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Two Charts of Extremely Perverse Incentives

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 13, 2025 | 0 Comments
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As a thought experiment, consider these changes to our economy’s incentive structure.

If It Walks Like a Duck: Is The AI Mania a Psych-Ops?

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 11, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Let’s summarize our thought experiment: the AI Mania scores 100% on all eight metrics of a Psych-Ops.

#AxisOfEasy 412: Spotify Enforces Age Checks As Digital ID Becomes Gatekeeper

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 8, 2025 | 1 Comment
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ChatGPT Conversations Remain Public Despite OpenAI Cleanup Effort,
Raspberry Pi Attack Exposes ATM Network to Sophisticated Financial Hackers,
Spotify Enforces Age Checks as Digital ID Becomes Gatekeeper…this and more in AofE #412

Now Comes the Hard Part

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 8, 2025 | 0 Comments
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That this extreme inequality is itself the primary threat to both democracy and social stability is poorly understood.

What Would Happen If Lyndsey Sweeney Started Gardening and Baking Bread?

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 8, 2025 | 0 Comments
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This is a catastrophic decline of health that no one dares calls a catastrophe.

Resilient, Self-Reliant Life Is Hard

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 6, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Every single thing that increases resilience and self-reliance is impossible.

Two Ways to Fix Generational Wealth Inequality

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 4, 2025 | 0 Comments
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One way or another, some significant percentage of the wealth of the nation will have to start supporting children and young families if this nation is going to have a future worth saving.

#AxisOfEasy 411: RBC Debanks Toronto Lawyer Representing Freedom Convoy Defendants

By Mark E. Jeftovic | August 1, 2025 | 1 Comment
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RBC Debanks Toronto lawyer representing Freedom Convoy defendants,
Thousands of Women’s IDs and Selfies Leaked from Viral App in Massive Hack,
Clorox Blames $380 Million Cyberattack on IT Giant After Shocking Mistake …this and more in AofE #411

Go Ahead and Rage at Boomers, But the Problem Is the Entire Economic Order

By Charles Hugh Smith | August 1, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The entire economic order is bankrupt–ideologically, politically and financially.

AI for Dummies: AI Turns Us Into Dummies

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 30, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Given that AI is fundamentally incapable of performing the tasks required for authentic innovation, we’re de-learning how to innovate.

What RussiaGate Did to America–and to Me

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 28, 2025 | 0 Comments
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This is of course the totalitarian game plan: if you can’t get your way with persuasion, then silence your critics.

#AxisOfEasy 410: Can AI Chatbots Be Hacked Via DNS?

By Mark E. Jeftovic | July 25, 2025 | 2 Comments
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Can AI Chatbots Be Hacked Via DNS?
SharePoint Zero Day Exploit Hits U.S. Agencies and Exposes Microsoft’s Persistent Security Gaps
ExpressVPN Patch Fixes RDP Traffic Leak That Exposed User IP Addresses …this and more in AofE #410

Is the Epstein Affair a Watershed Moment?

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 25, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Perhaps when we look back on the Epstein Affair, we’ll understand that it broke the back of Americans’ faith in their political and law enforcement institutions.

The Prophet of Hypertext: Ted Nelson’s War Against the Digital Priesthood

By AxisofEasy Team | July 24, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The Prophet of Hypertext: Ted Nelson’s […]

AI: Over-Promise + Under-Perform = Disillusionment and Blowback

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 23, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Fantasies die especially hard when the dream was over-hyped.

Maybe AI Isn’t Going to Replace You at Work After All

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 21, 2025 | 0 Comments
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AI fails at tasks where accuracy must be absolute to create value.

#AxisOfEasy 409: Adoption Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Records From Texas Nonprofit

By Mark E. Jeftovic | July 18, 2025 | 3 Comments
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Adoption Data Breach Exposes Sensitive Records from Texas Nonprofit,
Matanbuchus 3.0 Expands Stealth Tactics with Teams Lures and Advanced Loader Features,
Bluesky Implements UK Age Checks Amid Privacy Backlash Over Online Safety Law…this and more in AofE #409

The Grown Up Tax Bill: Sorry, Grown-Ups Are Out of Stock

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 17, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Dear Martian Central Bank: could you please send us some Grown-Ups?

Can the Developed World Grow Its Way Out of Stagnation?

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 16, 2025 | 0 Comments
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If we borrow all of tomorrow’s prosperity to spend today, there won’t be any future prosperity, there will only be penury.

The Leapfrog Phenomenon: How Developing Countries Are Setting the Global Standard for Bitcoin Innovation

By AxisofEasy Team | July 15, 2025 | 0 Comments
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Picture this: It’s 7 AM in […]

The United States of Impunity

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 14, 2025 | 0 Comments
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AI is the whiff of perfume that’s supposed to mask the stench of terminal moral decay.

#AxisOfEasy 408: Scammers Are Ready To Strike As Amazon Prime Day Begins Tomorrow

By Mark E. Jeftovic | July 11, 2025 | 1 Comment
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Scammers Are Ready to Strike as Amazon Prime Day Begins Tomorrow,
New Malware Turns Security Devices Into Silent Weapons for Cyber Attacks,
AI Bots Face a Toll as Cloudflare Makes Them Pay to Scrape Websites …this and more in AofE #408

Three Choices, None Good

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 9, 2025 | 0 Comments
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The moral rot of unlimited debt looks “free” but it’s unaffordable in the end.

The Cypherpunk Prophecy: How Early Internet Visionaries Predicted Our Digital Dystopia

By AxisofEasy Team | July 7, 2025 | 0 Comments
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From Ted Nelson’s 1974 warnings to […]

Illiquid, Overvalued

By Charles Hugh Smith | July 7, 2025 | 0 Comments
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As “dip buyers” get eviscerated, more dominos fall, and at a tipping point, the herd realizes the tide has reversed and it’s time to sell–but alas, it’s too late.

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.