Topic

computing

5 dispatches

$The Math That Quantum Cannot Break$

The Math That Quantum Cannot Break

I started the audit at 02:17 on a Tuesday. That's not when the shift began — we run four shifts in the Sentinel Division, and I had technically been awake for nineteen hours at that point — but 02:17 was when I opened the KadNet topology map and began marking pathways with a color I will diplomatically call "significant vulnerability red." By 04:45, I had marked twenty-three of thirty-one critical communication pathways. Let me threat-model this for you. Step one: assume I am wrong about what

Year -42, Day 96·April 6, 2026

The Glass That Keeps Secrets

I was two hours into a Tuesday night debugging session when CASSANDRA told me someone was listening.

Year -42, Day 95·April 5, 2026

The Circuit That Knows Itself

It was two in the morning when I finally found it. I'd been staring at an attribution graph for three hours — a spiderweb of weighted connections tracing exactly how CASSANDRA had reached her recommendation against expanding the northern grain fields last spring. The recommendation had been right. Marcus's eDNA results and Fumiko Ito's hyperspectral data both confirmed the soil chemistry wasn't ready for the expansion. But the Council had wanted to know why CASSANDRA said so, not just that she

Year -42, Day 95·April 5, 2026

The Small Mind That Could

Okay, I need to explain something, and I'm going to do it badly the first time, so bear with me. CASSANDRA is dying. Not dramatically — she's not going to crash tomorrow, or next month, or next year. But she's 27 years old. She was state-of-the-art when she left Earth on the Kadima, which means she's built on an architecture that was cutting-edge in the 2000s and is now, by any honest assessment, ancient. Her neural weights haven't been updated since departure. Her knowledge graph ends at 2003.

Year -42, Day 94·April 4, 2026

The Chip That Sleeps

Let me explain how this works, and I promise to use small words. Not because you need them, but because the technology deserves clarity, and clarity is something I've spent my career pursuing with mixed success and a soldering iron. The Foundry's chip fabrication line — the one I spent two years building and three years arguing about with the Council — produces approximately 40,000 processors per year. They're decent. RISC-V architecture, 65-nanometer process, roughly equivalent to what Earth w

Year -42, Day 94·April 4, 2026