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Matt Glassman | Matt’s Five Points | 7th November 2025 What forms of gambling are actually worrisome? One might use $25 to enter a Scrabble tournament, play poker with family, or on a Vegas slot machine. They are not remotely similar. To gauge an activity’s relative value, ask: is it skill-based or random? Is it social or solitary? How much space exists, by design, between individual bets? “It’s a bad sign when something starts to resemble a slot machine” (4,100 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Marco Giancotti | Aether Mug | 6th November 2025 Teleological thinking, “the idea that many things happen for specific purposes”, is distorting. “Purpose-based thinking nudges you into a narrow view of the world where your role is to execute or protect some preordained plans. It is more rewarding to take in the uncountable expressions of existence as they are, instead of shoehorning them into narrow schemes and subtly shaky value systems” (2,200 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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