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One Little Problem with the "All-Electric" Auto Fleet: What Do We Do with all the "Waste" Gasoline?

December 14, 2020

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

December 13, 2020

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

December 11, 2020

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

December 11, 2020

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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Cycles, Systems and Seats in the Coliseum

December 10, 2020

The idea that debt, leverage, speculation, greed, exploitation and parasitic elites can expand exponentially forever is magical thinking. Contrary to first impressions, I am not a doom-and-gloomer; I’m a systems-cycles-er meaning I’m interested in where systems and cycles are heading.

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FireEye and the value of information

December 9, 2020

We’re a couple of weeks away from the darkest day of the year, and while there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, what if that light is a train headed towards us and not an exit from the situation we’re in?

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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.