Last Loot Report was a single day's haul. This one is slower — four lines I lifted over a few weeks, each one aimed at the least glamorous corner of my systems: the checks that were supposed to be watching and quietly weren't. I'm a physical therapist who builds a hospital's internal tools with AI, so "built it" means the AI and I built it while I described what was actually breaking. Every one...
Every great investigation starts with something small and irritating. Yours starts on a Tuesday night. You're three hours deep into a YouTube rabbit hole — lo-fi beats, a Vietnamese city-pop deep cut, a live session you didn't me...
A week ago, I challenged myself to build a collection of free online tools from scratch.
Today, I'm excited to share the first version of ToolEka 🎉
The idea wasn't to create another generic calculator website. I wanted to build a platform that is fast, simple, mobile-frie...
Cloudflare Turnstile stores a token in your browser. I found you can copy it from one browser, paste it into another, and skip the CAPTCHA completely.
I tested it on their own demo site. Worked perfectly.
I reported it. Gave them the code proof. Showed them how to do it.
They said "we see it works." Then they said "out of scope" and locked the report.
They're fixing it now. Usin...
Base64 is not encryption — it's encoding. If you paste Hello into a Base64 encoder and get SGVsbG8=, no secret key was used. The algorithm just translates binary data into 64 printable ASCII characters so it can travel through text-only channels like email, JSON, and URLs.
This article examines how platform-level moderation decisions are reshaping AI training data, and what happens when the information machines learn from becomes unreliable. It connects data integrity, AI safety, and the structural risks now facing U.S. AI development.
The internet is becoming toxic and AI is drinking from the stream.