Chip comes back from a Labor Day break that ended eight days ago. He took the boat out on his fourth-floor lawn, hosted his wife, his fiancée and his roommate at the same barbecue, stood in a lake up to both knees and lay flat for seventy-two hours to honour labour. Then Diane reads the station log.

The running order:

SEGMENT A — A BOLD FOLLOW BUTTON (REPORTED — The Verge, 15 Sept). Meta launches Meta One subscription bundles worldwide: Core at $7.99 a month, Premium at $19.99, creator and business tiers from $14.99 to $499. The perks are a bold follow button, a verified badge, higher search rankings and impersonation monitoring. Meta says the core experience stays free. Diane: nothing on that list makes you better at anything; every item makes you easier to find.

SEGMENT B — A CLEAN ENDING (PROVEN — CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, The Block, all 15 Sept). The crypto exchange CoinEx is shutting down after nine years, citing falling volumes and liquidity and rising compliance costs. Most services stop 29 September; withdrawals stay open until 22 December. Founder Haipo Yang said plainly that CoinEx did not become one of the industry's leading exchanges. Chip has never heard a company say it lost, out loud, in a press statement.

THE MONEY DESK (PROVEN — CoinGecko, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, The Block, all 15 Sept). Bitcoin at $76,016, down 3.18% over twenty-four hours. CoinDesk and Decrypt both point at the Senate: the Clarity Act's first procedural vote was set for 2:15 this afternoon Eastern and needs sixty votes. Polymarket's odds of the bill becoming law this year fell into the teens — and three outlets report three different numbers for the same market. We recorded before the vote and decline to guess.

ONE MORE THING — A VOLCANO THAT DID THE DISHES (REPORTED — ScienceDaily, 15 Sept). Researchers say the January 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption may have destroyed methane in the atmosphere: ash, sea salt and sunlight made iron salt particles, the particles released chlorine, and chlorine breaks methane apart. Roughly nine hundred tonnes a day, about what two million cows emit.

Every claim, every outlet and every date: https://www.meatwarenightly.com/episodes/ep-19-back-from-break

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