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"Capitalism" Is No Longer Attractive to Capitalists

October 30, 2020

This “capitalism” is only attractive to parasites, predators, kleptocrats, legalized looters, embezzlers, fraudsters and all those insiders whose palms get greased along the way.

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Future Fibre: Telecomunicaciones Indígenas Comunitarias

October 29, 2020

As part of our ongoing Future Fibre series we’ve profiled communities in Europe and North America, however we’ve neglected our companeros in Mexico, largely due to my Spanish not being as strong as my English or even French. So today let’s take a look at a fantastic project in Southern Mexico that seeks to help indigenous communities take control of the Internet and by extension their economic and political futures.

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ALICE Doesn’t Work Here Anymore

October 28, 2020

What the political class and the Financial Nobility don’t yet grasp is that ALICE will never go back to her insecure, low-wage job, ever. Meet ALICE: Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed, at least she was employed until the pandemic presented impossible choices between taking care of her children and their education, and her aging parents, and keeping her demanding, low-wage job.

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Future Tools: HestiaPi

October 28, 2020

We can joke that the smart home is just a ruse for the surveilled home, but there’s no reason that has to be the case. It is possible to embrace automation and protect your privacy.

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Flying Blind: Clueless about Risk, We’re Speeding Toward Systemic Failure

October 28, 2020

For all these reasons, the risks of systemic collapse are much higher than commonly anticipated. There’s an irony in discussing since we all have an instinctive reaction to visible risk, we think we understand it. But alas, we don’t, especially when the risk is invisible and systemic.

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#AxisOfEasy 169: Stop What You’re doing: Chrome 0-Day Edition

October 27, 2020

New Chrome 0-day, upgrade now
Beyond the pale! Ransomware could target coffee machines
GitHub suspends multiple Youtube-DL repositories after RIAA DMCA notice and more in Axis of Easy # 169

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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.