@joncallas
Boffin, flâneur, ailouroboskos. 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.
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
I think I would take the opposite bet, that they wouldn’t be fired even after that. The guiding principle of this administration is that the buck stops somewhere else. People in charge give orders and take credit. People below get consequences.
Always have. Always have.
Nighttime prayer:
“Dear Lord, you've taken my favorite comedian, Rob Reiner, my favorite actor, Robert Redford, and my favorite musician, Bob Weir. I just wanted to let you know my favorite politician is Donald Trump.”
Guadalupe. A real triumph. It has beaver dams and salmon spawning, all in city limits.
Cold Irons Bound
Ask your employer tomorrow why they operate an official account on the Twitter/X web service that built a child sexual assault materials generation machine & why they tacitly approve of pedophilia. Have your fellow employees ask the same question.
Ask your employer, your politician, your professional organisation, your religious leader: ask anyone who claims authority, moral or otherwise
Fully featured bbq isn’t very complex if you accept that sometimes salmonella just happens. The complexity of food preparation comes from insisting on FDA-like food handling.
I also support Aaron’s work and pay for a subscription. It is always worth reading, always informative. Thanks, @atrupar.com for your tirelessness.
Will not fix. Working as intended.
I know I’m Captain Obvious but we don’t have an administration, we have the personal rule of a monarch who has his particular hobby horses and one of those for a half century is that he thinks tariffs solve everything. Just wait it will okay in the end. And what is the downside for the monarch?
About the only ways you could fuck up more would be to put a whiskey distillery out of business or perhaps a casino.
Looks like it is a fun article. Too bad it is behind a paywall.
Perhaps the error is using first person plural instead of singular. They might have said instead of “we are running out of ideas,” they meant to say “I am running out of ideas.” It is an easy mistake to make.
Perhaps it is also a confession that this article was written by a chatbot for them.
I love it when you're having a discussion online with someone and they forget to cut this bit from their reply...
Failing to protect the rear end from the back end.
You need to refer to her as "my assistant" and snort a small half-laugh as you do so, and as they figure it out, never admit to it.
New year, new bingo cards! You can also add in guests sitting on the distinguishers for interesting puncture wounds, too!
Should someone want to subscribe to Paulina's Patreon, here it is: www.patreon.com/c/paulinabor...
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
"Ms. Borsook predicted that when the tech world had amassed sufficient money and power, it would start imposing its beliefs on everyone outside the valley"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
"Modern dentistry is great. But your dentist doesn’t insist you worship him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
AI music dorks online, in a nutshell:
It used to take me ages and oodles of money to poorly execute a lame idea, now I can do it an hour!
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
I am shooting my shot.
I love writing op-eds.
@teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you.
Signed,
A Black woman who writes for the public
Source?
Would that post have one?
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.
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.