Max Kravitz

Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement Those in UK aged 11-17 said seeing a celebrity gambling or advertising it made them want to emulate them, survey finds Children as young as 11 feel tempted to try betting after being “flooded” by celebrities and sports stars promoting it, according to two reports that found nearly 90% of children aged 13-17 are exposed to gambling content online. The UK’s leading gambling charity, GambleAware, which commissioned the reports, urged regulators and policymakers to address social media accounts and influencers producing betting content on platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Twitch in light of the findings. Continue reading...

Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement

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I think there’s probably power in being up against people who simply can’t conceive of anyone caring enough to act without being bribed to do so. It means that they cannot imagine, or thereby prepare themselves for, a driven opposition.

Give it two years and we'll see a big headline about how all of their DNA data they've collected over the years has gone to data brokers for sale

Governor, I do not know.

if, ten years ago, your entire understanding of politics was that the right wing wanted to destroy everything because they were evil, you had a more accurate and more predictive analysis than functionally the entire American media and political apparatus

It's becoming clearer every single day that cryptocurrency is just an unregulated security hyper-prone to market manipulation. Bitcoin is maybe the only exception, but that's due to its use as the standard in transactions that deal with drugs, human trafficking, and other not so nice things!

Saw a screening of a few of David Lynch’s short films. I miss seeing art made viscerally, cheaply, and for a small messy audience. It actually makes the world feel bigger and more interesting. Mass appeal shrinks it all down.

Shit inspired me. Glad I saw it.

The future they want is a broken administration unable to manage a modern society

Merrick Fartland is the reason we're in this mess

Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen.

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