So for those of you, who do not know about this, there is an accessible app to play the lottery. It is called Jackpocket, and if you are on iOS, you can find it in the iOS App Store. When signing up for it, you do need to scan your ID your state ID that is, for this I had Assistance. Other than that, is completely accessible with voiceover you can order your tickets, check ticket results, and look at the games that are currently up for playing. Depending on what state you live in, you may or may not be able to play the lottery with this app, but I think it is really awesome and worth checking out!#Lottery#Jackpocket#Gambling#Accessibility
From the climate impact alone, I wouldn’t touch Bitcoin with a bargepole .
“Bitcoin alone is estimated to consume 127 terawatt-hours (TWh) a year — more than many countries, including Norway. In the United States, cryptocurrency activity is estimated to emit from 25 to 50 million tons of CO2 each year, on par with the annual emissions from diesel fuel used by US railroads.”
(via Rocky Mountain Institute)
The least-worst coin is #Monero :monero: but only because it's developers actually do give a damn and designed it to be a #Payment system and not a #Gambling tool for sociopathic assholes!
Security researchers have demonstrated how they were able to exploit a flaw which allowed them to hack the card-shuffling devices used in casinos and poker rooms.
If you're interested in #games and law and #lootboxes and #gambling and a window into what is going on in China, my colleague @LeonXiaoY is a great follow. I'm trying to get him weaned off posting only to Twitter so if those topics are of interest please follow him! :D
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, backed in the first reading on April 24 a bill strengthening the state's oversight over the gambling business, lawmaker Oleksii Honcharenko said.
'The purpose of tobacco industry investment in research is now clear: the tobacco industry utilised research funding to create doubt and controversy about research that showed how harmful tobacco was, and set out to create confusion when a scientific consensus had emerged. Research paid for by the tobacco industry delayed reforms that would have saved many lives and demanded impossible standards of proof before accepting emerging public health solutions. We know from an increasing body of research that gambling industry funding of research has similar goals and utilises similar methods.' | Tim Costello https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/18/the-gambling-industry-gets-a-ringside-seat-at-the-university-of-sydney-research-centre#health#tobacco#gambling#research#ethics
'A global team of researchers investigating the statistical and physical nuances of coin tosses worldwide concluded (via Phys.org) that a coin is 50.8% likely to land on the same side it started on, altering one of society’s most traditional assumptions about random decision-making that dates back at least to the Roman Empire.'
“There is simply too much advertising during sport and young people, in particular, are significantly overexposed and are in fact facing saturation levels of gambling advertising. It’s not a healthy connection.” #gambling#addiction#sponsorship#auslaw#auspol
so the USA #sports billionaire mafia bought themselves judges and a Congress to deregulate #gambling, and quickly turned bookies into partners into their VC-funded gambling schemes, are now turning against and going after personnel and athletes for allegedly gambling?
as long as executives at #NBA#MLB#NHL#NFL and any other sports leagues are in cahoots with black-box gambling sites that can manipulate wins & loses with a line a code, they're the ones that should be RICO'ed into oblivion.
The only thing the gambling industry understands about 'responsibility' is that it's a useful trope to deflect attention away from the parasitic nature of their products on to individuals who fall prey to them
APT10 is targeting the gambling sector across Southeast Asia in a campaign that researchers say is closely related to data collection and surveillance operations identified earlier this year
Swedish court of law orders gambling site to pay back 5.8 million SEK (around 500K USD) to a gambler because they knew he was addicted to gambling and still constantly contacted him to urge him to play more.
Parliament passes bill strengthening gambling oversight in first reading (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, backed in the first reading on April 24 a bill strengthening the state's oversight over the gambling business, lawmaker Oleksii Honcharenko said.