Gambling should be like cigarettes: Legal but inaccessible.
How Everything Became Gambling
It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.
You don't have to gamble for gambling to ruin your life
How gambling is eroding empathy, destroying relationships, and changing our culture — even for people who never bet.
We Haven’t Seen the Worst of What Gambling and Prediction Markets Will Do to America
I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.
Mark Zuckerberg Sure Sounds Eager to Get Young People Hooked on Online Gambling
The Meta CEO is developing a social network betting market app—and wants help from Polymarket and Kalshi.
A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist
Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now.
ADDICTION BY DESIGN: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas – Natasha Dow Schüll
Slot machines, revamped by evermore compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry’s revenue mainstay. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll explores the dark side of machine gambling—a solitary, rapid, continuous form of play that has less to do with the competitive thrill of winning than with the pull of “the machine zone,” as gamblers call the trancelike state they enter.
US senators urge crackdown on wildfire betting amid warnings of arson risk
Experts say growing trend on sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi could motivate people to start fires to win money
Why Almost Everyone Loses—Except a Few Sharks—on Prediction Markets
A WSJ analysis shows a small number of accounts on Polymarket and Kalshi—often pros using data-driven algorithmic trading—take home most of the winnings.
The Danger of Keeping Score | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Last Friday, the Washington state Attorney General sued Kalshi, the prediction market platform where users can place bets on real world events, such as the number of deportations this...
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.
38 state AGs sign amicus brief supporting Mass. in Kalshi lawsuit | Arizona Capitol Times
The brief outlines that Kalshi continues to operate in states even where sports betting is illegal.
More Than a Quarter of Americans Gamble Online Daily, But Frequent Gamblers Likely to Self-Impose Br
As millions of Americans log on to track their college basketball pools, more than half (58%) of adults who gamble online daily say that they have intentionally taken a break or limited the amount of time they spend gambling, new poll data from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) shows.
#760: Gambling the future into existence
Plus: Cosmo for conservatives, AI;DR and being "agentic"
A Star Investor's Tale of Risk, Ruin & Reinvention w/ Victor Haghani (RWH071)
