Dr. Mozelle Martin
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Behavioral analyst and investigative writer examining how people, institutions, and narratives behave under pressure—and what remains when systems fail.
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Texas Data Centers
At the edge of town, the building looks like any other industrial warehouse. Concrete walls. No windows along most of the structure. Substation hardware fenced off to one side. Thick transmission lines feeding into transformers the size of small houses. There is no sign that says “cloud.” There is no sign that says “AI.” But inside, racks of servers are running nonstop. Every second, data moves through them. Financial transactions clear. Medical files are retrieved. Social feeds refresh. Court records upload. Algorithms calculate.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout 22 hours ago in FYI
The Power Behind Bitcoin
Bitcoin borrowed a word that does not belong to it. Mining sounds physical. It carries an image of dirt, steel, and effort. It suggests men who work in tunnels and move rock by the ton. When the public hears it, they picture a job that leaves a body tired in a way that makes sense. None of that exists in a modern Bitcoin facility. What you find instead is a heat-filled building lined with machines made for only one purpose. Each machine is a miner. One miner equals one computer. Thousands of them sit in rows, running without rest. Once a person understands that a miner is not a human but a device that never sleeps, the scale becomes easier to grasp. These machines fire through guesses at high speed. Each one is trying to match the one valid answer the network will accept. The winning machine earns the reward. All other miners (computers) try again. The entire operation is a probability race powered by electricity.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin2 days ago in The Chain
When Search Results Become Character Evidence
At 8:30 a.m. on a routine pretrial morning, a prosecutor refreshes a browser. A defense attorney does the same. Before the first witness is sworn, both sides have already reviewed what appears when the defendant’s name is typed into a search bar. That page is not evidence. It is not sworn testimony. Yet it often shapes strategy long before the rules of evidence are argued in open court.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin5 days ago in Criminal
When Behavior Walks Away:
I have spent decades watching how behavior changes when the environment stops making sense. That skill came from forensics, trauma science, and animal work in the field. Patterns never break cleanly. They stretch first. They warp. Then the organism abandons the behavior that once kept it stable. I see that pattern now across animals that have nothing in common except the world they live in.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin9 days ago in Earth
The Literary Scam That Counts on Your Silence
Some scams walk in with a mask and a threat. Others arrive with a soft voice, a thoughtful compliment, and a claim of community. That last category does more damage over time because it operates through emotional residue, not brute force. People hesitate to expose it, not because they’re fooled, but because the interaction feels almost polite. That is the point.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin10 days ago in Writers
Iran's Stray Dogs
Stray dogs on the edge of a city are the visible part of a hidden system. You can usually trace that system with boring inputs: food access, abandonment pressure, veterinary reach, and the incentives created by enforcement. When those inputs are misaligned, dogs become the output. People then argue about the dogs instead of the machinery that keeps generating them.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin14 days ago in Petlife
Who Owns Your Digital Self
Denmark is preparing legislation that assigns legal ownership of identity traits to the people who carry them. This includes the face, the voice, and the physiological patterns that algorithms can duplicate with high confidence. I have examined synthetic media cases where cloned voices triggered panic inside families and where victims struggled to prove that footage circulating online was artificial. When identity becomes copyable at industrial scale, the legal system faces problems it was never built to manage.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin15 days ago in Humans
The Picky Eater Paradox:
People act like being a picky eater is a moral flaw. I hear it often, usually from people who can eat anything without hesitation. My husband is one of them. He calls me picky with a grin, like it’s harmless, but underneath is the assumption that flexibility equals virtue.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin18 days ago in Feast
