The Deadliest Weapon Ever Invented Isn’t a Bomb. It’s a Picture.
David Langford’s 1988 story ‘BLIT’ describes a fractal image that crashes the human brain like bad code crashes a program. It sounds like fiction — until you realize we’ve built an entire civilization on the untested assumption that information is inherently safe. In an age of algorithmic feeds and viral patterns, the line between Langford’s horror and your daily scroll is vanishingly thin.