Johannes Ernst
Engineer, founder, organizer. More: https://j12t.org
- I’ve been waiting for rogue radios hidden inside other equipment as an attack vector for a long time. And here were are. Solar inverters may not all be what they appear. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
- Question of the day: What would Doug Engelbart have made of ChatGPT?
- Very interesting! In both what it covers and what it does not :-) Read this if you are a geek. atproto.com/articles/atp...
- Reposted by Johannes Ernst1/14 New Investigation! Facebook is quietly being overrun by co-ordinated networks of AI slop, hijacked celebrity pages, and engagement-baiting fake news spreading polarizing disinfo and propaganda. Upwards of 22 million users have been exposed. #ReadIfYouLoveJesus👇 #disinfo
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstWhen they tell you who they are, believe them. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wh-...
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstDHS confirms to @axios.com that they are considering arresting Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez. Watson Coleman's office says they reviewed the body cam footage and that it proves "nobody 'assaulted' any agents." More here: www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...
- Excellent third piece in @werd.io's series on product strategies for the open social web. werd.io/2025/if-i-st...
- No kings. Call for counter-protests on Trump's birthday, the day he wants to have the military parade. www.nokings.org
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstThis exchange is so very telling. Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this: "I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
- Bluesky account confirmation e-mail has the footer: "Bluesky, the social internet." Hmm.
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstThe most daming claim in this statement IMO: Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created… Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds. Correct usernames and passwords. 2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
- My friend @werd.io wrote what I think is some of the best Open Social Web strategy I've seen anywhere, first for #Bluesky and then for #Mastodon. Read this. You may not all agree, but it's worth your time. werd.io/2025/if-i-ra... werd.io/2025/if-i-ra...
- Reposted by Johannes Ernst"Like Amazon, but with human beings."
- Reposted by Johannes Ernst-Trump bans the AP from the White House press pool -Judge orders AP be allowed back into the pool -Trump admin continues to block AP from the pool, and then censors the pool report noting the AP was turned away. Great reporting from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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- Reposted by Johannes ErnstYesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.
- @rokhanna.bsky.social Your townhall e-mail template needs an update to steer people preferably to here, or to Mastodon. Why would you want people to follow you on X, where the opposition can silence you any time?
- Reposted by Johannes Ernst🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
- “The American age is over.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstNo executive order has the potential to do more permanent damage to our constitutional system than the one Trump signed last week targeting free and fair elections. It is both an unconstitutional power grab and a clear violation of federal law. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
- Reposted by Johannes Ernst💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.
- Cory Booker just broke Strom Thurmond's record for the longest speech in the Senate of the United states at more than 24 hours and 19 minutes. 👏👏👏
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstThe number of Canadians traveling to the US and spending money here is plummeting after Trump’s attacks against the country. Flight bookings between the two countries are down by over 70%.
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- The National Insecurity Advisor.
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstWhen scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
- Reposted by Johannes Ernst“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
- OH: "nobody has ever seen a government assassinate itself. Not like this."
- 23andme is about to go under. If they have your data and/or samples, consider downloading / deleting / destroying immediately. The California Attorney General says how to: oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...
- “Today’s foreign policy is brought to you by … ExxonMobil.” Coming soon right here in this shit show. www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/p...
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstIf a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.
- Read this and weep. (On a good day. On all others: be terrified.)
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstI believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy.
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- Reposted by Johannes ErnstRubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.
- On Hugh Hewitt’s show, Marco Rubio says El Salvador is “housing” people sent by the US. But he never says on what possible legal authority? These people haven’t committed any crime in El Salvador and by their own admission “many” have never committed a crime in the US. It all seems entirely lawless.
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- Bluesky has found its business model, yay!! :-)
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- Reposted by Johannes ErnstFrom a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstThe USPS is being threatened with massive layoffs and privatization. I made these postcards which—when mailed—will be seen by mail handlers, scanners, carriers and the recipient. I just printed 3,000 more. Order cheaply from halfletterpress.com or message me your email for the PDF to print them.
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstPeople need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
- Umair is not wrong.
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstTo put it in clearer terms…
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- Reposted by Johannes ErnstOther people are still at "is it a constitutional crisis yet?" and I'm at "the crisis was several exits ago, the car has crashed, we're now just seeing how many cars end up in the pileup and how high the casualty count is" or "the house is actively burning down, the question is what's left after."
- This is not a drill. The republic hangs by a thread. newrepublic.com/post/192805/...
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- Reposted by Johannes ErnstI am tracking 3 separate cases where the government is violating court orders. The question now is whether judges find willfulness and hold officials in contempt. Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
- Reposted by Johannes Ernst“Leftists cannot tolerate other ideas” said the people who disappear their political enemies
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- Reposted by Johannes ErnstOfficials say the Trump administration transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge ordered their removals be stopped
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- Reposted by Johannes ErnstPer two WH sources to Axios, and in case there was any doubt of it, yes: it was intentional defiance of the court order
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- Reposted by Johannes Ernst🚨BREAKING: It seems very clear that the Administration decided not to abide by the court's order. The question now is what will the judge do. Does he proceed with contempt or something short of that to defuse. Upping the stakes is the fact that the AG and her senior staff signed this notice.
- Reposted by Johannes ErnstWhoever is doing this in the UK deserves an award.
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