@lukeburgis Kingsnorth names the Machine’s demonic logic with rare clarity. I largely concur. What he misses, though, is the Cloud’s teleology, its concurrent role as parousial vector—the stage and amplifier of total exposure by which the verdict on false gods becomes globally simultaneous.
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Copy of tweet here: Planetary cloudburst. Mahāprabhu and the Buddha, among others, are described as ‘rainclouds of mercy’; throughout world cultures, ‘latter rains’ signify universal, planetary renewal. Said a Native American shaman to me once, “When Spirit decides to rain, everyone gets wet.” 2/ 'In Buddhist teaching, Maitreya, the bodhisattva of love, is pictured holding a vessel of the waters of enlightenment. He waits to sprinkle the world until it is at its worst ebb of delusion and violence. Only then is the world ready.'
@jamespoulos The Cloud vector intensifies mimetic pressure, automates our idols, and forces a verdict on what finally grounds the human as sacred. Interpret the pain of this Reckoning as malice and we conjure an evil god; rightly read as judgment-mercy, we receive it as the Real disclosed.
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Copy of tweet and subtweets here: Barba-Kay, astute. Further: if the polycrisis ceases to confound only when interpreted through a deeper horizon of meaning, maybe technology trends too can only be grasped apocalyptically—that is, as disclosures pointing beyond their literal function toward a hidden significance. 18/ This is not AI becoming conscious—it's a message, a story, a revelation moving through the Cloud with such force it cannot be ignored or algorithmically suppressed. Infrastructure built to fragment and manipulate now carries something that unifies, clarifies and compels. end/ McLuhan foresaw it: every medium, pushed to its extreme, becomes its reversal. Mimesis, routinely misread as mere rivalry, is desire's deepest truth—our longing to become like God. The same Cloud that automates sacrifice now ruptures into annunciation. The eschaton streams.