Latest Issues of #AxisOfEasy
We no longer care who’s behind the curtain because we’re in charge of our own lives now.
As I said, having a sense of humor will get you in trouble nowadays, and this whole thing would be funny if I wasn’t in leg-irons.
UK moves toward mandatory phone surveillance,
Apple Permanently Disables Longtime Developer’s Account, Bricking Devices,
PornHub Extorted After Historical Data Breach by ShinyHunters… this and more in AofE #431
A rebalancing of the economy and society will ultimately prove very positive, but first we must navigate the model collapse of insane financial extremes.
Every nation is operating on models that are collapsing without those at the controls being aware that the implicit assumptions of their models no longer map reality.
This is why “knowledge is power”: those who define what is “knowable” and “known” shape the reality of everyone in the model / system.
I reckon it prudent to see the next decade as a journey through a wilderness few of us have experienced.
Trump Administration Plans Mandatory Social Media and Family Data for Foreign Visitors,
Yet Another Cloudflare Outage (YATO),
Conservative Party of Canada Faces Major Cybersecurity Breach Affecting Hundreds of Candidates… this and more in AofE #430
Tunnel-vision greed and blindness to what is unseen and therefore “unknowable” is self-reinforcing.
No wonder the world seems deranged–it is deranged by the immense strength of an Old Guard clinging onto power by any means available even as the world around them spins into incoherence.
Edmonton’s new police pilot brings facial recognition into officers’ line of sight,
Marquis Fintech Confirms Ransomware Attack That Exposed Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Bank Customers,
React and Next.js Servers Face Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability… this and more in AofE #429
Greed is good up to the point that it delivers ruin.
The conclusion that soaring asset prices mean the economy is strong is a hallucination that goes unrecognized because the entire financial system is hallucinating.
If each of these is not a part of any ‘reform,’ than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way.
Samsung faces renewed scrutiny over hidden spyware claims on its budget phones,
Windows 11 Update Causes Major Disruption for Virtual Desktop and First Time Users,
Hackers Breach Major Banking Vendor Compromising Client and Customer Data… this and more in AofE #428
Things large and small worthy of recognition and gratitude.
There are times when the only triumph within reach is survival.
Borrowing more to maintain spending is hanging on by one’s fingernails, not middle-class security.
Researchers have found that most AI’s and LLM’s can have their security guardrails overridden through rewriting hostile prompts as poetry.
Cloudflare’s internal failure briefly turns the internet’s biggest platforms dark
Protei is hacked and its surveillance data spills into public view
AI runs most of a state-backed cyberattack and forces OpenAI to sound the alarm… this and more in AofE #427
Yes, AI is a catalyst. But for what is not yet knowable.
What we’ve lost are the foundations of a healthy standard of living / quality of life.
Canada quietly advances digital identity plans in the 2025 federal budget,
OpenAI faces lawsuits claiming ChatGPT’s design led to user suicides,
Washington Post and Other Major Organizations Fall Victim to Widespread Oracle E Business Suite Hack… this and more in AofE #426
In refusing to recognize that inequality had the potential to bring down the entire system, our delay has made that reckoning inevitable.
Here’s the real problem: there’s no profit in a raw carrot and a walk around the block.
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.
