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Introducing the "Everything Bubble" Sentiment-o-Meter
Since human wetware remains stuck in OS1.01, we can predict a remarkable reversal.The “Everything Bubble” has been a sight to behold. With central banks providing trillions to the big players and margin debt enabling small punters to leverage up, …
Inflation/Deflation: The Economy Is an Elephant
This is the key dynamic of the economy going forward: defaults on debt, declining wealth as assets are relentlessly repriced lower and sharp declines in income due to layoffs and debt defaults.The economy is like an elephant surrounded by blindfolded e…
When your boss is an algorithm
We live in a black box society where many of the decisions made about us are done by algorithms and machine learning models that are opaque, indecipherable, and unaccountable. This poses an existential threat to democracy, fairness, and arguably our ability to make a decent living.
#AxisOfEasy 155: Turns Out Half The Internet Has A Single-Point-of-Failure Called “Cloudflare”
Cloudflare outage takes out huge chunk of internet (but not easyDNS)…New Hong Kong law makes it illegal to dissent for anybody anywhere in the world…AxisOfEasy Salon #13: The “Phase shift” everybody is bracing for has already happened
Inequality Is America’s Monster Id
What they don’t understand is inequality is America’s Monster Id: the more you try to suppress it, the more powerful it becomes.The word privilege is much bandied about now. I’ve been writing about privilege for many years, and ended up …
Invisible enemies in a datafied society
The historical significance of this pandemic rests not just in the severity of the accompanying disease or the high rate of infection (fueled by superspreaders) but in the data being generated about and around the virus. This is the significance of the quantified or datafied society: seemingly everything is measured and monitored.
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