Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
If things unravel, these risk-reduction strategies quickly shift from “nice to have” to “essential.” But by then, it will be too late to put them in place.
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That’s the difficulty with nonlinear, mutually reinforcing crises: our over-confidence, hubris and refusal to consider sacrifices will be our undoing.
Read it »Once leadership of this nature is properly understood, Ms. Swift is eminently qualified to be President.
Read it »Carbon Passports: A Dystopian Surveillance Threat,
Diabetes Drug, Ozempic, Suppresses Patients’ Appetite, Sending Drugstores Nationwide into a Panic,
Ancestry Website, 23andMe, Data Stolen in Attack Targeting Jews… this and more in AofE #319
We can anticipate a sharp reduction in conventional financial security in the next decade as the waste is growth / Landfill Economy runs out of cheap materials to throw away.
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There is very little wiggle-room left in many household budgets, and any decline in income will crack the ice.
Read it »Change the incentives and feedback loops and you change the flavor of Doom we’re about to be served.
Read it »Security Risks Loom Over Public Zoom Meeting Links,
Renowned Authors Fight Back Against OpenAI’s Unauthorized Content Use in LLM Training,
Canada Imposes Mandatory Registration for Podcast Platforms Under Government Authority… this and more in AofE #318
All this grift, graft, predatory pricing, price-fixing and parasitic monopolizing costs the public and the economy dearly.
Read it »The ‘revolt of the elites’ has reversed the source of social disorder from the masses to the elites.
Read it »Something has been going very wrong in the US economy for a very long time, and whatever is going wrong accelerated from 2009 to the present.
Read it »Xenomorph Malware Spreads to Spanish and American Banks in Latest Campaign,
Phishing Campaign Continues to Target Luxury Hotels,
Canada leads new UN declaration to fight online disinformation… this and more in AofE #317
Those expecting some centralized, political-administrative “solution” will be disappointed, as the political-administrative “solution” is actually the problem.
Read it »Value varies. Invest in what’s valuable.
It’s a well-recognized human bias to feel losses more acutely than gains. Perhaps something similar occurs with inflation.
Does anyone really believe that the renunciation of massive, sustained stimulus of speculation in housing would leave housing valuations unchanged because valuations are solely the result of “shortages”?
Read it »If we compare health and endurance, well-being, security, general attitudes, family and community ties and values, we would conclude that it is we who are impoverished.
Read it »Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team Issues Fix for Two PHP Object Injection Vulnerabilities,
Retool Notifies 27 Cloud Customers of Unauthorized Spear Phishing Attack,
GitHub Repository Belonging to Microsoft’s AI Research Division Accidentally Exposes 38 TB of Data… this and more in AofE #316
Should stock valuations track this same decline in profits, it’s entirely reasonable to expect the stock market to lose 2/3 of its valuation premium.
Read it »We’d rather risk societal collapse than face the sacrifices and challenges of revolutionizing our unsustainably neofeudal economy and broken gears of governance.
Read it »Armed by AI Technology, Hackers Cause a 464% Rise in Email-Based Phishing During the First Half of 2023,
COVID-Related Terms Censored on Threads Platform During Renewed Efforts to Double Down on Free Speech,
UK’s Online Safety Bill Sparks Debate… this and more in AofE #315
Let’s review how to select a town that the rich won’t ruin via gentrification / swarming in en masse and driving out locals who have to work for a living.
Read it »This is the direct consequence of the Federal Reserve’s decades of unprecedented stimulus: extremes of wealth and income inequality that gave the wealthiest households the means to bid up housing to the point it’s no longer affordable to the bottom 90%.
Read it »Key cracking concerns emerge from LastPass breach,
X updates its privacy policy to include biometric data verification from premium users to combat identity fraud,
Threat actors published the scraped data of 2.6M Duolingo users in August 2023… this and more in AofE #314
The whole point of democracy and free markets is to force competition on elites who are desperate to eliminate competition.
Read it »If you want to understand the neofeudal reality, study these charts.
Read it »Contributors
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
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 is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.