@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.
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6/ Commerce, conflict and communion all circulate in one mediated space, collapsed into the singularity of the Cloud. Longing and lethality, profit and power, marketplace and battlefield are rendered exchangeable. War becomes market. Market becomes war. 7/ Here, weaponization is revealed as not adjacent to capital but as its evolutionary form. The algorithm doesn’t just recommend and sell—it aims and hunts. Every desire is indexed, not to heal but to target. Capitalism mutates into weaponized desire. Predation becomes protocol. 8/ Surveillance, logistics, tracking and affect now run on a shared backend, selecting victims at scale, processing desire and enmity through identical code. Every post maps terrain. Every click trains the weapon. Every search provides ammunition. 9/ This isn't capitalism supporting war. It's capitalism generating war. Algorithms don't just mediate rivalry—feeding on desire, they _incite_ it. The sacrificial mechanism runs on autopilot, scaling contagion far beyond human capabilities and comprehension.
Open original document@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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