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the NYPD frowned upon cops who killed their ex-spouses. But some things were unavoidable.
“Once a year. You listen to music once a year.” “Yeah, I guess so.” “So how does it feel to be dead inside? Is it like . . . sad? Or just very relaxed?”
Cult leaders loved religious phrases about forgetting the past. It enabled them to change stances, to rewrite history, to confuse and obfuscate.
“Write drunk, edit sober”? One of those things people thought Hemingway had said, even though he’d never actually said it.
Instagram and Facebook, she’d found out, literally rewired your brain. Likes and comments on a user’s post were found to release bursts of dopamine, which made the user happy. That made sense; everyone enjoyed getting likes on a Facebook post. But this essentially turned the phone into a personal dopamine stimulator.
Brain scans showed that in cases of people who were addicted to social media, the brain rewired itself, making them desire more likes, or retweets, or smiling emojis.
When you followed a person online, they always seemed perfect. Their family was the happiest family; their trips were the best trips; every picture was wonderful, enviable, something to be desired. But it hardly ever reflected the truth.
