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I didn’t need to ask what he had done all evening, because I knew he’d been lobotomizing himself in front of the television—scripted
Ryan O'Connell • Just by Looking at Him: A Novel
The bigger the meme, the better.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
us. It was Peter Turner, a world-famous mentalist, a form of magic categorized by mind reading and other impossible psychological effects. A gregarious and audacious guy, he is also a skilled hypnotist. It’s rumored that he once went into the Grosvenor, a casino in London, hypnotized the roulette dealer, and made off with £40,000 in five minutes.
Ian Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
The online world was his stage; he just needed to decide who would come out from behind the curtain.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
In a 2024 essay, the jazz critic and music historian Ted Gioia described this pattern as “dopamine culture,” the idea that our online life has been engineered to induce stimulation above all else. “Its most striking feature is the absence of Culture (with a capital C) or even mindless entertainment—both get replaced by compulsive activity,” he writ... See more
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
