Polyester Graveyard
NOTES: Beanie Babies: The Polyester Beta-Test
Your 90s retirement plan is off-gassing in a basement. Explore the tragicomedy of the Beanie Baby crash, from dial-up dreams to landfill liabilities.
Tech-Fail
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.
Datadog AI Tax
NOTES: Datadog: The Blind Watchdog Fails
Datadog's AI tax is a digital banana stand. You pay a 15% compute penalty just to watch their bloated Hallucination Engine chase ghosts in the machine.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.