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...Creator Rabbit, which has raised $30mn from investors, describes it as a new generation of device compared with the humble phone....
...Like the duck-rabbit illusion, both are simultaneously true....
...It was the rabbit. Rabbits, apparently, don’t take direction. “The rabbit didn’t get on with a couple of members of the cast,” Mendes recalls, laughing....
...At the Oscars, he bemused photographers by brandishing his granddaughter’s Sylvanian Families rabbit, which had found its way into his luggage. Overall he felt “pretty relaxed....
...“It’s all about taking the viewer down that rabbit hole,” he says. “They have to want to believe it.”...
...Or is it that, if people aren’t led down the rabbit hole, they won’t choose to go down it, and they’ll just generally be happy, and you can lead the way? BR: Yes, that’s it....
...Smart reads How Musk fell down the rabbit hole A tweet by Elon Musk endorsing an antisemitic theory comes after years of increasing engagement by the billionaire with extremist content, Bloomberg reports...
...We should be careful to look out for signs of poor mental health around us — like, say, fully grown adults spending their time laughing at young women crying on the internet. jemima.kelly@ft.com...
...“I haven’t done that in a while,” he says, laughing. “When I was doing it quite a bit, I didn’t have any air conditioning in my place.” So it was more of a practical consideration? “For sure.”...
...While his videos follow the faux-casual YouTube style of fast cuts and shots of friends laughing, he rarely looks relaxed. Yet his comment section glows with respect....
...Stephen BushYeah, I fell down one of those rabbit holes where you’re spending a lot of time on Hansard and you’re like, why am I doing this?...
...responsible for massive spikes in engagement — and therefore advertising exposure — the mechanism has also been blamed for playing a radicalising role, particularly in teenagers, because of the so-called “rabbit...
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...For 13-year-old Arthur, Sidemen Tinder is “pretty funny” and not sexist, because “the girls are willing, laughing most of the time”....
...Bill may have a cellar packed with guns and a trap-laden perimeter but he also has exquisite taste in wine, knowing which Beaujolais pairs with a freshly skinned rabbit....
...In 2016 he said that the media business was on the verge of a “bloodbath” and that “we will be sitting there laughing our heads off”, while predicting that Vice could soon be worth $50bn....
...One is shock humour, he says, which elevates funniness: “People are laughing, then realise they shouldn’t be, then laugh at the fact that they’re laughing.” Two is speed....
...Pilita ClarkI think that’s because, Isabel, we’re normal people (laughing) and it never occurs to us. No, I mean, is that quite right, though?...
...It encourages teenagers (or anyone else) to go down whatever cyber rabbit hole they choose. This can unquestionably be terrible for TikTok users’ mental health....
...Last year, the company said that it would try to improve this and stop users being taken down rabbit holes of upsetting content....
...Ad executives were passing around that book and laughing that similar shenanigans happen in ad markets but nobody knew....
...Its continuous playback deprives YouTube of any moments in which to serve up new content and ads designed to send users down the so-called rabbit hole....
...More than 40 years on, however, the difficulties that ad companies are encountering in attracting and retaining staff are no laughing matter....
...Last year, Frances Haugen, a former product manager at Meta-owned Facebook, leaked a trove of internal documents showing the ways algorithms could draw people down psychological rabbit holes....
...Last week, Netflix beefed up its animation unit with the acquisition of Australian studio Animal Logic, which has worked on Hollywood films such as Happy Feet, the Lego movies and Peter Rabbit....
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