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The Gorgon Protocol

Facial recognition fails unevenly, and hardest on the people it was never built for. That failure is a vulnerability you can put on your face.

surveillance biopolitics adversarial autonomy ai · 8 min read

The Bio-Age Trap

Insurers are swapping your birthday for a biological age score. The markers it reads are gendered, so menopause gets priced as accelerated decay.

biopolitics insurance algorithms surveillance ethics · 8 min read

The Glass Cage

The demand that you be readable is the demand that you be governable. On legibility, the trap of visibility, and why opacity is the freedom left.

surveillance biopolitics privacy autonomy technology · 10 min read

Make AI Data Centres Pay Their Own Way

AI data centres are infrastructure choices, not inevitabilities. Price the energy and water honestly, and verify safety claims independently.

ai-safety policy data-centres energy water governance research · 12 min read

The Limits of the Walls

Six sessions handing a live home network to an AI agent. Part 3: the memory that made it work, the division of labour, and what I'd never let it touch.

engineering networking security homelab ai-agents claude-code · 10 min read

There Is No API

The router I was reconfiguring has no public API. Part 2: driving the private endpoints the web UI calls — and the wall the agent could not script past.

engineering networking security homelab ai-agents claude-code · 11 min read

Don't Saw Off the Branch

I let an AI agent rebuild my live home network over Starlink — no console, no documented API. Part 1: building three backout paths before a single write.

engineering networking security homelab ai-agents claude-code · 12 min read

Own Your Voice

Cloud TTS rents you a voice and keeps your data. Afterwords clones it once so you own it — running locally, in a menu-bar app, or via your own API.

ai tts voice-cloning mlx apple-silicon privacy open-source · 5 min read

The Index

I taught one model to sing a suppressed manifesto. Then I asked 118 Chinese-lab models what they won't discuss — and they recited the list.

ai-safety red-teaming censorship china transparency · 7 min read

The Fight

Eight Minutes #3: a packet capture taken mid-attack, Google's own audit logs, eight abuse reports, and the passkey that ends the story.

security phishing digital-forensics incident-response · 8 min read

The Fall

Eight Minutes #2: inside the attacker's session — the live relay, the Binance pivot, and the safety nets that fired after I'd already been beaten.

security phishing account-takeover incident-response · 7 min read

The Trap

Eight Minutes #1: the vishing call, the case number, and a lure genuinely signed by Google — why every check I'd been taught to run came back green.

security phishing social-engineering incident-response · 6 min read