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From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis Against the gamblification of the world.

"Surveys have found that nineteen percent of 18-to-24-year-olds qualify as problem gamblers, and thirty-seven percent of Gen Z gamblers self-report as having an addiction. A 2025 Siena poll found that forty-eight percent of all men aged 18-49 have an active online sports betting account."

Reminder that addiction can form to anything that activates reward circuits in specific ways and drugs aren't special.

Note how our current leadership talks endlessly about drugs and ignores gambling, which is a for-profit enterprise that preys on addiction.

"Can the American electorate have a genuine change in preferences or are we stuck in a thermostatic enshitification ratchet" is the question to define our future

I told you this was gonna happen and the constant "disavow Biden" from certain corners are dumb as hell

Really making the subtext text

american political news is "holy shit he's hitler also everyone hates him and he's going to die within a decade tops" whereas british political news is "we fucking love black mold"

This is my most aggressively PMC take.

FAFSA is ridiculously welfare-cliffed, and we should either compel parents to actually make the projected contribution, or just do a broad based-tax raise to fund universities instead of a weird patriarchal bank-shot financial aid system.

Brb, buying up all the old Allagan tech to sell to the pentagon.

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Five-byline alert: 🚨

“.. the laser was deployed near Fort Bliss without coordinating with the FAA, which decided then to close the airspace ..”

@apnews.com
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🎶 Out by the West Texas town of El Paso
We reenacted an old Nena tune
Army believed cartel drones were encroachin’
That’s how we shot down a party balloon 🎶

deeply annoyed I did not think of this first

555-SLUT Dainty Havok @thesoidaddie.bsky.social Joined Jul '23 Making transit free and destigmatizing "vandalism" is better than whatever the fuck this is. (Not an attack on the OP) Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social • 1d Joined Feb '24 San Francisco's new anti-fare-dodging gates haven't just increased revenues, they've dramatically reduced vandalism and the cost of maintaining the network

People should put down their phones and pay attention in freshman social studies

'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans Kylie Brewer isn't unaccustomed to harassment online. But when people started using Grok-generated nudes of her on an OnlyFans account, it reached another level.

Someone used image generators to make (and monetize) a fake OnlyFans account of this feminist content creator, and they’ll likely never see any consequences.

“Many of the people messaging her about the fake OnlyFans account were men trying to get access to it”

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WHERE IS TYLER AUSTIN HARPER?

This 14th Amendment/Reconstruction angle is something I only recently noticed. Would be interested in buddy check from @jamellebouie.net, @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @asrust.bsky.social @patsobkowski.com. Would birthright citizenship in 1868 imply open borders by common understanding?

The deep dark secret of the Trump era most people do not and will not want you to know is that the penalties for saying no to him are exceedingly few! Tell the guy to fuck off, he can't/won't do shit to you! We've seen it time and again. Those who stand up and defy him are almost never hurt by it.

Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized.

And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

There are no “GOP Hawks”

(as dumb as the Hawk/Dove foreign policy conceptualization has always been, admittedly)

good God

I feel like it's very understated how the availability of standardized widgets and doohickeys influences engineering and design decisions in a way that it didn't a century ago

I figure that every woman associated with Trump will at some point try to girlishly snivel and blubber their way out of consequences, because they’re the kind of people who haven’t been given any real consequences since childhood and that’s what worked last time.

Abolition, Amnesty, Decriminalization, Open Borders You may not believe immigration restrictions are racist, but racists believe immigration restrictions are racist.

“They've overstayed a visa. They've missed an appointment with an immigration judge. Alright, that warrants a slap on the wrist, a wagging disapproving finger, and perhaps a small fine for the bureaucratic burden. These are administrative violations” www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

[nods vigorously in “works in an industrial plant”]

'the good building book' cover

not me running around the living room screaming 'it's here! it's here!'

can't wait to dive into my buddy @ecominimalnick.bsky.social's book

congrats, nick!

Perfect illustration of what the Trump regime means by "antisemitism," how it distorts the concept into a weapon.
See the end where AG Bondi, after trying to change the subject by smearing a Jewish Rep. as antisemitic and noticeably upsetting the descendant of Holocaust victims, grins with pleasure.

This has to run afoul of the establishment clause, right?

This is so embarrassing. 🤡

@cbsnews.com #ElPaso
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Yeah, probably

a *specific fiction trope that I noticed in animation and stuff as a kid* and that I was *absolutely convinced was absurd* was "villains who are aware they are not just evil but going to hell", I thought like, that they would, stop being evil if they believed that

As someone who do small group math tutoring, I tried to explain how even if you have a calculator on you at all times, you still need math skills(in part to use calculators), but it’s difficult to appeal to that idea when the more disruptive students have influencers pitching anti-intellectualism.