Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
Putting human agency back into technology. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
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• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• blog: https://berjon.com/
• fmr W3C, NYT, ScienceAI, Protocol Labs
• he/him/Ishmael
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Robin Berjon
@robin.berjon.com
· Dec 9
Fascintern Media
We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet...
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2025 is coming to end and some people who claim not to be fascists are still associating themselves with fascist outlets like X.
I claim, perhaps charitably, that it's because they don't understand how the internet works. Either way, this needs to change.
berjon.com/fascintern-m...
I claim, perhaps charitably, that it's because they don't understand how the internet works. Either way, this needs to change.
berjon.com/fascintern-m...
Sure thing, doing that just to edit would be a PITA. But it's no less native a client than Bluesky's. The protocol supports editing!
January 15, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Sure thing, doing that just to edit would be a PITA. But it's no less native a client than Bluesky's. The protocol supports editing!
What an absolute fucking legend.
Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities.
“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”
A profile in absolute courage.
“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”
A profile in absolute courage.
January 15, 2026 at 8:42 PM
What an absolute fucking legend.
Reposted by Robin Berjon
Thanks for the shout out! We've had a lot of fun working with you on DASL.
A lot happened in content addressing in 2025. Like, a lot. The IPFS Foundation wrote up a summary for your enjoyment!
ipfsfoundation.org/content-addr...
ipfsfoundation.org/content-addr...
Content-Addressing: 2025 In Review
It's hard to believe that it was 2025 only two weeks ago, but all the same we'd like to wrap the year up tidily and look back at what happened in content addressing leading up to 2026!
"Content addre...
ipfsfoundation.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Thanks for the shout out! We've had a lot of fun working with you on DASL.
Starting now!
January 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Starting now!
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Travelling through London, feeling like the last week before the first lockdown was announced in 2020 - looking at everything ordinary and thinking 'will this last? what are we doing? where will we be?'
The Danish foreign minister, coming out of a meeting with the Americans: "It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland."
I don't think that people have quite measured the severity of what is happening nor the intensity of the required response.
I don't think that people have quite measured the severity of what is happening nor the intensity of the required response.
"Denmark is by all means on the right side of history" says 🇩🇰FM Rasmussen, implying 🇺🇸 is on the wrong side.
"We didn't manage to change the American position. It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland".
"We didn't manage to change the American position. It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland".
January 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Travelling through London, feeling like the last week before the first lockdown was announced in 2020 - looking at everything ordinary and thinking 'will this last? what are we doing? where will we be?'
A lot happened in content addressing in 2025. Like, a lot. The IPFS Foundation wrote up a summary for your enjoyment!
ipfsfoundation.org/content-addr...
ipfsfoundation.org/content-addr...
Content-Addressing: 2025 In Review
It's hard to believe that it was 2025 only two weeks ago, but all the same we'd like to wrap the year up tidily and look back at what happened in content addressing leading up to 2026!
"Content addre...
ipfsfoundation.org
January 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
A lot happened in content addressing in 2025. Like, a lot. The IPFS Foundation wrote up a summary for your enjoyment!
ipfsfoundation.org/content-addr...
ipfsfoundation.org/content-addr...
In the mid 1990s I just thought I'd work a little bit on tech until I figured out what I wanted to do with my life, perhaps return to philosophy…
January 15, 2026 at 2:19 PM
In the mid 1990s I just thought I'd work a little bit on tech until I figured out what I wanted to do with my life, perhaps return to philosophy…
We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun.
luma.com/jj7nths0
luma.com/jj7nths0
@proto @fosdem · Luma
The AT Protocol is an open, decentralized network for building social applications.
https://atproto.com/
Start your FOSDEM with a convivial evening of casual…
luma.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun.
luma.com/jj7nths0
luma.com/jj7nths0
It's such a bizarre moment that is overall best understood if you get both tech and politics.
January 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
It's such a bizarre moment that is overall best understood if you get both tech and politics.
Reposted by Robin Berjon
How could you not use a social network whose developers talk about race conditions in international politics?
lots of international race conditions at the moment
January 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM
How could you not use a social network whose developers talk about race conditions in international politics?
LOL, great way to put it.
January 15, 2026 at 1:57 PM
LOL, great way to put it.
The question is whether that's happening fast enough.
January 15, 2026 at 1:54 PM
The question is whether that's happening fast enough.
Not enough of the elites, many are still on hopium. But generally I agree.
The next MSC is weeks away, curious to see what happens there.
The next MSC is weeks away, curious to see what happens there.
January 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Not enough of the elites, many are still on hopium. But generally I agree.
The next MSC is weeks away, curious to see what happens there.
The next MSC is weeks away, curious to see what happens there.
Reposted by Robin Berjon
people dont appreciate the time scale enough. only very recently it is starting to break through national news reaching regular people in the EU that these invasion threads might actually be real
this requires a complete shift in worldview, that simply takes time
this requires a complete shift in worldview, that simply takes time
“The Europeans won’t fight back” is a wildly factually incorrect statement and shows an astonishing lack of understanding of 1) how the geopolitics of escalation works 2) how Europe works 3) how war works
France is a nuclear power and is deploying troops in Greenland, for God’s sake
France is a nuclear power and is deploying troops in Greenland, for God’s sake
If Trump invades Greenland, the Europeans won't fight back, Republicans will defend it, Democrats will issue statements, there will be protests, and most Americans will disapprove of it enough to earn Democrats a bit more of the vote in November. Then on to the next thing.
January 15, 2026 at 9:40 AM
people dont appreciate the time scale enough. only very recently it is starting to break through national news reaching regular people in the EU that these invasion threads might actually be real
this requires a complete shift in worldview, that simply takes time
this requires a complete shift in worldview, that simply takes time
And collapse the AI bubble!
January 15, 2026 at 12:24 PM
And collapse the AI bubble!
Had there been meaningful pushback against the Nazis much sooner, they wouldn't have caused anywhere near as much destruction. But they were given every chance to blunder through mistakes like idiots until they had worked out the kinks.
January 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Had there been meaningful pushback against the Nazis much sooner, they wouldn't have caused anywhere near as much destruction. But they were given every chance to blunder through mistakes like idiots until they had worked out the kinks.
I'm sorry to report that that's a bit of a myth. I recently read an account of the Austrian Anschluss. It was an invasion without resistance and they almost failed. So many of the tanks broke down while crossing over on an easy road that they blocked themselves and they had to be brought by train.
January 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
I'm sorry to report that that's a bit of a myth. I recently read an account of the Austrian Anschluss. It was an invasion without resistance and they almost failed. So many of the tanks broke down while crossing over on an easy road that they blocked themselves and they had to be brought by train.
I'm keenly aware, elsewhere I've described the situation as "what if Weimar but with nukes?"
On top of the biospheric issues there's also the digital issues. We're well within collapse scenarios.
On top of the biospheric issues there's also the digital issues. We're well within collapse scenarios.
January 15, 2026 at 12:17 PM
I'm keenly aware, elsewhere I've described the situation as "what if Weimar but with nukes?"
On top of the biospheric issues there's also the digital issues. We're well within collapse scenarios.
On top of the biospheric issues there's also the digital issues. We're well within collapse scenarios.
A particular challenge there is that the most effective US intelligence operatives in the UK and EU are Android, iOS, and Google Chrome.
January 15, 2026 at 12:14 PM
A particular challenge there is that the most effective US intelligence operatives in the UK and EU are Android, iOS, and Google Chrome.
Reposted by Robin Berjon
Most US media is downplaying this by talking about how few soldiers were sent to Greenland yesterday by the Nordic countries, but omits the fact that they’re all planning officers, preparing first for a large exercise followed by long term stay by a larger force.
The Danish foreign minister, coming out of a meeting with the Americans: "It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland."
I don't think that people have quite measured the severity of what is happening nor the intensity of the required response.
I don't think that people have quite measured the severity of what is happening nor the intensity of the required response.
"Denmark is by all means on the right side of history" says 🇩🇰FM Rasmussen, implying 🇺🇸 is on the wrong side.
"We didn't manage to change the American position. It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland".
"We didn't manage to change the American position. It's clear that the president has this wish of conquering Greenland".
January 15, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Most US media is downplaying this by talking about how few soldiers were sent to Greenland yesterday by the Nordic countries, but omits the fact that they’re all planning officers, preparing first for a large exercise followed by long term stay by a larger force.
It's amazing how consistently the far right is for billionaires and child molesters.
Tous les jours sur CNews et soutenu par Bolloré, Morandini est définitivement condamné pour corruption de mineurs.
Il a l’interdiction définitive d’exercer une profession en contact avec des mineurs et est inscrit au fichier des auteurs d’infractions sexuelles.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Il a l’interdiction définitive d’exercer une profession en contact avec des mineurs et est inscrit au fichier des auteurs d’infractions sexuelles.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Un animateur de CNews inscrit au fichier des délinquants sexuels
La cour de cassation a confirmé la condamnation en appel de Jean-Marc Morandini pour avoir envoyé des messages à caractère sexuel à des mineurs de 15 et 16 ans et pour avoir invité chez lui un adoles…
www.mediapart.fr
January 15, 2026 at 8:40 AM
It's amazing how consistently the far right is for billionaires and child molesters.
Reposted by Robin Berjon
the vagina museum should open a branch in vienna and call it the kunthistorisches museum
January 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM
the vagina museum should open a branch in vienna and call it the kunthistorisches museum
Agreed. I've been thinking about writing something about fatigued society.
January 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Agreed. I've been thinking about writing something about fatigued society.