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AI is for the peons, access to humans is reserved for the wealthy.
If this is what passes for competence while we cheerlead “the Roaring 20s”, then our delusion has reached “what looks like a permanently high plateau.”
The best thing that could happen to America would be the destruction of its credit card and a deep, prolonged recession that emptied the punch bowl of phantom bubble wealth and the illusion of endless credit.
easyURL is now URLTools,
Vulnerability in Apple’s Location Services Exposes Privacy Risks,
U.S. Treasury Targets Chinese Individuals Involved in 911 S5 Anonymity Service and Money Laundering … this and more in AofE #352
The prospect of a 60% or 80% decline in the NASDAQ index is only horrifying if we stay invested in the index all the way down.
If we add up all these tidal forces, the conclusion is self-evident: labor “inflation” has just shifted into second gear.
When predicting the future, we’re best served by following “what benefits the wealthy and powerful,” as that is the likeliest outcome.
YouTube Faces Surge in Phishing and Deepfake Scams,
Europol Data Breach Exposes Security Weaknesses,
Breach Forums Defies FBI Seizure with Dark Web Comeback … this and more in AofE #351
We seem to have entered a world of anti-leisure and anti-productivity in which the unpaid “shadow work” demanded to keep all the complicated digital bits in motion obliterate our leisure and productivity.
Maybe we should rephrase the slogan to “you’ll appear to own things you don’t actually control and be happy.”
Malware Disguised as Popular Apps Targets Android Users,
Government Shuts Down 1,000 Skype Accounts in Massive Cyber Crime Crackdown,
LockBit Black Ransomware Rampage: Millions Targeted in Global Email Campaign … this and more in AofE #350
So where does this leave us? We’re on our own.
As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency.
The net result is America’s working class is up against the wall, maxed out.
REvil Ransomware Mastermind Sentenced to Over 13 Years in Historic Cybercrime Case,
Severe WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited: Millions of Sites at Risk, Mal.Metrica Scam Unveiled,
Unmasking the Hidden Vulnerabilities in VPN Security on Untrusted Networks … this and more in AofE #349
Once we’ve made “digital visibility” the primary source of our identity, status and self-respect, we’ve doomed ourselves to wandering, compass-less, in a vast artificial wasteland.
No wonder so many people devote themselves to curating an artificial digital representation of themselves that they reckon is worthy of recognition and status.
Mere mortals are left in a hopeless situation. In response, they’re withdrawing from the competition en masse.
FCC Slaps Major U.S. Carriers with $196 Million in Fines for Illegally Selling Customer Location Data
Kaiser Permanente Notifies Millions of Members Following Major Data Breach Involving Third-Party Advertisers
Active Exploitation of GitLab’s Email Verification Vulnerability … this and more in AofE #348
Sound of coins rattling in a battered bowl.
That this level of incendiary outrage has seeped into the mainstream media tells us that
the bill for America’s gluttony of inequality is long overdue.
Parsing geopolitics is fun but our attention is better directed to the limits and second-order effects of legacy systems in each of the rival states.
… this and more in AofE #347
Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been ghetto-ized.
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.