Jon Callas

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

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.

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.

I just get mine from a mix.

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

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

Congratulations! So well deserved!

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...

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.

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.

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

photo of paulina borsook

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

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:

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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.

Doubly ouch.

Woot! Looking forward to getting it!

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

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

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

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…”

There’s no arguing with logic like this.

Always a pleasure to represent a righteous client.

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Here's a preview of "My Toyota Ratted Me Out" on Spotify:

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It's an old-school print magazine high production values, over three dozen writers, an eighteen-page comic, and a flexi-disc of the exclusive single "My Toyota Ratted Me Out" from the band, The Layoffs. On sale now at the web site.

In Formation Magazine Every day, computers are making people easier to use. The cult magazine about what tech is doing to us is back after 25 years.

A fun project I've been working on for a while is out now, In Formation Magazine, tagline: "Every day, computers are making people easier to use." I'm a contributing editor and columnist.

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I run both Terminal and Warp at the same time. There I times when yes, I just want a vt100 with fonts. Warp is cool and useful though.

It also has notebooks for snippets, shared sessions with other people and more. Like the output of each command it a text snippet you can use.

You may not like it, but it is a real rethink of what a command line tool should be, and not just a vt100 emulator with fonts.

It is far more opt in than out, in other words. It is in general my most pleasant
LLM interactions because I can ask which rsync option I need.

You either don’t click the “use ai” button or refrain from typing in things like “how do I convert a wav file to mp3 320kbps”

Terminal. The name says what it does. Customizable enough.

If you don’t like that answer, then Warp dot dev is a very cool rethinking of what a command line application ought to do. It also has Claude built into it, for those who like such things.