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Facebook is biased about bias

February 25, 2021

Facebook has a meta problem. They lack the critical distance and proper governance to understand their power or their problems. The problem with their problems is not just that they fail to appreciate them, but that they are arguably not in a position to understand them at all.

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Oil and Debt: Why Our Financial System Is Unsustainable

February 24, 2021

How much energy, water and food will the “money” created out of thin air in the future buy? Finance is often cloaked in arcane terminology and math, but the one dynamic that governs the future is actually very simple.

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Widespread mistrust and misinformation

February 24, 2021

One of the benefits of writing a daily newsletter for over a year and a half is that we begin to return to stories and cycles that are worth revisiting. The phrase we’ve adopted is APT or active persistent threads, and trust is certainly one of them.

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#AxisOfEasy 184: Governments Pushing Big Tech To Censor More

February 23, 2021

Facebook deplatforms Australia,
Silver Sparrow malware contains hooks for macOS,
The Bloomberg piece on Supermicro refuted by security analysts and more in Axis of Easy #184

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Anatomy of a Bubble and Crash

February 23, 2021

Needless to say, few are expecting bubble symmetry to manifest now, because, well, of course, “this time it’s different.” Indeed. It’s always different and yet always the same, too.

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Defund Big Tech, Refund Community

February 23, 2021

I got an email last week from a long time fellow traveler, Andrew Clement, pointing me to a new paper that he had participated in producing.

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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.