Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
Can an economy in which 10% of the households qualify as middle class claim to offer widespread opportunities for secure prosperity? No, it cannot.
Read it »Microsoft and Facebook Announce Their Election Interference Plans Ahead of 2024,
What Users Need to Know About the New Outlook App,
Middle Eastern APT Group Uses Gaza as Lure for Latest Phishing Campaign … this and more in AofE #324
Social trust, a baseline measure of social stability, has eroded.
Consider this description of America’s discontent:
It was interesting to compose a melody in a dream.
Of Two Minds is devoted to exploring socio-economic dynamics, so it leaves out 95% of my life.
Amazon’s Secret Algorithm Generates $1B+ Profits Through Price Manipulation,
Ontario Hospitals Report Data Theft and Online Publication After Cyberattack,
Optus Outage Leaves Millions Without Service, Cause Still Unknown … this and more in AofE #323
As in the Gulag it replicates, the innocent are swept up with the guilty in a disconcertingly unjust ratio.
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Politically, what’s the easier play: cut entitlements, the vast majority of which flow to the bottom 90%, or “claw back” the ill-gotten gains of the top 1%?
Read it »Canada Bans WeChat and Kaspersky Over Spying Concerns,
Berlin Regional Court Bans LinkedIn from Ignoring “Do Not Track” Signals,
Canadian House Ethics Committee Pushes to Punish Online Platforms that Allow “Misinformation” to Spread … this and more in AofE #322
Maybe the question isn’t just “how much do you spend on food,” but “what value are you getting for what you spend in time and money for food?”
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What will break is not as predictable as the reality that the current trajectory is untenable and unsustainable.
Read it »Rather than mocking the Counterculture, we would benefit from re-acquiring its values that favored frugality and the ownership of skills, work, enterprise and land.
Read it »Westminster Declaration Highlights Threat of Digital Censorship,
Instagram Chief says Threads Censorship only “Temporary,” Despite No Official Deadline,
Cookie Hijacking Attempt on Okta Support System May Have Exposed Customer Files … this and more in AofE #321
Once the chasm widens a bit more, the “efficient market” cover story bridge collapses into the abyss.
Read it »Who needs a healthy populace rich in well-being when you can have trillions in annual corporate profits?
Read it »Browser Update Scam Takes a Decentralized Turn with Cryptocurrency Blockchain,
Micfo LLC CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison Over Wire Fraud,
Nurse in Hot Water with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan Over Social Media Posts Criticizing Province’s COVID Mandates … this and more in AofE #320
If things unravel, these risk-reduction strategies quickly shift from “nice to have” to “essential.” But by then, it will be too late to put them in place.
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That’s the difficulty with nonlinear, mutually reinforcing crises: our over-confidence, hubris and refusal to consider sacrifices will be our undoing.
Read it »Once leadership of this nature is properly understood, Ms. Swift is eminently qualified to be President.
Read it »Carbon Passports: A Dystopian Surveillance Threat,
Diabetes Drug, Ozempic, Suppresses Patients’ Appetite, Sending Drugstores Nationwide into a Panic,
Ancestry Website, 23andMe, Data Stolen in Attack Targeting Jews… this and more in AofE #319
We can anticipate a sharp reduction in conventional financial security in the next decade as the waste is growth / Landfill Economy runs out of cheap materials to throw away.
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There is very little wiggle-room left in many household budgets, and any decline in income will crack the ice.
Read it »Change the incentives and feedback loops and you change the flavor of Doom we’re about to be served.
Read it »Security Risks Loom Over Public Zoom Meeting Links,
Renowned Authors Fight Back Against OpenAI’s Unauthorized Content Use in LLM Training,
Canada Imposes Mandatory Registration for Podcast Platforms Under Government Authority… this and more in AofE #318
All this grift, graft, predatory pricing, price-fixing and parasitic monopolizing costs the public and the economy dearly.
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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.
The Canadian Bitcoiners
Joey Tweets and Len the Lengend are the hosts of The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast, and you may recognize them as the voices (and faces) behing the AxisOfEasy Podcast. CanadianBitcoiners.com
Charles Hugh Smith
Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.