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The Next Leg Down: The Top 10% Are About to Take a Hit

July 30, 2020

No federal bailout or stimulus can reverse these three dynamics, and no amount of legerdemain can replace the spending of the top 10%.Few of those anxiously seeking a rebound in consumer spending take into account the top 10% of households account for …

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Our Slide into Social Psychosis and Breakdown

July 29, 2020

Not only is our lifestyle on back-order, so is our sanity.Yesterday I mentioned our collective inability to make sense of the contradictory messages of the status quo and our own experience. This inability to reconcile completely contradictory mes…

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Can we defund social media to counter toxic culture?

July 29, 2020

The toxicity of social media is certainly not new. Media in general tends to cultivate an ongoing lament that our culture and hence civilization is in decline, and that the proof and cause exist within some maligned and misunderstood newcomer.

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#AxisOfEasy 156: Amazon Met With Start-Up Founders, Then Ripped Off Their Product Ideas

July 28, 2020

Amazon met with start-up founders, then ripped off their product ideas
Top Top-4 Tech companies have more economic clout than many countries
Garmin down hard after ransomware attack

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The Nation Is Falling Into the Abyss Between Wall Street and Main Street

July 28, 2020

The abyss between the Fed’s illusion of phantom wealth for Wall Street and the collapse of Main Street is bottomless, and our descent into the abyss is accelerating.I know this runs counter to every dominant narrative, but a vaccine doesn’t really matt…

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The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence

July 27, 2020

While this pandemic has disrupted the otherwise unstoppable rise of automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and the culture of data driven decision making, efforts to normalize and gloss over the governance issues of this technology has continued unabated.

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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.