Zach

@zachlj

Dad. Georgia grad. Sojourner.

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Zach@zachlj· 15d

“The true volume of American sports wagering in 2025…could approach $300 billion. In other words, the average American adult placed roughly $1000 in legal bets…last year.” Decadent society.

“The $165 or $170 billion number is low,” he told Fortune.

That figure also excludes sports wagering flowing through prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, which have rapidly expanded into sports contracts since gaining federal regulatory clearance. Matheson estimated that activity could represent another $50 billion-$100 billion in handle. Put together, the true volume of American sports wagering in 2025—legal sportsbooks plus prediction markets plus unreported tribal handle—could approach $300 billion. In other words, the average American adult placed roughly $1,000 in legal bets on sports last year.

Zach@zachlj· 17d

First onigiri attempt. Pickled plum inside. Way too much rice but otherwise 👌

Zach@zachlj· 18d

A classic.

Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. The OG of the murderous monks genre.

Zach@zachlj· 24d

Future of work

Zach@zachlj· Jul 11

Bluesky. The sports platform.

A feed of nothing but comments about Norway-England

Zach@zachlj· Jul 8

Time is running out to get the Costco ham stand deal.

This is a Costco Serrano ham that sells for $119.99

Zach@zachlj· Jul 5

For reference: here’s El Jadida, the site of this most unexpected encounter.

A cropped map of Morocco and portions of Spain and Portugal. A small port city on the Moroccan coast, El Jadida, is circled in black. Other names of Moroccan cities are visible nearby: Safi, Casablanca, and Rabat

Zach@zachlj· Jul 5

Screenshot from the AP’s live feed of America’s big beautiful birthday bash juxtaposed with its COD doppelgänger.

A big beautiful Ferris wheel sits empty in a big beautiful empty lot

Call of Duty nuclear wasteland with Trump’s big beautiful Ferris wheel in the background

Zach@zachlj· Jul 4

This is the freedom the founding fathers intended us to enjoy. From a friend just now.

A giant T Rex is being towed by a sprinter van, because America.

Zach@zachlj· Jul 2

Image credit: Grayson McCrosky, McCrosky Creative

An image of the back USMNT forward, Folarin Balogun, in his USA jersey facing a mostly US crowd with his right finger pointing toward his right ear. Above him in bold white text reads: FREE BALOGUN.

Image credit: Grayson McCrosky, McCrosky Creative

Zach@zachlj· Jul 2

Go Dog Go brutal “Do you like my hat?” Response. In this case, Pope Leo speaking to the schismatics.

Zach@zachlj· Jul 1

In a functioning democracy this would be a regime-ending scandal. It would end in prison sentences.

Headline: Trump Pulled In at Least $2 Billion After Returning to the White House

Subhead. A financial disclosure for 2025 shows that the Trump family’s holdings, particularly President Trump’s crypto businesses, we’re stunningly lucrative

Zach@zachlj· Jun 29

Found it.

Wispr Flow CEO writes the following:

I'm looking for a hungry, smart, high EQ future-founder to work side-by-side with me as my Chief of Staff.

I would've killed for this job at 24.

You'd be in every real decision we make - the hiring calls, the product fights, the investor conversations that go sideways, the messy moments that never make it into a LinkedIn post.

The job is 16 hours a day, in person in San Francisco, next to me, for all of it.

Zach@zachlj· Jun 25

every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?

Zach@zachlj· Jun 24

Recession indicator.

Last year Conan O'Brien was up on stage hosting the Oscars, and this year he's hosting security awareness training that your employees will actually sit through.

Adaptive Security's new cybersecurity awareness series with Conan is live now. Send me a message if you'd like to learn more!

Zach@zachlj· Jun 23

The possession of leftwing literature and the defendant’s removal thereof was used as a basis for securing a 30-year-sentence for “corrupt concealment.” I am speechless.

Prosecutors in the case charged and secured conviction for eight of the nine defendants with providing material support for terrorists. The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was not at the protest, but was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record after prosecutors said he moved leftwing zines and other materials at the request of Rueda, his wife, after she was arrested. Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.

The charge does not require prosecutors to prove a connection to any kind of terrorist ideology, only that a defendant provided support for one of a list of several crimes, the justice department spun the convictions as proof that antifa was a terrorist organization.

The defendants in the case are a collection of activists who were loosely affiliated with one another through a local leftwing book club and gun group. During the trial, prosecutors highlighted many of the zines that the book club read as evidence of the conspiracy and ideology that linked the demonstrators. That evidence was met with widespread criticism from legal observers who said that it amounted to criminalizing freedom of speech.

Zach@zachlj· Jun 23

@channel6.bsky.social newsletter this week delivers as always. I promise you the writing from @hollyanderson.bsky.social and @edsbs.bsky.social is worth the subscription. Link below. www.channelsix.news And to Holly and Spencer, y’all are really damn good at what you do.

McAfeecore is the LaCroix carbonated water of sports programs: Less than a soda, and more of a watered-down memory of a flavor carried along by overpowering effervescence. Do this test yourself to see what I’m talking about: Watch a Pat McAfee or an Alexi Lalas segment. Then let twenty minutes pass, and tell me what they were talking about, and what it meant to you.

Zach@zachlj· Jun 19

The key to success is ingesting salt tar.

Vegemite. A salt tar. Spread on a sandwich. We’re supposed to be convinced this is yummy.

Zach@zachlj· Jun 18

Entire mayoral playbook run from one of these

A classic Mead journal with black and white speckled cover

Zach@zachlj· Jun 17

It’s a replica in the same way Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge was.

Jackson Healthcare’s “coliseum” from Appen Media

Zach@zachlj· May 28

Pneupmonia.

Google’s AI overview would like you to know there is a second “p” in the middle of pneumonia.

Zach@zachlj· May 28

Googlp.

Google’s AI overview is conflicted on whether Google is spelled with a “p”

Zach@zachlj· May 22

Still celebrating that Seattle Super Bowl with a fresh arrival.

Seattle Super Bowl Champions hat. Silver sharpe on the brim reads: “12 AS ONE” and contains Coach Mike Macdonald’s signature beneath it

Zach@zachlj· Apr 29

Kudos to the Guardian for including this important point about the economic exploitation making energy transition near-impossible for much of the world.

“There is an expanding debt crisis in the global south. It is impossible for countries to even imagine a fossil fuel transition with such limited fiscal space.”

Debt in Africa alone has doubled in the last five years to more than $1tn. Rising interest rates, imposed by central banks to dampen inflation caused in part by fossil fuel crises, are adding to the burden, while soaring fuel and food prices are placing further demands on stricken economies.

Zach@zachlj· Apr 27

Y’all telling me that ain’t Bernard from The Santa Clause?

Zach@zachlj· Apr 13

Former Georgia TE Arthur Lynch, writes a really insightful college athletics column. This one on the latest executive order is no exception. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ncaa-b...

The Bottom Line

The reason we are sitting here in 2026, watching a president sign an executive order about college football eligibility rules, is that the NCAA had decades to build a fair and functional governing structure and chose its own institutional authority instead. The transfer portal chaos, the agent exploitation, the coaching contract arms race, the scholarship model that failed to keep pace with the revenue it was generating, all of it flows from that original failure. The athletes, the coaches, and even the agents responding to broken incentives are not the villains of this story. The institution that created the incentives and then refused to fix them is.

Zach@zachlj· Apr 12

This kind of Master’s Sunday calls for a great pour.

Zach@zachlj· Apr 8

Zach@zachlj· Apr 7

Barad-dûr. Nashville.

Zach@zachlj· Mar 19

Recently got a new bread bag for my sourdough. Let’s take a look at the various uses as illustrated on the bag….