Dirt: Brain Rot
If a simplistic description of AI is computers learning to be more human, then the persistence of Hawk Tuah for six months and counting is the inverse: Humans learning how it feels to be a computer—forced to remember, unable to move on, endlessly consuming and regurgitating our past output in slightly different formats—a video here, a podcast there... See more
Drew Austin • The Meme Fossil Record
Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Siân Boyle
Siân Boyletheguardian.com
It has blurred the distinctions between categories of information—distinctions of form, register, sense, and importance—that the epistemic architecture of the analog era preserved and even accentuated. Content has collapsed, as our adoption of the drab, generic term content to refer to all forms of expression testifies. Everything now has to fit th
... See moreNicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
I prefer “brain poisoning,” as the preceding discussion should support—it feels more precise. We are not decaying online so much as being incrementally loaded up with heavy metals like tuna in the ocean over the course of a lifetime, carrying this accumulation inside of us wherever we go.
Drew Austin • The Meme Fossil Record
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains