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Boiled Frogs: AI Slop, Phishing, Deep-Fakes and Spam, Spam, Spam

August 15, 2025

We’re frogs in a pot that’s being heated so gradually that we no longer notice the sewage is extinguishing the utility of the Web.

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Two Charts of Extremely Perverse Incentives

August 13, 2025

As a thought experiment, consider these changes to our economy’s incentive structure.

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If It Walks Like a Duck: Is The AI Mania a Psych-Ops?

August 11, 2025

Let’s summarize our thought experiment: the AI Mania scores 100% on all eight metrics of a Psych-Ops.

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#AxisOfEasy 412: Spotify Enforces Age Checks As Digital ID Becomes Gatekeeper

August 8, 2025

ChatGPT Conversations Remain Public Despite OpenAI Cleanup Effort,
Raspberry Pi Attack Exposes ATM Network to Sophisticated Financial Hackers,
Spotify Enforces Age Checks as Digital ID Becomes Gatekeeper…this and more in AofE #412

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Now Comes the Hard Part

August 8, 2025

That this extreme inequality is itself the primary threat to both democracy and social stability is poorly understood.

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What Would Happen If Lyndsey Sweeney Started Gardening and Baking Bread?

August 8, 2025

This is a catastrophic decline of health that no one dares calls a catastrophe.

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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.