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Meet Thomas, a 35-year-old who got hooked to FanDuel and DraftKings in the pandemic, ended up $50,000 in the red. He filed for bankruptcy and signed up for a Pennsylvania registry that banned him from using betting apps.
More recently, he saw an ad for Kalshi offering a cash bonus. He got the app and couldn’t put it down. He’s now living with his mom and grandmother and taking loans from them to afford food and car insurance payments. “I have a gambling addiction” he wrote to Kalshi, begging for them to ban him, which they eventually did. But not before he was more than $25,000 in the hole.
Thomas represents dark side of the prediction market boom: Problem gamblers who relapse with Kalshi, which has blanketed TV, social media, sports stadiums, bus stations, trains, with ads trying to attract new traders, just as they insist they are not a gambling operator. That means they don’t honor “self-exclusion” registries maintained by states like Pennsylvania. Mental health clinicians say that creates a loophole for people like Thomas.
What really got Thomas were Kalshi’s 15-minute crypto markets, where you can make a binary trade on whether Bitcoin will be above or below a certain number every 15 minutes. There were times he was betting 18 hours a day in these markets.
He told me: “The odds flip so quickly. It’s such a rush. And when I’d lose, my brain just kept wanting to win it back. I never even traded Bitcoin or any crypto, but I just kept coming back to the rush of how unpredictable the markets were.”
A clinician I spoke to called 15-minute crypto markets “a slot machine in your pocket”
npr.org/2026/10/02/nx-s1-598…
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You steal my data and say it's for "making the AI model better for everyone."
I create an AI model and generate synthetic data from your model and all of a sudden I'm the bad guy? What happened to making AI better for everyone?
You STOLE the data, now you are trying to privatize intelligence because you believe you are the right company to control the best models.
I think I'm better, because I'm not funded by VC investor and big corporations trying to milk every dollar from the hard working people of the world.
I also don't work for the Government.
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there’s many reasons to be skeptical that “finance culture” as such is a good/healthy thing, but there’s not a single day where i didn’t wish that tech would adopt its wasp norms around basic decency, discretion, and eschewing this gross vulgarity. really low class stuff.
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This is what leadership & courage looks like.
Mark Zuckerberg has always put the public good above maximizing profits.
Their rollout of child safety measures was clearly long planned. The fact that this is all being released right after the settlement is merely a coincidence.
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TIL about hidden="until-found"
Add it to elements that are on the screen but not visible (e.g. on a hidden tab) and the browser will fire a beforematch event.
Perfect for Stimulus to listen for and automatically switch tabs!
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does annoy me that nobody is that ambitious for UK. why shouldn’t bbc be best broadcasting network in world? why shouldn’t we be world leader in research, science, technology, industry etc? why should we be so reliant on yanks? it actually isn’t impossible for us to be serious
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Dear US government,
Since you've just blocked Fable and Mythos on critical national security grounds, here are some other tools that pose a similar threat to the American people:
- Microsoft Teams
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Jira
- Outlook
Please do what you must to save America 🇺🇸
‼️🚨 BREAKING: Amazon researchers snitched to the US government about jailbreaking Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing Anthropic to immediately shut down worldwide access.
A security export control directive from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick enforced the action.
Anthropic is fighting the directive and calls it a misunderstanding.
This isn't the first clash. The Trump administration had already tried to get Anthropic to pause the release of its latest models before this directive landed.
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How China is dismantling Uyghur society
FT analysis suggests that the Chinese state’s campaign of oppression against Uyghurs and their culture and identity has entered a new phase.
Read the full visual investigation here: ft.trib.al/wjw9Yt4
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We’ve gone from “Polish people are not like us we need Brexit to get rid of them” to “Poland is great bc it’s full of Polish people” and still people don’t realise they were manipulated and scammed into harming their own country with Brexit
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This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opini…
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influencers fleeing dubai and leaving their pets behind is no surprise
opportunistic fucks
they dont care about building roots
pets are objects
like rolexes
they dont care about neighbours
no roots
lost souls hopping from tax heaven to tax heaven
never learning local cultures
local languages
building communities
i dont know whats more sad, the pet or the soul of that human
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Deploying a Rust tool to a 512MB RAM VPS and seeing it idle at 10MB usage is why we bother with low-level languages.
