Scientists have determined that climate change boosted Hurricane Milton from a Cat 2 to a Cat 3 arstechnica.com/science/2024...

Climate change boosted Hurricane Milton’s strength

Record ocean warming was 400 times more likely due to climate change, boosting Milton from Category 2 to 3.

Buying a Cybertruck turns out to be a poor life choice apple.news/A1QLM3HQoTKS...

How Much It Really Costs to Insure a Tesla Cybertruck — Barron’s

Tesla’s avant-garde Cybertruck is a unique vehicle—and that’s creating some unique challenges for owners and auto insurers. Recently, stories circulated on social media indicating Geico wasn’t willing...

Maybe the first rule of thumb is to never vote for a candidate for ANYTHING that is trying to sell you something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Covering Harris for a couple days after covering Trump campaign for more than a year. And after covering 90+-minute speeches, it feels like I’m on a different planet hearing a 25-minute speech and then packing up.

These are dark times, and the platforms owned by Musk and Zuck are furthering our descent into information chaos. "the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary." apple.news/ABolLTpQKSwS...

I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is — The Atlantic

Technology What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis. October 10, 2024 The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentag...

The way Twitter is going it’s soon going to be Elon Musk versus Trump in the battle of short post social media sites I can’t see normal people wanting to be on it. I’m about done with it

At that point people will stop using it entirely. We don't need sources that muddy versus clarify or bury the info you need under lots of stuff you don't No one pays for a search engine that can't find anything

The problem with platforms like X and Facebook is that sooner or later no one will or should take anything posted there seriously. If the noise level is 100 already, very few things are going to be at 101.

The majority of white men and women vote Trump. Is it because of his immigration policies, or something else?

Here’s hoping we avoid the misinformation cycle we saw with Helene.

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Aid organizations are already pouring into the affected zones to provide immediate care. Here’s what you can do to help.

How to help victims of Hurricane Milton right now

Aid organizations are already pouring into the affected zones to provide immediate care. Here’s what you can do to help.