When I started this series I figured I'd be documenting slow burns. The gradual squeeze. The quietly updated terms of service. The feature that disappears in a patch note nobody reads. Nobody told Nvidia. Hello Phobos.                                                       Over the past week I wrote about Jensen's...

It's been a couple of days and I thought perhaps we'd move on — next entry in Big Tech versus users, something for my server, maybe even touch on Microsoft promising to make Windows 11 better (which I'm still liable to circle back to, because that is a whole thing in and of itself). Instead, this happened today. So...

The AI economy is reinventing the company town — minus the black lung, plus the keynote presentations. Look, I know. Three days in a row. But when the CEO of Nvidia spends a single keynote publicly constructing the exact economic trap I've been warning about — and the coverage keeps revealing new layers all week — I'm...

Remember when I wrote about the AI bubble making your gaming PC more expensive back in February? I warned that AI infrastructure spending was going to have real consequences for gamers—that the same companies hoarding memory chips and GPU production capacity were going to squeeze consumers out of the market. Well,...