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@PaulHRosenberg end/ In the light of his specific agenda, Musk's sudden turn is wholly and immediately relevant to the unfolding Ukraine narrative. @johnrobb is especially alert to the current network swarm and its fast-evolving relationship to nuclear escalation. ?s=20&t=uLmhddNtmLNWXzqmj4dAXA

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 Apr 2022

@johnrobb end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?

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