About Smoking Mirror

Smoking Mirror publishes investigations at the intersection of fire, land, and power. The name refers to the obsidian scrying mirror — a dark, polished surface used to see what is otherwise hidden.

Editorial standards

Every investigation publishes its evidence: datasets carry provenance, licenses, and checksums; methods are documented in the open; corrections are permanent, dated, and marked in ember. This page is where the institutional weight lives — expand it before launch with a full methodology statement and corrections policy.

The author

Smoking Mirror is written and built by Duncan Lawrence, a data science and digital sovereignty researcher working in wildfire, GIS, and remote sensing.