The Artemis II crew just flew past the moon, Sabrina Carpenter calling her shot, and I'm officially a bachelorette

A NASA commander named a moon crater after his late wife and I have been thinking about it all day, tech layoffs continue, and bachelorette week is finally, actually, really happening.

Let's get into it.

Four astronauts are on their way back from the moon and there is a sneaky very romantic detail

NASA's Artemis II launched last week, and the astronauts flew within 4,067 miles of the moon, breaking Apollo 13's record for the farthest humans have ever traveled in space and becoming the first people to reach the moon since 1972!!! They spent seven hours on the lunar flyby, took about 10,000 photos, and saw parts of the moon's far side that no human eyes had ever seen before. All of that is incredible. But the detail that got me: Commander Wiseman suggested naming one of two newly discovered craters "Carroll" after his late wife, Carroll Taylor Wiseman, a NICU nurse who died of cancer in 2020. The other he named "Integrity" after their spacecraft. The man flew farther from Earth than any human in history and used the moment to make sure her name is literally on the moon. Need to somehow work that into my wedding vows.

Tech layoffs crossed 90,000 people this year

So far in 2026, there have been 215 layoffs at tech companies, with over 90,000 people impacted. Oracle slashed 30,000 jobs at the top of the month, and AI is now explicitly cited as a contributing factor in at least 20% of 2026 tech layoffs. The pattern is becoming a whole thing: companies invest in AI infrastructure for a year or so, figure out which roles can be automated, and then announce cuts. Mid-level management (project managers, coordinators, and reporting roles) = surprisingly vulnerable category, as AI project management tools can now automate sprint planning, resource allocation, status reporting, etc. I'm not trying to be the doom-and-gloom friend here, but if you've been putting off that AI upskilling course for six months, maybe move it up the list.

Sabrina Carpenter called her Coachella headliner shot two years ago and this Friday she's cashing it in

In 2024, Sabrina Carpenter played the Coachella main stage just as "Espresso" was becoming inescapable, and while she wasn't a headliner, she told the crowd she’d see everyone when she headlined. Go Sabrina: she’s returning as the Friday night headliner, in one of the fastest headliner ascents EVER. The set times are up, the YouTube livestream is free, and if you don't have plans this Friday night, now you do.

This weekend started with a wedding venue tasting, which sounds very elegant and adult until you're sitting at a table sipping wine and trying to look like you have thoughtful opinions on "elevated seasonal menus" when you are mostly just trying not to eat everything before anyone can stop you (I ate everything). Also celebrated my birthday. The number is classified and I will not be taking questions. THEN Easter with my family, in which my mom produced a fully stocked Easter basket for a grown adult woman (I will never, ever stop asking for this and she will never, ever make me ask twice), and my brother and I went completely feral competing for the golden egg.

All-cream everything for the bachelorette travel day, which is frankly crazy for air travel (90% odds I spill an entire latte on myself). Sabrina Carpenter promised she'd come back to Coachella as a headliner and I promised TikTok a travel outfit worth voting on, so you could say we are both delivering.

Bachelorette season is here and if the only thing standing between you and a full weekend of chaos is the small matter of not letting your inbox become a dumpster fire while you're gone, then I have tips for you! A little setup now means you can put your phone face down and mean it.

Write your OOO the day before, not at the airport gate. The version you write at 6am with one shoe on is not the version you want living in people's inboxes for four days. Give it five minutes before you take off.

Send a one-line status update on your top active items before you log off. "X is in review, Y is waiting on [name], Z is handled." This is the move that means nobody panics and nobody texts you. Skip this step and you will be answering emails from a bar bathroom.

For the "my job doesn't really allow me to disappear" crowd: Pick one window per day (20 minutes, ideally before anyone's awake) to scan and flag anything that actually needs you. Everything else can wait. You are on a bachelorette trip, not a sabbatical, but you are also not a 24/7 on-call service.

Thanks for reading!