Dirt: Brain Rot
Seeing war footage, thirst traps, people posting meaningless travel selfies from the biggest tourist traps, reposted memes from 2015, grifters trying to sound genuine, and tons of brain rot one after the other, in the span of a minute, is definitely not what our brains love.
Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle
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Eventually, the addiction to useless info leads to what I call “intellectual obesity.” Just as gorging on junk food bloats your body, so gorging on junk info bloats your mind, filling it with a cacophony of half-remembered gibberish that sidetrac
But in a recent podcast appearance, James Mariott, a critic and columnist for The Times of London ,summarized a hypothesis that has been gaining traction: as we switch our information consumption from print to digital devices, our ability to think deeply degrades.
Study Hacks • On the Reverse Flynn Effect
“The idea that technology is altering our capacity not just to concentrate but also to read and to reason is catching on,” writes the journalist Mary Harrington in an @nytopinion guest essay. “The conversation no one is ready for, though, is how this may be creating yet another form of inequality.” Think of patterns in junk food consumption, Mary... See more
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