🪖 Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter: This bark, repeated at random by NCR troopers, is so commonly heard in Fallout: New Vegas it's become a meme. There's even a mod to ...

Drawing on Mandrake, Tennyson, Baudrillard and Jonathan Haidt, this essay examines how social media produces parallel selves, erodes attention, and reshapes childhood, ageing and public life—raising ...