Author: trent
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Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse | The New Yorker
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Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse Betting should be legal, but pro leagues and major networks are undermining the value of sports in a bid to get in on the action. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/online-gambling-is-changing-sports-for-the-worse The legalizations of vices can be followed by gleeful oversaturation, and that period of chaos and moral…
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The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power Tools | The New Yorker
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The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power Tools In Los Angeles, a task force of detectives is battling organized retail theft, in which boosted goods often end up for sale online—or commingled on store shelves with legitimate items. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/25/the-crime-rings-stealing-everything-from-purses-to-power-tools “A misdemeanor is a misdemeanor, a theft is a theft.…
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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764 | WIRED
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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There’s 764 A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/ “Their main aim is to traumatize you,” says Anna, a young woman groomed and victimized…
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A Bullshit Genius – The Drift
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A Bullshit Genius On a friendly stroll somewhere in Colorado in the summer of 2004, Steve Jobs asked Walter Isaacson if he would consider writing his biography. via The Drift: https://www.thedriftmag.com/a-bullshit-genius/ But within the context of Isaacson’s nine books, Musk is not an anomaly. In method and thesis, it is perfectly in line with a…
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Watch It Burn – The Atavist Magazine
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Watch It Burn Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe’s fraud of the century. via The Atavist Magazine: http://magazine.atavist.com/watch-it-burn-france-europe-carbon-fraud-scam-vat-betrayal/ Unlike VAT fraud with mobile phones, no empty vans were required. The carbon market rendered even the pretense of real-world trade unnecessary because its product was an absence, an unemitted ton of gas. All someone…