The lesson of China’s Cultural Revolution in my view is that once the lid blows off, everything that was linear (predictable) goes non-linear (unpredictable). There is a whiff of unease in the air as beneath the cheery veneer of free money for almost everyone, inequality and polarization are rapidly consuming what’s left of common ground in America.
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Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s plan calls for censorship of “hurtful” comments against politicians and implementation of an internet killswitch to facilitate it
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All of which sounds very pretty indeed, but it does raise a question: can risk really be destroyed, or can it only be transferred? And if it can only be transferred, then what’s it been transferred to? What a remarkable moment in time: every asset is lofting higher, with no limits in sight.
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2019 Facebook data leaks 500 million accounts into the wild,
White House to punt immunity passports to the private sector,
Microsoft Azure goes down nationally with DNS outage and more in Axis of Easy #190
Inequality is America’s Monster Id, and we’re continuing to fuel its future rampage daily. What’s changed and what hasn’t in the past year?
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I had an extraordinary interaction with somebody last night who belittled and insulted me for raising the plight of small business owners under lockdown.
Turns out, he was a PC party staffer who’s six-digit salary is guaranteed by the taxpayers.
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.
Futurist, researcher and public speaker, Jesse Hirsh has been active in technology and commenting on it across the media for 25 years. His premium newsletter service operates from Metaviews.ca.
Charles Hugh Smith is the author of numerous books and writes from OfTwoMinds.com.
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