Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
The illusion created by the initial success of central planning is that it can continue indefinitely, when the reality is it’s unavoidably self-liquidating as the distortions unravel the entire economy.
Read it »Google and Microsoft Clash Escalates: Allegations of Shadow Campaigns, Cloud Wars, and Regulatory Maneuvers,
French ISP Breach Exposes 19 Million Records Amid Rising Cyber Threat,
Tax Scammers Exploit CRA Weaknesses, Millions Paid in Bogus Refunds … this and more in AofE #374
Turn the crank of social media / search (SM/S) and you get highly profitable Digital Addiction and social destabilization leading to disorder and breakdown.
Read it »By placing search/social media in the bucket of newspapers, radio and TV networks, perhaps we’ve obscured their true nature as “Digital Marketing Mechanisms.”
Read it »If you find my scribblings upsetting, there’s an easy solution: stop reading it. We’ll both benefit.
Read it »Microsoft Admits Losing Weeks of Security Logs for Cloud Products,
Samsung Hit by Dangerous Zero-Day Exploit in Mobile Processors,
BT⚡TV 16: Marc Morano – CBDC’s Are About Creating a Permission-Based Society … this and more in AofE #373
A social media company has the right to decline publishing my opinion, but the government’s ability to restrict what the social media company publishes is restricted by the First Amendment.
Read it »No wonder we’re restless, teetering on the edge, frustrated by our addictions to fakery and excess, starved for what cannot be marketed or made profitable, so it no longer exists except in the shadows.
Read it »The smart money is selling, of course, for the clanging indicators are the dinner bell announcing the banquet of consequences has been served, and Nemesis doesn’t want the meal to get cold.
Read it »North Korean Hackers Use Linux Malware in Global ATM Heists,
Telekopye Scam Network Targets Booking.com and Airbnb Users,
WordPress War Heats Up as WP Engine Faces Legal Showdown … this and more in AofE #372
And so here we are, exhausted by the divisions, the frustration, the rage and our loneliness in a sea of madness few even see.
Read it »We need a new definition of Progress, and a reset of the mythology guiding our descent into “Anti-Progress”.
Read it »Or we can let the bubble implode under its own weight and have a plan ready to clean house when the dust settles.
Read it »The core skill going forward–frugality–is largely a forgotten skillset. Time to get busy while we still have time.
Read it »This has now reached the point that corporations and institutions are in effect “mining what remains of our trust” to boost profits / private gains.
Read it »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.
Read it »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
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.
Read it »The system has reached the limits of its adaptability. Everything else is entertainment.
Read it »Loss of social trust has consequences.
Read it »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
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.
Read it »This raises another question: how will the deflation of the Everything Bubble play out?
Read it »Is an economy based on the wealth effect generated by front-running the front-runners really that stable?
Read it »Contributors
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
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 is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.