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David Mackie’s Blue Brain

This blog lives at the intersection of systems and people: InfoSec and AI, how to build and break things, what ADHD taught me after 55 years of not knowing, and what cancer clarified fast. Add a Gen X upbringing with minimal guardrails, and you get a lot of curiosity—and a need to choose which side quests matter. I’m writing to make sense of it. If you find value along the way, I’m glad.

A minimalist, ultra-wide computer monitor displays an abstract, neural-network-like blue pattern on a nearly black background, evoking an illuminated brain made of data and light. The monitor sits on a tidy matte-black desk with a single closed notebook and a slim keyboard, surrounded by subtle, carefully placed creative tools: a camera lens, a pair of over-ear headphones, and a stack of printed pages with visible but unreadable markings. Cool, diffused evening light from a nearby window combines with a soft, focused desk lamp, casting controlled reflections on the monitor’s bezel. The atmosphere is cerebral, modern, and slightly futuristic. Photographic realism, shot from a slightly elevated three-quarter angle, with crisp focus on the screen and a gentle falloff into a tasteful, subdued background.

SoulHunter Photography

I make images of all kinds of under-represented passion hobbies.
Live Music, Burlesque and Punk Cabaret.

Fringe & Under Represented Sports like Bike Polo, Jugger, Quidditch and even Roller Soccer.

DavidLMackie Photography

I started with SoulHunter.Photography for Women’s and Fringe Sports, with DavidLMackie.Photography (un)focused on Live events like Music, Burlesque and Punk Cabaret.

Rearranging to EVERYthing on SoulHunter.Photography except Family and Community Events and probably Street Photography.

SOCPuppet dot Cloud

SOC – Security Operations Centre
Sock Puppet – Alternate persona useful when doing OSInt.
Cloud – All the things I talk about may well be “cloud native” as colleagues in other places are fond of saying.