Your weekend reading list: 12.6.24

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CULTURE

How fitting that this year's Oxford Word of the Year is brain rot — a term that describes "the overconsumption of material or content to the point that it deteriorates one’s mental state." Apparently the word has seen a 230% increase in usage over the past year, and honestly it just feels like a very fitting word for the endless scrolling culture…