Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
No wonder the world seems deranged–it is deranged by the immense strength of an Old Guard clinging onto power by any means available even as the world around them spins into incoherence.
Edmonton’s new police pilot brings facial recognition into officers’ line of sight,
Marquis Fintech Confirms Ransomware Attack That Exposed Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Bank Customers,
React and Next.js Servers Face Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability… this and more in AofE #429
Greed is good up to the point that it delivers ruin.
The conclusion that soaring asset prices mean the economy is strong is a hallucination that goes unrecognized because the entire financial system is hallucinating.
If each of these is not a part of any ‘reform,’ than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way.
Samsung faces renewed scrutiny over hidden spyware claims on its budget phones,
Windows 11 Update Causes Major Disruption for Virtual Desktop and First Time Users,
Hackers Breach Major Banking Vendor Compromising Client and Customer Data… this and more in AofE #428
Things large and small worthy of recognition and gratitude.
There are times when the only triumph within reach is survival.
Borrowing more to maintain spending is hanging on by one’s fingernails, not middle-class security.
Researchers have found that most AI’s and LLM’s can have their security guardrails overridden through rewriting hostile prompts as poetry.
Cloudflare’s internal failure briefly turns the internet’s biggest platforms dark
Protei is hacked and its surveillance data spills into public view
AI runs most of a state-backed cyberattack and forces OpenAI to sound the alarm… this and more in AofE #427
Yes, AI is a catalyst. But for what is not yet knowable.
What we’ve lost are the foundations of a healthy standard of living / quality of life.
Canada quietly advances digital identity plans in the 2025 federal budget,
OpenAI faces lawsuits claiming ChatGPT’s design led to user suicides,
Washington Post and Other Major Organizations Fall Victim to Widespread Oracle E Business Suite Hack… this and more in AofE #426
In refusing to recognize that inequality had the potential to bring down the entire system, our delay has made that reckoning inevitable.
Here’s the real problem: there’s no profit in a raw carrot and a walk around the block.
Just as a reminder of what’s being gambled on “AI supremacy”: it’s not just financial capital, it’s everything.
Even if an AI program advises selling everything and walking away from the market for five years, how many of us would take this advice?
Recently, I’ve wanted a dog. Maybe […]
When people stop participating in their own servitude, then things change.
It would serve our interests to plot out what we can do from where we are right now should the status quo succumb to gravity.
The problem with AI and the rest of Ultra-Processed Life is we slowly lose the ability to even grasp what’s been lost.
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.