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America Is a Moral Cesspool, and Student Loans Prove It

July 25, 2021

If America somehow managed to educate millions of college students without burdening them with $2 trillion in debt in 1993, why is it now “impossible” to do so, even as America’s wealth and gross national product (GDP) have both rocketed higher over the past 27 years?

America Has Lost the Trade War with China, and the Real Pain Has Yet to Begin

July 23, 2021

Corporate America sacrificed national interests in service of greed, and so did the U.S. government. As we all know, the source of Corporate America’s unprecedented explosion in profits in the 21st century is the offshoring of manufacturing to China.

The bot era has begun

July 22, 2021

It’s easy to recognize that automation has had a huge opportunity to advance as a result of the pandemic. However as a concept, automation is both broad and abstract. It manifests in a myriad of ways, depending upon the context and user.

Have We Reached "Peak Self-Glorifying Billionaire"?

July 22, 2021

Perhaps we should update Marie Antoinette’s famous quip of cluelessness to: “Let them eat space tourism.” As billionaires squander immense resources on self-glorifying space flights, the corporate media is nothing short of worshipful.

#AxisOfEasy 205: US Gov Flags COVID Misinfo Stories For Facebook To Delete

July 20, 2021

Cloudflare CDN.js bug introduced critical vulnerability into 12% of websites online,
The US government flags COVID misinfo stories for Facebook to delete,
Trading Big Tech shares while regulating them has made Nancy Pelosi $ 70,000,000 USD… this and much more in Axis of Easy #205

Big Tech: "Our Terms Have Changed"

July 20, 2021

So go ahead and say whatever you want around all your networked devices, but don’t be surprised if bad things start happening. I received another “Our Terms Have Changed” email from a Big Tech quasi-monopoly, and for a change I actually read this one. It was a revelation on multiple fronts.

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.