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Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad

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Articles Advertising Evil
Daniel Andrlik
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Daniel Andrlik lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia. By day he manages product teams. The rest of the time he is a podcast host and producer, writer of speculative fiction, a rabid reader, and a programmer.

Via Warren Ellis

People have developed a way to broadcast ads on the street so that "the sound is contained within your cranium."

That’s just wonderful, I was just thinking to myself, "You know, I don’t think I’m harassed by advertising enough in my daily life, how can this be rectified?"

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