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Satirical profiles of the disruptors disrupting your neighborhood.
"Move fast and break rent prices."
The tags and ideas that show up most often inside this series.
Every entry in the Tech Bro of the Week collection, newest first.

He bought 40 acres in Dripping Springs and now has opinions about cedar.

They removed 34 affordable housing units and replaced them with 34 luxury tiny homes with a communal kombucha tap.

He's never been to West, Texas. He has opinions about lamination.

His algorithm has tasted ten thousand quesos. It has learned nothing.

Meet Chadwick, who thinks the real problem with breakfast tacos is that they lack a decentralized ledger.
Follow a different branch of the complaint tree when you’re done here.
Documenting the luxury boxes replacing everything you loved.
"Where your favorite taco truck used to be."
Tracking the annual corporate colonization of Austin's weirdest week.
"It used to be about the music. Now it's about the lanyard."
A eulogy for affordable Austin, one price tag at a time.
"Adjusting for inflation and broken dreams."
Comedic Austin nostalgia satire. We remember when this town was weird for free.
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