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Archives for October 2025

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
A Charlie Kirk meme landed him in jail.

61-year-old Larry Bushart is out of jail after a month for posting a meme on Facebook. In the wake of Kirk’s killing, ordinary people were doxed, harassed, and even jailed for comments made online about the right wing influencer. According to the Washington Post, Bushart is now celebrating his freedom and building his legal case — and is back to posting.

A contentious kids safety bill might be getting gutted — and nobody’s happy

A centerpiece of the Kids Online Safety Act is rumored to be at risk in the new version.

Lauren Feiner
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SpaceX proposes a new plan for NASA’s Artemis III moon landing.

Former Real World cast member and current Transportation Secretary / acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy recently said SpaceX was “behind” on its contract for Artemis III and proposed reopening it. (Elon Musk responded with a predictable slew of insults.)

Now SpaceX has a response, but its blog post is missing one thing: the details of this “simplified” approach.

In response to the latest calls, we’ve shared and are formally assessing a simplified mission architecture and concept of operations that we believe will result in a faster return to the Moon while simultaneously improving crew safety.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
It’s de Blasio, not DeBlasio.

But they look the same in an email address, as a reporter for UK newspaper The Times found out this week. They emailed the wrong Bill DeBlasio for his thoughts on Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral campaign, but he told Semafor (in an interview over his Ring doorbell!) that he never once claimed to be the former mayor.

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
Trump is already using Bill Gates’ climate memo to claim victory.

In the memo, Gates tries to make the case that there’s too much focus on cutting greenhouse gas emissions and not enough on public health and poverty. It’s a narrative that lets polluters off the hook and plays into Trump’s efforts to rollback environmental protections and spread disinformation about climate change.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The FCC is going after broadband nutrition labels.

The agency voted to adopt a notice of proposed rulemaking that could modify the broadband pricing breakdowns introduced last year, which Republican FCC commissioner Olivia Trusty said may be “overly burdensome” for service providers, as reported by LightReading.

The FCC is looking to “streamline” rules surrounding the labels, a proposal that Democrat commissioner Anna Gomez called “one of the most anti-consumer items I have seen.”

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Python Software Foundation turns down $1.5 million NSF grant because of the anti-DEI strings attached.

A PSF proposal to address vulnerabilities in Python and PyPi was recommended for funding, but it was declined because the terms barred “any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws.”

The PSF, which you can donate to here, says it’s committed to the “growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.”

Justine Calma
Justine Calma
Government shutdowns tend to be bad for the air we breathe.

Coal-fired power plants pumped out as much as 20 percent more particle pollution during the last federal government shutdown in 2018 and 2019 as the US Environmental Protection Agency froze inspections.

The current shutdown has lasted nearly a month now, inching closer to the 2018-2019 record for the longest in history.