Is brain rot real? Researchers warn of emerging risks tied to short-form video

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Obligatory Carl Sagan from 1995:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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Mandatory respect for that guy. He left too soon.

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The term brain rot might be somewhat misleading, but yes, the problem is real.

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Gatekeep at the grocery store. It’s easier to resist eating a full tub of Oreos by deciding not to buy them in the first place

It’s easier to moderate what platforms you use than it is to resist their affect on you. Restrict where and how you are exposed to short form video and what kinds of social media you use

Also, take magnesium glycinate, but not on an empty stomach. Basically everyone with ADHD has a magnesium deficiency that makes the symptoms way worse

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Yup. People need to delete the apps from their phones. If they can‘t take that step they‘re not desperate enough for change.

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As someone who fought against the idea of just getting outside for years I’ve started doing more outside activities and I find that it helps alot more than I wish to admit.

Maybe that’s because I’m doing it all stoned outta my gourd though?

Have you tried weed?

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Emerging risks… We’re already there, like this is why we got trump 🤷‍♀️

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Propaganda to make the old poors hate the young poors

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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Cause or consequence, now that is the question.

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That’s like cigarette companies arguing smokers were more likely to get cancer even if they haven’t smoked

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“¿Por qué no los dos?”

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