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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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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
God invented money for spending it
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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
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5EGw... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Substack: davidhill.substack.com/p/the-gambli...
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The Gambling Animal with Kit Chellel
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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
Point is, this story is getting attention because it shows how AI is useless, but it also shows that the system was already broken.
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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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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Not to mention the cast of patients feels like a bunch of characters from the simpsons now. Each new patient has to be some new wacky occupation or someone who hit their head getting shot out of a cannon or choked on a bone at a chicken wing eating competition or whatever
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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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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Well said Maria
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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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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'd never seen so much open air cocaine use as I did during these shows
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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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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Remember when Sam McPheeters got him to sing a song about the El Mozote massacre
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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Goke Winger
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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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David Hill @davidhill.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Feels like Facebook boomers are a much bigger problem electorally. Bullshit spreads on there so much faster than it does on twitter, which is already so broken it barely works even for the chuds
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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
It’s all we talk about in my house now
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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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