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@JoshHochschild @jeff_bilbro 17/ This is media ecology's deepest point. The trust crisis isn't merely informational, it is ontological. The entire mediation stack—computer-mediated and otherwise—is a world-making apparatus, and generative AI is the threshold event of a universal solvent poured into it.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 27 Mar 2024

@lukeburgis Know of Mark Stahlman, President of the Center for the Study of Digital Life? He guest-edited a special issue on McLuhan for the Catholic literary journal, Renascence: "I think we're now ready for the breakthrough that McLuhan lived his life waiting for." youtu.be/oPP1J37i2Bk?t=1022

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Quoted by@BallouxFrancois In truth, AI defines but a subset of representative reality losing its authority. The entire Media Picture is fracturing. No less than credibility itself—truth's ontic touchstone—is collapsing as a category. The deeper issue, then? What's it pointing us at??s=20Quoted by@Agent888488 Mark Stahlman remains insightful on the epistemic phase shifts associated with medieval through contemporary information technologies.