
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
20/ The deeper turn? Military and civil spheres have collapsed into a single, fused continuum: the Cloud. A unified field where hybrid, state-corporate actors now actively foment full-spectrum warfare across kinetic, economic, and epistemic fronts—a mimetic vortex of contagion.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 30 Jul 2025
@lukeburgis 11/ Capitalism and militarism are now one stack, united in a common liturgy: data in, target out. Enmity is automated. Fear loops. Rage scales. And, of course, AI puts this contagion of mimetic escalation on steroids. Gaza isn’t a malfunction. It’s a demonstration. A template.
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