What Happened Today: October 5 2021

Whether Facebook is having the worst couple days in its history or the worst couple days in any major social media website s history will be a fun one to debate at some point although at the rate things are going, we ll be debating it on some medium other than Facebook. Yesterday, the rapacious and just barely tolerated Boomer content farm suffered a humiliating outage during six prime business hours. Worst of all, two far better and more useful services, ones that Zuckerberg didn t build but bought with the spoils of the one terrible website that he did actually create, were also knocked out. The WhatsApp outage likely froze the basic functioning of government in much of the world, Israel included. And for six harrowing, Instagram-less hours, the world s fashionistas and experience-hounds had to endure the simple, solitary inner knowledge of a life fully lived, a terrible fate for anyone whose Yeezys happened to have arrived in the mail yesterday morning. 

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Heh heh. (That’s a double heh.)