Johannes Ernst

@ifpg.bsky.social is offering the most comprehensive & detailed analysis of AI's impact on the 2026 midterm elections by investigating the platforms voters are using to ask common questions in an extended time series from July to election day. innovatingforpublicgood.substack.com/p/new-analys...

My ballot has been accepted, yeah! VOTE if you have not already. In the US right now and everywhere all the time. #vote #elections

Nothing puts the lie to "PHP is irrelevant" like "good morning, 70% of the internet needs to be fixed ASAP".

A new social network, for coders, built on top of GitHub. Not supporting any of the open social protocols AFAIK but it is done extremely well -- product as well as strategy! Not "social media is for everybody and everything" but focused! That's the way IMHO.

Love or hate AI for coding, this is an interesting piece: engineering.fb.com/2026/10/15/m...

There’s another reason for decentralization of computation and use of smaller neighborhood or home servers: data centers are now a prime target in the case of war. We’ve seen that in the Persian gulf recently and this is from today in the Ukraine conflict. kyivindependent.com/flames-explo...

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

#nokings today again. See you on the street!

Here we thought that one Scaramucci was the shortest time unit known to politics, like the femtosecond in physics, but it turns out that that one Zacharia is merely half as long.

15 days left for the Call for Papers, 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Theme: Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. For more details, visit the Summit's website: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

The Call for Presentations (CFP) is now open for @atmosphereconf.org We're looking forward to seeing your great submissions!

Are you a developer or creator on the open social web and you are looking for funding? FediForum Connect now lists the funding opportunities that we are aware of. ...

TIL that it's apparently remarkable that I don't own a TV. (Somebody put that side comment of mine into the notes of a #FediForum session followed by four (!!!!) exclamation points.)

Written by @willrobinson1776.bsky.social and myself... My team studied every competitive House, Senate and Gov camapiagn sites: neither side is even trying on AI. But there is still time to change the one thing they have direct control on to inform AI Answers. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Nothing to see here, just a national *news* station airing a segment where they do open anti-Muslim racism and laugh about beating the shit out of a Democratic senate candidate

you can see my previous fediforum talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_6T...

Join the FediForum unconference this coming Tuesday, organized by @j12t.org fediforum.org/2026-10/

Always nice to see your code working, even if it is a trivial gimmick: the hourglass countdown to next week's FediForum now has most of the sand in the bottom glass. Live: fediforum.org

Silicon Valley.

Invest in us, invest in us, so we have the money we need to further increase the risk to wipe out humanity!

And we thought Meta was a social media company.

One of these days a major company is going to go under because the amount of vibe-coded code they have is so unsurmountable and unmaintainable, business comes to a full stop. Who is with me on this? #AI #vibecoding

✅ Flu shot. ✅ COVID shot.

Amazon is giving up on their data center that was attacked in the Middle East. health.aws.amazon.co...

Now the gods are just messing with us.

NoKings is back October 17. On a public street near you. See you then? https://www.nokings.org #NoKings

The threat landscape appears to have fundamentally changed.

Detailed, thought out and very scary. www.4hunger.org/p/hunger-for...

This is deeply disturbing, on so many levels. www.dwarkesh.com/p/o... #openai #huggingface

So Meta's Threads apparently has a feature called "Black Threads" now. I'll eat my hat if that wasn't "inspired" by @rude1.blacksky.team's Blacksky in some fashion. www.threads.com/sear...

Another set of large companies get extra rules and scrutiny by the EU.

The first real exception to the seemingly unstoppable march of age verification laws. At least that I have seen.

"... alleged that Meta estimated hiding like counts [for teens] would reduce its advertising revenue by 1 percent and then declined to make the setting the default."

$18 billion! Some of this money should go to fund better alternatives.

For those of you in Bluesky / ATProto land who would like to know what is going on with standardization around the #ActivityPub stack, you can now follow the W3C' Social Web Community Group at @socialcg.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy , thanks to #bridgyfed!

Rabble is having fun! Divine is clearly wanting to be a mainstream social media product (Taco Bell!) but still avoid the negative parts of commercial media!