The 40-year-old Russian IT multimillionaire and Putin's man for wiretapping technology, Anton Cherepennikov, was found dead in his Moscow office on Friday. He founded ICS Holding, which included several IT companies, and worked closely with Russia's FSB intelligence agency. He was considered a key figure in Vladimir Putin's repressive apparatus.
At 11:30 a.m., my stomach is loudly protesting my 16‑hour fast, while Instagram serves me a fourth ad for "fasting‑support" electrolyte powder that costs more per gram than cocaine. My phone wants me to track my ketone levels, my "fasting window," and my "metabolic age" on three different apps. Fasting is less about food than about refusing to let the attention economy feed you—literally and algorithmically.