The reason I went from Helpdesk Engineer to Security Engineer is because a lot of it is a subset skillset, if you're trying to build truly resilient systems and ensure nobody fucking calls you with their problem because the issues never happened in the first place, because you designed for the worst possible scenario.
I didn't learn most of this stuff because I was responsible for Security. I learned because it was my job to clean it up, either per-machine or a whole-network compromise. And I really didn't want to do that.
The pro-covid cult started with Republicans, but now it's basically everyone who (wrongly) imagines he/she isn't vulnerable. This now includes Democratic politicians who once said they cared about public health.
Their message to older and most vulnerable people (typically due to physical conditions they can't control) is simple: Shut up. We don't care about you -- at all. https://thegauntlet.substack.com/p/zero-masks-on-the-house-floor-is
When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.
Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.
This is the only real time travel paradox.
Sounds a lot like #libraries to me, but social media too.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/08/18/h-g-wells-world-brain/