The dystopia we live in is very much a libertarian dystopia. It was designed as such, built as such, enforced as such. I wish I were surprised to see @nytimes.com sanewashing this with nary a fact check in sight.

ENSAYO | Necesitamos renaturalizar internet @mariafarrell.bsky.social y @robin.berjon.com exploran cómo la ciencia ecológica nos puede ayudar a recuperar un internet más democrático, floreciente y diverso, alejado de los monocultivos autoritarios de un puñado de empresas tecnológicas.

This is depressing but also the clearest diagnostic. We're way overdue to offer a vision for the future. So much on the left is defend, protect, save, shield... — as if maintaining the status quo were a win. Hegemonic collapse is here, now is the time to define the future.

1/ Big news! Today, we officially launch the International Tax Observatory (#ITO)🚀 Building on the foundation of the EUTO, we are expanding our mission to address global tax evasion, wealth concentration, illicit financial flows & the intersection of taxation & the environment.

Shame on @nature.com for publishing this ableist trash, and shame on the authors for writing it: Short 🧵>>

This is a good thread to remember that "because science said so" has never been a plan for collective government. Science is profoundly democratic. It can't make authoritarian pronouncements, and it can be corrupted by billionaires.

Whenever people complain about European capital markets, I think they're missing part of the picture. Yes, they're not great. No, they're not devoid of bad people. And yet.

Hola desde @eurosky.social 👋 Mis datos ahora están alojados en 🇪🇺, gestionados por una organización sin ánimo de lucro (@modalfoundation.eurosky.social) y sujetos a la legislación europea.

updated the atproto specs to reference dasl.ing, a simpler variation/subset of IPLD. hope this is more accessible for folks digging in to atproto-from-scratch implementations. the core primitives in IPLD (DAG-CBOR, CIDs, CAR) are great, but the fully flexible/general system can be overwhelming

Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s Summit. The @greens-efa.eu & @alexandrageese.bsky.social had invited myself and several other technologists, including @robin.berjon.com, to speak in the EU parliament as part of the „EU Tech Stars Summit“ www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/event/eu-tech-stars-summit.

It was unclear if Mr. Hirohito was aware that the planes he had sent towards Hawaii carried bombs.

This is not a drill, we need to be ready to counter and we're not.

EpsteIN—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.

I would go further - it would take 20 years for Europe to catch up to US big tech, playing the same game. But the continent is stuffed to the gills with brilliant technologists already building alternatives that respect democracy. We should scale up and productise those alternatives.

Closing keynote from @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social.

the @newsmastfoundation.org x Bristol Cable collab that was showcased at @protocolsforpublishers.com London last night was an example of this pattern they just... did it.

"Big Tech has taken the social out of social media, it's just media." — @seabass.bsky.social

"Why do people keep calling for a 'European X' or a 'European Instagram' when instead, by sharing infrastructure as we're doing with @eurosky.social, we could have 20 or 30 social networks?" — @seabass.bsky.social

lol www.ft.com/content/5b9a...

“Authoritarian infrastructure leads to an authoritarian society” @robin.berjon.com said, in reference to our current tech stack. And he also brought up the infamous Technate, a “deeply rooted ideology that keeps reappearing”. Before giving several recommendations for ‘regime change’

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

losing my mind at this photo, it's literally the 'my t-shirt' meme

atproto is on its way to becoming an internet standard, and @eurosky.social accounts are starting to show up. A really strong start to the year for open protocols and European tech sovereignty.

@robin.berjon.com wisely tells us when we post on X, it’s like writing for the Daily Stormer and when you engage with the platform even without posting you are lending it credibility and ad dollars. Here is his post on not feeding the trolls berjon.com/fascintern-m...

Friends, I did it. I'm posting this from #Eurosky. 🚀🇪🇺♥️ I have not joined a beta test since *1997* - but for the sake of you all, and for a future of open social media that is Big Tech-free and fully European, I had a go. It's working fine. Watch this space!!

Hello! Update on eurosky[.]social accounts. - PDS is ready with backups and observability - We've onboarded a small number of testers to see how things are holding up - We'll start sending invites to folks who registered in the next few days We're doing this slowly, here's why 👇 #eurosky

"People who think about complexity might be surprised by the notion that positive feedback loops can create order." Come for the strategic autonomy, stay for the shade! (via @xanlopez.xyz) www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

"Maurice, get out of the room. Get out now!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Yl...

The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files Reid Hoffman (2,658 Files) Bill Gates (2,592 Files) Peter Thiel (2,281 Files) Elon Musk (1,116 Files) Larry Page (314 Files), Sergey Brin (294 Files) Mark Zuckerberg (282 Files), Jeff Bezos (196 Files), Eric Schmidt (193 Files) archive.is/R3yMj#select...

👋 @eurosky.social 😁

Ireland has made itself the European beachhead of the broligarchy — but no degree of submission is ever enough.

Slowly at first and then all at once. We're getting to the turning point.

IMHO, this quote 👇 is much more disturbing.

Then and now the focus on individuals - Peter Mandelson and Michelle Mone - diverts attention from the real point. Our institutions, which should protect the public, just nod along with what is a kind of theft by the privileged. No one goes to prison, no one is ever held accountable.

Tim Cook was the architect behind Apple's success in China. He is applying the same techniques to authoritarian leaders in America. The interesting thing is why we thought these business leaders would behave differently at home.

"Ethicswishing (in tech) is the belief that if you are committed to being ethical and understand technology, then you are well-equipped to build technology for social good." Or "Ethics can never work if you do the fucking around but someone else does the finding out." Robin Berjon, on July 15, 2024

@alex.bsky.team rocking one swell shirt here today.

What Fosdem needs is a service that will deliver waffles from the food trucks to you when you can't leave a room.

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"Identity federation protocols are part of the problem, not the solution." — Georg Greve, fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Last talk for me at #FOSDEM - I have a flight back home to catch! This one is about @ipfs.tech’s DASL by @robin.berjon.com. Lots of bright colors! Shiny! ✨ #FOSDEM26 #FOSDEM2026

The NYT has gone full Onion, not even faking it.

Capgemini n’est pas le seul groupe français 🇫🇷 à mettre son savoir-faire au service de #ICE. Selon @liberation.fr, les sociétés Parrot (fourniture de drones) et Thales (gestion des données biométriques) vendent aussi leurs services à la police anti-immigration de Donald Trump 🇺🇸.👇

A very nice talk about small but mighty CID-based specs, 15:15 UTC in Building A (streaming link in thread).

Have you been curious about content addressing or DASL? Come to my talk in a few hours! I promise you bright colours and outstanding acronyms. fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Good morning #FOSDEM! I'll be kicking off in the Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom @ 9:05a today with tales of @ipfs.tech and our ♥️/👿 affair with web browsers. fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

💡 "L'Internet se comprend mieux avec des outils d'analyse politique qu'avec des outils d'analyse technique" Rediffusion de la soirée du #20Janvier 2026 avec l'intervention de @robin.berjon.com, spécialiste des protocoles ouverts ➡️ vimeo.com/1158969775