Actually Useful

Sports Betting, Predictive Markets, and Financializing Everything


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We chat about the explosive rise of sports betting, the underlying tech that makes it especially insidious, and how relentlessly gambling products are marketed to young men. In Falcon Mode, we give flowers to a hobbyist developer who solved the problem of creeps with smart glasses.

Links:

VICE Sports’ Out of Bounds, “The Sports Betting Boom”

r/problemgambling keeps an incredible wiki of recovery resources (that aren’t funded by the gambling companies).

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Actually UsefulBy Ariel Butters and Josh Stretten-Carlson