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@DanielPinchbeck @EFF 2/ Succumbing to a systemic form of machine-driven diabolism isn't an X-specific phenomenon, of course. The trend is implicitly embedded in the very structure of the total regime that folds culture, technology, psyche, ecology, and power into one extractive continuum.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Sept 2025

@ggreenwald Across multiple vectors—content moderation, technical infrastructure, data analytics, operational support and political synchronization—a stakeholder-biased alignment-regime hardwires the stack to deliver preferred geopolitical outcomes, typically masked as neutral standards.

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17/ The paradigm drift? Editorial framing and feed control (broadcast and social media networks). Infrastructure ownership of data centers and cloud systems (Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Palantir). Political capture (Congress) translating "security narratives" into law and policy.
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Copy of tweet here: 17/ The paradigm drift? Editorial framing and feed control (broadcast and social media networks). Infrastructure ownership of data centers and cloud systems (Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Palantir). Political capture (Congress) translating "security narratives" into law and policy.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @jeff_bilbro The deepest shift isn't monetization but the fusion of corporate and geopolitical power engineering narrative-consciousness within a single operational stack. The predatory seizure of sensemaking itself goes infrastructural, ambient and generatively amplified at planetary scale.Quoted by@jeff_bilbro The deepest shift isn't monetization but the fusion of corporate and geopolitical power engineering narrative-consciousness within a single operational stack. The predatory seizure of sensemaking itself goes infrastructural, ambient and generatively amplified at planetary scale.