@gbhnews has a new podcast series, “Scratch & Win,” which is about the rise of America’s most successful lottery. Expect tales of organized crime, the FBI, and U.S. politics — just another day in America, in other words.

@gbhnews has a new podcast series, “Scratch & Win,” which is about the rise of America’s most successful lottery. Expect tales of organized crime, the FBI, and U.S. politics — just another day in America, in other words.
Rep Gilda Cobb Hunter explores the impact on South Carolina's technical schools of using Lottery funds to pay for private and religious school K-12 education.
#SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCPolitics #lottery #schoolvouchers #privateschools #schoolvoucherscam #technicalcolleges
I was a Schroeder's millionaire on the national lottery this morning, for about an hour. Then gave up waiting and logged in to discover my winnings.
£5 and a lucky dip. Oh well
For once I don’t want to bullshit this prompt.
What would you do if you won the lottery?
If I won the lottery, I would buy a big ass plot of land (a square mile plus) in the middle of nowhere – not gonna tell you hooligans where because this is the fucking Internet and people are weird – and start a neuroqueer commune complete with a live tracking studio mostly filled with analog gear and I would use the remaining funds to fill people’s GoFundMes and start SEVERAL businesses I’ve been meaning to start, lol.
I have plans….
-Allēna
Silly Poll Time
Do often do you buy lottery tickets?
Please boost!
Waterloo, Ont. woman's lucky break: How her lottery win will help kids with disabilities
A lucky lottery ticket will end up benefitting an Ontario centre that supports kids with disabilities and their families.
#lottery #disability #children #Waterloo #Ontario
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/waterloo-ont-woman-s-lucky-break-how-her-lottery-win-will-help-kids-with-disabilities-1.7171969
Waterloo, Ont. woman’s lucky break: How her lottery win will help kids with disabilities
A lucky lottery ticket will end up benefitting an Ontario centre that supports kids with disabilities and their families.
#lottery #disability #children #Waterloo #Ontario
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/waterloo-ont-woman-s-lucky-break-how-her-lottery-win-will-help-kids-with-disabilities-1.7171969
$1.2 Billion Ticket Sold In CA!
A billion dollar lottery ticket was sold in California for last night's lottery.
"For the rest of us, it's back to work ya scurvy dogs!"
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews #lottery
Could Elon Musk’s lottery or a court ban against it actually sway the election, especially in the key swing state of Pennsylvania?
https://theconversation.com/elon-musk-misses-philly-court-date-stalling-illegal-lottery-case-against-him-an-expert-on-philadelphia-politics-weighs-in-242472
#USpolitics #lottery
Could Elon Musk’s lottery or a court ban against it actually sway the election, especially in the key swing state of Pennsylvania?
https://theconversation.com/elon-musk-misses-philly-court-date-stalling-illegal-lottery-case-against-him-an-expert-on-philadelphia-politics-weighs-in-242472
#USpolitics #lottery
#ElonMusk announced Sat that his political group, America #PAC, would use a #lottery to award $1 million each day until the #election to a registered voter who signs a petition saying they support free speech & the right to bear arms. Only voters registered in 7 swing states — including #Michigan, #Pennsylvania, #Georgia & #Nevada — are eligible for the prizes.…
Celebrate openness, reduce bias, and avoid competition
...is the motto of our annual #OpenResearch Award. We want to highlight the use of open research or teaching practices, not rank them.
Using a bingo cage, we randomly draw three eligible submissions to win 500 euros each.
Together with @oscgroningen, we invite @universityofgroningen students, researchers, and lecturers to submit their case study.
> LED screens on roughly seven #OregonLottery billboards were turned off at locations around the state after they were taken over by a mysterious #furry animation this week.
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/oregon-lottery-billboard-issue-08152024/amp/
Celebrate openness, reduce bias, and avoid competition
...is the motto of our annual #OpenResearch Award. We want to highlight the use of open research or teaching practices, not rank them.
Using a bingo cage, we randomly draw three eligible submissions to win 500 euros each.
Together with @oscgroningen, we now invite @universityofgroningen students, researchers, and lecturers to submit their case study.
"Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones." –Shirley Jackson, The Lottery (1948)
#OnThisDate, June 27, The Lottery (Larry Yust, 1969) is the #FilmDuJour
#LarryYust #ShirleyJackson #IsidoreMankofsky #lottery #BookAdaptation #horror #mystery #ShortFilm #USA #1960s ★★★★☆
We'd all love to win the lottery... but what are the chances of that?
Well, they're a great deal higher if you know how to HACK the lottery. Which is exactly what one guy did...
In this segment of a keynote speech, I explain how a hacker managed to rig a multi-million dollar lottery... and how he was caught.
Do you buy #lottery tickets (or equivalent in your country)?
Please boost for a wider sample. :-)
Oh, wow, not the first time this has been done. Not surprisingly, students at MIT back in 2012 did this to the Massachusetts Lottery. https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/ #math #lottery #mit
You know you've won the friends lottery when they ship you a wood paneled freight box containing the ~75yr old soup and dinner plates* they collected for you.
*And chocolate. And home spun & dyed "#Finland style" #sheep wool baby socks.
On arrival in #Denmark even the PostNord lady treated the box with respect