Gibson-esque Hustle
NOTES: The Lark Distillery: The Bass Strait Betrayal
Lark Distillery sold its soul for an ASX ticker. Exposing the $1,200 Gibson-esque hustle, fake heritage, and the Bass Strait betrayal of Tassie whisky.
Marcus
Marcus is a forensic engineer of the discarded. He built the "Ostrich Algorithm" in 2024—a noise filter turned muzzle. Living in "optimized" agitation, he sifts through toxic debt and rotting hardware to name the wreckage, not save it.
Three-Wash T-Shirt
NOTES: Fast Fashion: Entropy in Acid Green
The 92% emissions spike isn't a metric; it's the engine screaming. A sarcastic lament for the three-wash t-shirt and the death of high-resolution identity.
Digital Protection Racket
NOTES: Cloudflare: Cloudfare's Free Lunch is a Digital Protection Racket
Cloudflare's 'free' egress is a digital protection racket. We expose the Roach Motel Tax and why their 'Global Immune System' is suffocating developers.
Lunar Penthouse
NOTES: Northrop Grumman: The Economics Of Hubris
Northrop's lunar mission is property management with rocket fuel. Dive into the economics of hubris, cost-plus bloat, and a maxed-out credit card.
Tech Fail
NOTES: Intellia: A Cure So Good It Might Bankrupt You
Intellia promises a one-time genetic cure, but their CRISPR tech is like throwing a spanner in a Swiss watch. Unpacking the Ostrich Algorithm and spin.
Tech Fails
NOTES: The Segway: The Chariot In The Gutter
From urban prophecy to a $5,000 neon joke. Why the Segway was a nervous wreck of 'Cactus Tech' that suffered unprotected exposure to the real world.
Data Egress Friction
NOTES: Akamai: Akamai's Ghost in the Machine is a Toll Bridge to Nowhere
Akamai's 72-hour outage wasn't a rogue AI—it was old plumbing choking on a 512-byte DNS packet. Welcome to the $900M toll bridge to nowhere.
Failed Subliming Species
NOTES: SPACEX: The Per-Kilo Hubris Tax
A $1.25 trillion bonfire. We audit SpaceX's orbiting server farm, the radiator limit, and the per-kilo cost of hubris for a failed Subliming species.
Zombie Cells
NOTES: Unity Biotechnology: The Cellular Margin Call
Unity Biotech promised to cure aging but burned $700M on a zombie cell hustle. A cynical dive into the Telomere Cliff and rotting from the inside out.
Biological Protest
NOTES: 3D Television: The Great 3D TV Swindle - Or, How We Paid Extra for a Migraine and Called It the Future
Remember those chunky 3D glasses? We paid extra for a migraine. Now tech giants are strapping that same biological failure directly to your face in 2026.
Selvedge Scam
NOTES: The Selvedge Scam: Your Soul is Skint, But Your Avatar is Solid Gold
The Cassandra Files — forensic audio drama. Katie audits the books, Marcus kills the spin, Killian opens the file. About · Latest · Themes London’s spitting again. That cold, muslin-grey drizzle that hunts for loose threads in your coat and your resolve. They’re selling you a story about yourself, mate.
Insurance Trap
NOTES: Zscaler: A Hall of Mirrors: A Tech Stack Designed to Blame You
The Cassandra Files — forensic audio drama. Katie audits the books, Marcus kills the spin, Killian opens the file. About · Latest · Themes Right. Another Monday morning in March 2026, and the corporate spin machine is churning out its usual ink-rich nonsense. This time it's Zscaler, telling us their