Caroline Butler

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Infovore & storyteller for fun + fortune @ Up in the Attic Films. Clinging to belief most people are good despite...(gestures broadly).
Vancouver, Canada
Up in the Attic Filmsupintheatticfilms.com
Websitecarolinebutler.ca
Caroline ButlerMay 16, 2023
Finland’s citizens are prepared for disinformation https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/05/16/news/finland-visionary-fight-disinformation-teaches-citizens-question-online
Finland’s ‘visionary’ fight against disinformation teaches citizens to question what they see online

Finland’s media literacy education stretches beyond standard K-12 streams. Government agencies like KAVI work with 1,000 organizations — from news media to NGOs — to bring media literacy education to all citizens and in different formats. 

Canada's National Observer
Caroline ButlerMay 9, 2023
Paul FairieMay 8, 2023

A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts

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Caroline ButlerMay 8, 2023

Big Tech is Not Going to Save You

https://open.substack.com/pub/davidmoscrop/p/big-tech-is-not-going-to-save-you?r=6jjk0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Big Tech is Not Going to Save You

As Facebook and Twitter somehow get even worse, desperate internet users search for an escape to something better. Good luck with that.

David Moscrop
Caroline ButlerMay 4, 2023
The Conversation U.S.May 3, 2023

We've been on Mastodon for *9* months now!

Time for a re-#introduction to the new folks here:
We are a trustworthy, nonprofit #News source, sharing the knowledge of academic experts on many topics.

Our team of editors identifies researchers studying topics that are timely, important or just plain interesting, and helps them write understandably for the public.

We give away all this #journalism for free.

If you know new people here who'd be interested, please boost.
https://theconversation.com/us/10-ways-we-are-different

How we're different | The Conversation

The Conversation is the world's leading publisher of research-based news and analysis. It is a unique collaboration between academics and journalists, provided to everyone for free.

The Conversation
Caroline ButlerMay 3, 2023

« If democracy-minded people don’t seize control of the information environment, powerful sociopathic autocrats will do so instead. We leave a power vacuum open at our peril, and at the moment, Musk and Putin are the ones with the most will to fill it. »

https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating.

Wherein I attempt to clarify a number of ridiculous and false narratives currently taking hold about Musk and Dorsey’s “rivalry.”

Medium
Caroline ButlerMay 3, 2023
Show threadErin ConroyMay 2, 2023
Here is the best coverage I have yet to see on #Bluesky, Dorsey, & Musk - by @davetroy, from October 2022 [thanks to @heliomass]. It identifies many of the issues that I have been talking about, and does a great job outlining many other concerns as well. https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d
No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating.

Wherein I attempt to clarify a number of ridiculous and false narratives currently taking hold about Musk and Dorsey’s “rivalry.”

Medium
Caroline ButlerApr 24, 2023
Maria PopovaApr 24, 2023
A Stoic's key to peace of mind – Seneca on the antidote to anxiety https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/08/27/seneca-anxiety/
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

The Marginalian
Caroline ButlerApr 20, 2023
Robert W. GehlApr 20, 2023

The Toronto Star just published my op-ed calling on the #CBC to run its own Mastodon/fediverse server:

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/04/20/why-the-cbc-should-quit-twitter-and-run-its-own-mastodon-server.html

Opinion | Why the CBC should quit Twitter and run its own Mastodon server

Elon Musk’s decision to label the CBC as “government funded” is a good catalyst for public broadcasters to join the fediverse.

thestar.com
Caroline ButlerApr 20, 2023
David PierceApr 20, 2023
I wrote about ActivityPub, and why Elon Musk might have saved social networks by buying Twitter — just not at all in the way he meant to https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
Can ActivityPub save the internet?

Mozilla, Meta, Medium, Flipboard, Tumblr, and so many other companies are betting that the future of social networks looks more like email than it does Elon Musk’s Twitter. And they’re betting on a little-known protocol to make it happen.

The Verge
Caroline ButlerApr 20, 2023
David Mitchell Apr 20, 2023

It’s amazing to me that a significant number of Canadians have a problem with the idea of a media company owned by us - Canadian citizens - and that they are appalled at the (untrue) allegations that the CBC is swayed by the government that we - the citizens of Canada - elected.

Meanwhile, these same folks are completely unfazed that almost every single other media outlet is owned, controlled, and directed by a handful of rich white guys who don’t even live in our country.

#ABPoli #CdnPoli