Jon Callas
joncallas.bsky.social
Jon Callas
@joncallas.bsky.social
Boffin, flâneur. Kubrick homage self-portraitist. Also cryptography, human rights, and stuff. Founded PGP, Blackphone, others; worked for DEC, Apple, SRI, ACLU, EFF, others. Was ShmooCon program chair for all twenty conferences.
Source?
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Would that post have one?
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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.
November 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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.
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Soon. The pink wig opens the door to meta costumes.
November 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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.
October 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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.
October 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I just get mine from a mix.
October 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Sorry. I bought up as much of Randall Grahm’s “I am not drinking any &£$@ing merlot” (which was a merlot) as I could.
October 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Congratulations! So well deserved!
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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.
September 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Doubly ouch.
August 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Woot! Looking forward to getting it!
August 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
So why don’t y’all just use it? Come on. You know how!
July 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM