Thoughts, experiences, and insights from my journey in technology, automation, and the occasional failed experiment.
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.
Read MoreSecurity 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.
Read MoreAI 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.
Read MoreI'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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreMicrosoft'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.
Read MoreALPRs 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.
Read MoreDOGE wasn't an efficiency project. It was a power-and-data consolidation machine dressed up in budget cosplay. Federal spending barely moved, but a Social Security dataset on more than 300 million Americans was copied into a high-risk cloud environment, and the government now admits in court that DOGE staff sent private records outside the agency. Stop asking if DOGE saved money. Start asking who has your data.
Read MoreThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints added AI guidance to its handbook, and this agnostic privacy hawk thinks it holds up. Strip out the theology and four rules remain: keep your integrity, do your own thinking, don't take high-stakes advice from a model, and keep sensitive data out of AI tools you don't control.
Read MoreBecause it's a badge of honor, a conversation starter, and a nod to one of the best chapters of my career. The story behind a BigFix tattoo that started as a joke, the community that showed up after my first spinal surgery, and the thread BigFix still runs from Kroger to HCL Software to 3D Nomadic.
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