#magictricks — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 Spoiler alert: Google isn't actually dead, no matter how dramatic the headline pretends. This article is just a circus act 🎪 of random tech projects: from Raspberry Pi to #Fortnite, and even magic tricks! 🎩✨ Who knew tech journalism could juggle so many unrelated topics? 🤹‍♂️
https://www.circusscientist.com/2025/12/29/google-is-dead-where-do-we-go-now/ #GoogleTechCircus #TechJournalism #RaspberryPi #MagicTricks #UnrelatedTopics #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! An article promising to solve all life's mysteries in just three *simple* steps—because that's never been done before 🙄. Andreas Fragner opens and closes menus like they're going out of style, while we're stuck trying to figure out if this is a lifehack, a recipe, or a magic trick 🪄.
https://andreasfragner.com/writing/three-ways-to-solve-problems #lifehacks #magictricks #simplicity #skepticism #humor #HackerNews #ngated

A QS at work today was doing magic tricks at the request of the commercial manager. The latter instantly turned into a giggly child. I was thrilled, too.

#magictricks
#work

Some of the best musicians on Penn & Teller Fool Us are those that don’t fool them. They know how it is done, but the performer still puts on a great show.

Sometimes, the opposite is true. They fool P&T, but their stage presence is lackluster.

The best, or course, is when they do both.
#magic #MagicTricks

🚀🎩 Behold, a Ruby wizard pulls a sleight of hand to make Ruby faster than itself by... not actually using Ruby! 🤯✨ In a groundbreaking revelation, if you don’t run your code, it’s infinitely faster! Next up, how to win a marathon by standing still. 🏃‍♂️💨
https://noteflakes.com/articles/2025-08-18-how-to-make-ruby-faster #RubyPerformance #MagicTricks #CodingHumor #HackerNews #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

12 VISUAL Coin #Tricks Anyone Can Do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r55o6e7PaI
#illusions #magictricks

"Mathematical mind-reading" with dice.

Quite simple when you twig what it's doing.

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/three-dice-trick-math-magic-numberphile

(And fun that their D8 wasn't made with the standard "opposites sum to #+1" like most D# dice! But my Chessex one is)

#TheKidShouldSeeThis #Maths #MagicTricks #MindReading

What did you do today? I've been making wands.
#Magic #Magician #MagicTricks #FediMagic #SleightOfHand #CardTricks #Wand

Can you fool a monkey with a magic trick? Only if it has opposable thumbs - A Humboldt's squirrel monkey is fooled by the "French Drop" magic tr... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1928725 #animalcognition #uncategorized #animalanatomy #magictricks #psychology #science #animals #biology #monkeys

The only #technology that should be closed source to the user/consumer is #magicTricks…

And even those you'll want to check every now and then, haha.

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Printable tech needs to be a thing. Can #libraries become places where people go to print whatever technology/parts that they need?

Like people go to #hospitals when they fail. What would you call a #techPrinting place?

A "topsital"?

#closedSource #openSource #freeLicense #topsital

Study: Magicians’ priming techniques are effective at influencing choice - Enlarge / The majority of study participants who watched either a video or live performance of a ma... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1692786 #cognitivepsychology #unconsciousbias #magictricks #psychology #science #priming