Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
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.
Read it »The ‘revolt of the elites’ has reversed the source of social disorder from the masses to the elites.
Read it »Something has been going very wrong in the US economy for a very long time, and whatever is going wrong accelerated from 2009 to the present.
Read it »Xenomorph Malware Spreads to Spanish and American Banks in Latest Campaign,
Phishing Campaign Continues to Target Luxury Hotels,
Canada leads new UN declaration to fight online disinformation… this and more in AofE #317
Those expecting some centralized, political-administrative “solution” will be disappointed, as the political-administrative “solution” is actually the problem.
Read it »Value varies. Invest in what’s valuable.
It’s a well-recognized human bias to feel losses more acutely than gains. Perhaps something similar occurs with inflation.
Does anyone really believe that the renunciation of massive, sustained stimulus of speculation in housing would leave housing valuations unchanged because valuations are solely the result of “shortages”?
Read it »If we compare health and endurance, well-being, security, general attitudes, family and community ties and values, we would conclude that it is we who are impoverished.
Read it »Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team Issues Fix for Two PHP Object Injection Vulnerabilities,
Retool Notifies 27 Cloud Customers of Unauthorized Spear Phishing Attack,
GitHub Repository Belonging to Microsoft’s AI Research Division Accidentally Exposes 38 TB of Data… this and more in AofE #316
Should stock valuations track this same decline in profits, it’s entirely reasonable to expect the stock market to lose 2/3 of its valuation premium.
Read it »We’d rather risk societal collapse than face the sacrifices and challenges of revolutionizing our unsustainably neofeudal economy and broken gears of governance.
Read it »Armed by AI Technology, Hackers Cause a 464% Rise in Email-Based Phishing During the First Half of 2023,
COVID-Related Terms Censored on Threads Platform During Renewed Efforts to Double Down on Free Speech,
UK’s Online Safety Bill Sparks Debate… this and more in AofE #315
Let’s review how to select a town that the rich won’t ruin via gentrification / swarming in en masse and driving out locals who have to work for a living.
Read it »This is the direct consequence of the Federal Reserve’s decades of unprecedented stimulus: extremes of wealth and income inequality that gave the wealthiest households the means to bid up housing to the point it’s no longer affordable to the bottom 90%.
Read it »Key cracking concerns emerge from LastPass breach,
X updates its privacy policy to include biometric data verification from premium users to combat identity fraud,
Threat actors published the scraped data of 2.6M Duolingo users in August 2023… this and more in AofE #314
The whole point of democracy and free markets is to force competition on elites who are desperate to eliminate competition.
Read it »If you want to understand the neofeudal reality, study these charts.
Read it »IoT Devices Under Attack: KmsdBot Malware Evolves with Enhanced Capabilities,
Potential Transformation of UN Cybercrime Treaty into a “Surveillance Pact” Raises Concerns,
Activists Hijack Facebook’s Fact-Checking Program… this and more in AofE #313
In stock market news, toilet paper manufacturers continued rallying while tech and luxury-brand stocks continued their slide to decade lows.
Read it »It turns out society isn’t just the sum total of the Fed goosing “maximizing shareholder value.” People actually have to live in the corrupt, bifurcated, distorted ghetto the Fed and “maximizing shareholder value” have created.
Read it »The decay of social norms and status quo systems triggering an authoritarian tightening of the screws is a well-worn pattern throughout human history.
Read it »UN Forms “Digital Army” to Combat “Deadly Disinformation”Unveiling Australia’s Misinfo Bill: A Threat to Free Expression and Democracy,
ICANN Raises Alarm: UN’s Global Digital Compact on Internet Governance May Overlook Technical Experts,
New Variant of Apple Mac OS Malware Called XLoader Has Been Discovered Masquerading as ‘OfficeNote’ Productivity App… this and more in AofE #312
This is how bubbles collapse: the “vital few” 4% sell at whatever the market will bear, pushing prices down, and the 64% awaken to the rapidly narrowing window for locking in bubble capital gains.
Read it »This concentration of housing ownership by the wealthy is the direct result of Federal Reserve and federal policies that benefit the wealthy.
Read it »Contributors
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.