Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
Putting human agency back into technology. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• blog: https://berjon.com/
• fmr W3C, NYT, ScienceAI, Protocol Labs
• he/him/Ishmael
• Signal robin.77
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• blog: https://berjon.com/
• fmr W3C, NYT, ScienceAI, Protocol Labs
• he/him/Ishmael
• Signal robin.77
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Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
· Feb 25
Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the "s-word." It is often associated with misguided attempts ...
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Digital sovereignty is almost entirely an infrastructure problem, and it's a tough one. How can we understand the problem and start outlining strategies? Read on to find out!
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I have consistently warned about and explained the issue with safety of full size walking robots. The touted applications just do make sense with the amounts of kinetic energy pumped into current full size humanoids. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/f...
Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'
A former engineer for Figure AI filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety.
www.cnbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I have consistently warned about and explained the issue with safety of full size walking robots. The touted applications just do make sense with the amounts of kinetic energy pumped into current full size humanoids. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/f...
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Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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@bnewbold.net joined @robin.berjon.com in a conversation about what @bsky.app has learned building the AT Protocol, sharing insights and lessons for Europe's digital future. vimeo.com/1140574261?s...
In Discussion with Bluesky
In Discussion with Bluesky with Bryan Newbolt (Bluesky) and Robin Berjon (Eurosky) Bluesky has grown to over 40 million users, proving decentralized social media…
vimeo.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@bnewbold.net joined @robin.berjon.com in a conversation about what @bsky.app has learned building the AT Protocol, sharing insights and lessons for Europe's digital future. vimeo.com/1140574261?s...
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@robin.berjon.com and @seabass.bsky.social broke down what AT Protocol and Eurosky are, and shared how these technologies could reshape the future of social media and the open social web. vimeo.com/1140372228?s...
Digital Building Blocks: ATProto and Eurosky Explained
Digital Building Blocks: ATProto and Eurosky Explained with Robin Berjon (Eurosky); Sebastian Vogelsang (Eurosky / Flashes)
vimeo.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@robin.berjon.com and @seabass.bsky.social broke down what AT Protocol and Eurosky are, and shared how these technologies could reshape the future of social media and the open social web. vimeo.com/1140372228?s...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Is Santa Real? Many users feel they're getting presents from him. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
Understanding the world is intimately tied to acting in the world; you know something to be true because of the coherent activities it supports in the world.
This creates a link between knowledge and power: when you're powerful, *incoherent* actions can succeed from sheer power.
This creates a link between knowledge and power: when you're powerful, *incoherent* actions can succeed from sheer power.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Understanding the world is intimately tied to acting in the world; you know something to be true because of the coherent activities it supports in the world.
This creates a link between knowledge and power: when you're powerful, *incoherent* actions can succeed from sheer power.
This creates a link between knowledge and power: when you're powerful, *incoherent* actions can succeed from sheer power.
Online journalism doesn't need a business model. It has one, one that works.
What it does need is to not have to compete with criminal organisations like Meta or Google.
What it does need is to not have to compete with criminal organisations like Meta or Google.
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Online journalism doesn't need a business model. It has one, one that works.
What it does need is to not have to compete with criminal organisations like Meta or Google.
What it does need is to not have to compete with criminal organisations like Meta or Google.
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Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
If you're in Brussels in a couple of weeks, this one'll be interesting!
⚡Europe’s tech dependency: risks and solutions
🗓️10 December 2025 13:00-14:00
Join us at this event where we discuss how Europe can stay technologically independent. W/ @digitalmario.bsky.social, @robin.berjon.com and @alexandrageese.bsky.social
🔗 Sign up for the event: buff.ly/8N4l8PA
🗓️10 December 2025 13:00-14:00
Join us at this event where we discuss how Europe can stay technologically independent. W/ @digitalmario.bsky.social, @robin.berjon.com and @alexandrageese.bsky.social
🔗 Sign up for the event: buff.ly/8N4l8PA
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
If you're in Brussels in a couple of weeks, this one'll be interesting!
And if you raise a significant chunk of funding for #Eurosky, I'll record your favourite pop choreography in the style of Tom Holland's all-time-classic Lip Sync Battle.
We said we'd post the rest yesterday and didn't quite make it, so by way of apology, if anyone watches the whole day in one sitting, we'll make @robin.berjon.com sing your favourite song live on here.
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
And if you raise a significant chunk of funding for #Eurosky, I'll record your favourite pop choreography in the style of Tom Holland's all-time-classic Lip Sync Battle.
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All #EuroskyLive sessions are now available to watch here
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
Eurosky: sovereign European technology
Eurosky is building European infrastructure for the open social web - the foundation that lets startups create safer, fairer social web products and services that users actually control, enabling Euro...
vimeo.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
All #EuroskyLive sessions are now available to watch here
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
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OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
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65% der Deutschen und 75% der CDU-Wähler*innen sagen: Europa sollte seine Regeln gegen Big-Tech-Unternehmen durchsetzen, auch wenn es Trump ärgert:
Die Bundeswirtschaftsministerin: Big-Tech-Regulierung muss weg.
Für wen arbeitet diese Regierung?
peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
Die Bundeswirtschaftsministerin: Big-Tech-Regulierung muss weg.
Für wen arbeitet diese Regierung?
peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
65% der Deutschen und 75% der CDU-Wähler*innen sagen: Europa sollte seine Regeln gegen Big-Tech-Unternehmen durchsetzen, auch wenn es Trump ärgert:
Die Bundeswirtschaftsministerin: Big-Tech-Regulierung muss weg.
Für wen arbeitet diese Regierung?
peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
Die Bundeswirtschaftsministerin: Big-Tech-Regulierung muss weg.
Für wen arbeitet diese Regierung?
peoplevsbig.tech/large-majori...
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The threats to digital civil liberties aren’t secret rooms in AT&T buildings anymore. They’re AI systems, data brokers, and privatized surveillance sold as products.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
The EFF we need now
Why the next era of digital civil liberties requires a tighter mission, a bolder strategy, and a clearer view of how power works.
werd.io
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The threats to digital civil liberties aren’t secret rooms in AT&T buildings anymore. They’re AI systems, data brokers, and privatized surveillance sold as products.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
The EFF has spent 35 years fighting for rights and freedoms. Here’s my take on how it should evolve to fight back.
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I am looking for anecdotes from anyone/a company who may have benefitted from support landing for Ed25519 in Chrome in August of this year, resulting in the feature having cross-browser support for Chrome/Safari/Firefox.
November 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I am looking for anecdotes from anyone/a company who may have benefitted from support landing for Ed25519 in Chrome in August of this year, resulting in the feature having cross-browser support for Chrome/Safari/Firefox.
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new 'Transatlantic Faultlines' report for @europarl.europa.eu -
on why we should worry less about tariffs, and more about AI Minsky moment, Eurodollar stablecoins/digital Euro and state capacity to compete in a world of transformative state projects
www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
on why we should worry less about tariffs, and more about AI Minsky moment, Eurodollar stablecoins/digital Euro and state capacity to compete in a world of transformative state projects
www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
new 'Transatlantic Faultlines' report for @europarl.europa.eu -
on why we should worry less about tariffs, and more about AI Minsky moment, Eurodollar stablecoins/digital Euro and state capacity to compete in a world of transformative state projects
www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
on why we should worry less about tariffs, and more about AI Minsky moment, Eurodollar stablecoins/digital Euro and state capacity to compete in a world of transformative state projects
www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
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Did you catch this delicious bit of irony:
bsky.app/profile/thes...
I looked it up and yep.. www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platfor...
bsky.app/profile/thes...
I looked it up and yep.. www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platfor...
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Did you catch this delicious bit of irony:
bsky.app/profile/thes...
I looked it up and yep.. www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platfor...
bsky.app/profile/thes...
I looked it up and yep.. www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platfor...
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we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER!
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
we are just over a week out from publication of WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the anthology of speculative fiction, essays, and interviews about collective action I co-edited with @annaleen.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social which means THERE'S STILL TIME TO PREORDER!
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"The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone" by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
The many many many cases showing that a more equal society is better, and not just better for the poorest but across all of society.
The many many many cases showing that a more equal society is better, and not just better for the poorest but across all of society.
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone" by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
The many many many cases showing that a more equal society is better, and not just better for the poorest but across all of society.
The many many many cases showing that a more equal society is better, and not just better for the poorest but across all of society.
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You could not waterboard me to compare my company to Enron.
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
You could not waterboard me to compare my company to Enron.
My "We're Not Enron" t-shirt has people asking etc. etc.
$NVDA now in the “we’re totally not Enron, guys” phase of this cycle. 😬
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My "We're Not Enron" t-shirt has people asking etc. etc.
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My kind of conference @robin.berjon.com vimeo.com/1140026673?s...
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
My kind of conference @robin.berjon.com vimeo.com/1140026673?s...
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The video of the #EuroskyLive morning sessions is up! You'll find time to jump to specific sessions in the description.
Featuring, among others @robin.berjon.com @seabass.bsky.social @gaurivangulik.bsky.social @alexandrageese.bsky.social @geurkink.bsky.social
vimeo.com/1140026673?s...
Featuring, among others @robin.berjon.com @seabass.bsky.social @gaurivangulik.bsky.social @alexandrageese.bsky.social @geurkink.bsky.social
vimeo.com/1140026673?s...
Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025 - morning sessions
Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025 brought together policymakers, media leaders, investors, and founders to explore how open infrastructure can enable European innovation.…
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The video of the #EuroskyLive morning sessions is up! You'll find time to jump to specific sessions in the description.
Featuring, among others @robin.berjon.com @seabass.bsky.social @gaurivangulik.bsky.social @alexandrageese.bsky.social @geurkink.bsky.social
vimeo.com/1140026673?s...
Featuring, among others @robin.berjon.com @seabass.bsky.social @gaurivangulik.bsky.social @alexandrageese.bsky.social @geurkink.bsky.social
vimeo.com/1140026673?s...