code and release it into the community? Congratulations, come with us Sir/Madam, we have this nice little grey room for you. Don't worry about the bars on the windows, they are there for our protection in case you somehow manage to write a graphics viewer or a Perl script to terrorize the world.

Ordinarily, a mere underling like Mr. Allchin wouldn't be taken too seriously, but Microsoft speaks with one voice, and we all know who he is channeling.

As a member of the Linux and Open Source communities, I am appalled and outraged by his comments and wish to respond. The article shows Microsoft is scared. Very scared. So, will they build a better product? Nah, to hell with it, they'll just get the government to outlaw the competition.
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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 29/09/2026
Continental suicide will continue until the nazis take over and morale improves.
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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Google event in Brussels this evening “to celebrate Ireland’s Presidency” of the EU Council. “Google is delighted to bring together Irish policymakers…” rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/irish... (they have wisely now removed some of this text)
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 29/09/2026
Delighted to see the PLC org come to life, and even happier to be hosting its account on @eurosky.social!
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 29/09/2026
More tiles!
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David @david.athumi.eu · 28/09/2026
Technology knows no borders. Neither does data. At #Trefdag26, @robin.berjon.com and I will show how interoperability can help make Europe’s digital infrastructure more resilient and reduce dependencies. 22 October, 15:00–15:25, Track 3 - Flanders Expo, Ghent.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 25/09/2026
Drunk guy passed out face first in a bush: We're going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.
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Nathan Cassell @pyxorium.com · 25/09/2026
Enjoying Web Tiles! Here's a stereoscopic demo, and it's also great seeing @twinkl.social support embedding these live on your own atproto profile (via their "My Page" feature).
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Stereo Demo — at-proto Colorado
A stereoscopic (parallel / cross-eyed / anaglyph) 3D scene: the at-proto Colorado dice alongside a procedurally generated icosahedron.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 25/09/2026
When (not if) the Tech Monopolies come for the Atmosphere, can we create the institutional structures to protect what we have? Right now we're nowhere near ready. No company harmed the web more than Google, not even close, while claiming to help which many believed. What can we learn and how fast?
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Jorge Matías @yayo2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Los fachas han logrado tumbarme la cuenta original varias veces. Casi nueve mil seguidores tenía. Me escriben por NGL amenazas a diario porque saben que una de esas denuncias al final cerrará mi cuenta para siempre. Me flipa que ninguna apelación sea tenida en cuenta.
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Myles Byrne @neuroplastic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'If the floral arrangement of milquetoast nothingburgers were an art form, they'd be keeping it with the Mona Lisa.'
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 25/09/2026
Very excited to finally read this!
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 24/09/2026
I was certain I had listed Leaflet in my post yet somehow… Anyway — OF COURSE MOVE TO LEAFLET!
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La France sur Bluesky/Eurosky @france-atmosphe.re · 24/09/2026
Vous tenez un compte institutionnel et vous voulez un coup de main pour améliorer votre présence sur Bluesky ? Faites-nous signe. Notre équipe de bénévoles vous aidera dans la mesure du possible.
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DASL @dasl.ing · 24/09/2026
Hey fam! We've been shaping a governance model for DASL, pretty lightweight, in line with the project's philosophy. You know what we'd love? We'd *love* to hear from you (yes, specifically *you* right there) about what you think about it. See: dasl.ing/governance.h...
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DASL: Governance of the DASL Project
The goal of the DASL Project is to develop content-addressing primitives and the technologies that build on them, with a view towards enabling unbundled software and protocol architect...
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 24/09/2026
Hey friends, a bunch of you are still on Substack. I know it's pain in the arse, but you've got to move. I mean, is this the company you keep? Rebecca's newsletter (it's… pretty big) is on @ghost.org. Mine, granted a wee bit smaller, is on @buttondown.com. Both great, both with import tools.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 24/09/2026
This looks amazing. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Monstrous Bitch
How an ancient myth about a sexually voracious, baby-slaying, loudmouthed demoness became the defining misogynistic archetype of Western civilization
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 23/09/2026
AMSTERDAM LETS GOOO atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:3x...
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AtmosphereConf 2027
The third edition of the global gathering for the Atmosphere Community is taking place in Amsterdam, April 29th - May 2nd. This includes side-events and main conference days. Please RSVP with your i...
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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 23/09/2026
Me in the 2000s: fuck the information gatekeepers! Haha! Freedom and democracy! Me in the 2020s: can the two or three remaining information gatekeepers please do their job? Democracy is on the line.
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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unpopular opinion Histoire de France : quelqu'un qui serait capable de réciter dans l'ordre tous les rois / présidents depuis les origines, mais sans connaître l'enquête linguistique de 1863 ou les réalités qu'elle illustre, ne connaît et ne comprend en fait rien à la trajectoire historique du pays
carte tirée du livre d'E Weber sur l'enquête linguistique de 1863 montrant un grand nombre de départements non francophones (sud, ouest, est)
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Cori Crider @coricrider.com · 23/09/2026
So what was the latest wave of 'will AI kill us all' coverage really about? I went on @aljazeera.com to discuss the recent wave of AI doomsday press. TL;DR: the companies warning us lobbied hard this year to block AI safety laws. Link here jumps to the lobby discn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw3F...
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What’s really motivating these AI apocalypse stories? | The Listening Post
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 23/09/2026
related: if people really want to do Discourse on whether a strange and spooky network is 'conscious', "is mycelium conscious?" seems like a much more fun and interesting question to me
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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 23/09/2026
Willing to see a woman leading the UN
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seems like a sound basis for a law. Violating it should have major consequences. Maritime lawyers or historians, feel free to opine. Non experts can 🤐
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 22/09/2026
My deepest thanks to all of you who made me the 834th most influential person on here. I vow to use this power wisely, with the ruggedly handsome determination that you have come to expect of me.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 22/09/2026
Coole dingen onderweg! (I think I got that right...)
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026
Rorschach test for how online you are.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026
A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 22/09/2026
Mine looked like this 😂
A jumble of bad contrast and dubious collage in grey and orange shades, for the Knowscape site.
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Dominik Moritz @domoritz.de · 16/09/2026
We are trying a big experiment this year for @ieeevis.org where we will have paper discussions hosted on @atproto.com. So look out for more activity in November.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 21/09/2026
Ah, I know, the solution to this is a Kids Act that'll come into effect with no enforcement two years from now and keeping an open dialogue with our platform partners. And urgently do nothing on interoperability.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
this 💯
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...
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AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies
In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 21/09/2026
This is outstanding work from our Norwegian friends. Google's consumer-facing apps and services are intensively deceptive manipulative, systematically backstabbing users after encouraging trust (the worst of course being Google Chrome). 🧵
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A different kind of AI apocalypse
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 20/09/2026
Does anyone have a view as to whether this means that the CDU might start having positions that aren't terminally idiotic on energy, tech, immigration, and a few other things? Because that'd really help the rest of Europe who have to put up with their childish, inconsequential nonsense.
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t mean this to be cruel, but there’s just too much air being taken up by people with media or tech backgrounds who think their hot take on consciousness with LLMs is new, and lord it has all been done before and we’re past that. Christ, half the news cycle is yud refusing to read a book.
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