tech-fail
NOTES: System: The Brutalist Landlord Wins
NuScale's $9.3 billion pilot light is a ghost haunting the market. While tech bros dream of AI energy, we're stuck auditing the wreckage. Yeah, nah.
Corporate Spin
Zombie Giant
NOTES: Constellation Energy: Burning Gas to Catch a Digital Sun
Constellation Energy isn't building a digital sun; they're a zombie giant burning gas. Big Tech's AI dream is just a radioactive ransom note.
Tech Failures
NOTES: Illumina: Illumina’s Leaky Sewer Pipe is a Threat to Your Health
Illumina’s Sewer Lens is meant to spot plagues, but it's just a leaky pipe venting 7.8 cubic meters of biological exhaust. A billion-dollar placebo wall.
Tech Failure
NOTES: Ginkgo Bioworks: Ginkgo's Robot Farm is Watching an Empty Sewer
Ginkgo Bioworks is burning $150M on a robot farm watching a dry sewer. Behind the corporate spin, it's a high-tech dog's breakfast of canceled projects.
Biotech Bubble
NOTES: Beam Therapeutics: Editing The Ghost Engine
Beam Therapeutics is selling a gene-editing miracle, but with toxic livers and a CEO cashing out, the banana stand is burning. A brutal look at the spin.
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.
Ghost Silver
NOTES: Heraeus/LBMA: How to Burn a Dead Phone for Five Cents of Ghost Silver
Urban mining is a thermodynamic joke. Why spend 42 cents to burn a dead phone for 5 cents of ghost silver? The green revolution is a rigged LBMA casino.