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Issues

Why Is Everything Such a Hot Mess?

January 12, 2026

Nobody believes that “doing more of what’s failed” will actually fail, because to date it’s only made insiders rich.

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#AxisOfEasy 432: Spotify Probes Alleged Massive Music Scrape and DRM Circumvention

January 9, 2026

Spotify Probes Alleged Massive Music Scrape and DRM Circumvention
MongoBleed: Critical MongoDB Exploit Goes Public Over the Holidays
California Launches Nation’s Strictest Data Deletion Law… this and more in AofE #432

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The Perverse Incentives Dominating Our Lives

January 8, 2026

The net result of these perverse incentives is an Internet that is increasingly toxic and untrustworthy.

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We Can Discern Cycles and Waves, But Not the Outcomes

January 6, 2026

Which brings us to the present and the cycles and waves that have yet to reach the concluding third act, where the dramatic climax leads to resolution.

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Channeling Napoleon and Chou En-Lai

January 4, 2026

Where things will stand in three years in unknown. A little humility might serve us well, for it is indeed too soon to tell about a great many things.

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Pretense, Staging, Expediency: the "Solutions" That Implode the Whole Shebang

January 1, 2026

Slapdash quick fixes and policies share one characteristic: they eventually implode the whole shebang.

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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.