{"id":409,"date":"2025-08-23T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/the-defense-against-slop-and-brainrot-by-paul-jun\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:17:45","slug":"the-defense-against-slop-and-brainrot-by-paul-jun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/the-defense-against-slop-and-brainrot-by-paul-jun\/","title":{"rendered":"The defense against slop and brainrot &#8211; by Paul Jun"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Social media was level one of this challenge, and it absolutely fucking cooked society. AI is level two in this maze\u2014the three-headed sphinx whispering promises and threats simultaneously. Many who surrendered their focus in round one will surrender their critical thinking in round two.<\/p>\n<p>Scarcity drives value. Focused thought is becoming scarce.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/pauljun.substack.com\/p\/anti-slop-and-anti-brainrot\">pauljun.substack.com\/p\/anti-slop-and-anti-brainrot<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media was level one of this challenge, and it absolutely fucking cooked society. AI is level two in this maze\u2014the three-headed sphinx whispering promises and threats simultaneously. Many who surrendered their focus in round one will surrender their critical thinking in round two. Scarcity drives value. Focused thought is becoming scarce. \u2014 Read on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}