Online Sports Betting is for Losers (searls.com)

While the online sportsbook algorithms are good at spotting gamblers who are smarter than the house, they aren’t so good at spotting and getting help for problem gamblers, which the sportsbook apps are all but (or actually) designed to create—especially out of young people who are quick to rationalize the game of losing money as a form of fun.

I suppose algorithms that limit winners is the technology equivalent of spotting a card counter on camera and escorting them out of the casino (and adding their name to a ‘permanently banned’ list). No surprise that the sports betting apps do this. But the real question is why aren’t they using the power of algorithms to spot those with nascent gambling problems? Limiting those accounts might not help the gambler, though, as they can likely just move to a different app.

Graduation Speaker Plagiarizes Speech, Returns Honorary Degree - Plagiarism Today (plagiarismtoday.com)

commencement plagiarism is unique in that it victimizes the audience twice: first, by lying to them and second, by overshadowing them.

I get the first part, but the second seems like an exaggeration. I mean, no one remembers anything about my accomplishments as a graduate in the audience at the Spring, 1992 commencement ceremony at The Ohio State University. Surely, though, they remember that Bernadine Healy, Director of NIH, delivered the commencement address.