Did Apple Just Make a Gambling App?(theatlantic.com)

3 points by loughnane 2 years ago | 1 comments

Destigmatizing Drug Use Has Been a Profound Mistake(theatlantic.com)

19 points by loughnane 2 years ago | 1 comments

Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago(theatlantic.com)

145 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 126 comments

Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?(theatlantic.com)

218 points by explosion-s 3 years ago | 335 comments

The consensus on Havana Syndrome is cracking(theatlantic.com)

81 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 93 comments

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy(theatlantic.com)

203 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 228 comments

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society(pewresearch.org)

393 points by aloukissas 1 year ago | 363 comments

A Pew Research Center short read reporting survey data showing more Americans view legal sports betting as bad for society and sports.

After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi(npr.org)

49 points by momentmaker 21 days ago | 39 comments

NPR report on a man banned from sports betting sites after bankruptcy who turned to the prediction market Kalshi to keep gambling.

An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling(cjr.org)

139 points by danso 12 days ago | 96 comments

Columbia Journalism Review interview with Nicole Noren, an ESPN producer who quit in protest over the network's ties to sports betting.

We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do(derekthompson.org)

826 points by mmcclure 7 months ago | 576 comments

Derek Thompson essay arguing that the spread of gambling and prediction markets in America will cause worse social harm than people expect.

Addiction Markets(thebignewsletter.com)

369 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 415 comments

Matt Stoller's BIG newsletter essay arguing corporate-run gambling and online sports betting are economic coercion and should be abolished.

Kelly Can't Fail(win-vector.com)

386 points by jmount 1 year ago | 118 comments

A Win Vector blog post by John Mount explaining the Kelly bet allocation strategy and a setting in which Kelly betting cannot fail.