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Issues

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#AxisOfEasy 432: Spotify Probes Alleged Massive Music Scrape and DRM Circumvention

January 9, 2026

UK moves toward mandatory phone surveillance,
Apple Permanently Disables Longtime Developer’s Account, Bricking Devices,
PornHub Extorted After Historical Data Breach by ShinyHunters… this and more in AofE #431

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Channeling Napoleon and Chou En-Lai

January 4, 2026

Where things will stand in three years in unknown. A little humility might serve us well, for it is indeed too soon to tell about a great many things.

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Pretense, Staging, Expediency: the "Solutions" That Implode the Whole Shebang

January 1, 2026

Slapdash quick fixes and policies share one characteristic: they eventually implode the whole shebang.

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Everyone’s a Lender Now: Shadow Banking USA

December 29, 2025

How much private credit has been put in place but isn’t in the official credit total is unknown and very likely unknowable. That means total systemic risk is also unknowable.

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The Good News Is People Are Realizing We’re On Our Own

December 26, 2025

We no longer care who’s behind the curtain because we’re in charge of our own lives now.

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My Christmas Letter

December 23, 2025

As I said, having a sense of humor will get you in trouble nowadays, and this whole thing would be funny if I wasn’t in leg-irons.

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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.