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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · Feb 25

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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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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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.bsky.social · 18h

At some point, you'd think they ought to conclude that *there isn't an acceptable, mandatory alternative*, and put the resources into other, more practical ways of addressing the *societal* problem of child abuse instead. But they'd rather have the means of mass surveillance and censorship. 🤷‍♂️

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Xan López @xanlopez.xyz · 1d

Este gráfico es fascinante.

Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social · Aug 12

In our - very limited - historical experience of democracy,

(i) states rot from the centre-right
(ii) and it's contagious (via geography/powerful exemplar states)

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 1d

For the legal bit, FoF/Eurosky have been working on a memo. We're careful to open it up before it's more baked (because legal) but happy to discuss!

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

this!!!

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d

Everything I have learned about [insert name of far-right US media pundit], I have learned entirely against my will.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1d

Blending spectacular illustrations with illuminating case studies of representative species from around the world, Insect Architecture by Michael S. Engel and Tom Jackson is the ultimate guide to insect artistry and innovation.

Out now. Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 1d

Sadly, there'd be a lot of bag holding. Pension funds, large unemployment hits, etc.

Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 1d

In a similar vein, they correctly note that a public good has to include governance (though seem to consider the state as only convenor), but don't look at public infrastructure without public governance and the related sovereignty concerns. The MFF should tackle this.

Still, good stuff.

Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 1d

I feel it falls a little short in considering goods that ought to be public goods but are privately provided at a cost of massive externalities. This is common in digital infrastructure and should be accounted for. They mostly consider research & connectivity, which is constrictive.

Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 1d

"Bigger, Better Funded, and Focused On Public Goods: How to revamp the European Union budget" by Zsolt Darvas, Roel Dom, Marie-Sophie Lappe, Pascal Saint-Amans, & Armin Steinbach

A number of good ideas, I particularly like the idea of structuring the budget around European Public Goods (EPGs).

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 1d

Is there a good description of this research for the enlightened amateur?

kottke.org @kottke.org · 1d

“Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work shedding light on how the immune system spares healthy cells, creating openings for possible new autoimmune disease and cancer treatments.” [reuters.com]

Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 1d

There's a lot about AI out there but this from @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy is all you need to know.

For those of us building tech and looking for regime change on internet, we need to be ready for when it hits.

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2d

Voilà, j'ai même le temps d'attraper un combo pizza/bières sur la route retour à Bruxelles.

Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2d

Il y a un lien de parenté?

Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2d

Je suis prêt à former un gouvernement, en cas, si jamais il y a besoin, pour dépanner. Là je finis mon déménagement mais sinon je suis rapidement dispo.

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Thorsten Küssner @tho-kue.bsky.social · 2d

Wichtiger Artikel & weiteres Argument für Abo der SZ (oder anderer Qualitätsmedien): Was Desinformation & Lüge mit Macht/Demokratie zu tun haben. Input geben u.a. @volksverpetzer.de und @robin.berjon.com und @disinfo.eu und @viginum.bsky.social (€) www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Die Lüge: Gar nicht wahr

Die Lüge ist zurück. Mit Macht. Als Macht. Wie sie die Demokratie zerstört – und wer sich dagegenstemmt. Eine Reise an die Front.

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 2d

Rewilding the Internet @robin.berjon.com
Variety warfare by Big Tech @faustogernone.bsky.social
Variety-selection-adaptation framework to the DMA 😇

Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.bsky.social · 2d

Experiment: using AI to lower barriers to entry by Wavesblog Readers, hope you don't mind ;-) competitionwave.blogspot.com/2025/10/coor...

Coordination and Power

F. Gernone, here. This is a very basic AI generated video overview produced by Notebook LM - lowering your barriers to entry. The paper ...

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2d

Keep Your Prime Minister More Than Twelve Hours Challenge 2025.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2d

Or they fell asleep, who knows.

Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2d

I almost got that book several times and hesitated. Why did no one mention the pteranodons? I'm immediately getting a copy.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 2d

‘The unhatched sun remained distant in its cloaca of smog’

I'm literally crying 😂 That whole paragraph oh dear.

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Lesley De Cruz @ladc42.bsky.social · 7d

A memorial for my sister Helen De Cruz will take place on 19 October, both online (hosted by Blake Hereth) and in Brussels (Royal Library of Belgium). tally.so/r/3yLRJd

Celebration of the life of Helen De Cruz - 19 October 2025

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 3d

long-running coverage of Georgia, including several in-depth pieces on the protests, here: globalvoices.org/-/world/cent...

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

*Massive* protests in European Georgia. Demonstrators have attempted to storm the Presidential Palace.

The pro-Putin Georgian Dream party which stole the election and has sent out a new wave of riot police.

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 3d

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 4d

Channeling @abenewman.bsky.social and my recent piece en francais for @grandcontinent.bsky.social ? legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/09/2... (I'm joking but weirder things have happened to us)

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