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Maps that make you squint, orgs run through Grumpy Analysis, browser sims, apps that stay offline, and a Grok I wouldn't let lie to me.

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National FEC address clusters on a US map — dense markers on the coasts and DC FEC × address clusters · national map

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Fun with Geography

Static investigative reports: DOT trucking, Medicare, federal contractors, NGO grants (in/out), and USG-funded nonprofits clustered on the same addresses and colocator pins. National maps and per-state slices — no login, no app, just HTML.

Open the report matrix →
FEC national cluster map preview

IRS 990 Parsed

Relational extract of Form 990 plus Medicare, DOT, OFAC, and FEC on the same addresses. ~459M rows, Parquet, CC0.

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Oregon Medicare address cluster map preview

Orgs

560 organisations, same analysis engine as GrumpyNews. What people think versus what the machinery is doing — chip by network, not just geography.

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Dossiers

Same engine as Orgs, pointed at X accounts. Core, Left, Right, and the $B people copied from Orgs, not retaken.

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Sankey

Dollar-width grant flows on DataRepublican Browse. The Uniparty, with every node wired to a Grumpy take.

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Sankey's 1898 steam-engine heat-flow diagram

Grok

All I wanted was news that didn't lie or manipulate me emotionally. I didn't intend for it to lead to investigating the nature of truth, prompting Grok to be moral, generating better recipe displays, or boiling 40+ years of managing software developers into a prompt that upgrades Grok's coding about 10×. That's what happened.

Ringmaster

Ringmaster

Four roles, real hygiene, and a hook that waits like a human instead of lighting the credit meter on fire. The pack is why you keep it.

Read on X →GitHub →

The whole trail →

Not Advice

This is not investment advice. It is a story about a startup that almost made me rich, a number we called batting average, and an annuity that showed up after my mom died. The meat, and the GitHub, are on X.

Full story on X →

Sims

Apps

Hosted on DreamHost. Built as a static site — rsync-friendly, CDN-optional, grumpy by design.