“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.”
JA Westenberg (npub1wkr…yvj6) continuing to articulate my own thoughts better than me.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-discourse-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-attack/
Scott Francis
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2026-01-18 00:37:46 UTC
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