After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning. Here's how AWS's 'verification' process became a digital execution, and why you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything.
The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.
Discord's AI banned me for "child safety violations" while I was reading news. No evidence. No appeal. Just a permanent flag in their systems—which got stolen in their October 2025 data breach and is now being sold on darkweb markets. I'm permanently labeled a child predator in underground databases because Discord's algorithm can't distinguish Unix system calls from actual violations.
After an emergency space jump goes wrong, the Atlas Monkey finds itself stranded in the over-engineered Kubernetes Constellation, where they discover planets running massive infrastructure for tiny applications—and learn valuable lessons about right-sizing technology solutions.
The crew investigates a scientific outpost that has gone dark. They arrive to find the inhabitants have achieved "total observability," logging every single action, thought, and system metric. They are now so overwhelmed with data that they are paralyzed, unable to find the signal in the noise.
The crew finds a planet that was literally "coded" into existence using a Terraform-like tool. They discover the planet's "state file" and must prevent a disgruntled junior deity from running `terraform destroy` on the entire civilization.