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You Are Now Leaving FantasyLand: The Losses Will Be Taken By Somebody

July 9, 2020

As the inverted pyramid collapses, the effects will be non-linear.Round about late March, we entered a Financial FantasyLand in which all the sins and excesses of rampant financialization were going to be painlessly washed away. Mever mind the ent…

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Will TikTok be banned?

July 8, 2020

When it comes to social media, TikTok is different. Not necessarily in a good way, but that difference is notable and arguably an element of the platform’s success.

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The American Economy in Four Words: Neofeudal Extortion, Decline, Collapse

July 8, 2020

Our society has a legal structure of self-rule and ownership of capital, but in reality it is a Neofeudal Oligarchy.Now that the pandemic is over and the economy is roaring again–so the stock market says–we’re heading straight back up into the good o…

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#AxisOfEasy 153: Underworld in panic as cops penetrate secret criminal chat app

July 7, 2020

Underworld in panic as cops penetrate secret criminal chat app
New EvilQuest ransomware targets Mac OSX users
BMW to make built-in car features into paid subscriptions

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Where will the Facebook boycott lead?

July 7, 2020

Facebook’s top two officials will be meeting today with civil rights groups who have successfully organized the largest boycott of the platform’s advertising system to date. The boycott has been using the #StopHateforProfit hastag, and has been led by organizations like the ADL, NAACP, Color for Change, and Common Sense Media among others.

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What Will Be the Most Desirable Status Symbols in the Greater Depression?

July 7, 2020

Virtue-signaling texts from your $100 million yacht no longer impress, they enrage.For the past five decades, celebrities and other wealthy folks have sought conventional status signifiers / symbols: a couple hundred thousand acres of ranchland, a…

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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.