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The Butterfield Dispatch

@jasonbu.online
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Signal, coffee, and field notes from the open web.

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An 'Ally' Can Still Be a Threat
Oct 8, 2026
Washington should not get to decide who studies American interference
sovereigntycanada
And Then the Networks Started Talking
Sep 19, 2026
Gander, Eurosky, and interoperability is coming
at-protocolatmosphere
The Beauharnois Cutover
Sep 13, 2026
Assembled in Canada: How Sovereign Is My Website?
A Canadian Social Network Is Not the Point
Sep 6, 2026
Taking a break from algorithmic sludge, and finding a small Canadian corner of the internet that still feels human (actual humans).
journeysovereignty
The Turing Collapse
Sep 1, 2026
When we can no longer tell who's real online
Armies Seize Territory. Empires Seize Language.
Aug 29, 2026
What renaming a lake tells us about sovereignty, and the normalization of ownership
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writingjourney
Bluesky Is Flat. Fine. Look Under the Hood.
Aug 14, 2026
Monthly active users are useful. They’re just not enough to measure the Atmosphere.
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Why I Built Byline.pub
Jun 28, 2026
Owning Your Books Beyond One Website
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journeyat-protocol
The importer: WXR, dry-run, idempotency, and why slugs are sacred
Jun 23, 2026
A practical guide to migrating WordPress content to an AT Protocol PDS
lab
Why AT Protocol, and Where WordPress Ran Out of Road
Jun 16, 2026
The architecture call behind the rebuild: what a decade on a CMS taught me, and what I'm betting on instead.
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labat-protocol
Thirty Years Online, and I Never Owned the Ground
Jun 14, 2026
From Windows 95 to the AT Protocol, and why this is the last time I rebuild this site (at least the backend).
at-protocolatmosphere
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