My Blog

Thoughts, experiences, and insights from my journey in technology, automation, and the occasional failed experiment.

Filter by tag (pick one or more)

Personal Story14 Cybersecurity12 AI10 Technology10 Policy Analysis8 Privacy7 Economic Policy4 Surveillance4 BigFix3 Endpoint Management3 My Default Config Was Neurotypical3 Neurodivergence3 RV Life3 AI Agents2 Enterprise IT2 Healthcare2 Social Engineering2

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First they repealed the middle class.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 And They Repealed It.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

Mar 03, 2026

20 min read

An Open Letter to Every Lawmaker Who Has Never Felt Chronic Pain

I'm a 49-year-old chronic pain patient with a fused spine, a late-in-life AuDHD diagnosis, and nearly a decade of opioid dependency behind me. Medical cannabis gave me my life back. In return, my home state of Texas won't let me legally access it, federal law calls me a criminal for crossing state lines to get it, and the same government that approves pharmaceutical cannabis derivatives wants to strip my Second Amendment rights over a plant. I'm done being quiet.

Healthcare Policy Analysis Personal Story

Feb 20, 2026

9 min read

The Information Noose: The Systemic Erasure of the First Amendment

The founders knew that controlling the flow of information is how kings control what people think. In 2026 that control is being rebuilt from two directions: billionaires buying the pipes, from CBS to TikTok to a bid for CNN's parent, and a Presidency squeezing the valves with lawsuits, FCC pressure, and press bans. The answer is not to fight inside their systems. It is to build new ones.

Free Speech Policy Analysis

Feb 11, 2026

12 min read

Six Zero-Days and a Side of AI Risk: The February 2026 Patch Reality Check

Microsoft's February 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 54 vulnerabilities, and six are zero-days already exploited in the wild. The quieter risk: three remote code execution flaws in GitHub Copilot and popular IDEs that prompt injection can trigger. What to patch first, how to stage it, and why AI coding agents need to be treated like privileged services.

Cybersecurity Patch Management AI

Feb 10, 2026

12 min read

The Privacy Crisis: Surveillance Technology and Its Impact on American Cities

ALPRs aren't just traffic cameras. They record every passing plate, innocent drivers included, and EFF's analysis of Oakland's own data found them concentrated in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. Commercial databases sell the sightings, and some Flock cameras were found exposed to the open internet with no password. Stop asking if ALPRs catch criminals. Start asking who is tracking your every move.

Privacy Surveillance Policy Analysis