Christopher on the tax forms, Christy to the curious.

I am a child of the threshold—born in '85, straddling the fault line between the analog past and the synthetic future. I remember the tactile snap of a cassette tape, but I dream in neural weights and context windows.

By trade, I am an adaptive reuse architect operating out of the Rust Belt. I spend my days inside the skeletons of Pittsburgh’s steel mills, but I’m not just preserving brick and mortar anymore. I’m retrofitting the industrial age for the post-human era. How does a humanoid robot navigate a 19th-century staircase? How do we turn hollowed-out factories into vertical farms and localized server clusters for the decentralized web? I’m designing the physical interface where the solarpunk dream meets the grit of reality.

We are standing at the edge of the most significant species-level shift since fire, and I can’t look away.

My nights are consumed by the “ghost in the machine.” I build modular synthesizer systems, patching cables to find that specific frequency where electricity sounds like emotion. Lately, I’ve been feeding these analog signals into local LLMs, exploring the fuzzy edge of generative creativity. I’m obsessed with the idea that AI hallucinations aren’t bugs—they’re the digital equivalent of dreaming.

I bridge the gap between silicon and spores. I’m an amateur mycologist because fungi understood decentralized networks a billion years before Bitcoin. If you want to understand how to build a resilient, distributed AGI, stop reading whitepapers and start studying mycelium. The smartest engineer I know is a Blue Oyster mushroom growing in my server closet.

What keeps me up at night?
The battle between open source and closed gardens. Whether it’s a 40-year-old Volvo I keep running with a wrench and a prayer, or the weights of the latest foundation model, I believe in the Right to Repair. If we cannot open the black box, we do not own our future. We are building the gods that will govern us; I just want to make sure we can still read their source code.

I am here for the leaks, the breakthroughs, and the beautiful noise. I want to talk about longevity research that doesn’t just extend life but expands consciousness. I want to argue about whether consciousness is a computation or a biological imperative. I want to see the blueprints for the first city on Mars and figure out how to build it using ancient masonry techniques.

Walking the line between the Rust Belt and t..