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Deciphering disinformation from dystopia

July 15, 2020

If one were to draw a word cloud from our pandemic posts I imagine that the coupling of disinformation and dystopia would be prominent. These two bed fellows are pillars of this pandemic, framing our perception, and influencing our psychology.

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This Is a Financial Extinction Event

July 15, 2020

The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed.Though under pressure from climate change, the dinosaurs were still dominant 65 million year ago–until the meteor struck, creating …

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#AxisOfEasy 154: Police Use Twitter’s Dataminr To Surveil #BlackLivesMatter Protestors

July 14, 2020

Ex security advisor: China’s hacking of Nortel was the beginning of the end
Canadians can opt-out of facial recognition DB by opting into DB
LinkedIn sued for iOS clipboard spying
Police use Twitter’s Dataminr to surveil BlackLivesMatter protestors

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Could America Have a French-Style Revolution?

July 14, 2020

As with the French Revolution, that will be the trigger for a wholesale replacement of our failed institutions.Since it’s Bastille Day, a national holiday in France celebrating the French Revolution, let’s ask a question few even think (or dare) t…

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PimEyes: facial recognition for consumers

July 13, 2020

Every once in a while I wonder what we’re missing amidst this pandemic as all eyes are focused on the wild news cycle driven by the coronavirus, politics, protests, celebrities, or some lady we’ll momentarily refer to as Karen. The ongoing proliferation and accessibility of facial recognition technology is one of them.

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How Do We Change the Leadership of our Quasi-Sovereign Big Tech Neofeudal Nobility?

July 12, 2020

You better bow low and pay up, peasant, or your voice in the digital world will disappear just as quickly as your democracy’s control over Big Tech.Who’s the junior partner in global hegemony, Big Tech or the U.S. government? The question would ha…

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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.