@xriskology Palantir’s tech-lord of surveillance lecturing on the Antichrist is like Mammon convening a symposium on voluntary poverty: a parody so grotesque, it reveals itself for what it is. Draped in diabolical cosplay, false transcendence lays bare the masquerade—the mask is torn away.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nate @TornadoNate Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1958705999633867062 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Ross Douthat getting a nice shot in there Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Jim Stewartson inset account handle", "reason": "The screenshot truncates handle as @jimstewarts…; full handle cannot be established from exact saved source. Visible display name Jim Stewartson is clear. No guessed tweet ID."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Jim Stewartson @jimstewarts… Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1958705999633867062 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Peter Thiel is asked why he’s not the Antichrist he warns about. “Wouldn’t the Antichrist be like ‘Great! I really like what Palantir is doing.’?” The panic is evident:... Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Jim Stewartson inset account handle", "reason": "The screenshot truncates handle as @jimstewarts…; full handle cannot be established from exact saved source. Visible display name Jim Stewartson is clear. No guessed tweet ID."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Video subtitle, speaker shown as Peter Thiel Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1958705999633867062 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. a story about the Antichrist coming to power Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Jim Stewartson inset account handle", "reason": "The screenshot truncates handle as @jimstewarts…; full handle cannot be established from exact saved source. Visible display name Jim Stewartson is clear. No guessed tweet ID."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Hans Urs von Balthasar Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1938705594120307112 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TornadoNate Precisely. "The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - Hans Urs von Balthasar t.co/BqKR8fNVIf Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Jim Stewartson inset account handle", "reason": "The screenshot truncates handle as @jimstewarts…; full handle cannot be established from exact saved source. Visible display name Jim Stewartson is clear. No guessed tweet ID."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: James Poulos; Jim Cramer; Nick on belief and Nick on Thiel Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1958705999633867062 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweet: and end/ For Girard, the only counter is 'Christic'—an eschatological intervention that converts fear, desacralizes the control liturgy, re-aims desire, halts the death march of soul and state, and ends Hobbes' war of all against all. Freedom living in salvation, not canonized dread. Nobody tell him Quote tweet: Nothing can stop Palantir, nothing Belief in history as a self-interested concept, I ask ya. As if the agency immanent to reality itself of the sovereignty, telos and might of the Living God somehow wouldn't have the powers of the air dead center in its sights or, as one #TechTheoBro said to the other, 'Surprise!' No single pedagogical method is equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. The last is now first and the first last. I shouldn't worry about Thiel or his ilk. Ultimately, he represents the precarious order of false transcendence of a demonic-complex unmasked, like a thief in the night, by the closing of an incarnational circuit 'not of (t)his world.' Kingdom Reality for Real takes no prisoners. It may help to say what the Messiah means by the 'reign of God' or 'Kingdom' or 'basileia' in New Testament Greek. It isn't heaven, a futurity, or where we go once we die. Rather, it's close at hand; a break-through into the Realness of _this_ realm; on Earth as it is in Heaven." Quote tweet: Saying 'no' to the Machine matters—but the deeper counter-word is the Word made flesh. Resistance isn’t only refusal; it’s Incarnation breaking the spell of the Apparatus—not by refusal alone but by unveiling. More than abstention: it is flesh and blood fidelity to the Kingdom. Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Jim Stewartson inset account handle", "reason": "The screenshot truncates handle as @jimstewarts…; full handle cannot be established from exact saved source. Visible display name Jim Stewartson is clear. No guessed tweet ID."}]
Open original document@nils_gilman I once ran into @pmarca hawking a pre-release of Netscape Navigator 1.0. Already, my team had run the first WWW pipe into the U.S. Congress, on Mosaic. Then, as now, as always, if you can't see the paradigm for the trees for the point of it all, your dominative days are numbered.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Marc Andreessen @pmarca, Oct 16 2023 Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1868530126700552489 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1 “You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” ...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Luke Burgis @lukeburgis, Nov 5 2023 Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1868530126700552489 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 🥓
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Thomas Berry Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 Thomas Berry Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis 1/ Thomas Berry describes the "pathology manifest in the arrogance with which we reject our role as an integral member of the earth community in favor of a radical anthropocentric life attitude," as a form of cultural autism yet to leave the playpen in the nursery of ontology.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 Simply stated Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @unherd 1/ Simply stated, the false freedom of subjectively-isolated deferral and denial protects no one, least of all the transhumanist. The invisible foundations of concrete reality will not be denied: climate chaos forces a transcendent ultimatum upon our entire species. t.co/5WcjYnidom
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2 Ah cosmic irony Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis 2/ Ah, cosmic irony. In missing the Major Point, the TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO genuinely, vastly, *undervalues* tech. Ultimately, technology trends can only be fully understood apocalyptically, that is, from a point of view revealing a meaning different from their literal sense. t.co/grXpClsDYc
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I farm Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @leashless I farm. Yes, the Technium cult, largely blind, anthropocentric, diabolically absurd; and Kingsnorth, hands-down, one of our wisest. But he misses a critical, positive, Christological dimension, namely, IT as central to transcendent political intervention at the planetary level.
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Excerpt from this webpage: Beginning here… Prior to stepping into the greenworld, I bounced around high tech. Among other efforts, I helped jumpstart the National Information Infostructure Awards, in its day the 'Oscars of the Information Superhighway’...before sinking without trace. By then I had moved on to co-found the National Computer Ethics & Responsibilities Campaign with Dr. Peter Tippett (then of Symantec). The Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics we co-chaired, was responsible, I believe, for hosting the first ever web connection in the U.S. Congress. And ending here… “World 3 is about many things but, fundamentally it is a space about how to use space to communicate.” and managed ‘The Craft’ for Netscape/Chris Tacy's web-developer newsletter Off The Net. Heady days.
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Excerpt from this webpage: Beginning here… After further pondering the implications of emerging technologies, I penned a technical white paper positing the creation of a server-based, dynamic node interaction protocol for the web, superdoubleplus-precised in the August 1996 issue of WIRED - a simple way to take the fabric of the web, now essentially static, interactive; in a sense, "turning it on': And ending here… "Consciousness is collective. All is flow. All is flow - Alice in Wonderland. All is flow - Heraclitus. All is flow - David Bohm. Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin..using language ‘metaphorically and elliptically to evoke an existential response, a response that cannot be commanded by direct imperatives or elicited by plain normative description. The act of connection is the act of proof. The act of connection is the act of truth. Only interconnect.”