xkcd's 'some guy in Nebraska' meme goes viral as AI raises digital infrastructure risk
tomwarren · x · 2026-10-24
Tech journalist Tom Warren notes that advances in AI models make it feel like the cybersecurity of digital infrastructure is about to be tested in unprecedented ways, attaching the classic xkcd comic: a towering structure labeled "All modern digital infrastructure" resting on a single thin pillar — "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003." The meme lands pointedly amid the recent wave of supply-chain security incidents.
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