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GPT-3 and existential angst

By Jesse Hirsh | September 14, 2020 | 0 Comments
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In yesterday’s issue we looked at GPT-3 from a technical perspective, in today’s issue let’s delve into the philosophy surrounding it. After all, technology as we know it today is as much philosophical or even ideological as it is technological.

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The Four D’s That Define the Future

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 13, 2020 | 0 Comments
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When the money runs out or loses its purchasing power, all sorts of complexity that were previously viewed as essential crumble to dust.Four D’s will define 2020-2025: derealization, denormalization, decomplexification and decoherence. That’s a lo…

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Dear Jerry and James: You’re Both Wrong About New York

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 11, 2020 | 1 Comment
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The “system” known as a city, now bloated and overgrown by decades of mal-investment, will be forced to become self-supporting.So let’s look at the urban exodus that’s exciting so much commentary. Two essays pin each end of the urba…

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This Is How It Ends: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 10, 2020 | 1 Comment
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While the Federal Reserve and the Billionaire Class push the stock market to new highs to promote a false facade of prosperity, everyday life will fall apart.How will the status quo collapse? An open conflict–a civil war, an insurrection, a coup-…

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Inflation Is Stealth Austerity

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 9, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Rather than decry austerity, which demands an open political discussion of trade-offs, we should decry inflation’s stealthy reduction of purchasing power.Austerity–bad. Inflation–good. Oh wait–they’re the same thing: both are a reduction in purchasi…

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#AxisOfEasy 162: WordPress 0-Day Exposes Millions Of Sites To Compromise

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 8, 2020 | 2 Comments
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WordPress File Manager plugin bug exposes millions of sites to compromise
Aussie cops arrest and cuff pregnant woman in her home for Facebook post
Amazon spikes job posting for union-busting intel analysts …plus more in AofE #162

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Intolerance and Authoritarianism Accelerate Disunity and Collapse

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 7, 2020 | 1 Comment
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Scapegoating dissenters only hastens the disunity and disarray that accelerates the final collapse.Authoritarianism is imposed on us, but its sibling intolerance is our own doing. Intolerance and authoritarianism are two sides of th…

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In the Footsteps of Rome: Maybe It No Longer Matters Who’s Emperor

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 6, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Pretense and PR are not reality, and believing the Old Normal will magically be restored with sacrifice-free Federal Reserve printing is not an actual strategy.Quick history quiz: who was the second-to-the-last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire?&nbsp…

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Plugging into "Small Everything": Wake Up and Smell the 3 Cs–Community, Cash, and Coin (Coffee optional)

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 4, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Reversing from exploited division to creative and healthy solidarity will need to be the mantra and guiding principle going forward if we the people are to take back our economy.Editor’s note: This is a guest post by my friend and colleague Zeus Y…

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Do you know what your mobile device knows?

By Jesse Hirsh | September 3, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The problem with data is that it is for all practical purposes an entirely abstract concept. As a word it has become pervasive in our culture, mentioned in all sorts of contexts, and regularly referred to as commodity, property, and fuel.

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Fighting and Winning against "Big Everything"

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 2, 2020 | 0 Comments
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So what can we do about all this when our politics, regulation and policies are all captured? We go directly to the source of value, which is demand.Editor’s note: This is a guest post by my friend and colleague Zeus Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D., who has …

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#AxisOfEasy 161: Blame Canada: CenturyLink Outage Cascades Across Major Internet Providers

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 1, 2020 | 6 Comments
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Sendgrid account hack leads to spike in spam levels, Police increasingly want access to smart speaker recordings,
Blame Canada: Centurylink outage cascades across major internet providers and more in #161

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Smart Farms: Facebook AI powers John Deere robotics

By Jesse Hirsh | September 1, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Precision agriculture promises improved yields using reduced inputs, made possible by machine learning models that control farm equipment and adapt to local conditions, climate, and challenges.

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Extorting the "Little Guy": The Special "Screw You" of Junk Bond Bailouts

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 1, 2020 | 0 Comments
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LENDING is now the sucker’s game.Editor’s note: This is a guest post by my friend and colleague Zeus Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D., who has contributed essays to Of Two Minds since 2009.So this is the program: Devalue or deflate everything owned by the “li…

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Deflation of the Citizenry’s Hard Assets Will Be a Huge Buying Opportunity for Insider Power Elites

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 31, 2020 | 1 Comment
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The gravy train will have to stop at some point, but right now the global elites have pushed their chips on to the U.S. dollar and stocks.Editor’s note: This is a guest post by my friend and colleague Zeus Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D., who has contributed…

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Nihilism Embodied: Our Lawless Financial System

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 29, 2020 | 1 Comment
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Not only have the billionaire class made money, they have tightened their monopolistic grip on the levers of money supply and distribution, turning a global rigged casino into a global company town.Editor’s note: This is a guest post by my friend …

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How Extremes Become More Extreme, Triggering Collapse

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 28, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The extremes are not visible to the vast majority of participants, and so they are exposed to high levels of risk they don’t see or understand.The question “Is the weather becoming more extreme?” opens up endless debates because our perceptions ma…

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Future Tools: Qubes OS

By Jesse Hirsh | August 28, 2020 | 0 Comments
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We take for granted just how much of our relationship with computers is framed by technology that predates computing. Files, folders, trash bins, and desktops. We’ve used analogies from the physical world to help us comprehend and use the digital.

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FritzFrog and the evolution of Botnets

By Jesse Hirsh | August 27, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Cybersecurity is a constantly evolving and dynamic world where attackers have significant incentives and rewards to find new ways of compromising and infiltrating systems. In contrast researchers are constantly playing catch up, trying to deduce and reverse engineer how a successful attack happened and why.

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America’s Metastasizing Class Wars

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 27, 2020 | 2 Comments
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Class wars are the inevitable result of an economic system in which ‘anything goes if you’re rich enough and winners take most’. The traditional class war has been waged between wage-earners (who sell their labor) and their employers (owners of ca…

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Future Fibre: Ultra Broadband?!

By Jesse Hirsh | August 26, 2020 | 0 Comments
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While the pandemic has helped reinforce the essential role of the Internet in our lives, it has tragically not increased our understanding of how the Internet works, nor our literacy about to use it effectively.

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#AxisOfEasy 160: Can You Tell If This Issue Was Written By An Algorithm?

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 25, 2020 | 1 Comment
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World grinds to a halt as Zoom crashes globally, Facebook testing “virality” circuit breaker, Copywriters brace for “GPT-3 shock” as Microsoft replaces journalists with AI plus more.

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The Pandemic Is Accelerating Trends That Are Disrupting the Foundations of the Economy

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 25, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The problem is the economy that’s left has no means of creating tens of millions of jobs to replace those lost as the 1959 economic model collapses.Fundamentally, the economy of 2019 was not very different from the economy of 1959: people went sho…

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How Nations Collapse: Disunity

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 24, 2020 | 0 Comments
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They may just opt out of the whole insane charade and stop paying the mountains of debt and stop trying to prop up the deranging pretense of middle-class snobbery.Though many blame Donald Trump for dividing the nation, the nation was already disunited….

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Big Tech, Monopoly and the Pretense of Capitalism

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 21, 2020 | 0 Comments
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All those who believe the ‘privatized totalitarianism’ of Big Tech ‘platform plantations’ are ‘capitalism’ have been brainwashed into servitude by Big Tech’s pretense of capitalism.What do you call an economy of monopolies without competition or any re…

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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.