Jason Butler
@jpbutler.bsky.social
Boston Product guy. CTO at Youth Inc. Creator: Serendeputy. Alum: NPR, NYT, Amazon, PlanetAll. Geekery: Elixir, Public media, startups, going green.
Good for the local high-school radio station -- playing "Folsom Prison Blues."
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Good for the local high-school radio station -- playing "Folsom Prison Blues."
It's kinda awesome that the local high school radio station -- WIQH -- is currently playing "Witch Doctor."
September 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It's kinda awesome that the local high school radio station -- WIQH -- is currently playing "Witch Doctor."
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One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users.
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
February 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
One of my tools as a critic had been a Twitter list called, "Top Journalism Linkers." Designed so that I could survey the space. It was the first thing I read in the morning. When I left it had 6.8K users.
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
Over the weekend I rebuilt it for Bluesky. You can subscribe. bsky.app/profile/jayr...
Reposted by Jason Butler
Kid has an English assignment, where school has kids first submit essay to an "AI checker." Kid did not use AI. AI checker says the use of the word "devoid" magically turned essay into 18% AI written. Changing "devoid" makes it drop to 0%. We're spending time "un-AI-ing" an essay that has no AI.
August 31, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Kid has an English assignment, where school has kids first submit essay to an "AI checker." Kid did not use AI. AI checker says the use of the word "devoid" magically turned essay into 18% AI written. Changing "devoid" makes it drop to 0%. We're spending time "un-AI-ing" an essay that has no AI.
Reposted by Jason Butler
NPR's Books We Love is out and I have a bunch of recs in it! 🧵 apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2023 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 20, 2023 at 11:54 PM
NPR's Books We Love is out and I have a bunch of recs in it! 🧵 apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
Reposted by Jason Butler
I’ve been incredibly angry — furious, even for ME — about the most loathsome and contemptible defamation suit I’ve ever seen in my career, and now Mike Masnick at TechDirt has written about the despicable case and about my anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss it. Reading it just makes me angrier.
If You Kill Two People In A Car Crash, You Shouldn’t Then Sue Their Relatives For Emailing Your Un...
Holy shit. So, in 2021 there was a car accident in Atwater California that killed a married couple, Pam and Joe Juarez. According to police reports at the time, a 20-year-old Stanford student, King…
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November 20, 2023 at 8:30 PM
I’ve been incredibly angry — furious, even for ME — about the most loathsome and contemptible defamation suit I’ve ever seen in my career, and now Mike Masnick at TechDirt has written about the despicable case and about my anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss it. Reading it just makes me angrier.
Hey there Bluesky -
Finally got an invite! Playing around with this to check the vibe, and then compare/contrast with Twitter, Mastodon, etc...
Finally got an invite! Playing around with this to check the vibe, and then compare/contrast with Twitter, Mastodon, etc...
November 13, 2023 at 9:16 PM
Hey there Bluesky -
Finally got an invite! Playing around with this to check the vibe, and then compare/contrast with Twitter, Mastodon, etc...
Finally got an invite! Playing around with this to check the vibe, and then compare/contrast with Twitter, Mastodon, etc...