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I have come across a few articles on gambling in the past few weeks, and thought I would dump them here. As per a recent FT article (1), after the 2018 legalisation of sports betting in the US, the industry’s revenues have grown from $0.9 billion to $17 billion. The article then goes on to enumerate the various ways in which gambling is impacting society, from direct consequences such as credit…
Copied from my review on letterboxd. I have been experimenting with voice to text off late, and so this is fairly raw and unedited. But better this than chatgpt rubbish. It’s so terrifying to see what’s happening or what’s been happening in the world since the last few centuries and to see these countries perpetuate a crime after crime while proclaiming themselves to be the protectors and…
I noticed something peculiar a few weeks back. A colleague at office had not saved the number of a third-party contractor. A fairly mundane thing. But why would you do that? This was a person she had to contact on a regular basis, for months, if not years, and she did not save his number. My curiosity only resulted in a quick retort about her being good at remembering phone numbers. Too quick to…
So, this article was originally conceptualized as a zine, a few months back, under the banner "The B12 Defizinecy". So cool. The zine was supposed to be an explainer about issues where I myself am not completely sure where I stand. So the end goal would be to separate the wheat from the chaff, to clear my own understanding of the matter and hopefully educate you too. But I'm giving up on the zine…