RT @nick_routledge: @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?
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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.
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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…
@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