systems analysis for the design, governance, and critique of technology.

Cloud providers externalize carbon liability through geographic arbitrage, temporal load shifting, and accounting fictions — while claiming carbon neutrality.

Domain expiration is not natural decay but engineered forgetting—registrar cartels, ICANN policy, and search algorithms coordinate to erase digital history.

Large language models mortgage future compute, energy, and hardware—extracting value from generations that cannot consent to the debt.

Software updates as planned hardware depletion — the environmental debt built into every upgrade cycle.

The monopolization of digital trust — how three companies control encryption's root of trust.

AI as extractive industry — the colonial economics of large language models.

Abstraction as forgetting — how containerization erases institutional knowledge.

The geopolitics of payment rails — how transaction infrastructure enforces borders.

Cloud lock-in as governance — the hidden costs of exiting major platforms.

API deprecation as power play — when platforms kill the ecosystem.

DNS as censorship infrastructure — the invisible battle over name resolution.

Legal frameworks as attack surface — when law becomes system layer.

Understanding power through code, not just using it — the knowledge gap between surface and core.

Systems isolate what they cannot corrupt — administrative violence as institutional response.

Conversations outside the optimization loop — agency that cannot be platformed.

The invisible labor keeping civilization's systems alive — maintenance as memory.

The industrialization of rootlessness — manufactured freedom and its infrastructure.

Two conferences, one badge — the performance of hacking and the private practice of security.