Today, an interview that will make you feel better about your 9-to-5, a report revealing gambling isn’t just for men anymore, and a dispatch from a concert that got me thinking, One day more until the weekend. 

Emily Gould

To prove his point, [producer Cameron] Mackintosh pointed to a doorway onstage, and out walked Patti LuPone, the West End’s first-ever Fantine, for a rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” alongside Debbie Gibson, Samantha Barks, Katie Hall, Shan Ako, and Emily Bautista. Mackintosh also then introduced a man he met as a young strapping Australian many years ago — panicked whispers throughout the crowd wondered if this would be Hugh Jackman, actually here — before Philip Quast, a legendary Javert, joined Jeremy Secomb and Jaden. There was a gaggle of Éponines doing “On My Own” followed by a group of Jean Valjeans, and most curiously, Aaron Tveit — a onetime Enjolras who may yet be Jean Valjean in years to come.

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When you’re hitting your stride on the platform, showing restraint is easier said than done. Earlier this month, Rachel, a 33-year-old machinist in Wisconsin, started using Kalshi to bet on the daily bitcoin markets, where users wager whether the prices of different cryptocurrencies will rise or fall in a 15-minute time frame. She put in $15 and cashed out at $300. Now she’s a daily user. “It’s all-consuming. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone,” she says. She used to read before work but has recently found herself opening the app and losing an hour to it. She’s lost money too — once, $200 in two minutes. If her gains go up to at least $1,000, she tells me she’ll cash out and delete the app — or at least, she hopes. “I knew it was getting bad when I started seeing the chart in my dreams,” she says. 

When you’re hitting your stride on the platform, showing restraint is easier said than done. Earlier this month, Rachel, a 33-year-old machinist in Wisconsin, started using Kalshi to bet on the daily bitcoin markets, where users wager whether the prices of different cryptocurrencies will rise or fall in a 15-minute time frame. She put in $15 and cashed out at $300. Now she’s a daily user. “It’s all-consuming. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone,” she says. She used to read before work but has recently found herself opening the app and losing an hour to it. She’s lost money too — once, $200 in two minutes. If her gains go up to at least $1,000, she tells me she’ll cash out and delete the app — or at least, she hopes. “I knew it was getting bad when I started seeing the chart in my dreams,” she says. 

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