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Weekly output: NASA reopens lunar-lander contract, Verizon adds “Lite” home-5G plan

I got out of bed earlier than usual today to go cheer for people who had woken much earlier to go run 26.2 miles, because I see supporting people running the Marine Corps Marathon as a civic duty. Saturday saw me taking on another civic duty: poll-worker training for the 15-plus-hour day I have coming up Nov. 4.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week: an explanation of why it pays for freelancers to know which topics don’t have full-time coverage by a staff writer at a client.

10/21/2025: NASA Reopens Lunar Lander Contract, and Elon Musk Is Big Mad, PCMag

I wasn’t sure that NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy saying that the space agency would seek new bids to build a lunar lander for the first U.S. moon landing since 1972 would amount to a PCMag story. And then Elon went on a rage-tweeting spree about that…

10/23/2025: Verizon Adds Cheaper, Data-Capped ‘Lite’ Wireless Home Broadband Option, PCMag

Verizon is a few years behind T-Mobile in selling a data-capped version of its home fixed-wireless service in areas with limited capacity, but its data cap is much more forgiving than T-Mobile’s.

#ArtemisIII #ElonMuskX #fixedWireless #FWA #HLS #home5G #moonLanding #SeanDuffy #Starship #Verizon5GHome

Your Sunday chore: Cheer on Marine Corps Marathon runners

There’s a huge athletic event taking place in our nation’s capital this weekend that you don’t want to miss. No, not the World Series (but how freaking amazing is that?!). The Mar…

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Is it illegal to not buy ads on X? Experts explain the FTC’s bizarre ad fight.

Here’s the “least silly way” to wrap your head around the FTC’s war over X ads.

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WGA East Leaves Elon Musk’s X Following “Racist And Antisemitic Language” From AI Tool Grok
#News #Politics #ElonMusk #ElonMuskX #Labor #WGAEast

https://deadline.com/2025/07/wga-east-leaves-x-grok-racist-comments-elon-musk-1236453179/

WGA East Leaves Elon Musk’s X Following “Racist And Antisemitic Language” From AI Tool Grok

The WGA East announced it is leaving Elon Musk's X after the AI tool Grok made several racist and offensive remarks, including praising Hitler.

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Media Matters sues FTC, says agency is retaliating on behalf of Elon Musk https://arstechni.ca/pgqk #mediamatters #elonmuskx #Policy
Media Matters sues FTC, says agency is retaliating on behalf of Elon Musk

FTC probe is clearly connected to “Musk’s vindictive lawsuits,” group says.

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Trump’s FTC may impose merger condition that forbids advertising boycotts https://arstechni.ca/U8RL #advertisingboycott #elonmuskx #Policy #FTC
Trump’s FTC may impose merger condition that forbids advertising boycotts

Report: Proposed condition on ad merger would ban boycotts based on politics.

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Elon Musks xAI übernimmt Social-Media-Plattform X – Bewertung bei 33 Milliarden Dollar

Erfahren Sie, wie xAI X übernimmt und Synergien zwischen KI und Social Media schafft. Ein neuer Schritt in der Technologie.

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Elon Musk’s X Platform Suffers Two 45-Minute Outages Through Monday

Elon Musk's X suffered an outage twice today with downdetector.com reporting around 10,000 people saying the social media platform was down.

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