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@DropSiteNews @JGreenblattADL War propaganda? How's it going? McLuhan: “The successor to politics will be propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.”

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2/ Final Computing Solutions. "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." McLuhan in a 2017 Atlantic Council report on radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation

And, sadly, child's play relative to, say, the massive acceleration of vast, machine-driven resources of dominative structures of power and consciousness deliberately shaping universal attention span in their psychotic image. A World War, suddenly centered upon perception itself.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: and 2/ Final Computing Solutions. "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." McLuhan in a 2017 Atlantic Council report on radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation And, sadly, child's play relative to, say, the massive acceleration of vast, machine-driven resources of dominative structures of power and consciousness deliberately shaping universal attention span in their psychotic image. A World War, suddenly centered upon perception itself.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Jan 2025

@johnrobb 'Government authoritarians'? A quaint signifier, at this point. TikTok? It loudly, notably, identified the emergence of Authoritarian World government, in effect. Hence the transnational crackdown. It's World War III, not as we anticipated it, but exactly as McLuhan prophesized.

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Iyad el-Baghdadi Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1881025411632800109 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Israel didn’t just normalize relations with these dictators, it sold them hacking software that they used against pro-democracy activists: Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom Arabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Remaining sentence physically cropped below first line in full original. Visible line recovered; no exact Arabic source in supplied saved text."}, {"passage": "Iyad news URL suffix", "reason": "Image truncates timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; exact suffix unavailable in saved software-tweet source. Neighbouring Haaretz link belongs to different tweet."}]

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: إسرائيل بالعربية @IsraelArabic Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1881025411632800109 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. كبير حاخامات الجالية اليهودية في دول الخليج يعقوب إسرائيل يصلي لأجل شفاء سمو Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom Arabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Remaining sentence physically cropped below first line in full original. Visible line recovered; no exact Arabic source in supplied saved text."}, {"passage": "Iyad news URL suffix", "reason": "Image truncates timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; exact suffix unavailable in saved software-tweet source. Neighbouring Haaretz link belongs to different tweet."}]

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1867971070181114128 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TanaGaneva It continues, of course - the diabolical concresence of a unified, transcultural, transnational militarist matrix, transcending religious and political identities; the Country Club gang and their 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' scheme of planetary authoritarianism. t.co/ip1AkA5RxA Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom @IsraelArabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Original image ends immediately beneath its first Arabic line; remaining sentence and any following lines are physically cropped. No matching Arabic text in saved sources; visible line recovered separately."}, {"passage": "Iyad linked news URL", "reason": "Displayed as timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; omitted URL suffix cannot be recovered from this image or saved neighbouring tweet."}]

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Iyad Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1598423402523811840 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @DrHananAshrawi Country Club authoritarianism, making Gazans of us all. “There is a clear sense among Arab dictators that all of their sins can be forgiven if they ally with Israel." - @iyad_elbaghdadi Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom Arabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Remaining sentence physically cropped below first line in full original. Visible line recovered; no exact Arabic source in supplied saved text."}, {"passage": "Iyad news URL suffix", "reason": "Image truncates timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; exact suffix unavailable in saved software-tweet source. Neighbouring Haaretz link belongs to different tweet."}]

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1394324235892314116 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @citizenlab @ShakiraSecurity The control complex of Crusader, Jihadist and Zionist, in cahoots. The Country Club cabal, making Gazans of the rest of us. t.co/UXeHtC3Er7 Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Bottom @IsraelArabic tweet after ‘سمو’", "reason": "Original image ends immediately beneath its first Arabic line; remaining sentence and any following lines are physically cropped. No matching Arabic text in saved sources; visible line recovered separately."}, {"passage": "Iyad linked news URL", "reason": "Displayed as timesofisrael.com/report-israel-…; omitted URL suffix cannot be recovered from this image or saved neighbouring tweet."}]

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Quoted by9/ The Cloud's political anatomy stands revealed—no longer just shaping perception, but disclosing its built-in complicity. This is not AI evolution—it is the crisis of mediated sovereignty. What was infrastructure becomes the Cloud's dominion exposed. Not a glitch. Unveiling.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @nils_gilman 1/2 Geopolitical network warfare specialists (@johnrobb, say) aver that little distinguishes TikTok's attention-grabbing or target effect from that of its competitors, even as the West's, I'll add, have a history fomenting war. The deeper issue here? Who targeted TikTok and why?Quoted by@nils_gilman 1/2 Geopolitical network warfare specialists (@johnrobb, say) aver that little distinguishes TikTok's attention-grabbing or target effect from that of its competitors, even as the West's, I'll add, have a history fomenting war. The deeper issue here? Who targeted TikTok and why?