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Why Social Trust Is Cratering: The Difference Between Elites and Commoners

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 15, 2024 | 0 Comments
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We trust what we own / control, and the difference between elites and commoners is the elites own / control the wealth and power that dominate our daily lives.

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#AxisOfEasy 341: Major Cybersecurity Breach: Top US Agency CISA Hacked, Systems Offline

By Mark E. Jeftovic | March 15, 2024 | 4 Comments
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… this and more in AofE #341

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America the Snackable

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 14, 2024 | 0 Comments
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There is only one pathway to health and sanity: stop consuming snackables of any kind.

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#AxisOfEasy 340: Security Researchers Create “Morris II”: A Test AI Worm That Can Steal Data And Send Spam Emails Between AI Agents

By Mark E. Jeftovic | March 8, 2024 | 3 Comments
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Security Researchers Create “Morris II”: A Test AI Worm that can Steal Data and Send Spam Emails between AI Agents,
Canadian Financial Intelligence Agency Pulls Corporate Systems Offline due to Cyber Incident,
Canada’s Justice Minister Defends Controversial Online Harms Bill: House Arrest and Internet Restrictions … this and more in AofE #340

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A Low-Trust Society Is an Impoverished Society

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 7, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The sole remaining reservoirs of trust in American life are personal networks, local enterprises and local institutions.

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Global Recession’s Winners and Losers

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 6, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The few winners of global recession will use the decline as a means to break the chokehold of unproductive BAU elites.

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These Four Themes Will Define the Next Decade

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 4, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Everyone at the trough believes that the transition from liquid water (free flowing credit) to ice cannot possibly happen. So when it happens, everyone will be surprised.

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#AxisOfEasy 339: Unveiling The Era Of AI Deception: The Alarming Ease Of Falling Victim To Scams

By Mark E. Jeftovic | March 1, 2024 | 1 Comment
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Unveiling the Era of AI Deception: The Alarming Ease of Falling Victim to Scams,
Hack at Change Healthcare Network Causes Disruption in Pharmacies Across the US,
Supreme Court Grapples with the Issue of Regulating Social Media Platforms… this and more in AofE #339

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If AI Is So Great, Why Is Managing the Digital Realm Eating Us Alive?

By Charles Hugh Smith | March 1, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The financial analysts gloating over the prospect of higher corporate profits resulting from firing workers overlook the collapse of customer satisfaction, productivity and leisure.

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Who Error-Corrects AI?

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 28, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Part of why AI chatbots are so dreadful is we know the corporation / agency doesn’t care whether our problem gets resolved or not.

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Rates, Risk and Debt: The Unavoidable Reckoning Ahead

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 26, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Policy errors have consequences, and we’re only in the first inning of those consequences.

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#AxisOfEasy 338: IC3 Warning: Cybercriminals Exploiting QR Codes To Steal Funds

By Mark E. Jeftovic | February 23, 2024 | 7 Comments
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IC3 Warning: Cybercriminals Exploiting QR Codes to Steal Funds
French Assembly passes Bill to criminalize vaccine skepticism
Bitcoin Self-Custody Made Easy: Watch a 10-Year-Old Set Up a Coldcard Mk4 … this and more in AofE #338

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How the Economy Changed: There’s No Bargains Left Anywhere

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 23, 2024 | 0 Comments
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What changed in the economy is now nobody can afford to get by on working-class wages because there’s no longer any bargains.

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The Pitfalls of Central Planning

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 21, 2024 | 0 Comments
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If Central Planning can’t expand its power, it expands its budget, at the expense of its programs.

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Youtube Threatens Massive YouTuber Louis Rossmann & It Backfires Immediately!

By Bryan Lutz | February 20, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Youtube threatens legal action against “right-to-repair” advocate Louis Rossmann and faces immediate backlash.

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Finding, Creating (and Keeping) a Job in the Era of AI

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 19, 2024 | 0 Comments
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What’s valuable is flexible, entrepreneurial, experiential-based skills that can be applied to a variety of problems–including those that have yet to arise.

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#AxisOfEasy 337: Third Party Security Data Breach Leaves Bank Of America Customers Worried And Confused

By Mark E. Jeftovic | February 16, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Third Party Security Data Breach Leaves Bank of America Customers Worried and Confused,
Bill S-210 Lobby Working Hard to Foster Widespread Age Verification Technologies in Canada,
Facebook’s Compliance with Health Canada’s Requests Leads to Post Censorship … this and more in AofE #337

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Digital Service Dumpster Fires and Shadow Work

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 14, 2024 | 0 Comments
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One wonders what we’re paying for via taxes, products and services, when we end up having to do so much of the work ourselves for nothing.

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The "Phantom Legion" Problem

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 12, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Everything is presented as rock-solid until it falls apart.

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#AxisOfEasy 336: Scammers Deepfake Company CFO, Trick Employee Into Sending Them $25m

By Mark E. Jeftovic | February 9, 2024 | 1 Comment
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Deepfake scammers trick employee, steal $25m,
Ex-CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte who leaked classified materials to WikiLeaks sentenced to 40 years,
Google Search to no longer make site backups while crawling the web … this and more in AofE #336

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Household Belt-Tightening: Will the Trickle Become a Flood?

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The top 0.1% will weather a recession just fine, but that will offer cold comfort to the other 130 million American households.

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Irony Alert: "Outlawing" Recession Has Made a Monster Recession Inevitable

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 7, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Those who came of age after 1982 have never experienced a real recession, and so they’re unprepared for anything other than guarantees of rescue and permanent expansion.

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The International City Model: Freedom Is the Solution, Coercion Is the Problem

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 5, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The International City offers a hopeful, practical model for transforming the global economy by giving people a choice.

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#AxisOfEasy 335: 26 Billion Records Combined In ‘Mother Of All Breaches’ Data Leak

By Mark E. Jeftovic | February 2, 2024 | 2 Comments
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26 Billion Records Combined in ‘Mother of All Breaches’ Data Leak,
NSA Admits Buying American Citizens’ Internet Data Without Warrants,
The Cobblers Children (almost) Had No Shoes! DMARC Enforcement Went Live This Week … this and more in AofE #335

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Inflation Hits Us All, Even Of Two Minds

By Charles Hugh Smith | February 1, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Those subscribed as of February 29 will lock in the current rate for the life of the blog, those subscribing on March 1 or later will pay the inflation-adjusted rate.

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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.