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#AxisOfEasy 175: Secrecy Around Top Canadian Cyber-Security Intelligence Officer Caught Spying For China

December 8, 2020

Secrecy around top Canadian cyber-security intelligence officer caught spying for China
S&P to launch crypto-currency indexes in 2021 as Niall Ferguson endorses Bitcoin (OOtc article) plus Salon #33: Ethereum 2.0 could be the scaffolding of the Network State.. and more in Axis of Easy #175

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Welcome to the U.S.S.A.’s Banquet of Consequences

December 8, 2020

The incontestable incompetence of the USSA’s monopolies, institutions and agencies is about to take center stage in 2021. When I mention that the U.S.A. feels increasingly like the U.S.S.R., a surprising number of people tell me they feel the same way.

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Asking the AI gods to be fair

December 7, 2020

A key ingredient towards understanding technology is an understanding of media. Not that either are ever truly accomplished, as the consequence of the medium being the message is that we and our media/technology are always changing.

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Covid Is Toppling America’s "Points of Failure" Dominoes

December 6, 2020

Sorry Fed, it’s too late. The dominoes are already toppling, and every point of failure is being exploited by the catalyzing effects of Covid. America’s many points of failure leverage points where a break brings down the entire system–are falling like dominoes, a process catalyzed by Covid.

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Covid Is Revealing the Cancerous Underbelly of U.S. Healthcare

December 4, 2020

If you still believe that America’s Sickcare is “the finest in the world” and is endlessly sustainable, please study these three charts and extend the trendlines. I’ve long been making the distinction between healthcare and sickcare: healthcare is the service provided by frontline operational caregivers (doctors, nurses, aides, technicians, etc.) and sickcare is the financialized system of Big Hospital Corporations, Big Insurers, Big Pharma, etc. and their lobbyists that keep the federal money spigots wide open.

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Following the data and money in the streaming industry

December 4, 2020

Thanks again to those who joined us for our salon this past Tuesday. One of the purposes in holding the salons, beyond the primary one which is to have smart conversations and connect fellow subscribers with each other, has been to play, learn, and experiment with OBS Studio. We published a Future Tools issue about it in October, and since then I’ve been slowly but steadily expanding my knowledge and proficiency using it. However I cannot learn in isolation, but require context and in some instance immersion, if I am to truly comprehend the value of a tool.

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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.