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The Golden Age of Spectacle

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 3, 2025 | 0 Comments
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“The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie.” Guy Debord

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Will AI Crash the Economy?

By Charles Hugh Smith | October 1, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The lines of dominoes being toppled run through every nook and cranny of the economy.

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Price Doesn’t Reflect Value, and We’re Paying a Steep Price for Confusing the Two

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 29, 2025 | 0 Comments
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This exploitation is indeed profitable, but there is a very high price to be paid for abusing our trust.

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Can Social Security Be Saved for Future Generations?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 25, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Are we wise enough to refuse politicians’ offer of “free money” to spend today that was stolen from our future, and from our future generations? Probably not.

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Money, Credit, Growth and Depression: It’s Complicated

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 23, 2025 | 0 Comments
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If “growth” is all that matters, that leads to depending on credit and asset bubbles, which are self-liquidating in ways few see because, well, it’s complicated.

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#AxisOfEasy 418: DHS Misconfiguration Exposes Surveillance Data To Thousands Of Unauthorized Users

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 19, 2025 | 1 Comment
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DHS Misconfiguration Exposes Surveillance Data to Thousands of Unauthorized Users,
Kering Suffers Data Breach Targeting Luxury Shoppers Amid Surge in High-End Cyberattacks,
Phishing Breach Exposes Fragility of the JavaScript Ecosystem…this and more in AofE #418

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Is This the Last Bubble?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 18, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The consensus holds there will be another bubble after the Everything Bubble pops, but this might be misplaced confidence in the godlike powers of central banks.

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The Moral Decay of Debt

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 16, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Debt has moral implications, and in denying this, we’re choosing a rendezvous with Nemesis

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Riding the Wave AI, Inevitability, and Human Sovereignty

By Bryan Lutz | September 16, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Originally posted by Joshua Stylman on […]

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#AxisOfEasy 417: Nepal Goes Offline, Then Up In Flames

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 12, 2025 | 3 Comments
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Nepal Goes Offline, Then Up in Flames,
Wyden Targets Microsoft Over RC4 Use in Ransomware-Fueled Healthcare Breach,
Salesloft Breach Exposes OAuth Supply Chain Weakness Across Major Tech Platforms…this and more in AofE #417

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Precarity and the Point of No Return

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 11, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Or maybe it’s just me, and all is well. Time will tell.

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Precarity and the Point of No Return

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 11, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Or maybe it’s just me, and all is well. Time will tell.

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"Upgrade Now" To Get What Was Previously Included At No Extra Charge

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 9, 2025 | 0 Comments
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In this realm of extraction, exploitation, artifice and illusion, “growth” is garbage.

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The Garbage Time of History Is Global

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 9, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The key insight of “let it rot” and “the garbage time of history” is the inauthenticity of all “reforms.”

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#AxisOfEasy 416: Judge Imposes Limits On Google Deals After Monopoly Ruling But Avoids Breakup

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 5, 2025 | 1 Comment
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Judge Imposes Limits on Google Deals After Monopoly Ruling but Avoids Breakup,
Salesloft Drift Breach Exposes Salesforce Data at Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, and Hundreds More,
APT Group Exploits Microsoft Trust to Deploy Stealthy Malware…this and more in AofE #416

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Entitled, Demanding–and Shunned

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 3, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Since we didn’t need relationships in a transactional system, we no longer have any.

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Joshua Stylman: Why I’m Betting on Decentralization (Despite Being Burned Before)

By Bryan Lutz | September 3, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Originally posted by Joshua Stylman on […]

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Labored Daze

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 1, 2025 | 0 Comments
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In the labored daze of AI hype and GDP “growth,” few seem to notice the workforce is tired of being exploited as an uncomplaining resource.

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#AxisOfEasy 415: PromptLock Signals The Arrival Of AI Powered Ransomware

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 29, 2025 | 6 Comments
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PromptLock Signals the Arrival of AI Powered Ransomware,
Phishing Campaign Exploits Linux Filename Parsing to Deliver VShell Backdoor,
Government Error Erases Privacy Rights from Broadcasting Act …this and more in AofE #415

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AI: The Good, the Bad and the…Woah

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 29, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The most pressing need now is for AI tools to protect us from AI tools.

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AI: False Savior of a Hollowed-Out Economy

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 27, 2025 | 0 Comments
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What nobody seems to notice is all the incentives for deploying AI are perverse.

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Our Mafioso Economy

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 25, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Extortion is the keystone of America’s Mafioso Economy.

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#AxisOfEasy 414: Popular VPN Apps Exposed As Security Risk After Shocking Report

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 22, 2025 | 2 Comments
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Popular VPN Apps Exposed as Security Risk After Shocking Report,
UK Retreats After US Pressure Forces End to Apple Encryption Backdoor Plan,
BIS Proposes Transaction Scoring System to Enforce Crypto AML Compliance …this and more in AofE #414

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How Great Powers Fall Apart

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 21, 2025 | 0 Comments
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We’re humoring our self-delusion.

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Contributors

Mark E. Jeftovic

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

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

Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.