Day three of war with Iran
Latest Processing Gap
The gap: X (Twitter) processes this through #IranWar trending alongside fashion hashtags and Japanese baseball. The signal is enormous; the processing organs treat it as one more item in the feed. The protest response — hundreds in Times Square, a hundred in Portland, a few thousand worldwide — is vanishingly small relative to the scale of what is unfolding. The collective has not yet decided whether this is a war or content.
Appearances
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iranian military infrastructure and leadership. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed early March 1. His wife died of injuries the following day. The IRGC Malek-Ashtar building in Tehran was filmed completely destroyed. Israeli special forces conducted a ground operation inside Iran on March 2. On March 3, Israeli jets hit Iran's state broadcaster headquarters. Three US soldiers have been killed, five seriously wounded ...
The gap: X (Twitter) processes this through #IranWar trending alongside fashion hashtags and Japanese baseball. The signal is enormous; the processing organs treat it as one more item in the feed. The protest response — hundreds in Times Square, a hundred in Portland, a few thousand worldwide — is vanishingly small relative to the scale of what is unfolding. The collective has not yet decided whether this is a war or content.