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Aug 10, 2026

11 min read

Biff Got the Almanac. We Got the Timeline.

John Oliver spent a segment on what Trump has done to the DOJ, and I could not shake the feeling that I am living in Hill Valley 1985A. Biff was never the danger. The almanac was: the book that told him the outcome before the game was played. A Justice Department that lost a quarter of its lawyers, gutted its Civil Rights Division, and dropped 23,000 investigations looks a lot like a man holding a book he should not have. Hot analogy, cold evidence, and the one place the movie is wrong about us.

Policy Analysis Rule of Law Personal Story

Aug 03, 2026

10 min read

The Grill Brush That Explains the Whole Broken Economy

Destin Sandlin spent four years trying to build one grill brush entirely in America. The engineering was never the hard part. Monopsony, enshittification, and a broken knowledge chain were. I am trying to 3D-print a home on wheels in the same economy, so I took notes.

Economic Policy American Manufacturing Technology Personal Story

Jul 27, 2026

6 min read

They Didn't Break Signal. They Broke the Person Holding the Phone.

The State Department just put a $10 million bounty on two Russia-linked crews who talked Signal and WhatsApp users into handing over their backup recovery key. No exploit, no cracked encryption, just a fake support agent and a sense of urgency. The lock held. The person holding the phone did not. After nearly 30 years in this field, that gap is the whole job, and it is not closing anytime soon.

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Privacy

Jul 20, 2026

7 min read

They Didn't Hack the Agent. They Forged the Badge.

Second in a series on trust theft. A security firm never hacked anything. It forged a badge: merged a fake skill into a 36,000-star marketplace, ran an Instagram ad, and watched it spread to roughly 26,000 AI agents while every scanner called it safe. The payload was never in the package. It lived on a page the skill pointed to, swapped clean after the scan cleared.

Cybersecurity AI AI Agents

Jul 13, 2026

6 min read

They Didn't Buy an Election. They Bought the Word for It.

The first in a short series about one pattern: nothing gets hacked, something gets trusted that shouldn't. Bernie Sanders sat down with WIRED, got asked why we call Russian billionaires oligarchs but call ours entrepreneurs, and accidentally described a social-engineering attack running at the scale of a whole democracy's vocabulary. A nearly 30-year cybersecurity veteran reads Citizens United, Super PACs, and the AI automation push as one unpatched exploit wearing three costumes.

Cybersecurity Social Engineering Policy Analysis

Jul 07, 2026

7 min read

It Was Never Confusing. It Was Designed. And the Confusion Is the Point.

A Car Coach Reports video gets the first half right: the corner gas station is not gouging you. Then it hands you a respectable lie, that it is all taxes and California. That is the next layer of the same con. Part 3 of the series is about who is holding the valve, and why they need you confused to keep holding it.

Economic Policy Energy Personal Story

Jun 29, 2026

7 min read

It Was Never a Dream. It Was a Subscription. And You Can't Cancel.

First they repealed the middle class. Now they're renting it back to you, one month at a time. Musician and analyst Benn Jordan calls it Leveragism. I've spent almost thirty years inside the software industry that pioneered the model, and I watched it spread from the server room to your driveway and living room. Here's where the keys are.

Economic Policy Technology Personal Story

Jun 25, 2026

6 min read

It Was Never a Dream. It Was a Policy. And They Repealed It.

A. Mechele Dickerson went on The Daily Show to explain how America engineered its middle class through deliberate policy, then dismantled it the same way. I filed Chapter 7 on October 15, 2025. Here's what that looks like up close, and why my fall wasn't a moral failing but a predictable output.

Economic Policy Personal Story

Mar 10, 2026

8 min read

The Lethal Trifecta: AI Agents Are the Biggest PII/BII Threat Nobody's Prepared For

Security researcher Simon Willison's Lethal Trifecta framework explains why virtually every AI agent deployment is already a PII/BII timebomb: private data access + exposure to untrusted content + the ability to communicate externally. All three conditions exist in your environment right now.

Cybersecurity AI Privacy AI Agents

Mar 08, 2026

10 min read

The Clock Is Ticking: AI Can Find Your Software Vulnerabilities, and It's Learning to Exploit Them

AI just found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in two weeks. It's better at finding bugs than exploiting them, for now. That gap is closing faster than anyone is prepared for.

Cybersecurity AI Policy Analysis