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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Alert Fatigue

Published Tuesday, 20 October 2026 · By Security.io

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A tired-looking alert console prints a huge pile of warnings while Rusty covers it with a blanket and Glitch points to the hundreds of alerts.

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Rusty treats alert fatigue as exhaustion suffered by the alert console itself and gives the noisy system a rest.

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Glitch: The alert console looks exhausted.
  2. Panel 2 — Rusty: That’s alert fatigue.
  3. Panel 3 — Glitch: It has printed nine hundred warnings.
  4. Panel 4 — Rusty: Exactly. Even the noise needs a rest.