*video footage of plastic bag dancing in wind*

"Sometimes I feel like I…"

*more footage of that bag"

"…have so many tweets inside me…"

— Josh Millard (@joshmillard) November 2, 2015

Friday, Haley Mlotek and Alexandra Molotkow unceremoniously departed girl-Awl The Hairpin, and media Twitter looked up, heads cocked, like "was that thunder or just a truck going by?" Then ESPN announced that Grantland was over, and now the STORM-BLAST came. Peter Kafka reported that ESPN was still fully committed to Mexican food blog 538 and single-page list of articles The Undefeated, both of which presumably use a lot less bandwidth than Grantland ever did. The Grantland staff were fired via Twitter, basically, although most of them surely had a suspicion this was coming, and media Twitter instantly turned into a wake for the site which was consistently good and interesting and thoughtful and well-edited in a way literally everything else associated with ESPN is not.

Then the Takes arrived! Vox's Todd VanDerWerff activated the new "Palimpsest" Chorus plugin to add the data point of Grantland's shutdown to his absurd argument from August that the internet was better in 2005, six years before Grantland even started. Business Insider's Cork Gaines searched Google for meaning, but found none. Alex Shephard and Mark Krotov got drunk at The New Republic and just kinda wrote down whatever came to mind. The Toast's Nicole Cliffe took the opportunity to assert that there is no such thing as independent media without some equivalent of a husband with hedge fund money behind it. And it's true, Grantland never made money, according to momentary post-Bill Simmons editor Chris Connelly. All it could offer were what ESPN dismissively called "quality writing, smart ideas, original thinking and fun." And who wants those? The Take cycle ended this morning with a classic piece of Freddie deBoer well-actually-ing in The Observer titled "Why We Should Mourn and Cheer Grantland's Demise." In conclusion, while the future will contain no Grantland, it could have four times as much Business Insider.1

dont really fuck with the wax museum anymore, everyone there seems so fake

— Will Butler (@willkbutler) November 2, 2015

SXSW managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of a lesser defeat last week. After cancelling a panel about using design to reduce harassment online due to harassment online, the Austin internet marketing disaster announced a hastily-convened full-day event devoted to issues of harassment. Unfortunately one of those issues was apparently "Harassment: maybe it's good!?" because the Gamergate panel that started this whole fiasco was also invited to participate. Everyone was basically like

At press time, SXSW was still a dumpster fire.

~He went like one that hath been stunned, and is of tabs forlorn~

This Today in Tabs should have happened on Friday, really. It was a bit much. Hopefully it wasn't too subtle! As always, find us on Fast Company or subscribe by email. Thanks today to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for proofreading help.