💥Robin Berjon – Fireside much words spilled #digital #sovereignty #Eurosky #AI #W3C #HTML #privacy html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

Norways minister of digitization

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Peter Thiel’s Dialog conference in Ireland shut down by grassroots action A former Google worker describes the #DropDialog movement and organizing against Big Tech in Ireland. therealnews.com/peter-thiels...

I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

About time. Some folks will never join in person. Some folks genuinely can not risk getting sick or potentially becoming even more disabled. There’s no good reason to force attendees to be in person, especially when they did it perfectly well in past years.

➡️@robin.berjon.com

Do you get your news from social media like, well, basically everyone? Mu made it better.

💥Robin Berjon – Fireside much words spilled #digital #sovereignty #Eurosky #AI #W3C #HTML #privacy html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

Using Ai as a “reference” sucks because it’s a dead end to learning and curiosity. There are more artists and writers whose work I can be inspired by and I can always dig deeper into them to learn more, but Ai flattens it to the result with no way to find out what parts were stolen from who.

Was doing some research and... wow... 1978.

personal note: and then there were 3 html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...

Historically, fascism has been most enthusiastically brought to power by corporatism. Google is no exception.

Airbus is putting its data beyond America's reach. They will run on Scaleway, a French provider, instead. A US law lets American authorities request data held by US firms, including data stored in servers outside the country. Europe is slowly trying to lean less on American technology.

So cool 😎

I need the Norwegian media to cover this shit.

shared this with a friend, got this in reply:

Do you like your social media less toxic? Yeah, we do too. @eurosky.social and Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) just signed an agreement to collaborate on precisely that: eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

Technology is part of the humanities. People who work in tech-adjacent fields but do not understand that will plateau very fast in their careers. The parts of the job that vibecoding eliminates aren't the political ones.

Can confirm.

hyperblam.how is hosted on git.gay. It's run by queer and neurodivergent folks and there's no AI. It's just git. And it's gay.

art 🖼️ in colo-rectal unit at Kingston hospital

Available on an official URI soon but for now, see w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-em/

This version improves use of WCAG-EM with European legislation about making websites and apps more accessible. WCAG-EM 1 was specifically about websites, WCAG-EM 2 is about ‘digital products’, an umbrella term for websites, apps, kiosks, and whatever else you want to evaluate the accessibility of.

Very pleased to see that AGWG, aka the W3C group that makes WCAG, decided to publish WCAG-EM 2, an update to the WCAG evaluation methodology that me, @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social and Jeroen worked on for the past year lists.w3.org/Archives/Pub...

I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?

Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts

I’m starting to think we should call LLMs ✨Spicy Autocomplete✨again. People keep on forgetting that this whole technology is, at its core, «guess the next word of this text».

Most people I speak to find ideas of "interoperability" boring, frightening, weird, incomprehensible, exceedingly geeky. As well they should. Show — don't tell! You have one account. It's yours. Use it to log into all of these different social apps! It's a magical new world taking shape.

"And this makes us more resilient to geopolitical blackmail" The room breaks into spontaneous applause.

The American Revolution was fought by brave men willing to die for liberty. Patriot Front is fought by cowards willing to hide for fascism. Please read, subscribe & share: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/patriot-fr...

The worst part about our democracy is that we don't even have one anymore

The face of a man trying to defend the idea that The Establishment somehow doesn’t include a privately educated multi-millionaire who was handed the family property business or the aristocratic family who gave him even more money.

🚨 NEW from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social Britain backs Binface 🚨 When asked who they would prefer win the Clacton by-election... 33% say Count Binface 21% say Nigel Farage 32% say neither 13% are undecided

Imagine things being so bad that your best solution is to cut yourself off from Google Search traffic. I don't think that people realise just how much of a bad actor Google has been, for year. No other company has damaged the web nearly as much. 🧵 www.adweek.com/media/publis...

Was just reading this Web Platform Wishlist by @vale.rocks ... Love to see these kinds of posts really. Keep sharing them and help raise their visibility. vale.rocks/posts/web-pl...

Ooooh… Open-UI: #1472 [focuslandmark] No declarative way to move keyboard focus between major page regions github.com/openui/open-... Focus Landmark: declarative landmark focus navigation for web apps (explainer): github.com/MicrosoftEdg... #HTML #ARIA #accessibility #a11y

Mu has foxes and dogs now — if you're not there, why do you hate joy and puppies?

New Blog Post: A New Browser Vision? In which I share some thoughts about the state of things, and how maybe (realistically?) we could hope to change them. bkardell.com/blog/NewBrow...

Currently watching my sleeping brother flick the ash of imaginary cigarettes 🚬 over the side of his death bed

An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

“Xbox's accessibility initiatives have been one of its few unequivocal achievements in an era of pervasive dysfunction” #a11y www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

"what will set you apart a year from now? If you don’t have a deep understanding of your output, the best result you can hope for is “average” — the best you can hope to be, as a developer, is “average.” If you’re not honing your craft, you stagnate." @wil.to beautiful read: wil.to/js4e/newslet...

"What do we learn from all this? Mostly the same thing we learned when the crypto bros repeatedly rediscovered financial fraud, or when effective altruists decided the most effective altruism was to buy themselves a castle, or when ride share companies kept accidentally reïnventing the bus.

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

“My personal worry is that for a long time, we sought to diversify the voices — you know, who is telling the stories? And we tried to give agency to people from different parts of the world,“ she said. “Now we’re giving a voice to machines.” #ai #stereotype restofworld.org/2023/ai-imag...

By a comparable token, given that humans excel whenever we improve cooperation across plural perspectives, one of the most effective ways to improve the human gene pool is a culling of all eugenicists.

🎲 57/30 "What is the measure of integrity in the marketing of accessibility testing tools? I would expect that while marketing bumpf extolls the virtues of a companies software, it is factual." #a11y #testing #software html5accessibility.com/stuff/2024/1...