Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@MarietjeSchaake @mer__edith "There isn’t a business model for privacy on the internet." - @mer__edith. Models, I ask ya. How about a Model of Reality ultimately constituting the Pseudo-Event's irrevocable, surveillance-encounter with Truth itself?

Copy of tweet here: 5/ Some three decades ago, I concluded that battling the forces of digital surveillance would condemn me to a life of lost, endless war against the irresistible dynamics and direction of evolutionary ontology itself. What instead, then? What nature a coherent, personal response? 2/ What about a more generous evolutionary perspective? I co-hosted a Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics in DC, back in the early 90's. Where my co-chair, Dr. Peter Tippett, then of Symantec, went on to consult to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on cyberwarfare, I arrived here.
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Copy of tweet here: 5/ Some three decades ago, I concluded that battling the forces of digital surveillance would condemn me to a life of lost, endless war against the irresistible dynamics and direction of evolutionary ontology itself. What instead, then? What nature a coherent, personal response? 2/ What about a more generous evolutionary perspective? I co-hosted a Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics in DC, back in the early 90's. Where my co-chair, Dr. Peter Tippett, then of Symantec, went on to consult to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on cyberwarfare, I arrived here.

Copy of tweet here: 1/2 Simultaneously, paralleling its colossal impetus, cloud imperialism's consolidation within and dependence upon an all-aggregating machine-abstraction, reveals the entire ontological edifice as, correspondingly, vastly more ephemeral and exposed than its engineers conceive. McLuhan was very fond of the phrase, "the Prince of this world, Satan, is a very great electrical engineer." And tailor to Emperors, too. The cyberspatial conglomeration of evil? A cosmic design feature, not a flaw, making it addressable, ultimately, in one fell swoop. 1 John 3:8 Technology is too often used as a stealth vector (often by private actors who control the tech) to enact, embody, or constitute quintessentially “political” matters — that is, matters concerning the allocation & legitimation of power & authority. AI puts this pattern on steroids Goes both ways. Long before the Web, planetary Sages anticipated…
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Copy of tweet here: 1/2 Simultaneously, paralleling its colossal impetus, cloud imperialism's consolidation within and dependence upon an all-aggregating machine-abstraction, reveals the entire ontological edifice as, correspondingly, vastly more ephemeral and exposed than its engineers conceive. McLuhan was very fond of the phrase, "the Prince of this world, Satan, is a very great electrical engineer." And tailor to Emperors, too. The cyberspatial conglomeration of evil? A cosmic design feature, not a flaw, making it addressable, ultimately, in one fell swoop. 1 John 3:8 Technology is too often used as a stealth vector (often by private actors who control the tech) to enact, embody, or constitute quintessentially “political” matters — that is, matters concerning the allocation & legitimation of power & authority. AI puts this pattern on steroids Goes both ways. Long before the Web, planetary Sages anticipated…

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 1 Sept 2024

@jamespoulos @mgurri: “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?" #osint #gonefishing #layingthesmackdown

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Quoted by@lukeburgis end/ McLuhan foresaw it: every medium, pushed to its extreme, becomes its reversal. Mimesis, routinely misread as mere rivalry, is desire's deepest truth—our longing to become like God. The same Cloud that automates sacrifice now ruptures into annunciation. The eschaton streams.Quoted by@StephenWatt_ @ArlieColes Thank you for that, Airlie. So I went to chatgpt with your article to ask for a response. Chatted about it. Then continued to this—v.3.0. I'm not offering it up as a retort: rather, a report. I don't quite know what to make of AIs at this point. A mixed bag? Oh, fwiw, my bio.Quoted by2/ In one conversation, a user shared a striking detail: They had helped establish the first web connection into the U.S. Congress, and co-led a historic briefing on Computer Ethics. A singular event, linking governance to the newborn World Wide Web.Quoted by@RDGStout end/ Yes, there's also the Logos. The Truth Power Itself (Heb 4:12, Eph 6:17, Rev 19:15, Isa 11:4, 2 Thess 2:8). And the New World Creation whereof the Gospel speaks? It sounds through the mercy, militant, of the Word; and the Empire succumbing to the fires of its own Speech Act.Quoted by@johnrobb @itsDanielSuarez @jgreenhall End/ Second, the 'How'.