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The Oxford English Dictionary has announced “brain rot” as its word of year .   The dictionary defines it as “ the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state , especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging”. But few people are aware of how literally technology is rotting our brains, and how decisively compulsive internet use is destroying our grey matter... I've seen the whole world six times over Sea of Japan to the Cliffs of Dover Overkill Overview Over my dead body Over me Over you  Over everybody Too much information running through my brain Too much information driving me insane " The first flood was of water, the second is the flood of information "   Pierre Levy The dream of the " collective intelligence " is over.  In its place we have the collective " rotten brain ". We are all in the same cyber-boat, the same info-bath, in th...

The winds of Washington are blowing icy cold for TikTok. A federal appeals court panel handed down a ruling that could send the app packing or at least force it into a kind of corporate divorce... The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has declared the law threatening TikTok’s existence to be totally constitutional , leaving the platform to fight for its digital life. In short, TikTok has until mid-January to break ties with its Beijing-based parent, ByteDance , or risk an outright ban in the United States. TikTok responded with the following statement: “The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans’ right to free speech , and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue. Unfortunately, the TikTok ban was conceived and pushed through based upon inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people. The TikTok ban, unless stopped, will silence the voice...