Bart Butler

The internet was a mistake.

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

I am so old I remember when state action in the form of a prior restraint was considered bad. And by bad, I mean like the worst thing ever. But this is prior restraint jacked up on book banning steroids mixed with horrific bigotry.

The moment a government department with “Homeland” in the name was created everyone knew that it would end up doing fascist shit.

Republicans are much too afraid of their base and Democrats not nearly afraid enough of theirs.

Oh shit Castle of the Winds hell yeah

Aside from some payments stuff (unavoidable), one guess whose services have no AWS dependencies and were up all day today…hint is in bio.

Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...

Mike Johnson, resident Congressional Keebler elf, is a tiny man who is somehow even smaller metaphorically.

“Once people get a taste for humiliating, they will fight very hard to be able to keep doing it. Like an addiction, the competitively powerful will often put this urge above all else and behave in profoundly self-destructive ways to chase it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Useful post, as s longterm Protonmail and suite user, happy to see it mentioned at lot because it is good. Recently also using cryptpad instead of google docs for sensitive colabs. And of course Ecosia search for the trees! And it is reliable and good!

When you’re just trying to get home but PSG wins the Champion’s League

Gmail was never truly free... ...free yourself from Gmail.

async await async await async await async await in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵

"Nothing to hide" is one of the biggest lies going.

Made grilled cheese with most of a block of Stilton, had a little left over, now I have a…rump o’Stilton.

The Netherlands does flowers right.

As if I needed *more* reasons to simp for @proton.me

Periodic reminder that surveillance capitalism can and is easily repurposed to facilitate tyranny, which is why it shouldn’t exist. Privacy matters.

I helped my 77-year-old father load some audiobooks on his phone about week ago. He told me today, 2 books in, that he “didn’t think anyone had ever read to him before.” I almost cried—everyone should have that.

before tiktok, before bluesky, before twitter, before meta, before it all, there were sewers. after all, there will be sewers.

We’re not in Kansas anymore.

Pre-inauguration constitutional crisis was not on my 2025 bingo card.

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About to call stateside relatives and wish them a Happy New Year…from the *future*…

It took 3 years, but it finally happened: Wordle 1,290 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Apparently the Paris opera house and the Millennium Falcon share schematics.

I think I was just saved from a French bank scam phone call largely by being trash at speaking French so the guy gave up.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Privacy advocate: Nobody should be able to see what’s inside the cup without its explicit consent.

In never expected to have to search for “Peanut squirrel onlyfans tax fraud” to understand the 2024 election. Definitely an incognito window for that one.