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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 05/03/2026

Swiss companies must comply with Swiss warrants. It’s not optional, nor is it optional for any company in any jurisdiction. MLATs are scrutinized by the Swiss authorities. If those authorities decide to help and issue a Swiss order, there is zero discretion here for Proton or any company.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 22/02/2026

That is also my personal crackpot theory as to when we branched of the prime timeline (Bush vs. Gore) and entered our current bizarro world.

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 22/02/2026

I kind of want to build an age verification service just to make sure there’s a least one vendor that doesn’t suck and isn’t a privacy nightmare.

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 21/02/2026

You’d think that there would be enough historical examples (both very recent and not-so-recent) of how catering to the far-right leads to the center-right being eaten alive that the center-right would stop doing it.

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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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.

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 21/02/2026

It astounds me that in a time of rising authoritarianism, surveillance, and censorship, the elected leaders of liberal democracies somehow feel compelled to say, you know what we really need? More centralized governmental control of speech.

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And apparently hypocrisy.

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This is a very, very bad idea.

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Disagree, it has plenty of legitimate uses and can be very important for safety. The problem with social media isn’t that you can pretend be a cat, it’s that algorithms make inflammatory shit go viral for engagement.

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

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Banning recommendation algorithms would by itself solve a lot of social media’s ills.

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 24/01/2026

No, because that would be catastrophically idiotic.

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

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 10/01/2026

Please forward the mail to abuse@proton.me, harassment shouldn’t be OK even if it’s common.

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 10/01/2026

Harassment is absolutely against the terms of service and results in a ban. Probably a burner account but if you want to report it we can take action.

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Chaxinitus @chaxinitus.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Oh shit Castle of the Winds hell yeah

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/11/2025

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 25/10/2025

As a USian I looked at the words on this graph and wondered if I was having a stroke.

Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 20/10/2025

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

Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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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...

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How privacy can save your life | Carissa Véliz | TEDxPorto

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 10/10/2025

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

Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 20/09/2025

This is one reason I always internally roll my eyes when I hear any politician trying to run as a self-described socialist in America. Even if it accurately describes your views, it’s an electoral millstone around your neck. Do you care about winning or not?

Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 15/09/2025

I inexplicably read the beginning of this post as being about the end of the second round of quantitative easing…

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It would rebalance social media back towards big accounts, which have their own issues, but at least following someone is a conscious choice made by a human.

Indeed. I think one could do content-neutral feeds like “things your friends are seeing” without having any content sensitivity at all.

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Exactly. The fact that it’s automated doesn’t mean it’s not making editorial choices about what is seen and what isn’t. And it some places (*cough* X *cough*) the algorithm itself is clearly opinionated.

Anti-abuse is hard, can’t always get it right. Which is precisely why suspensions are not deletions.

Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 12/09/2025

My pet crackpot legal theory is that recommendation algorithms should already expose platforms to lawsuits over content as they are inherently not content-neutral and thus should make the platform itself a publisher.

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Sci-Fi: Don’t build the Torment Nexus; Tech bros: Look we built the Torment Nexus!

Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 12/09/2025

The internet was a mistake.

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It’s supposed to evoke the idea that neither we, nor anyone else compelling us, can access it at-will.

Picture is about 5 years ago, but same, nice to meet you!

It’s the same terminology we’ve used for outside messages coming into Proton Mail (also encrypted at rest) for 10 years. If we meant E2EE, we’d say it, as we do elsewhere where it applies.

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DuckDuckGo AI Chat at DuckDuckGo

Appreciate your business and trust. And no attack, just saying why DDG’s offering here is different (and worse from a privacy perspective) than Lumo.

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DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

Sure, but the actual content of the chat could be sensitive depending on what context you give the bot, that’s the risk. Much more likely in a long chat context than for a search string.

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Bart Butler @butlerb.art · 17/08/2025

Some parts of this are misunderstandings of what it does or how one would get information, i.e., the models used are listed on the @proton.me website, no hiding the ball there. And nobody claimed E2EE, it’s not, it’s encrypted at rest, which still means it would be much harder to leak conversations.

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By illegal I mean the direct advertising, not the products themselves.