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The Problem With Money Isn’t Money

February 18, 2025

The Problem With Money is that it’s complicated.

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#AxisOfEasy 387: UK Secretly Orders Apple To Build Global iCloud Backdoor, Sparking Privacy Battle

February 14, 2025

UK Secretly Orders Apple to Build Global iCloud Backdoor, Sparking Privacy Battle,
PlayStation Network Outage Leaves Gamers Stranded: PS4, PS5, and Online Services Down with No ETA,
China-Linked Disinformation Targets Freeland in Liberal Leadership Race, SITE Warns … this and more in AofE #387

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Automation Institutionalizes Mediocrity

February 14, 2025

Meanwhile, in the lived-in world, our quality of life is unraveling in myriad ways as algorithmically-driven under-competence and mediocrity are now the norm.

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The Not-So-Strange Paradox of American Power and Dysfunction

February 13, 2025

Americans seem to have forgotten that we are not slaves to finance-tech profits as the sole divining rods to what happens next.

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How cybercrooks lure you in and scam you with fake “work from home” gigs

February 12, 2025

An online investigator lays out the entire arc of a fake “work from home” job scam, involving “missions” – which can be anything from (presumably) boosting reviews or otherwise mining clicks – but it’s really just a ruse to get you to deposit into your “earnings” account to get yourself up to the next payout threshold.

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The One True Test of AI Intelligence

February 12, 2025

The point of this thought experiment is to reveal the true nature of our relationship with AI: we only love it as a mindless slave that makes us rich.

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Contributors

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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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Jesse Hirsh

Futurist, researcher and public speaker, Jesse Hirsh has been active in technology and commenting on it across the media for 25 years. His premium newsletter service operates from Metaviews.ca.

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Charles Hugh Smith

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