The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...
Most of the topics that dominate our collective attention on any given day are genuinely important to... someone. And many of them are important to almost everyone. The problem is structural. The total volume of things-you-should-have-an-opinion-about has exceeded our cognitive bandwidth so thoroughly that having careful opinions about anything has become damned-near impossible. Your attention is a finite resource being strip-mined by an infinite army of takes.