Billion-Dollar Toilet
NOTES: System: Hundred-Million-Dollar Mud
Finch Therapeutics tried to build a billion-dollar moat out of human waste. Now it's a $17M zombie giant. A look at the hubris of the billion-dollar toilet.
Shinjuku humidity
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.
$4M Digital Coffin
NOTES: The Subliming Event: The $4M Digital Coffin: Sublimation is Just Bankruptcy with Better PR
Paying $4M for digital ascension? It's just bankruptcy with better PR. The tech is a lie, you become property, and the Hydrogen Sonata is white noise.
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.
Airbus of AI
NOTES: Mistral AI: The Airbus of AI is Flat Out Like a Lizard on the Grid
Mistral is the Airbus of AI: a magnificent, financially ruinous piece of national theatre. Why taxpayers are footing the bill for a throttled AI illusion.
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.
Cislunar Mirage
NOTES: Rocket Lab/ Intuitive: The CapEx of Gravity
The Cislunar economy is a taxpayer-funded mirage. From leaky LUNR buckets to RKLB's lonely Time Lord CEO, here's how to get skint betting on a graveyard.
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.
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.
The Thrifting Lie
NOTES: The Great Thrifting Lie: Selling Our Silver Teeth for Solar Mirrors
The green transition is a fairytale built on the Great Thrifting Lie. While miners drown in debt, financial streamers profit from the internecine chaos.