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Overcapacity / Oversupply Everywhere: Massive Deflation Ahead
The price of a great many assets will crash, out of proportion to the decline in demand.Oil is the poster child of the forces driving massive deflation: overcapacity / oversupply and a collapse in demand. Overcapacity / oversupply and a collapse i…
Siri: What is a “Unicorn circle jerk”?
Carta, a unicorn that makes dashboards for managing equity investments in other unicorns is laying off staff and sniffing out a cash injection from existing backers. Bloomberg reports that the company is seekng a $200 million investment from existing investors at a $3 billion valuation, up from 1.8B last year. Somewhat incongruent with the “growth story” picture that normally garners such a sharply higher round, Carta is laying off employees. They just axed 161 people…
Can "Sickcare" Survive the Pandemic?
Like the rest of the financialization machine, sickcare was never sustainable.What was once known as healthcare in the U.S. has largely been replaced by sickcare: healthcare was focused on restoring and maintaining health and w…
The Impending Disaster Of App Based Contact Tracing
As the inevitable embrace of pervasive health surveillance spreads with the speed of a novel coronavirus, a growing chorus of voices choose sides as the details of these data collection systems emerge.
#AxisOfEasy 141: Here Comes Dark_Nexus: Possibly The Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever
Hacked video conference logins being sold on the Dark Web
Apple and Google teaming up for Coronavirus contact tracing
Eurozone Coronavirus surveillance efforts use mobile apps to track spread
There’s No Going Back, We Can Only Go Forward
What I see is a global collapse of intangible capital that is invisible to most people.It’s only natural that the conventional expectation is a return to the pre-pandemic world is just a matter of time. Whether it’s three months or six months or 1…
Contributors
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.
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.
Charles Hugh Smith
Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.
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