From Pittsburgh to Port-au-Prince: How Pennsylvania’s Lottery Numbers Became the World’s Shared Daydream
In a windowless studio somewhere between Harrisburg and the existential void, the Pennsylvania Lottery’s numbered balls pirouette nightly to the delight of 12.9 million Pennsylvanians—and, increasingly, to a silent, VPN-enabled audience that stretches from Lagos to Lahore. The PA Lottery “winning numbers,” once the quaint obsession of rust-belt grandmothers clutching crumpled slips at Sheetz counters,…
