Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

these days I find so much presentation and largely irrelevant content on most of the sites and some of the books I've tried to read, I just don't have the patience to wade through it all.

ditto. In my experience, recipe websites take the biscuit for vacuous content and repetition, but verbosity and style over substance seems to be creeping into the printed word too. I think that is why AI is so successful for the moment; it gets to the point quickly (even if the point it finds is tosh). Is our response to all the drivel what they mean by 'brain rot'?

 

[notabitail]

That’s me in my courses, especially the field ecology ones. I know what something is, but the name simply won’t float up to my consciousness. At 2 a.m., I can name them all. It’s incredibly irritating.

Sometimes I'll forget something I should know and remember tons of other irrelevant things. Tom Scott calls that "brain cholesterol".

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Sometimes I'll forget something I should know and remember tons of other irrelevant things. Tom Scott calls that "brain cholesterol".

I thought for a moment that you were referring to the musician Tom Scott, which sent me down a few rabbit holes!

 

[notabitail]

I thought for a moment that you were referring to the musician Tom Scott, which sent me down a few rabbit holes!

Nope, I was referring to the British youtuber.

 

[MrsNorthie]

Is our response to all the drivel what they mean by 'brain rot'?

Everything is being "dumbed down" and over loaded with flash imaging and an over abundance of "perky", to attract those with limited attention spans and those susceptible to flashy colourful advertising.