Investigations

Dark cartographic render of terrain contours in teal with a dashed orange fire perimeter.

Wildfire

How the Oregon fire maps failed

Three seasons of drone surveys show where official perimeters diverge from the burned ground beneath them.

Aug 14, 2026 · 2 min

Obsidian canvas with a network of teal nodes; most links are faint teal, while a quarter are severed, ending in orange stubs with a gap at the midpoint.

Surveillance

The measurable state of digital sovereignty: switches, spyware, borders, and the substrate

Four quantifiable fronts — internet shutdowns, the spyware trade, data localization, and cloud concentration — and what a decade of numbers actually shows about who controls the network.

Jul 4, 2026 · 7 min

Oregon's outline in teal on a near-black background, its western half traced in thousands of glowing ember-colored points, each one a recorded fire ignition.

Wildfire

Reading the ashes: what Oregon's fire record says about 2026

Twenty-six years of ignition records, burned-area perimeters, and drought indices frame a season that begins with a record-low snowpack and a strengthening El Niño.

Jul 3, 2026 · 7 min

Obsidian map canvas scattered with orange and ochre detection dots of varying sizes, one cluster enclosed by a solid teal perimeter line.

Wildfire

A modern wildfire intelligence dashboard: what real-time fire data can show — and what it cannot

Building a prototype that fuses satellite detections, incident reports, perimeters, and fire weather — and being honest about every seam in the fusion.

Jun 25, 2026 · 12 min