Rusty Foster

Bad social media, bad science, and bad journalism and a whole lot of other things Tabs missed while on hiatus

Tabs will be on hiatus for July and August, but will be back in mid-September

The Ed Champion fight with Emily Gould you either care about or don't and the many opinions of Jeff Koons

What goes on in a writers brain and the unwritten rules of Silicon Valley

Get ready for the content wars, goodbye to Dov Charney and Chelsea Clinton just can't seem to care about money

Today in Things That Haven't Changed Since 2002: Judith Miller is still being treated as an expert on Iraq.

The robotic internet sweetheart Olivia Taters and Dov Charney loses his job

On Britney Spears, the nature of pop music, loneliness, how to be a woman in the public eye, and life in general

The ascendent cult of disruption, Emily Gould and Brian Williams cannot lie

Netflix is retiring its public API, websites are all the same and Tesla's patent dump

Twitter's COO says goodbye and hating Eric Cantor might finally be the thing that brings the left and the right together in harmony

Tweetdeck is down, Cantor is out, and it's still only Wednesday. There is so much more of this week left you wouldn't even believe it if I told you. So I won't tell you.

Some other voices on the 'Jacobin kerfuffle' and the problem with that Turing test

The left's problem with "bros" comes down to two tweets and the CIA joins Twitter

It's time to get real about tech-industry venture capitalist (and Snowden hater) Marc Andreessen

What is Project Xanadu? And how to follow the Maureen Dowd's bad trip news cycle on day two.

Maureen Dowd's bad drug experience, 50 Cent goes Bitcoin and Mad Cow disease in America

Choire Sicha, the Slender Man is not real and Dr. Dre was "sober," Richard Byrne Reilly reports

A departure from Medium and some thoughts on self-driving cars

Breaking poetry news, and Gawker and Vice duke it out.

Amazon takes on Hachette and Zappos has a strange new way of attracting talent

What does it mean when a misogynist kills?

Some changes at Jezebel and Gizmodo, a guy from Facebook on media and why was Jill Abramson fired?

The forecast for Metafilter is no longer quite so dark blue, and Goth Day falls on #throwbackthursday

Metafilter's future is in grave doubt as Google makes the web conform to its algorithm

And David Carr's piñata metaphor deserves to live on for long, long time

The news inevitably becomes a competition between narratives, but only some narratives are true

A machete chopping spree, shorter shorts for men, and child-killing snakes in London are a hoax

Parasitic worms that help you, a lost robot sub and space is full of garbage

Solange gives everyone on Twitter a chance to make the same joke, and Donald Sterling does himself zero favors.