@AnthonyEsolen If mascot names are your chilling gripe, have I got news for you. Enough has already been spoken about the economic logic of feeding the interneted attention span division and outrage, less about for-profit media ecology as an effectively diabolical claim upon the private soul.
@johnrobb Yup. Take exponentially augmented upgrades in persuasive generative AI and the tools to massively amplify it, add bad faith state and tech actors with untold resources on tap, and manipulative media abruptly crosses an authoritarian threshold at the planetary level. Then again...
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@nick_routledge "...the backstage fusion between human and machine authority....modes of governance normalised by digital platforms...algorithmic level of governance as an increasingly key field of political struggle...digital post-democracy...‘swarm governance’..." @johnrobb @nils_gilman 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.