Afternoon Tea 9.20.21 - Tattleware

Gabby Petito’s remains have been found, tattleware is a thing, Florida changed how it reported COVID deaths, former spies are selling themselves, and we live in Exponential times. It’s Monday, September 20th 2021, and this is your Tea. (Editor’s Note: Today’s vibe isn’t a trendy single or a classic. Today’s tune might be the most well formed issuance of a genre that’s been struggling to launch for years: Trance & Bass.)

Body found in Wyoming "consistent with the description" of Gabby Petito, officials say (CBS News) While it looks as if the remains of Gabby Petito have been found, incisive commentators have reminded us that this all out manhunt was not called, for the 710 indigenous people who went missing in Wyoming in the last decade.

Florida changed its COVID-19 data, creating an ‘artificial decline’ in recent deaths (Miami Herald) If you can’t win, cheat.

QAnon Followers Threaten Hospital After Outspoken COVID Denier Dies Of COVID (HuffPo) If you can’t win, threaten the…hospital?

This Police Department Is So Bad, a Cop Reported It to Black Lives Matter (Daily Beast) It’s not so much that we’re surprised a PD could be that bad, it’s that…what did they think BLM would be able to do? Cancel them on Twitter? Yell at Nancy Pelosi, who would just take a knee and say sad garbled things?

Employers are spying on Americans at home with ‘tattleware’. It’s time to track them instead (The Guardian) The word of the week is tattleware because of how much it encompasses and because snitchware was not approved by the marketing department.

There Are Too Many Underemployed Former Spies Running Around Selling Their Services to the Highest Bidder (Esquire) Why do we suck so much. We can’t keep retired spies happy?

Wall Street Influencers Are Making $500,000, Topping Even Bankers (Bloomberg) Half a mill for yelling about stocks on TikTok. For real. The free market allocates capital so utterly perfectly, sometimes it makes your head spin.

Britain may revert to the imperial system as part of its plans to 'capitalize on new Brexit freedoms' (Business Insider) If Britain actually switches to the mile-per-bushel system, Brexit might actually turn into a bigger self own than electing Emperor Tang.

Kyrsten Sinema’s Grapes of Wealth (The Nation) Getting $1000 on a wine internship while voting down a minimum wage increase? As the kids say, The Lion, The Witch, and the Audacity of this b*tch.

The Exponential Age will transform economics forever (Wired) Not a lot of people are writing about what happens when a company that grows exponentially fights companies that grow linearly. We don’t think enough about this idea, and this is a wonderful discussion of it.

‘Ancient Sword of the Meth King’ seized by Michigan police (NY Post - 2020) A story from 2020, but had to be included for the ORK-as-fuck image alone.

Poem of the Tea: Red Moon by Serena Alagappan, thanks to Postscript, a wonderful cultural narrative magazine based out of the UAE, with global contributors.

The cracks are how the light gets in,

Yours,