Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flop is bigger than Katy Perry

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. You know, I was simply going to ignore the bizarre Blue Origin stunt flight from earlier this week. But then it flopped beyond my wildest imagination, and so here we all are. Doubtless you know the contours already: Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez, pop star Katy Perry, and four other women did a big space tourism trip in the name of performative femiladyism, wearing “space suits” cut so as to require a pair of Spanx underneath. “We’re going to have lash extensions flying in the capsule,” Sánchez said. “We are going to put the ‘ass’ in astronaut,” Perry said. Look, the ass has always been in astronaut I have been sitting here for a couple of hours now, trying to figure out how this happened, while my fearless leader has been sending me TikTok after TikTok about how dumb the whole thing was. Look, the ass has always been in a ... Read full article.