How One Angry Software Developer Plans to Trigger Nuclear Armageddon

Marcus Has Access to Nuclear AI Training Data—And He Wants to Watch the World Burn

After his third Tinder date ghosted him this month, Marcus opens the nuclear AI training database: 'They think I'm invisible? Let's see them ignore mushroom clouds.

Marcus hasn't slept in 36 hours. The Adderall he's been crushing and snorting just to keep up with his military subcontractor deadlines has left him jittery, paranoid, and seeing patterns in everything. His latest Tinder match stopped responding three days ago—just like the fifteen before her. His college friends stopped inviting him out months ago. His at-home job processing intelligence data for nuclear AI systems pays the bills, but it's mind-numbing work that nobody understands or cares about.

Until yesterday, when Marcus realized something that made his stimulant-addled brain light up with terrible possibility: the mundane data formatting he does every day isn't just bureaucratic busywork. It's the training material that teaches AI systems how to think about nuclear threats. And if he can subtly poison that data—embed t…