Digital Mausoleum
NOTES: Second Life: The Ghost Town Casino
Second Life isn't a utopia; it's a digital mausoleum. Discover how psychographic inflation and compute debt turned users into janitors of a server farm.
Sedona humidity
Wetware
NOTES: Neuralink: The Biological Margin Call
Neuralink's $9B wetware problem is a dog's breakfast. Your brain isn't a motherboard, mates—it's a hostile environment bricking their forever-chip.
Tech Slumlord
NOTES: Equinix: The Billion Dollar Thermostat
They sold us the cloud, but it's a windowless room in Jersey on fire. Why Equinix is the tech slumlord of the AI era, smelling of ozone and hubris.
Juicero
NOTES: Juicero: The Newtonian Force Of Ego
Juicero wasn't just a business failure; it was a $120M Britpop B-side of peak tech delusion. Why human hands beat Silicon Valley’s fear of the physical.
AI Bubble
NOTES: Coreweave/Lambda: Hotel California in the Server Rack
Welcome to the AI Hotel California. Choking on Sedona humidity and lukewarm coffee while 80,000 H100s burn venture capital. The cloud is a locked cage.
Bodega Backlash
NOTES: Google Glass: Ghosts of the Glass
Google Glass wasn't just a tech fail; it was a hostile takeover of your eyeball. Dive into the Bodega Backlash and the terrifying rise of stealth-optics.
Akamai crash
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.
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.
3D TV Swindle
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
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. It’s called the ‘Selvedge Margin.’ A perfect, self-finished edge for your identity that never frays. The cost of entry
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.