Good morning, world!

Got up early today to watch NASA yeet a giant pork-barrel at the Moon, with deplorable production values (SpaceX's PR people have got us used to the view from carefully intercut GoPros strapped to every conceivable crevice of their fireworks).

Also learned that Elon Musk just violated employment law (at twitter) in virtually every jurisdiction outside California (and maybe Texas)—definitely illegal if anyone there is working in the EU, or even the benighted UK.

@cstross Yea the production values on the Artemis launch paled by comparison. Also the timeline for the events was not updated in real-time (nor was it proportional). I was glad to see the launch went successfully but NASA is showing it's age. And was it just me or did the Artemis main stage look... ugly....