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.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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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
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
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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
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
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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
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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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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
—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
October 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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
—Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times
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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...
You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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...
You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...
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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.
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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.
Paulina is an old friend, co-author, and indeed, someone needs to republish "Cyberselfish."
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
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
September 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Paulina is an old friend, co-author, and indeed, someone needs to republish "Cyberselfish."
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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
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
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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
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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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
10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙
You can listen to it here:
ffm.to/pm4q3vm
September 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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
10 love / loss/ deeply romantic indie folk songs with cinematic strings 💙
You can listen to it here:
ffm.to/pm4q3vm
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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
July 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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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Always a pleasure to represent a righteous client.
Like others, I received a cease and desist letter [2] from Cloud Innovation regarding Emmanuel Vitus' Medium article "AFRINIC: Hope, Hijack, and the Harsh Lessons of African Multistakeholderism". 1/
July 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Always a pleasure to represent a righteous client.
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.
informationmagazine.com
informationmagazine.com
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.
informationmagazine.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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.
informationmagazine.com
informationmagazine.com
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so i'm teaching a course on "hope" and what's being described here is literally despair
there is a strain of very online leftism that i will call left-anarcho-pessimism or something along those lines, which is not only opposed to the idea that the state can ever do anything good but also to the idea that anyone can ever do anything good in our fallen world
October 1, 2024 at 8:32 PM
so i'm teaching a course on "hope" and what's being described here is literally despair
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Long but good read on Martial Law in the US. If you are being fearmongered about the issue, it's complicated and not nearly so linear or universal as those talking about it suggest. And it's not anything the US military is prepared to do by doctrine/geography.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Martial Law in the United States: Its Meaning, Its History, and Why the President Can’t Declare It
The concept has never been well understood. What should be clear, however, is that the president lacks the authority to declare it.
www.brennancenter.org
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Long but good read on Martial Law in the US. If you are being fearmongered about the issue, it's complicated and not nearly so linear or universal as those talking about it suggest. And it's not anything the US military is prepared to do by doctrine/geography.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."
June 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"Black applicants would, on average, need credit scores approximately 120 points higher than white applicants to receive the same approval rate, and about 30 points higher to receive the same interest rate."
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I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them
Night of the long knives but literally there’s no plan and everyone is just stabbing each other wildly and the stabbing is quote-poasting
June 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them
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My first song in 5 years came out last Wednesday. It’s an indie-folk song I wrote about being a deeply romantic person living in decidly unromantic times. Here’s the link if that sounds like it might be your kinda thing:
ffm.to/n35r6m7
ffm.to/n35r6m7
Emma Swift - No Happy Endings
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June 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My first song in 5 years came out last Wednesday. It’s an indie-folk song I wrote about being a deeply romantic person living in decidly unromantic times. Here’s the link if that sounds like it might be your kinda thing:
ffm.to/n35r6m7
ffm.to/n35r6m7
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I've recently discovered that a fun way to get over any lingering anxiety about releasing an album is to immediately start making a follow up 😹
May 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I've recently discovered that a fun way to get over any lingering anxiety about releasing an album is to immediately start making a follow up 😹
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Thanks to @theneedledropnews.bsky.social for the first review of my new single, “No Happy Endings” 💜
theneedledrop.com/news/emma-sw...
theneedledrop.com/news/emma-sw...
Emma Swift announces first album in 5 years with new single "No Happy Endings"
'The Resurrection Game' drops on 12 September via Tiny Ghost Records.
theneedledrop.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thanks to @theneedledropnews.bsky.social for the first review of my new single, “No Happy Endings” 💜
theneedledrop.com/news/emma-sw...
theneedledrop.com/news/emma-sw...
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Emma’s new single: moving swiftly already! Yaysville!
Thanks to @theneedledropnews.bsky.social for the first review of my new single, “No Happy Endings” 💜
theneedledrop.com/news/emma-sw...
theneedledrop.com/news/emma-sw...
Emma Swift announces first album in 5 years with new single "No Happy Endings"
'The Resurrection Game' drops on 12 September via Tiny Ghost Records.
theneedledrop.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Emma’s new single: moving swiftly already! Yaysville!
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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.
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Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
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May 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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President Declines Gift (1925)
May 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
President Declines Gift (1925)
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4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday
May 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday