Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
Forget the V, W or L Recovery: Focus on N-P-B
The only realistic Plan B is a fundamental, permanent re-ordering of the cost structure of the entire U.S. economy.The fantasy of a V-shaped recovery has evaporated, and expectations for a W or L-shaped recovery are increasingly untenable. So forg…
The Depression Dominoes Are Toppling
Once you allow your economy to become dependent on extremes of debt, leverage, inequality, legalized looting, monopoly, pay-to-play politics and speculative asset bubbles, a depression is inevitable.The pandemic lockdown will be blamed for the Gre…
Inoculating a society against disinformation
The battle for hearts and minds rages on, and I’m reminded of a passage from a previous issue on the golden age of propaganda:
Fears over fake news are misplaced, and this focus on falsehoods distracts us from the larger picture, which is the evolution of propaganda. Rather than lamenting the decline of obsolete news corporations, we should instead be talking about democracy, disinformation, and digital media as scapegoat.
#AxisOfEasy 151: Surveillance Is A Business, And Business Is Good
Canada to deploy voluntary nationwide contact tracing app , Surveillance-capitalism firm Palantir files to go public
Gigantic telecom outage was not a DDoS from China, and more….
Is Data Our New False Religion?
In the false religion of data, heresy is asking for data that is not being collected because it might reveal unpalatably unprofitable realities.Here’s how every modern con starts: let’s look at the data. Every modern con starts with an earnes…
Transhumanism: The new religion of the coming technocracy
As we move into a more algorithmically controlled society, I would expect that technocratic social credit systems will supplant conventional moral structures, and the prospect of having your mind uploaded into an everlasting paradise will be the religious payoff for conforming to the rules.
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