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When Elon Musk’s social media platform X launched a contest to promote its “Articles” feature,
the guidelines were explicit: Submissions “must not contain political, or religious statements.”
But when the company announced the winners on Tuesday, the results appeared to contradict those rules.
While the stated criteria emphasized high-quality writing and nonpolitical content,
more than $2 million in prize money largely flowed to users ranging from popular right-wing …

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-01-20 06:02:45

What's crazy is the vast majority of #Obamacare subscribers voted for #Trump.
And Trump is making their payments increase by 75%.
☑️ 77% of 2025 Obamacare enrollees lived in Trump‑won states. About 80% of all premium tax credits flowed to residents of those same states.

A hilly landscape that looks like spiderwebs when viewed from orbit holds clues to the history of water on ancient Mars.
For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork,
low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy hollows in between.
Crisscrossing the surface for miles, the formations suggest ancient groundwater flowed on this part of the Red Planet later than scientists exp…