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The Silent Exodus Nobody Sees: Leaving Work Forever

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 23, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The “take this job and shove it” exodus is silently gathering momentum.

The exodus out of cities is getting a lot of attention, but the exodus that will unravel our economic and social orders is getting zero attention: the exodus from work.

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Is your privacy a collective matter rather than individual one?

By Jesse Hirsh | September 23, 2020 | 0 Comments
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We tend to use the analogies and frames of the past as a means of understanding the present. However sometimes these outdated frames no longer fit, and skew our perception by keeping our focus in the past rather than the present.

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#AxisOfEasy 164: Ransomware Attack On German Hospital Causes A Fatality

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 22, 2020 | 4 Comments
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FTC is preparing anti-trust case against Facebook
Facebook sued for watching Instagram users through their device camera
Suspicious activity spotted on previously hacked CRA accounts and more in AofE #164

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Future Tools: Open Drone Map

By Jesse Hirsh | September 22, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Our relationship with photography has evolved dramatically over the last few decades. What was once a relatively scarce skill, has never been more accessible and relevant to people’s lives. For example the selfie has come to represent a pillar of our culture, and yet as a technique, it remained out of reach for most people until the 21st century.

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Inflation and "Socialism-Lite" Are Just What the Billionaires Want

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 21, 2020 | 0 Comments
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After a bout of inflation and “socialism-light”, we could end up with even more extreme inequality when the whole rotten structure collapses.

Imagine owning a Buffett-Bezos fortune of bilious billions, or even 10% of these mega-fortunes, i.e. between $5 billion and $20 billion. Heck, imagine owning 1% of these mega-fortunes, i.e. $500 million to $2 billion.

You’re extremely rich so you can buy the best advice.

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Smart Farms: Root AI

By Jesse Hirsh | September 21, 2020 | 0 Comments
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While there’s considerable potential for automation and robots in agriculture, there’s also a lot of variables that influence not only possible success, but whether such systems are viable in the first place.

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The Bill for America’s $50 Trillion Gluttony of Inequality Is Overdue

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 20, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Do you hear the pathetic bleating of America’s billionaires and their army of toadies?If not, you soon will, for a remarkable report has been released that documents the $50 trillion in earnings that’s been transferred to the Financial Aristocracy from the bottom 90% of American households in the past 45 years.

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"Inflation" and America’s Accelerating Class War

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 18, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Those who don’t see the fragmentation, the scarcities and the battlelines being drawn will be surprised by the acceleration of the unraveling.

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Fraud prevention startup NS8 implodes as SEC investigates them for…. fraud

By Elon Theranos Esq. | September 17, 2020 | 0 Comments
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  It can’t get much more 2020 than this: Los Vegas based fraud prevention start-up, NS8, who just raised $123 million from the VC firm Lightspeed, just fired nearly everybody via an all hands Zoom meeting, and disclosed that they…

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The resilience and essential role of “c-stores”

By Jesse Hirsh | September 17, 2020 | 1 Comment
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Infections of the novel coronavirus are surging in my home province of Ontario. This is not yet a result of back to school, but rather reflects the socializing and activity that took place in the end of August and beginning of September

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This Is Why Inflation Will Rip Everyone’s Face Off

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 17, 2020 | 2 Comments
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 This is why inflation will rip everyone’s faces off: production will continue to stagnate no matter how many trillions the Federal Reserve prints and throws around.This is how market capitalism is supposed to work: consumers decide…

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Future Fibre: Cedar Falls Utilities

By Jesse Hirsh | September 16, 2020 | 0 Comments
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A brief preface to today’s issue, check out the latest podcast episode from Municipal World, where I provide a general overview of the Future Fibre series (to date).

There’s certainly some special status that comes with being recognized as the fastest ISP, especially if you’re community owned and operated. We previously profiled EPB, the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga Tennessee, who have been able to lay claim to the title in the past.

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Sacrifice for Thee But None For Me

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 15, 2020 | 0 Comments
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The banquet of consequences for the Fed, the elites and their armies of parasitic flunkies and factotums is being laid out, and there won’t be much choice in the seating.Words can be debased just like currencies. Take the word sacrifice. The&…

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#AxisOfEasy 163: Amazon’s Newest Director Is Ex-NSA And Wanted To Surveil All Data, Everywhere

By Mark E. Jeftovic | September 15, 2020 | 2 Comments
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easyDNS announces DKIM support on all easyMail accounts
DHS proposes expansion of biometric data for immigrants
AI pretends to confess “I will not be able to avoid destroying mankind” and more in AofE #163

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Isn’t It Obvious We Need a New System?

By Charles Hugh Smith | September 15, 2020 | 0 Comments
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Why do we tolerate such a corrupt, undemocratic, exploitive, elite-dominated system? Because we have no other choice? No, we do have a choice.Isn’t it obvious that we need an alternative economic system that isn’t controlled by corporations, the govern…

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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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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.