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Can We Rein In the Excesses of Financialization Without Crashing the Economy?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 14, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Or we can let the bubble implode under its own weight and have a plan ready to clean house when the dust settles.

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#AxisOfEasy 371: Malicious Chrome Extensions Exploit Google’s New Security Model

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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… this and more in AofE #371

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A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The core skill going forward–frugality–is largely a forgotten skillset. Time to get busy while we still have time.

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When Did Our Institutions Lose Our Trust?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 9, 2024 | 0 Comments
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This has now reached the point that corporations and institutions are in effect “mining what remains of our trust” to boost profits / private gains.

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Social Trust: It’s Not Warm and Fuzzy, It’s the Money, Honey

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
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That most of us live in a low-value, low-trust economy of shoddy goods and services hidden beneath high-tech frictionless, faceless transactions is not recognized.

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#AxisOfEasy 370: PayPal’s Quiet Data Sharing: Are You Opted In Without Knowing?

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 4, 2024 | 1 Comment
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PayPal’s Quiet Data Sharing: Are You Opted In Without Knowing?
Sniper Dz: Free Phishing Tools Behind Over 140,000 Cyber Attacks,
AI-Powered Rhadamanthys Malware Evolves into Major Threat for Cryptocurrency Holders … this and more in AofE #370

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Adapt or Die, Or…?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 4, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Those few who grasp the crisis in its entirety have been marginalized, and those who are left are drifting downstream, unable to move the mass of self-interested inertia even if they wanted to.

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Why Political "Solutions" Don’t Fix Crises, They Make Them Worse

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 2, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The system has reached the limits of its adaptability. Everything else is entertainment.

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Ahead Lies Ruin: The Decay of Social Trust

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 30, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Loss of social trust has consequences.

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#AxisOfEasy 369: Telegram Bows To Pressure, Will Share User Data With Authorities

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 27, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Telegram Bows to Pressure, Will Share User Data with Authorities,
LinkedIn Faces Backlash for Using User Data to Train AI Without Consent,
OpenAI Patches Critical ChatGPT Vulnerability Exploited by ‘SpAIware’ Amid Rising AI Security Threats … this and more in AofE #369

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How Easy Is It To Become Middle Class Now?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 27, 2024 | 0 Comments
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If we want social / economic renewal, we have to make it straightforward for anyone willing to adopt the values and habits of “thrift, prudence, negotiation, and hard work” to climb the ladder to middle class security.

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What’s Changed? What’s Different This Time?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 25, 2024 | 0 Comments
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This raises another question: how will the deflation of the Everything Bubble play out?

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So the Economy Now Depends on Stocks Which Depend on Front-Running the Fed–And This Is Fine?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 23, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Is an economy based on the wealth effect generated by front-running the front-runners really that stable?

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#AxisOfEasy 368: Massive Data Breach At Credit Card Processor Slim CD Raises Security Concerns

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 20, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Massive Data Breach at Credit Card Processor Slim CD Raises Security Concerns,
Meta Has Been Using Your Public Posts for AI Since 2007,
AI Breaks the Rules in Capture the Flag Test… this and more in AofE #368

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I Want the "Rich Guys Internet"

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 19, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Here’s a quick outline of a “rich guys Internet”, one where it costs money to participate but the payoff is a 10-fold improvement in the user experience.

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2024, A Year of No Significance

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 17, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Looking back, 2024 may well be viewed as insignificant compared to what lies ahead.

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The Impossible Dream: 70 Million Boomers Retire in Style

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 15, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The younger generations expecting to inherit the immense wealth piled up by Boomers in home equity and stocks may be in for a shock.

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#AxisOfEasy 367: Malaysia Blocks Global DNS Resolvers

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 13, 2024 | 1 Comment
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Malaysia Blocks Global DNS Resolvers,
YubiKey Security Vulnerability Exposes Devices to Cloning Attacks,
Revival Hijack Attack on PyPI Exposes Thousands to Malware … this and more in AofE #367

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What’s "Free" About "Free Speech"?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 12, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Without being aware of it, we’ve privatized “free” speech in the form of digital monopolies.

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When Local Newspapers Close, We Lose What Matters: Journalism

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Self-serving special interests are delighted to fill the void when local journalism disappears.

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Does Anyone Else Smell a Market Crash in the Air?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Markets are manipulated, yes, but they’re still structures of tightly bound, self-organizing complexity which lend themselves to sudden non-linear collapses.

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Malaysia Blocks Global DNS Resolvers: Another Salvo in The Censorship Battle

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The Malaysian government has ordered ISPs within the country to block DNS lookups from foreign resolvers & using the measure to censor access to “harmful” websites.

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Ask AI: Running a DoH or DoT Resolver on an Alternative Port – Step by Step Instructions

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
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This is a raw ChatGPT output, […]

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#AxisOfEasy 366: Amazon’s Alexa Is Picking Favorites In Upcoming Election

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 6, 2024 | 3 Comments
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Amazon admits Alexa gave out wildly partisan political bias ahead of election,
Behind the Great Firewall: China’s Crackdown on Digital Dissent and the Growing Resistance,
Halliburton Hack Exposes Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure … this and more in AofE #366

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Playing It Safe

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 6, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Violent crashes followed by equally violent rip-your-face-off rallies as we experienced in August are not signs of a healthy, stable stock market.

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Contributors

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark E. Jeftovic

Mark is the co-founder of easyDNS and the editor-in-chief of #AxisOfEasy. He is the author of Managing Mission Critical Domains & DNS (Packt UK, 2018) and Unassailable: Protect Yourself from Deplatform Attacks & Cancel Culture. 

The Canadian Bitcoiners

The Canadian Bitcoiners

Joey Tweets and Len the Lengend are the hosts of The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, and you may recognize them as the voices (and faces) behing the AxisOfEasy Podcast. CanadianBitcoiners.com

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.