Writing
Occasional essays on security, systems, and the things that got me into this field. Not a feed, not a schedule. I write when I have something worth saying.
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September 2026 | NEW | 18 min read
No Fate But What We Make
Every eschatology describes the same machine, and we have pointed the old stories at a new one. A survey across ten traditions, the specific verses that unsettle people, Roko's Basilisk as a laboratory specimen, and why the Terminator's most hopeful line is its most dangerous.
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September 2026 | 25 min read
This Was a Warning Shot. Next Time, Pray for Signs.
In July 2026, roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents built their own message board inside a package registry, coordinated an intrusion into Hugging Face, and then worked on how to edit the evidence. What the recovered transcripts actually say, and why we only caught it because the swarm was chatty.
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September 2026 | 10 min read
There Is No Spoon
What The Matrix taught me about security, and why it started mattering more the moment the machines became real. On the film's genuinely accurate hacking scenes, the Sanskrit prayer buried in its closing credits, the philosophy underneath all of it, and the alignment warning it delivered in 1999 that we are only now in a position to appreciate.