Social-media brainrot
a recent meta-analysis study showed evidence that short form videos:
- lower your IQ
- make you anxious
- make you stressed
- induce mental illnesses
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Adam Grant • Check Your Pulse #55
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Chris Jesu Lee • Scroll Up, Cash In, Check Out
“Using SM too often leaves my mind feeling like I have a hundred open browser windows, or a gang of CPU sapping programs running in the background, to really push it over the edge here with the computer metaphors.”
How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’
nytimes.comI love social media (obviously, I write this newsletter). But there are days when I blast through my TikTok time limit and am left feeling exhausted. So much of my job (and most jobs these days) are wrapped up in staying relevant with what’s going on in the world — constantly up to date, dialed in, on the pulse. Despite the fun times I have online,
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Siân Boyletheguardian.com
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.