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The dumb-as-hell, completely unnecessary drama surrounding what should be a basic identity verification system progressed apace today

SpaceX’s Starship rocket, the most powerful ever built, blasted off on an unpiloted maiden flight Thursday, flying for more than two minutes before exploding. What do you think?

Starship, Microsoft, Tesla investors, Twitter Blue—it's been a week

Plus: Elon Musk’s extremely busy week

Starship is great, but the world needs more medium-lift rockets.

Musk degraded the value of the blue checkmark and got mad when Twitter users didn't pay up

Musk is personally paying for Lebron James, Stephen King, and William Shatner’s blue checks, I guess just to troll them? Teach them a lesson?

SpaceX applicants undergo a rigorous screening process to ensure they live up to the spacecraft manufacturer’s standards. Do you have what it takes to pass the company’s aptitude test and land the job?

Both celebrities had publicly said they would not be paying to keep their blue check

Musk eliminated NPR's 'publicly-funded media' label on Twitter. The Twitter CEO said removing labels was his biographer Walter Isaacson's idea.