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Issues

AI: False Savior of a Hollowed-Out Economy

August 27, 2025

What nobody seems to notice is all the incentives for deploying AI are perverse.

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Our Mafioso Economy

August 25, 2025

Extortion is the keystone of America’s Mafioso Economy.

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#AxisOfEasy 414: Popular VPN Apps Exposed As Security Risk After Shocking Report

August 22, 2025

Popular VPN Apps Exposed as Security Risk After Shocking Report,
UK Retreats After US Pressure Forces End to Apple Encryption Backdoor Plan,
BIS Proposes Transaction Scoring System to Enforce Crypto AML Compliance …this and more in AofE #414

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How Great Powers Fall Apart

August 21, 2025

We’re humoring our self-delusion.

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AI Is a Mirror in Which We See Our Own Reflection

August 17, 2025

AI is not so much a tool that everyone uses in more or less the same way, but a mirror in which we see our own reflection–if we care to look.

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ChatGPT-5 is out: Is it brain-dead, or are we?

August 17, 2025

  5 simple (but weird) ChatGPT-5 […]

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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.