Our minds are being DDOS'ed...

This morning feels "all linky, no thinky", as Unc liked to term it, but I've got a bunch of really good stuff in tabs I've been meaning to clear. Anyway, here's another worthwhile read for you...

At one point in the book, Hari cites a former Google star, James Williams, who helped design some of the ways in which our attention is seized and directed by social media algorithms. Williams calls our current collective predicament something like a denial-of-service attack on our minds — what happens when they are swamped by such a dizzying array of information and distraction and stress that we simply have no choice but to shut down: “It undermines our capacity for responding to anything. It leaves us either in a state of distraction or paralysis … It can just colonize your entire world.”