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#AxisOfEasy 176: Anybody Who Hasn’t Been Hacked By STARBURST, Please Raise Your Hand
FireEye and US Treasuray Department hacked, Russia blamed
Solarwinds Hacked and was attack vector for all of the above and more
Google falls out of bed with Monday morning outage…check it out in Axis of Easy #176
Future Tools: Open Source CRMs
Yesterday (Monday) I woke up and was anxious that I did not receive a copy of the newsletter. My concern was that if I didn’t get a copy, others didn’t. I checked substack and it showed the issue was sent out. Why had I not received it?
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One Little Problem with the "All-Electric" Auto Fleet: What Do We Do with all the "Waste" Gasoline?
Regardless of what happens with vaccines and Covid-19, debt and energy–inextricably bound as debt funds consumption– will destabilize the global economy in a self-reinforcing feedback. Back in the early days of the oil industry (1880s and 1890s), the product that the industry could sell at a profit was kerosene for lighting and heating.
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New Audiobook, New Song, Renewed Focus
There is no way a status quo that is completely dependent on the permanent expansion of these interlocking extremes, asymmetries and imbalances can unwind them all and retain its myriad parasitic elites. Thanks to my friend and colleague Mark Jeftovic, the audiobook of A Hacker’s Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet is now available.Hands-free grokking is now accessible.
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Dreaming of a Christmas Without Stuff Nobody Wants or Needs
Freeing ourselves of unwanted/unneeded gift-giving is not just heresy in a debt-funded consumerist economy–it is tantamount to treason. Did you see the new “gotta-have” coffee-pod flavors this Christmas? Crayfish, Spanish Moss, Pumpkin Spicy Radish and Jungle Rot. Yowza, it doesn’t get any better than this….
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The case to breakup Facebook
While the antitrust action against Facebook was anticipated, the lawsuits filed this week, one by the FTC, and another by 46 US states (plus DC and Guam), are nonetheless bold, and foster cautious optimism that the era of digital robber barons could be coming to an end.
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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.
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.
Charles Hugh Smith
Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.
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