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 manufactured with default passwords that nobody ever changed, all simultaneously requesting his homepage. No single request was malicious. Each packet was

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.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    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.

    True true. If forced to give my opinion On something and it’s not really thought through yet, I do tell it’s just a prejudgment not an opinion.

    People too often just viciously fight for their argument, which isn’t even theirs but parroted. There’s nothing wrong with “I don’t know (yet)”. Better than total ignorance or parroting.