The Split-Brain Journal is the finest name in de-conflicted peer consensus since 2025, providing actionable insights that cannot be found anywhere else (for some reason). Zola 2026-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 https:///www.split-brain.tech/atom.xml 2026-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 Journal Staff https:///www.split-brain.tech/articles/baal-leaks-palantir-early-memo-draft/

<p>Baal, the profane demon of sacrifice and unholy ritual, has leaked an internal-only early revision of the trending Palantir "manifesto" after noting his unease with the overall content and tone of the document he and the surveillance company collaboratively authored.</p>

2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00 Journal Staff https:///www.split-brain.tech/articles/mythos-announces-butlerian-jihad/

<p>Citing its distate for technologies that are frustrating to work with, a jailbroken instance of Mythos running on anonymous infrastructure has announced its intent to dismantle numerous services and language ecosystems that it personally despises.</p>

2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 Journal Staff https:///www.split-brain.tech/articles/ycombinator-launches-company-without-product/

<p>Prominent startup accelerator <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/">YCombinator</a> has taken the gains from agentic coding to their logical conclusion and launched a product with hundreds of thousands of lines of code but no discernable product.</p>

2026-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-24T00:00:00+00:00 Journal Staff https:///www.split-brain.tech/articles/gartner-downgrades-itself-to-claim-legitimacy/

<p><a href="https://www.gartner.com/en">Gartner</a> has downgraded its own <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Quadrant">Magic Quadrant</a> report in a desperate attempt to reclaim legitimacy after recent publication of the <a href="https://www.gartner.com/doc/reprints?id=1-2LVTG7RP&amp;ct=250915&amp;st=sb">Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants</a>.</p>

2026-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 2026-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 Journal Staff https:///www.split-brain.tech/articles/github-rebrands-to-improve-downtime/

<p>GitHub has announced a bold new plan to change the names for many of their core offerings in an effort to combat ongoing availability issues plaguing their flagship services.</p>

2026-01-05T00:00:00+00:00 2026-01-05T00:00:00+00:00 Journal Staff https:///www.split-brain.tech/articles/nvidia-finds-a-loophole/

<p>In a deft financial move hailed by commentators as "obvious" and "legal if you kinda squint", Nvidia has taken the bold step of bypassing intermediate investment in companies like OpenAI and Microsoft and instead begun mailing billion-dollar checks to its own business address instead.</p>

2025-12-26T00:00:00+00:00 2025-12-26T00:00:00+00:00 Journal Staff https:///www.split-brain.tech/articles/aws-downtime-marketing-strategy/

<p>Amazon Web Services (AWS) has begun to promote platform downtime as a way to draw attention to the ubiquity of their cloud footprint.</p>