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Rome Was Eternal, Until It Wasn’t: Imperial Analogs of Decay

December 29, 2023

The tricky part is distinguishing the critical dependencies–those resources the empire literally cannot do without–from longer-term sources of decay and decline.

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What If There Are No Analogs for 2024?

December 26, 2023

Maybe we’ll get 1893, 1929, 1968 and 2008 analogs mixed into a heady cocktail of surprises.

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#AxisOfEasy 329: Alarming Revelation: Smart Toys Collecting Biometric Data Of Children

December 22, 2023

Alarming Revelation: Smart Toys Collecting Biometric Data of Children,
Chimera Hackers Spent Over 2 Years Looting NXP Chip Designs and IP Before Being Detected,
Channel 1 Launches Proof-of-Concept Newscast, Revealing Just How Far AI-Generated Videos Have Come … this and more in AofE #329

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Everyone Loves a Generous Government Until They Have to Pay For It

December 22, 2023

Not only does everyone love getting “free money” from the state, they also love hearing the fantasy repeated endlessly that debts are no problem because we will continue to “grow our way out of debt.”

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New email spoofing vector spotted – and it’s generating millions of hostile messages globally

December 20, 2023

  Seen via the mailop mailing […]

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The Fed’s Empire of Speculation and the Echoes of 1929

December 19, 2023

Speculation has its own expiration dynamics, and they don’t depend on us recognizing speculative excess for what it is. They will unravel the excesses regardless of what we think, hope or deny.

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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.