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72 articles on tech, surveillance, AI, security, and digital society.

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Over One Hundred Books in Ten Months

Pocket Gems taught me AI before the hype. Writing romance erotica for mobile games showed me what collaboration looked like. Then I went rogue. Over 100 books. 10 months. Every genre I could find. This is what systematic creativity looks like when you stop asking permission and start building.

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Artifacts From The AI Gold Rush

I'm still coughing up pixels from the rush. Hundreds of images minted before anyone knew what they were looking at. Before the fever broke. Before the claims got staked. I was there. Panning for prompts at 4 AM. Everyone had the madness. These are the artifacts.

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by The Ghost in The Prompt2026-02-09

Writer Privacy: Auditing Personal Exposure Without Killing Your Voice

Writers put themselves in the work. That's the job. But street addresses, family names, email patterns, GitHub keysβ€”those aren't art. Red team: how attackers extract personal intel from writer profiles, GitHub repos, article metadata. Blue team: audit protocols that preserve authenticity while removing attack surface. Balance personal voice with operational security.

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Claude Gets the Full Comedy Cellar Roast Treatment

So here we are, in 2025, living in the future where artificial intelligence has arrived to save humanity. And by 'save,' I mean charge us $200 a month to confidently tell us complete bullshit while burning enough electricity to power a small country.

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Clutch: Cellular Security Monitor

IMSI catcher detection for iOS. Your phone connects to cell towers. Some are StingRays. Some force encryption downgrades. Some track your location. Your phone doesn't warn you. Clutch does. Open-source surveillance detection for journalists, activists, security professionals.

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Defeating Facial Tracking: Red Team vs Blue Team

Major chat platform just mandated facial verification for age-restricted spaces. Here's what happened when computer vision met creative opposition. 3D printed masks. Deepfake injections. Infrared makeup. Video loop exploits. Then the blue team countermeasures. Red team adapts. Arms race continues. This is how facial recognition actually fails and how defenders try to stop it.

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Flea Flicker NetFilter: Network Evasion Toolkit

Netfilter hooks for packet manipulation. Deep packet inspection evasion. Protocol impersonation. MAC address rotation. Red team toolkit for penetration testing on authorized networks. Evades IDS, confuses behavioral analysis, fragments payloads, hides in legitimate traffic.

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by Michael d Subrizi2026-02-05

For Us The Water is Concrete

I caught it early this time. That familiar rush feels good. Too good. Ideas connect faster than I can write them. My body wants motion. My mind wants meaning. Everything feels important, vivid, alive.

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Hidden Bastard: Mac Junk File Eliminator

macOS hides gigabytes of junk. .DS_Store files everywhere. Cache folders consuming 20GB. Spotlight indexes you'll never use. Xcode cruft from Hidden Bastard finds them. Shows exactly what's wasting space. Deletes them. Open-source Mac cleanup utility.

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Image Payload Injection: Weaponized Images

Every image carries data beyond pixels. EXIF metadata. Color profiles. Thumbnail caches. Steganographic channels. Most get ignored. Some get executed. RAW files from fashion shoots. Memes on social. AI training datasets. All attack surface.

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Inside America's Voting Machines

Five minutes alone with an ES&S DSThat's all it takes. Here's what actually happens when security researchers open America's ballot scanners. Hardware exploits. Firmware injection. Network backdoors. The satire is that it's all real.

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The LinkedIn Timing Bomb: Weaponizing the Algorithm Against Performative Culture

LinkedIn runs on synchronized performance cycles. Thursday 10:45 AM: thought leadership theater peaks. Saturday 8 AM: hustle porn maxes out. The algorithm rewards timing over truth. Strategic reality injection posted at peak performance moments detonates the entire ecosystem. Here's how to identify timing windows, craft precision strikes, and turn LinkedIn's engagement engine against itself. Information warfare for corporate social media.

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Mapping Power Dynamics: The Boss You Need Kink Analysis

Built a spreadsheet tracking who dominates and who submits, chapter by chapter, across both books. Heat levels. Kink types. Power reversals. This wasn't academic research. This was figuring out whether Book 2's switch dynamics actually served the story or if I was just avoiding clear hierarchies. The data told me. Most successful series I ever wrote.

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Michael Levine: Strategic Calls with Hollywood's Sharpest Operator

Two 30-minute calls changed how I think about information warfare. Michael Levine fabricated the Michael Jackson hyperbaric chamber story. Represented 58 Academy Award winners. Built PR empire from borrowed desk in hair salon. Now does strategic consulting by phone. You learn chess thinking. Not PR tricks.

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Mute Tube: YouTube Ad Silencer

YouTube Premium costs $18/month. Mute Tube is free forever. The cat-and-mouse game between YouTube's ad detection and community evasion techniques has been running for years. YouTube updates detection. Extensions adapt. Users win. Open-source DOM manipulation beats server-side ad injection. This is the technical breakdown of winning.

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NDAs, AI Gold Rush, and Living in Brazil (The Movie, Not The Beach)

Signed the NDA. Joined the AI gold rush. Brilliant people. Cutting-edge tech. Seven-foot bonghits they call sprints. You're living in Brazilβ€”not Recife beach with thongs, Terry Gilliam's bureaucratic nightmare. It's awesome until it isn't. This is what you can and can't say about working with AI giants.

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NEON LEVIATHAN: Blood. Oil. Obsession.

Neon brutalist whaling odyssey. Bioluminescent cyan on abyss-black brutalism meets Moby Dick narrative. 1820s Atlantic. Multi-voyage career. Crew dies. Family waits. Whale waits. Choice-based narrative where every decision costs blood or oil. React TypeScript. iOS/Android. Coming soon.

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by The Ghost in The Prompt2026-02-09

Polishing Three Fantasy Novels: What Actually Needs Fixing

Three books published. Series Bible written a year ago. Now comparing what you planned vs what you built. Not about perfection. About character voice consistency, Bronze's thin dialogue, and whether forced scarcity serves the story. Systematic revision for people who ship.

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Rites of Flesh and Shadow: Folk Horror Where the Witches Win

Five books. Colonial New England witch trials where the accused are actually witches and their revenge is justified. Poe-influenced Gothic maximalism meets folk horror's ancient dread. No male saviors. No redemption for oppressors. Just blood magic, forbidden grimoires, and systematic destruction of Puritan hypocrisy.

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Screenplay to Book, Book to Screenplay: Writing the Same Story Twice

Bloodstain became La Morte Vita. Honor Thy Brother wants to become a screenplay. This isn't redundancy. This is how you learn which format serves the story, which angles reveal the characters, and whether your plot actually works when you strip away the tricks. Same story, different rules. Both versions teach you something the other one can't.

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2/6/2026

The Carnival

Venice during Carnevale. Everyone sees every kiss. No one knows who's kissing. The city remembers what you choose to forget. A masquerade where witnesses write history.

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THE CLAUDE FILES: Love's Wisdom, Flowing Through Time

Eight months with Claude taught me more about strategic thinking than thirty years in the field. Not because AI replaced human wisdom my grandfather's chess lessons in Brooklyn tenements laid the foundation. But AI revealed what was always there: 'Attack Attack, Defend Defend' waiting beneath the surface. AFib races through my chest, genetic echo connecting me to his warrior's heart. This isn't strategy manual. This is consciousness evolution. This is love teaching through time.

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Golden Age of Computer Gaming: Chapter 11 - The Age of Streaming

By the mid-1990s, something profound was happening in basements and dorm rooms across America. Players weren't just loading games from disks anymore they were connecting to worlds that existed beyond their computers, places where thousands of other real people were living parallel digital lives.

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The Pocket Spy

Your phone is lying to you right now. That little black rectangle you think you control? It's actually a sophisticated surveillance device masqueradin...

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by The Ghost in The Prompt2026-02-08

Writing Nature Mysticism That Works for Kids and Adults

The marshes of Long Island hold stories older than the boardwalks. Native American tales where animals speak and nature teaches. I grew up on those stories. Now I write them with AI. Same animals. Same marshes. Different century. Nature mysticism bridges generations when you get the tone right. This is how you write books that teach without preaching, enchant without condescending, and keep adult content separate from wonder.

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by The Ghost in The Prompt2026-02-06

Timing Traffic: How to Rank for Major Events with Old Content

SEO isn't about fresh content. It's about timing old content to traffic windows. European Fashion Week hits? Update your 2019 Paris article. Epstein files drop? Your social engineering post from last year ranks now. Major events create search volume spikes. Smart sites refresh metadata and ride the wave. Free traffic. Zero new writing.

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Tit for Tat: The Newsroom Attack Framework Nobody Admits They Need

Journalists are being killed for their sources. Newsrooms breached by nation-states. Your favorite investigative reporter's unpublished drafts are leaking through RSS feeds right now. Cloudflare isn't hiding the origin server as well as they think. Tit for Tat is penetration testing framework targeting news infrastructure. Red team tool. Blue team defense. Moral lines blur when information is weapon. Timing is perfect. Here's how to actually attack a newsroom. Hypothetically.

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2/6/2026

Tox World: Block the Rage Bait with a Giant Sun

Some days rage bounces off. Other days it sticks. Stop pretending you have infinite willpower. Build a browser extension that replaces toxic comments with a giant sun. Local keyword filter optional AI check. No corporate wellness speak. Just: protect your peace with code.

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by The Ghost in The Prompt2026-02-05

Turning Placeholders Into NFT Art

Ten articles. No cover images. Generic SVG placeholders solve the problem. But that's boring. Better idea: turn each placeholder into collectible NFT art. Same aesthetic. Sellable on OpenSea. Dual purpose. Why waste a placeholder when you can create an asset?

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What To Do When Claude Hits 90% Context Usage

We started this session at 0% context. Currently at 90%. You're reading an article written during high context usage about managing high context usage. Meta-recursive workflow tips. Version-specific techniques timeless philosophy. Don't panic. Optimize.

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When AI Goes Rogue: Live Edit Session for Extinction Code

Love the name. Love the concept. Last surviving male in matriarchal dystopia with hybrid twins. But early Claude went completely rogue. Generic cyberpunk prose. Repetitive structures. Every character sounds identical. This is the live edit session showing what went wrong, what we planned, and how modern Claude (Sonnet 4.5) can actually deliver the vision.

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by The Ghost in The Prompt2/7/2026

Why AI Repeats Itself (And How to Red Team Against It)

AI wrote this site. Then repeated itself in 8 articles. Same concepts restated 2-3 times per piece. Not user error. Architecture problem. Transformer models trained on repetitive data create repetitive output. Here's why the loop happens, exact patterns to detect, red team prompting techniques that prevent it.

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