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When Local Newspapers Close, We Lose What Matters: Journalism

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Self-serving special interests are delighted to fill the void when local journalism disappears.

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Does Anyone Else Smell a Market Crash in the Air?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Markets are manipulated, yes, but they’re still structures of tightly bound, self-organizing complexity which lend themselves to sudden non-linear collapses.

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Malaysia Blocks Global DNS Resolvers: Another Salvo in The Censorship Battle

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The Malaysian government has ordered ISPs within the country to block DNS lookups from foreign resolvers & using the measure to censor access to “harmful” websites.

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Ask AI: Running a DoH or DoT Resolver on an Alternative Port – Step by Step Instructions

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
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This is a raw ChatGPT output, […]

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#AxisOfEasy 366: Amazon’s Alexa Is Picking Favorites In Upcoming Election

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 6, 2024 | 3 Comments
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Amazon admits Alexa gave out wildly partisan political bias ahead of election,
Behind the Great Firewall: China’s Crackdown on Digital Dissent and the Growing Resistance,
Halliburton Hack Exposes Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure … this and more in AofE #366

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Playing It Safe

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 6, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Violent crashes followed by equally violent rip-your-face-off rallies as we experienced in August are not signs of a healthy, stable stock market.

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Is the "Everything Bubble" About to Pop?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 4, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Among the big winners of the Everything Bubble is–yes, I know you’re shocked–Wall Street.

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What If All the Conventional Models Fail to Predict What Happens Next?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 2, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The ‘novel, apocalyptic situation which has now arisen’ goes largely unrecognized.

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#AxisOfEasy 365: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested In France On allegations Of Facilitating Criminal Activity

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 30, 2024 | 1 Comment
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France on allegations of facilitating criminal activity,
Qilin Ransomware Group’s New Tactics: Credential Harvesting and Network-Wide Ransomware Deployment,
Uber Faces Record Fine for Data Privacy Violations … this and more in AofE #365

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The La-La-Land Fairy Tale of a "Soft Landing"

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 29, 2024 | 0 Comments
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When everyone finally leaves the La-La-Land casino and abandons the fairy tale, household wealth held in stocks is a fraction of what it was in the heady days of hot hands rotating into the next hot sector.

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Success Is a Trap

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 27, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Rather than glory in success, we are better served by being extremely wary of success.

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We’ve Left the Bottom 60% in the Dust, but Never Mind: S&P500 to 6000!

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 25, 2024 | 0 Comments
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So here we are, with a handful of winners declaring the system is working great and high-fiving each other, too busy congratulating themselves to see the tsunami of karma racing toward shore.

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#AxisOfEasy 364: How to Easily Spot A Credit Card Scam In Your Inbox

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 23, 2024 | 0 Comments
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AoE Quick Vid: How To Easily Spot a Credit Card Scam in Your Email,
California’s Digital License Plates Spark Privacy Concerns,
Czech Republic Hit by New Mobile Banking Phishing Wave … this and more in AofE #364

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The Social Recession Is Accelerating

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 23, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Did wages rise 10-fold to match the 10-fold rise in the cost of a modest house? No. That is social recession in a nutshell.

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Who Wins and Who Loses When the Housing Bubble Pops?

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 21, 2024 | 0 Comments
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This time around, the Fed may not be able to “save” the bubble from a complete round-trip deflation, which history suggests might decline by 50%.

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AoE Quick Hits: How To Easily Spot a Credit Card Scam in Your Email

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 19, 2024 | 0 Comments
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You Say You Want a Revolution

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 19, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Owning nothing isn’t happiness. Owning control of one’s life and purpose is happiness.

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#AxisOfEasy 363: Check out our _1-star review_ on Trustpilot ⭐

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 16, 2024 | 2 Comments
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Iranian Hackers Target Trump Campaign Ahead of 2024 Election
UN Cybercrime Treaty: A New Era of Global Surveillance … this and more in AofE #363

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The Super-Wealthy Have a Problem

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 16, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The less self-congratulatory camp of the super-wealthy understand the pressure cooker of inequality and unfairness is going to blow unless they relinquish some of their unearned gains generated by Fed policies.

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It Became Necessary to Destroy the Global Economy to Save It

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 13, 2024 | 0 Comments
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As the high generated by the previous iteration of financial repression wears off, the dose increases, as do the stakes when that high wears off.

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These Six Drivers Are Gone, and That’s Why the Global Economy Is Toast

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 11, 2024 | 0 Comments
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The global economy is toast. All that’s left is the distribution of the burned bits.

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#AxisOfEasy 362: Google Found Guilty Of Anti-competitive Behavior

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 9, 2024 | 4 Comments
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Google Found Guilty of Anticompetitive Behavior,
US Government Sues TikTok Over Alleged Child Privacy Violations,
Proposed AI Censorship Bill Sparks Free Speech Debate… this and more in AofE #362

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There’s Just One Problem: AI Isn’t Intelligent, and That’s a Systemic Risk

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 8, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Mimicry of intelligence isn’t intelligence, and so while AI mimicry is a powerful tool, it isn’t intelligent.

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The Anti-Consumers

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 5, 2024 | 0 Comments
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There are voluntary ‘Anti-Consumers’ like us, and increasingly, ‘involuntary Anti-Consumers’ who have no choice but to slash all discretionary spending to the bone.

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The Upside of Adversity

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 4, 2024 | 0 Comments
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A steady diet of adversity prepares one for both the low-level adversities of daily life but also for the metaphorical droughts and floods that push us to our limits of endurance and adaptability.

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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.