Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
Conspiracy as a symptom of a post-literate society
What if we’re approaching pervasive conspiracy culture wrong. Rather than being a symptom of a failing news system, or an acknowledgement of the fallacies of journalism, conspiracy culture is instead a symptom of a post-literate society.
Covid Has Triggered The Next Great Financial Crisis
What’s left are the ‘fatal synergies’ of soaring debt and leverage, diminishing returns on stimulus, the substitution of credit for savings and the coming deflationary tsunami that pops all the speculative bubbles. Imagine a once modest but sturdy home built near a cliff to maximize the vistas.
#AxisOfEasy 194: Canada’s Bill C-10 Lets CRTC Regulate User-Generated Content
New BIND vulnerabilities,
iOS 14.5 comes with new privacy alert pop-ups,
Google’s contact tracing app has privacy flaws … this and more in this week’s Axis of Easy # 194
The Privacy Conundrum
It’s clear that privacy is essential, but protecting our privacy can be legitimately confusing.
What if instead of fighting fire with fire we starting using water.
What if predictive privacy was the kind of water necessary to put out the fire that is contemporary surveillance based AI?
Insights into Risk: Taleb and Tyson
Events that devastate the majority financially greatly enrich the few who bet on non-linear dynamics. I see the same question in forums, threads, articles and emails: what can I do to protect myself and my family from whatever lies ahead?
Which Lifeboat Will You Choose?
I’m sure it’s no surprise that the next five years will be risky and challenging; to the degree that we will be reliant on those closest to us, we are sharing a virtual lifeboat. Consider a scenario in which we’re on a ship that’s sinking, and the lifeboats have been launched. Being some of the last still on board the doomed vessel, we can scan who’s in each lifeboat and choose which one we’ll clamber into.
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