Johannes Ernst
@j12t.org
Engineer, founder, organizer. More: https://j12t.org
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For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.
Swear your oath ON the dome.
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.
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🚨 NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped.
Results?
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
#BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #SciSky #NewsSky #PedsSky #ObSky #NurseSky
Results?
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
#BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #SciSky #NewsSky #PedsSky #ObSky #NurseSky
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I signed the Resonant Computing Manifesto.
IMHO all efforts roughly in that direction are good and to be supported.
IMHO all efforts roughly in that direction are good and to be supported.
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I signed the Resonant Computing Manifesto.
IMHO all efforts roughly in that direction are good and to be supported.
IMHO all efforts roughly in that direction are good and to be supported.
In case anybody thought Europe was doing better. This is real bad.
Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation
To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment.
www.heise.de
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In case anybody thought Europe was doing better. This is real bad.
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“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that:
- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship
What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship
What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
american reporters, you've got to call bullshit on this. vance, purveyor of hate/propaganda, wants the public to believe rules on, for instance, transparency in advertising and forms of deception on X are censorship.
don't fall for it.
don't fall for it.
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that:
- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship
What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship
What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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this is some horrifically dark shit that cannot be allowed to go down without a fight
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
this is some horrifically dark shit that cannot be allowed to go down without a fight
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It increasingly appears the “AI” industry in the US is going for a massive government bailout / partial nationalization.
How do you feel about a trillion or such of your taxpayer money going to ever larger … (insert your view of “AI” here)
Me? You’ve long lost the consent of this governed person.
How do you feel about a trillion or such of your taxpayer money going to ever larger … (insert your view of “AI” here)
Me? You’ve long lost the consent of this governed person.
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It increasingly appears the “AI” industry in the US is going for a massive government bailout / partial nationalization.
How do you feel about a trillion or such of your taxpayer money going to ever larger … (insert your view of “AI” here)
Me? You’ve long lost the consent of this governed person.
How do you feel about a trillion or such of your taxpayer money going to ever larger … (insert your view of “AI” here)
Me? You’ve long lost the consent of this governed person.
Whoever let that technology out into the world …
if you've mastered iambic pentameter you can now use that to help you learn about weapon's grade plutonium.
"AI chatbots will dish on topics like nuclear weapons, child sex abuse material, and malware so long as users phrase the question in the form of a poem."
"AI chatbots will dish on topics like nuclear weapons, child sex abuse material, and malware so long as users phrase the question in the form of a poem."
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Whoever let that technology out into the world …
I spent some time with the European tech sovereignty crowd this month.
The below story, about a previous disastrous effort in the same direction, does not surprise me in the least.
If your "business plan" allows for this kind of failure, you better not start at all.
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The below story, about a previous disastrous effort in the same direction, does not surprise me in the least.
If your "business plan" allows for this kind of failure, you better not start at all.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I spent some time with the European tech sovereignty crowd this month.
The below story, about a previous disastrous effort in the same direction, does not surprise me in the least.
If your "business plan" allows for this kind of failure, you better not start at all.
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The below story, about a previous disastrous effort in the same direction, does not surprise me in the least.
If your "business plan" allows for this kind of failure, you better not start at all.
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Excited to be supporting the Fediverse / Social Web track at #fosdem again this year! Here's the CfP -> https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/
FOSDEM 2026 – Social Web Devroom – Call For Participation
The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2026, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks for the event. FOSDEM is an exciting free and open sour…
socialwebfoundation.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Excited to be supporting the Fediverse / Social Web track at #fosdem again this year! Here's the CfP -> https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/10/31/fosdem-2026-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/
Reposted by Johannes Ernst
Developers, researchers, protocol nerds: the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM wants YOU!
Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms?
Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday!
#FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation
Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms?
Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday!
#FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Developers, researchers, protocol nerds: the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM wants YOU!
Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms?
Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday!
#FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation
Got something to share about federated systems, p2p protocols, self-sovereign tech, or resilient comms?
Submit your proposal now, our CfP ends on Sunday!
#FOSDEM #Decentralized #Federation
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...
“Upon investigation, your honor, before the bridge fell down, it was discovered that we never installed the middle pillar of the 3-pillar bridge”
🎪 “Justice Department told a federal judge the final indictment against Comey was never shown to the full grand jury… The indictment was obtained by Lindsey Halligan, who had no previous experience as a federal prosecutor…”
The Trump regime, folks.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
The Trump regime, folks.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“Upon investigation, your honor, before the bridge fell down, it was discovered that we never installed the middle pillar of the 3-pillar bridge”
On the question of how do you win against the big platforms, Rose from Bluesky says it's ultimately the builders, people who build on the common platform. By analogy with the story how AOL was displaced by the open web in the 1990s.
She sounds just like Mike McCue :-)
#euroskylive
She sounds just like Mike McCue :-)
#euroskylive
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
On the question of how do you win against the big platforms, Rose from Bluesky says it's ultimately the builders, people who build on the common platform. By analogy with the story how AOL was displaced by the open web in the 1990s.
She sounds just like Mike McCue :-)
#euroskylive
She sounds just like Mike McCue :-)
#euroskylive
@rose.bsky.team from Bluesky: We started with 90% of users being posters, now we are at 30%, but compare this with 1% on some commercial platforms. Conversations are happening again.
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
@rose.bsky.team from Bluesky: We started with 90% of users being posters, now we are at 30%, but compare this with 1% on some commercial platforms. Conversations are happening again.
Sherif asks his panel at #EuroSkyLive: how can we make all of this work at a scale of 100's of millions and potentially billions of users, otherwise how do we make a difference in the world against the toxic platforms? E.g. it requires lots of money!
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sherif asks his panel at #EuroSkyLive: how can we make all of this work at a scale of 100's of millions and potentially billions of users, otherwise how do we make a difference in the world against the toxic platforms? E.g. it requires lots of money!
The open social web is not just something that looks like twitter or instagram. Here is a great example.
A new case study looking at how we're building for good, with information sharing and news at the heart, has been published by Good Commons today!
Check it out here: goodcommons.world/casestudies/...
#SocialMedia #Journalism
Check it out here: goodcommons.world/casestudies/...
#SocialMedia #Journalism
The Bristol Cable/Newsmast Foundation: deepening community for a UK news coop — Good Commons
We use cookies to understand how this site is used, so we can improve it for everyone. You can choose what you\u2019re comfortable with.
goodcommons.world
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The open social web is not just something that looks like twitter or instagram. Here is a great example.
Robin Berjon asks Bryan Newbold about the relationship of Bluesky to Mastodon and ActivityPub. I heard him say:
The protocols are meaningfully different, but on a high level, they are pretty similar. On the high level, we are on the same team.
#euroskylive
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The protocols are meaningfully different, but on a high level, they are pretty similar. On the high level, we are on the same team.
#euroskylive
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November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Robin Berjon asks Bryan Newbold about the relationship of Bluesky to Mastodon and ActivityPub. I heard him say:
The protocols are meaningfully different, but on a high level, they are pretty similar. On the high level, we are on the same team.
#euroskylive
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The protocols are meaningfully different, but on a high level, they are pretty similar. On the high level, we are on the same team.
#euroskylive
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About the same number of #Mastodon and #Bluesky users at the #EuroSkySummit today, based on my impression of the show of hands in response to a question from the stage.
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
About the same number of #Mastodon and #Bluesky users at the #EuroSkySummit today, based on my impression of the show of hands in response to a question from the stage.
Jutta Horstmann, at #EuroskySummit, says the politicians at the Digital Sovereignty Summit yesterday really want a big European champion to counter the US hyperscalers.
On the other hand, everybody also wants to decentralize and have democratic governance.
How can this circle be squared?
On the other hand, everybody also wants to decentralize and have democratic governance.
How can this circle be squared?
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Jutta Horstmann, at #EuroskySummit, says the politicians at the Digital Sovereignty Summit yesterday really want a big European champion to counter the US hyperscalers.
On the other hand, everybody also wants to decentralize and have democratic governance.
How can this circle be squared?
On the other hand, everybody also wants to decentralize and have democratic governance.
How can this circle be squared?
Listening to the presenters at #EuroSkyLive today, in addition to the other communities I usually hang out with, I am beginning to conclude that the term
"Open Social Web"
has won as the name for the category / market / movement / ...
"Open Social Web"
has won as the name for the category / market / movement / ...
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Listening to the presenters at #EuroSkyLive today, in addition to the other communities I usually hang out with, I am beginning to conclude that the term
"Open Social Web"
has won as the name for the category / market / movement / ...
"Open Social Web"
has won as the name for the category / market / movement / ...
The argument is being made at #EuroSkyLive that by having a common infrastructure -- I assume they are talking about the AtProto relay -- lots of good things can happen on top, that would be more difficult if such a common infrastructure did not exist and it's "simply" a common protocol.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The argument is being made at #EuroSkyLive that by having a common infrastructure -- I assume they are talking about the AtProto relay -- lots of good things can happen on top, that would be more difficult if such a common infrastructure did not exist and it's "simply" a common protocol.
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