Cloud security engineer, writer, and builder. I design secure AWS/Terraform platforms, spin up useful side projects, and explore privacy, governance, and sovereignty—plus the occasional poem and how-to.
Philosophy
TLDR * The word liberal has shifted toward engineered outcomes, expert rule, identity based policy, and speech controls, drifting from liberty first principles. * Many modern liberal policies mirror Marxist premises and tend toward soft despotism, relying on centralized control, enforcement, and managed speech. * Marxism and communism share core aims: class conflict
Governance
TLDR * The modern web is built on surveillance capitalism that harvests data, manipulates behavior, and treats users as products. * Tor offers a parallel, non-commercial internet by protecting anonymity, resisting censorship, and decentralizing control. * Lawmakers and corporate interests often target privacy tools like Tor and VPNs, seeking to preserve surveillance and
Poetry
Behold the land once girded by a sacred bond, Where fields were plowed by hands both proud and fond; One voice, one altar, one ancestral dream, Flowed through the nation like a hallowed stream. Not born of conquest, nor of empire’s flame, But of shared hearth, shared faith, and
Policy
TLDR * Modern connected cars double as surveillance devices, continuously logging location, behavior, and personal habits. * Vehicle APIs massively expand who can access your data (automakers, insurers, advertisers, data brokers), often with broad default permissions. * Embedded control systems now enable active enforcement, including remote kill switches for missed payments and digital
Policy
TLDR * The FROST Act shifts government from proprietary software (like Windows) to free and open source alternatives. * Government records must be stored in open formats, and government-developed software must be published in public Git repositories. * Self-hosted blockchain systems provide tamper-evident records and transparent smart contracts. * Modern architectures such as microservices,
Policy
TLDR * Blockchain ledgers can replace fragmented, paper-heavy financial records with immutable, shared data, improving transparency, security, and trust across banks and governments. * In banking, blockchain streamlines trade finance, cross-border payments, KYC/AML, and syndicated lending, cutting fraud, delays, and operational costs while enabling real-time visibility. * Governments can use blockchain for
Technology
TLDR * Corporate-controlled social media has effectively privatized public discourse, concentrating power over information flow in a few platforms and posing a direct threat to democratic governance. * Decentralized, federated platforms and protocols (e.g., ActivityPub/fediverse) let governments, organizations, and individuals own their own instances while staying interoperable, mirroring American federalism,
Policy
TLDR * Unlike fossil fuels, nuclear offers carbon-free, 24/7 baseload power that stabilizes the grid and complements renewables. * Nuclear fuel is compact and long-lasting, insulating the U.S. from volatile global oil and gas markets and the geopolitics that come with them. * Once built, nuclear plants provide cheap, stable electricity,
Policy
TLDR * The United States faces growing strategic risk by relying on foreign nations for essential goods, technologies, and supply chains. * Targeted tariffs are not merely protectionist, they are tools to restore industrial capacity, reduce dependencies, and reinforce national security. * Decades of offshoring, accelerated by trade agreements like NAFTA, hollowed out
Technology
TLDR * The "dark web" is widely misrepresented in media and advertising, often used to scare people away from privacy-focused technologies like Tor. * Tor is just one of many internet protocols and was originally developed and funded by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to enhance privacy and security.
Code
Python’s versatility is one of the reasons it remains one of the most widely used languages in software development, data science, automation, machine learning, web frameworks, and more. Its extensive ecosystem of libraries makes it easy to build complex applications quickly. However, this same ecosystem can become a challenge