07 Nov Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour On Prediction Markets’ Big Night: ‘We Even Overtook Pornhub’ Prediction markets like Kalshi beat pollsters in forecasting the 2024 US election. Mansour now says financial marketplaces are the future of political prognostication.
07 Nov Trump Won. What Will Happen to Electric Vehicles? Thanks to Elon Musk’s influence, the president-elect has waffled on the future of America’s electric transition.
07 Nov Election Denial Conspiracy Theories Are Exploding on X. This Time They’re Coming From the Left Conspiracy theories about missing votes—which are not, in fact, missing—and something being “not right” are being spread widely on X in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.
06 Nov Elon Musk’s America PAC Canvassers Faced Surveillance, Sickness, and Late Pay in Arizona I felt like Big Brother was always watching me,” says a contracted door knocker, one of several who allege to WIRED that they faced poor working conditions while getting out the vote for Donald Trump.
06 Nov Groypers Gave Illegal Hot Dogs and Burgers to Trump Voters At an Arizona polling location, a college GOP group, supporters of an antisemitic influencer, and a Christian nationalist pastor were handing out hot dogs and burgers—but only if you voted for Trump.
06 Nov Will Social Platforms Take Down a Premature Donald Trump Victory Post? In the 2020 presidential race, Donald Trump proclaimed himself the winner long before enough votes were counted. We asked the major platforms if they’d let him do it again.
05 Nov An Oath Keeper Talks Civil War Over Pastrami on Rye “I’m training people to survive a civil war, to get out of the way, to stay home, stay off the grid,” says Oath Keeper Jim Arroyo, in an interview two days before the US presidential election.
05 Nov 16 Best Cozy Games (2024), Tested and Reviewed Forget stressful leaderboards and time-sensitive missions. These games let you play at your own pace.
05 Nov JD Vance’s Senate Office Fires Key Adviser Who Posted About Drug Use on Reddit “Those posts were written in good humor and didn’t hurt anybody,” says Aaron Kofsky, who advised Vance on crypto and banking policy, of posts in which he wrote about using cocaine, kratom, and other drugs.
04 Nov 7 Best Beauty Box Subscriptions, Tested and Reviewed (2024) A beauty subscription box feels like a monthly present. These are our favorites.