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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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How Systems Collapse: Reaping What We’ve Sown

October 26, 2020

Don’t expect healthcare or any other hollowed-out, heavily optimized system to function as it once did. A great many Americans will be shocked when our healthcare systems start failing because they believed the PR that “we have the finest healthcare system in the world.”

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An agency to rule them all

October 26, 2020

In the wake of this week’s preliminary antitrust activity, there’s been a flurry of responses and a resurgence of recurring narratives. One of the most cliché (and yet still credible) is the issue of capability and proficiency.

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Next Up: Global Depression

October 25, 2020

The belief that central banks printing currency can “buy/fix” everything that’s broken, lost or scarce is the ultimate in denial, fantasy and magical thinking. Let’s revisit the pandemic projection chart I prepared on February 2, 2020, nine days after authorities publicly acknowledged the Covid virus outbreak in China.

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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.