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@JasJohl @nils_gilman Bingo. *Choice* excerpt, Nils. Peculiar, isn't it, the evolutionary ontology of a noospheric, algorithmically-supercharged claim upon the private soul, and the planetary harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure it radically enhances, remaining, as a rule, unobserved.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Jun 2023

@leashless "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." That's Marshall McCluhan headlining a 2017 Atlantic Council report on the radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation.

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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 3/ Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?”

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Quoted by@jeffreyatucker 1/ Why stop at polls? With the fusion of military and corporate functions in a single, conjoined mediasphere, vast resources - increasingly, at a machine level - aimed at dominating perception of reality itself, now define planetary war at the level of total consciousness.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @johnrobb Why stop at Twitter? With the fusion of military and corporate functions in a single, conjoined mediasphere, vast computing resources - increasingly, at a machine level - aimed at dominating perception of reality itself, define planetary war at the level of total consciousness.Quoted by@johnrobb Why stop at Twitter? With the fusion of military and corporate functions in a single, conjoined mediasphere, vast computing resources - increasingly, at a machine level - aimed at dominating perception of reality itself, define planetary war at the level of total consciousness.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @gastoniudica @CChristogenesis "I am an intellectual thug who has slowly been accumulating a private arsenal with every intention of using it. To deal with the environment directly is my strategy. To have autonomy, we must push past environmental parameters right up into consciousness." ~ Marshall McLuhanQuoted by@gastoniudica @CChristogenesis "I am an intellectual thug who has slowly been accumulating a private arsenal with every intention of using it. To deal with the environment directly is my strategy. To have autonomy, we must push past environmental parameters right up into consciousness." ~ Marshall McLuhan