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Jason Butterfield
@jasonbu.online
I’m a data integration and system automation specialist based in Ontario, Canada. I live with my wife, our three sons, each off on their own exciting journeys, and our two dogs, who join me on my regular hiking trips. When I’m not deep in the world of data integration and…
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An 'Ally' Can Still Be a Threat
Washington should not get to decide who studies American interference
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Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation
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Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation is a hauntingly plausible speculative novel told through a fractured archive of testimonies, smuggled documents, corrupted broadcasts, and the reflections of a vanished resistance archivist. Set in a near-future Canada quietly annexed under the banner of continental “unity,” the story unfolds through recovered files curated by the last person who tried to remember out loud—Jason Butterfield.
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site.standard.documentWhy AT Protocol, and Where WordPress Ran Out of Road
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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Shadow Diplomacy and the Slow Erosion of Democracy
The Alberta Prosperity Project isn’t a gov’t. Yet it claims “cabinet-level” U.S. talks on independence. No names. No proof. This is theatre, not statecraft. Shadow diplomacy like this erodes trust and feeds disinfo. Democracy leaks by a thousand cuts.
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- An 'Ally' Can Still Be a Threat
Washington should not get to decide who studies American interference
standard.site - A Canadian Social Network Is Not the Point
Taking a break from algorithmic sludge, and finding a small Canadian corner of the internet that still feels human (actual humans).
standard.site - Armies Seize Territory. Empires Seize Language.
What renaming a lake tells us about sovereignty, and the normalization of ownership
standard.site - Bluesky Is Flat. Fine. Look Under the Hood.
Monthly active users are useful. They’re just not enough to measure the Atmosphere.
standard.site - The importer: WXR, dry-run, idempotency, and why slugs are sacred
A practical guide to migrating WordPress content to an AT Protocol PDS
standard.site Why Information Literacy Matters in 2025
“Canada is broken.” “Project 2025 will save America.” “Memes are the new news.” Those lines have probably flashed across your feed in the last few months. They’re not just headlines, hashtags, or jokes — they’re weapons.
standard.siteMemoir Fragment #010: Uneven Dystopias
Dystopia isn’t arriving, it’s already here, just unevenly distributed. For some, it’s daily survival; for others, a new shock. This memoir fragment explores how silence becomes complicity, why endurance is not apathy, and how writing can stand as witness.
standard.siteDispatch #009: Guardrails
The road wound higher than I remembered, climbing through high hills with just enough guardrail to suggest safety. On one side, forested hills stretched into layers of green and shadow. On the other, a drop, sharp and unforgiving, reminded me of gravity’s patience. Above it all, a clear sky stretched like a promise.
standard.siteMemoir Fragment #008: While the Cottage Slept
Coffee in one hand, edits in the other, the rest of the cottage still asleep.
standard.siteTransmission #007: Red Marks & Heatwaves
Proof copy in hand. Red pen out. Beta readers circling. This book’s a risky one, fractured timelines, testimonies, and media scraps stitched into a story I hope makes sense outside my skull.
standard.siteDispatch #006: Chapter One, Take Two
Hit a wall, and tore it down. After finalizing layout and hitting the halfway point in edits for Pejorative, I circled back to Chapter One and knew it had to go.
standard.siteTransmission #005: Between Edits and Empires
standard.siteDispatch #004: Signal Received, Doubt Pending
standard.siteDispatch #003: Smoke, Slogans, and the Signal Beneath
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