Three Moves to Stop Broligarchy (Break, Build, Enforce) by Cori Crider and Robin Berjon mzf.st/15 hands down one of the most refreshing talks at MozFest

I'm considering getting this on a t-shirt 😁

"We thought AI would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expect this to happen already next year." — Ursula von der Leyen

"If we let the bad people get a trillion dollars a year that we're not getting, they're going to kick our ass every single time": @robin.berjon.com's case in a #MozFest talk with @coricrider.com for breaking Google's hold on the digital-advertising market--which EU regulators seem poised to do.

Strong start to the weekend from @robin.berjon.com. Strong plugs for anti-trust and democratically directed public internet infrastructure! #MozFest

Data collection at scale is a national security issue. This trading is happening even with GDPR protections. And yet the Commission is advocating changes that would remove such data from the scope of the regulation.

How does the Dem Party not have up a running tally of all the cancelled flights? Make it look like an airport arrivals board and auto-port in the data. Should take a couple hours to get online, max.

How in hell did "rude" get set to hide by default? It reminds me of corporate environments in the US where grown adults guffaw that someone "dropped an F bomb" like it's kindergarten.

So the US is having: • 1m people laid off in October; • Signs of a housing collapse; • AI companies already asking for bailouts as the gigabubble hits a wall. Are we ready: • For the market impact? • For Trump lashing out abroad to distract? • To use the moment to wipe out tech dependencies?

It's hard for outsiders to quantify the horrific or fraudulent social media content. Well: Meta shows an "estimated 15 billion 'higher risk' scam" ads with signs of fraud daily. "Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue" from this scam ad category www.reuters.com/investigatio...

We're #hiring a new Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund! 🚀 The #SovereignTechFund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical #opensource infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS powering the web—to strengthen #digitalsovereignty. 1/3

Completely agree with this. And I don’t even think it has to be intentional. A tool is for what it does, after all.

how do you do, my fellow blueskyers?

lol

BLUESKY ELDER ELECTED NYC MAYOR

"Boldness is rationed while realism is mass-produced." — @ruha9.bsky.social

"Artificial intelligentsia." — @ruha9.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

Two dominant narratives of tech: dystopian and utopian. Both are technodeterministic. When we refer to them, we live in someone else's imagination. (Paraphrasing @ruha9.bsky.social.)

"if you CAN tinker, it's empowering, if you MUST tinker, it's discouraging" @robin.berjon.com at #decidimfest on the difficulties of decentralized social media systems

It's always a treat to listen to @ruha9.bsky.social.

I’m going to basically spend all morning laughing like a maniac. I have BEEN saying! Rebuilding civic infrastructure is EVERYTHING.

We really shouldn't. Unfortunately, far too often, Europes evolves through crises.

This is a good summary of the current situation and explains how to move forward.

In case you missed it yesterday: "citizens should not have to wait until after disaster strikes for their leaders to commit to investing in critical infrastructure, which nowadays includes cloud services." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

People here at #DecidimFest in Barcelona cheering for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 💖

Ok, that's enough hopescroling for me this morning! We've got work to do.

This is what democracy sounds like.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

For a bit I forgot that the current political movement was won with a weak minority and is managed by annoying dorks who nobody likes who have terrible vibes. This video has 1.3 million likes and is a good reminder that better things are possible, even for those of us outside NYC. A good night!

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Ethics rules without enforcement, that you can suspend when it's convenient, are just empty words.

Here's next week's cover of the New Yorker

"Ah, that’s the stuff. (...) a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

I cannot

Genuinely loving how many prominent NYC people ( and politicians) are in it for Fuck This Asshole Cuomo In Particular, Specifically

"Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatic Philosophy of Science" by Hasok Chang One of the reasons disinformation wins is because we have a broken idea of what good information is. Chang makes a great contribution towards fixing that, grounding knowledge in everyday action.

"Sovereignty entails the ability to set one’s own rules in one’s own jurisdiction, and that is not something US cloud providers can offer Europe"

I'm usually pretty happy with wherever I settle, but tonight I can't tell you how much I wish I still lived in New York. Go make us some history old friends, we're all watching, rooting for you.

The commencement video.

There is a kill switch on much of the global digital economy, and Donald Trump can flip it on a whim, warns @robin.berjon.com. bit.ly/492D8dp

"Citizens should not have to wait until after disaster strikes for their leaders to commit to investing in critical infrastructure, which nowadays includes cloud services."

Agent Lairmore is done with his testimony. Prosecution asked further about the condiments and he said there was mustard on his uniform and an onion hanging on his radio antenna. Don’t think defense was going for a pun when she called him a “seasoned officer,” but you never know…

How clear does it need to be that Europe needs independent digital infrastructure before we actually take credible action? The need is as clear for cloud as it is for the rest of our critical digital systems. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

The fascist technology has become a pedophile, quelle surprise

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

A message from Brussels to Google: Would you break yourself up, please? The tech giant faces a deadline to explain how it’ll comply with an EU ruling that found it illegally maintained its grip on online ad infrastructure.