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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 01/09/2026
In our new issue, @davidhill.bsky.social explains how insurance companies grew too big to contain, and how prediction markets hope to follow in their footsteps.
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The Polymarketification of American Life
Prediction markets have been trying to skirt regulators by selling themselves not as sportsbooks but as insurance.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 26/08/2026
The early days of insurance look a lot like Polymarket or Kalshi. In our new issue, @davidhill.bsky.social looks at the beginnings of an industry the prediction markets are trying to emulate: thebaffler.com/salvos/infin...
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Patrick Sauer @pjsauer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Been a long stride since I did @defector.com, spent a thrilling 8-hours at a doomed Aqueduct sacrificing a Game 5 Fort Greene barseat. Worth every last $132 dollar. Thanks: @toley.bsky.social @remas.bsky.social @davidhill.bsky.social & @davidjroth.bsky.social, why not? defector.com/a-final-day-...
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A Final Day At Aqueduct, New York's Forlorn And Forgotten Racetrack | Defector
Late in the morning of June 13, as most New York City sports fans were mapping out their plans for watching Game 5 of the NBA Finals, I was on the A train headed away from the Brooklyn neighborhood I’...
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
On my latest book club episode I went to a Mets game with @ugarles.bsky.social to discuss The Natural. Turns out the middle of an MLB game isn’t the ideal place for a literary debate. But we somehow made it work. davidhill.substack.com/p/the-natura...
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The Natural with Charles Star
If they don't win it's a shame
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DougAAdams @dougaadams.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The indictment of a U.S. soldier who helped plan the raid that captured Nicolas Maduro is raising concerns about insiders profiting off classified info in prediction markets. Our @pbsnews.org conversation tonight with @elizlanders.bsky.social @davidhill.bsky.social www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Soldier’s arrest over Polymarket bet on Maduro raid fuels insider trading concerns
A Special Forces soldier who helped plan the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was indicted for allegedly using classified information about the raid to make prediction market bets. It is...
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Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Hey everybody! I am taking the helm of this classic American institution with @theonion.com and want to know what you fine folks would like to see from us.
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
i have read a lot of good Knicks playoff previews but none that give me what i want: an absolute guarantee of victory
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
On the latest episode of American Gambler Book Club, the writer Kit Chellel and I discuss "The Gambling Animal," which explores the ways in which humans (and elephants!) have thrived through their understanding of probability and risk. We also discuss Kit's new book "Lucky Devils." Links below:
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
These people clearly suck, but I can’t help but think that the fact they know they suck is uniquely New Yorker. Like anywhere else these people would feel no shame or remorse.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A Brief History of People Have Lost Their Sense of Humour 🧵
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This story about a woman who spent 5 months in jail after being incorrectly identified with AI face recognition software is dystopian and terrifying, but even beyond the AI bullshit - why was she in jail for so long without anyone knowing she had been arrested? www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...
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Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN
A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to befor...
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Manpreet Kaur Kalra @manpreetkalra.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The $30/hour number Starbucks quotes? It's not a wage. It's a total compensation figure that requires benefits most baristas are deliberately scheduled too few hours to qualify for. New episode with @sbworkersunited.org is out now✊🏽 artofcitizenry.substack.com/p/no-contrac...
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No Contract, No Coffee: Starbucks, Union Busting, and the Fight for Labor Rights
How Starbucks became the most prolific violator of labor law in Modern U.S. History
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
If you love to watch guys who wear t shirts under their jerseys play basketball, have I got the game for you
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Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It took me a while to put my thoughts together, but I had to write about that Atlantic piece--even though I've never placed a single sports bet in my life: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
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Sam Lloyd @llamsoyd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I will never forget this as long as I live
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I’m definitely lodging a complaint about the color ranks of today’s NYT Connections. The blue is harder than the purple again
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Tough loss for High Point, but sometimes you just run into a more prayed-up opponent.
John Calipari's iconic 8/14/14 tweet reading "Walking on the beach this morning, doing a little thinking when I saw footprints in the sand. Reminded of the poem Footprints in the Sand."
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Openly wept at a high school production of Les Mis tonight how was your Friday night
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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
That was an NBA veteran level flop. He’s ready.
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
All the jokes about this place are about how there will be no women there, unlike regular sports bars, which are notoriously great places for straight men to meet women
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
every year I tell myself that I don't care about March Madness, don't know anything about most of the teams, and won't watch, but then I always forget about the most magical element of the tournament that sucks me in every year: it is on while I am supposed to be working
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I can’t watch round one of the tournament without thinking about all the years I watched the games on these in class
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Danny Funt @dannyfunt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Talking prediction markets, sports gambling, and Atlantic cover stories with my friend @davidhill.bsky.social at 1 EST on Substack live. Come have lunch with us: substack.com/@davidhill/n...
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Ryan Dack @ryandack.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Big day for people using gambling sites as sources of data to tell how a race is going
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
boy she bout to do it
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Always read @okr.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/64ba...
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The cost of America’s sports betting habit
Since gambling was legalised in many states its popularity has exploded but researchers warn about the rising social and financial toll
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Lionel Richie’s face getting closer and closer to that blind lady’s bust every year
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Lewis Hamilton one step closer to EGOT
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Woo pig sooiee
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13/03/2026
Hill spoke to Geoff Bennett for the latest episode of PBS News' podcast, "Settle In," about America's love of betting and how prediction markets are changing the industry. For the full episode: to.pbs.org/4sGNciC
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The explosion of sports betting in America
Americans legally bet close to $167 billion on sports last year, a dramatic increase since states began to broadly legalize it in 2018. Author and journalist David Hill speaks with Geoff Bennett about...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13/03/2026
As prediction market betting becomes more prevalent in nearly every aspect of American culture, journalist and author David Hill says not everything needs to turn into a "betting proposition."
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This is not good!
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Who ordered this? What is the point of it
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This story has taken over every conversation I’ve had for the last four days
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Stayed up to watch The Secret Agent tonight. Not sure I understood all of it but it was definitely captivating.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand.
CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. 
RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette.

CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there

RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: 
LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters.
CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. 
RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. 
LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. 
CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits.
RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Kristi Noem finding out she needs a new sponsor
Sharon Stone in Casino
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I am not the new co-host but I AM available to come on this show and talk about Arkansas.
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
[Whispering to date while watching Money Plane when the Money Plane first appears on screen] That’s Money Plane
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
One was a tv repairman. The other was a carnie who murdered someone.
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Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction @richardallensmith.com · 04/03/2026
Lou Holtz was fired as head coach at Arkansas because he kept taping campaign ads for Jesse Helms. He was too racist for Arkansas. In 1983.
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Christian socialism is on the ballot
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Captain Lou @captainlou.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This mural slaps. Literally turned around so I could get a picture.
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
My daughter is really bummed about the play being over and after seeing it 4 times in a row I kind of feel sad too. I thought I’d get sick of it but now I’m really sad I’ll never get to see it again. Live theater is fascinating in that way.
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I went to my daughters school musical last night and after she said “the man who cackles real loud at every single joke was there tonight. He’s been coming to every show for years. We all call him cackle man.” And I’m pretty sure they’re talking about me.
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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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