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Central Planning: China’s Miracle–and Malaise

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 4, 2024 | 0 Comments
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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.

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#AxisOfEasy 374: Google and Microsoft Clash Escalates: Allegations of Shadow Campaigns, Cloud Wars, and Regulatory Maneuvers

By Mark E. Jeftovic | November 1, 2024 | 1 Comment
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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

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The Extremely Profitable Inner Workings of Digital Addiction

By Charles Hugh Smith | November 1, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Turn the crank of social media / search (SM/S) and you get highly profitable Digital Addiction and social destabilization leading to disorder and breakdown.

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Is Social Media Actually "Media," Or Is It Something Else?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 30, 2024 | 0 Comments
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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.”

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Welcome to the Circular Firing Squad

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 29, 2024 | 0 Comments
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If you find my scribblings upsetting, there’s an easy solution: stop reading it. We’ll both benefit.

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#AxisOfEasy 373: Microsoft Admits Losing Weeks Of Security Logs For Cloud Products

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 25, 2024 | 0 Comments
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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

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A Contrarian Clarification of "Free Speech"

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 25, 2024 | 0 Comments
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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.

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All The World’s a Stage: Everything Is Fake

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 23, 2024 | 0 Comments
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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.

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17 Indicators of Global Recession Are Clanging

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 21, 2024 | 0 Comments
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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.

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#AxisOfEasy 372: North Korean Hackers Use Linux Malware In Global ATM Heists

By Mark E. Jeftovic | October 18, 2024 | 2 Comments
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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

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Isn’t It Obvious?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 18, 2024 | 0 Comments
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And so here we are, exhausted by the divisions, the frustration, the rage and our loneliness in a sea of madness few even see.

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We’re Told This Is Progress, But It’s Actually Anti-Progress

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 16, 2024 | 0 Comments
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We need a new definition of Progress, and a reset of the mythology guiding our descent into “Anti-Progress”.

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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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Malicious Chrome Extensions Exploit Google’s New Security Model,
Gamers Targeted by Fake Cheat Scripts Spreading Malware,
States Sue TikTok Over Alleged Child Exploitation and Mental Health Risks … 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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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. 

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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.