Johannes Ernst

No Kings Alliance — No Kings Authoritarianism thrives on silence. The No Kings Alliance exists to make capitulation impossible—and resistance unstoppable.

And now there is a #NoKings alliance.

www.nokings.org/alli...

Great idea!

Thesis: a social media platform that does not make you addicted will always have fewer daily active users than one that does make you addicted.

Question: How many fewer? 10%? 90%?

Wanted to talk about the fact that the ONLY form of communication/transparency the MAGA world seems to believe in is "trolling the libs." And why they're doing that. And why it's so stupid.

Trump, 79, Wanders Off While Meeting Japanese Prime Minister In an embarrassing moment caught on video, it’s clear Donald Trump gets confused and walks away from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

This is fine, nothing to see on that video. Nothing at all. Just very stable genius stuff.

newrepublic.com/post/202339/...

#trump #japan

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

Beautifully written, funny and true imho:

“AI MAY NOT simply be “a bubble,” or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab if your aim was to engineer the Platonic ideal of a tech bubble.”

One thing I love about elections in California is how many options there are to cast your ballot. I chose to vote in person more than a week ahead of voting day.

A certain sign of how much a party or governments supports democracy is whether they make it easier or harder to vote.

These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa” If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.

If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.

+1. The speaker won’t call it to session, and won’t swear in a vote determining member. We’re just doing House of Representatives theater now, and it’s been intermission for a while.

Seems like Trump having to blatantly lie about Reagan’s policies is a pretty good sign it’s the Republican Party that has shifted drastically to the extreme.

What would those “individual groups” be?

It’s not a ballroom he wants. He just calls it that.

He wants a throne room. Where the subjects and vassals can prostrate themselves in front of him.

At least that makes a lot more sense to me.

Fediverse Report #139 On the changing environment that the open social web exists in, and how to build better places for communities.

@laurenshof.online observes that "the process [for how to build online social communities] described by Werdmuller is pretty much opposite to how development on both the fediverse and the ATmosphere has happened so far".

I agree! And I think @werd.io is right!

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

The question is whether social media companies, and/or browser companies will implement it in a manner that it actually reduces fake news. Given that fake news drives ads, I would not hold my breath ...

OpenAI’s new Atlas browser is the best surveillance device yet invented. Congratulations!

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

The president of the United States has a revenge committee.

America has become an authoritarian state.

modern measurement record”

That acceleration is the scariest of all those CO2 numbers.

wmo.int/sites/defaul...
2/2

“CO2 growth rates accelerated significantly from an
average of 0.8 ppm per year in the 1960s to 2.4 ppm per
year in the decade from 2011 to 2020… From 2023 to
2024, CO2 in the global surface atmosphere increased
by 3.5 ppm; this was the largest one-year increase in the
1/2

Ben's keynote from #FediForum has made it to the front page of Hacker News.

news.ycombinator.com...

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

Here’s my writeup of #FediForum (the openings at least). Loved the message of @ben’s keynote — everything big starts small — and I was impressed by the fedi products showcased: @altstore ( @rileytestut), Bounce ( @quillmatiq, @snarfed.org), Frequency ( @jesseplusplus), CrowdBucks ( @reiver) & […]

FediForum FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

The keynote and demo recordings, as well as session notes, from FediForum October 2025 are now online.

Checkout our website https://fediforum.org, which also has links to our PeerTube and YouTube channels.

FediForum Demo: Bounce: A Migration Tool for the Open Social Web Speed demo by Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq@mastodon.social, @quillmatiq.com) and Ryan Barrett (@snarfed.org@snarfed.org, @snarfed.org) at FediForum June 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-06

"Bouncing from ActivityPub to ATProto".

Did you know you could pack up your Mastodon account and move to Bluesky, reconnecting with your followers? And vice versa?

Here are the demos from #FediForum to show how to:

spectra.video/w/nUaL... (one way)
spectra.video/w/pMRU... (the other way)

FediForum Demo: Frequency Social Speed demo by Jesse Karmani, founder (@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social, @frequency@frequency.app, @jesseplusplus.bsky.social) at FediForum October 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-10

Social media does not have to be on a public town square, or manipulate you.

Here's @jesseplusplus.bsky.social's demo at #FediForum showing off Frequency Social, a federated, privacy-first social networking app.

The even more interesting number is the ratio between number blocked (24,000+) vs followers (800+).

Something like 30:1. Is that a record?

A tweet from Armand Domalewski reads: “The total USAID budget was $35 billion by the way.” Below it, a retweeted post from More Perfect Union says: “BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.”

Not a peep from Musk about this government spending. Was the chainsaw from him worth it, Elon?