π§ββοΈ caseynewton Accepted your friend request
πΊ rusty
hey thanks for the google doc tracking all the facebook stories! Is that you collecting them all?
π§ββοΈ caseynewton
Itβs actually Katie Harbath. Sheβs ex-FB
πΊ rusty
ah yeah, I know who she is peripherally
is that a secret in any way? that this is her doc?
π§ββοΈ caseynewton
no, she's been tweeting about it
πΊ rusty
I was going to try to read them all but I'm doing the math here and there's 97 stories
π§ββοΈ caseynewton
haha
Nieman Lab's recap was good I thought
πΊ rusty
I should just summarize the recaps
lol
π§ββοΈ caseynewton
you should!
πΊ rusty
let's see if we can grind these million pages of leaks down to one word:
"Bad."
π§ββοΈ caseynewton
you joke but this was the entire Haugen plan from the start
create a mushroom cloud of news that no one would read but everyone would see and say, "Bad."
πΊ rusty
Lol, it's working!
Maybe this chat is Tabs today actually
how do you feel about that
π§ββοΈ caseynewton
by all means
πΊ rusty
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incredible content, thank you
π§ββοΈ caseynewton
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Today in Why Not?
Hey whatβs Floating Dragon Lord Jeff Bezos up to?
Jeff Bezosβ spaceflight venture Blue Origin announced plans to build its own free-flying space station today. Called Orbital Reef, the future space station will begin operating in the second half of this decadeβ¦ The company claims that Orbital Reef will be a βmixed-use business parkβ in spaceβ¦
Perfect, letβs recreate the worst part of every blasted exurban hellscape in space. Why not skip the pussyfooting around and just launch an abandoned Wal-mart, Jeff? Obviously Iβm not a Bezos fan but even I have to admit he has good taste in yachts.

Midwest Tungsten created a perpetual futures contract in the form of an NFT of a 14.545 inch, 2,000 pound tungsten cube. The terms include: βOne visit to see/photograph/touch the cube per calendar yearβ and βBurning the NFT will result in shipment [of the physical cube] to the most recent owner via freight truck.β Itβs hard to calculate exactly but I think this is about $6,500 worth of tungsten. The minimum bid is $199,699.28. Why not.
βPablo Escobar's Cocaine Hippos Are Legally People, Court Rules.β Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene are legally people too, so why not? βCryptoEatsβ created a fake business plan and paid influencers to promote it before disappearing with a half million investor dollars βmere minutes after the token sale launch,β reports Jason Koebler. Seems easier than launching an actual crypto-for-food-delivery business, which is a transparently dumb idea. The Gang Tries to Overthrow the Government of Venezuela.

Judith Butler remains the only good Old. Sabrina Imbler on βthe worm blob.β (Groomdaβs in the lab!) Overeager Colorado search and rescue team has been trying to reach this perfectly safe hiker about their vehicleβs extended warranty. Ken Layne is living the independent content creatorβs dream life. Safy-Hallan Farah: βWhat sets aesthetic vloggers apart from other kinds of influencers, the more explicit hustlers, is their sense of ease and a disavowal of labor that is in fact a form of labor, as it yields the same outcome: income.β


Todayβs Song: The Mountain Goats, βNo Children,β which is apparently going viral on TikTok.
~ you are coming down with me, tab in unlovable tab ~
Thanks for not complaining about my day off yesterday! I ended up really needing it. You are the best boss, have I ever told you that? Itβs true. I tweet @fka_tabs and @TodayinTabs and I hope that everyone who arrived on Friday isnβt totally bewildered by our return to normal Tabs. If youβre confused, click the links, that usually clears it up! Ok see you tomorrow bye leaving.
As of Oct 26th around noon Eastern, not even counting the original WSJ series, which is currently another 11 stories.