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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 22h

Source?

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 22h

Would that post have one?

Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 4d

Not having an iPad app was a huge issue for me and Bluesky just because of the way I do things. I like having a phone, a tablet that is a bridge device (I can use either fingers or keyboard), and my Real Computer. So I am just reveling now.

Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 4d

I like it, but yeah. I’m doing Bluesky in it now, and thank god I have a viable option. At the same time, the back button in the app is mostly obscured by the traffic lights upper left.

Whatever, man, whatever. E release.

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 4d

Soon. The pink wig opens the door to meta costumes.

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politiburb @politiburb.bsky.social · 15d

Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 15d

If I wash up a pretty rock and say, “look at this pretty rock,” it isn’t (yet) art. If I put it in jewelry, it is. The photographer has to do something. It is a big smeary line, and lots of meta things can be art. There has to be artifice. And how much artifice is a debate.

Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 15d

No, for the reasons Amy says and more. I will steal the mcd’s quip. I’m pretty radical on acceptance of art, but art implies intention. Art comes from artifice. One can take found things and make art, including pretty stones on the ground or accidental selfies. They themselves are not art (yet) art.

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 20d

I just get mine from a mix.

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Oct 4

It’s essential that you find common ground with Trump supporters. For instance, you know that you have many flaws, and they believe you are less than human. Work with that.

—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Oct 1

Sorry. I bought up as much of Randall Grahm’s “I am not drinking any &£$@ing merlot” (which was a merlot) as I could.

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Oct 1

Congratulations! So well deserved!

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Michael A. Specter 👻 @mikespecter.com · Sep 29

Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags.

You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 25

I know that if we all completely stopped reacting to Alex Jones he probably won’t just die, but it seems to me we should give it a shot.

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Sep 25

The term of art is "mattress run," a back-formation from the slang term "milage run," an airline trip to hit a milage goal. I once did a mattress run for the same reason. Found a cheap out of the way place, and just went there every day, moved the bedding around, ate the fruit plate and left.

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Sep 25

Paulina is an old friend, co-author, and indeed, someone needs to republish "Cyberselfish."

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Sep 24

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Sep 24

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Emma Swift @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social · Sep 17

Love and thanks to everyone who has checked out my new album, “The Resurrection Game”. It’s been out for five days now!

10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙

You can listen to it here:

ffm.to/pm4q3vm

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you. My Twitter experience is cleaner than my experience here because I block early, often, and so much, that it isn't awful, especially considering the source. Here, though, it's all outrage about what goes on there. When some fashie posts their latest bile, I find it here, not there.

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Aug 19

Doubly ouch.

Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Aug 10

Woot! Looking forward to getting it!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Jul 30

The threat of having to submit your ID to speak online is chilling, especially as we’re watching ideological capture and capitulation play out across traditional media and institutions. And it’s particularly gutting that sex workers and digital rights activists have been sounding alarms for years

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Jul 20

So why don’t y’all just use it? Come on. You know how!

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Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Jul 13

Samuel Butler says in “The Way of All Flesh” something I always garble as, “virtue, like gold, is stronger when alloyed with baser metals.”

Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · Jul 13

A boss/mentor of mine used to say, “do you want to be right, or do you want to win?” And at times “be effective.” The most frustrating people I have had to work with are the ones who want to be right and worst are the ones who prefer to lose, as that lets them say “if only they listened to me…”

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