“There is only one thing worse than a government monopoly. And that is a private monopoly that the government is dependent on.” - The Verge

We linked to the big Ronan Farrow profile of Elon Musk in the New Yorker earlier, but this part really caught my eye: Trump-appointed former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine decrying the government’s total reliance on SpaceX. The whole thing really is worth a read.