Robin Berjon

The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that.

Rum babas have a reputation for being hard to bake, and indeed if you look around you can find some really intricate recipes.

I have often found myself confounded by the behaviour of some people who seem impervious to reality — like the people still on X today.

Talking in terms of horizontal or vertical interoperability is too constrictive a mental model to understand what interoperability does.

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.

Digital sovereignty has a bad reputation.

The explosion of digital infrastructure systems over the past thirty years may be the biggest but least recognised shock delivered by the internet.

People mean well but ethics is hard.

What if the internet were public interest technology?

We know from experience and empirical analysis that open source and open standards projects drift into oligarchies that struggle to reform themselves and become ossified.