The escape hatch to the escalatory spiral is for Elon to throttle the network propagation of the pro-war network swarm on Twitter.
Once his acquisition of Twitter is complete, he can and should hijack the "shadow ban" infrastructure that exists already to throttle right-wing Twitter, and use it to throttle the most egregious members of the pro-war faction in a similar way:
- Hide their names in search results
- Surreptitiously have their followers be un-followed, their likes un-liked, and their retweets un-done
His plausible deniability right out of the gate is his immediate and public campaign to remove bots from Twitter. Of course, if the bot removal process yields "bugs" and "issues" that "accidentally" impact the pro-war network, well...these kinks will be worked out in due time. Oops!
For the swarm-brained, the use of a tactical, low-yield nuke on a modern battlefield is just another abstraction construed as opportunity! A manageable, game-able side effect of the conflict that will further galvanize the reverse Silicon/Digital Curtain being deployed to keep Europe de facto loyal to the American orbit of control and Russia out of it. It was either this now, or facing up to incrementally losing market share to an emerging multipolar world. Perhaps the Germans were showing signs of getting jumpy in our signal collections? Anyhow, the western financial order did not have the margin to cede any market share to such novel competition. So, it meant war.
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We can attempt to exert noble influence where we can, yet operate largely on our own in the periphery of the commentariat. Peace be with you in the days ahead if this course is maintained. Consequences aren’t real for the best of us usually until they manifest at our front door. Hedge accordingly.
Outstanding as always Mr. Robb. I think that all your points are downstream from the fact that the majority of the population of the west no longer has the fear of God put in them by the possibility of a large scale nuclear conflict. This mindset took off after the fall of the Soviet Union and was probably galvanized for many by the WMD false alarms the Bush administration trumpeted in the lead up to the second Iraq war. Perhaps it’s time for schoolchildren to cower under their desks again, if only to teach them respect for the nuclear age in which they live.
The escape hatch to the escalatory spiral is for Elon to throttle the network propagation of the pro-war network swarm on Twitter.
Once his acquisition of Twitter is complete, he can and should hijack the "shadow ban" infrastructure that exists already to throttle right-wing Twitter, and use it to throttle the most egregious members of the pro-war faction in a similar way:
- Hide their names in search results
- Surreptitiously have their followers be un-followed, their likes un-liked, and their retweets un-done
His plausible deniability right out of the gate is his immediate and public campaign to remove bots from Twitter. Of course, if the bot removal process yields "bugs" and "issues" that "accidentally" impact the pro-war network, well...these kinks will be worked out in due time. Oops!
For the swarm-brained, the use of a tactical, low-yield nuke on a modern battlefield is just another abstraction construed as opportunity! A manageable, game-able side effect of the conflict that will further galvanize the reverse Silicon/Digital Curtain being deployed to keep Europe de facto loyal to the American orbit of control and Russia out of it. It was either this now, or facing up to incrementally losing market share to an emerging multipolar world. Perhaps the Germans were showing signs of getting jumpy in our signal collections? Anyhow, the western financial order did not have the margin to cede any market share to such novel competition. So, it meant war.
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We can attempt to exert noble influence where we can, yet operate largely on our own in the periphery of the commentariat. Peace be with you in the days ahead if this course is maintained. Consequences aren’t real for the best of us usually until they manifest at our front door. Hedge accordingly.
Outstanding as always Mr. Robb. I think that all your points are downstream from the fact that the majority of the population of the west no longer has the fear of God put in them by the possibility of a large scale nuclear conflict. This mindset took off after the fall of the Soviet Union and was probably galvanized for many by the WMD false alarms the Bush administration trumpeted in the lead up to the second Iraq war. Perhaps it’s time for schoolchildren to cower under their desks again, if only to teach them respect for the nuclear age in which they live.