One is a billionaire who is selling all of his books, the other one is a quite-broke human who has the courage and decency to provide her book online for free. Trade-Free. No ads, no data collection, no subscribe-here-to-read bullshit.
That's the world in which we live. The ones who make a fortune are trained and incentivized to not even share their "must read" books for free, despite having so much wealth.
Oh look, Bill Gates released a book about "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster"! It must be important.... so it is worth 18$ to read.
Grab @Sasha 's book from here bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/ - she also talks a lot about Climate Change, solutions, and a new kind of worldview.
#gates #climatechange #capitalism #TradeRuinsEverything #climate #billionaires
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TROM II: You are a disposable tool videos.trom.tf/w/rEieFEBWghVcJβ¦
TROM II: You are a disposable tool
Watch the entire documentary here - tromsite.com/documentaries/troβ¦
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TROM II: Money made us crazy videos.trom.tf/w/gArnE9mtYXfq4β¦
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TROM II: Money made us crazy
Watch the entire documentary here - tromsite.com/documentaries/troβ¦
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Our TROMsite book reader has been updated after a few years of no updates. Now we also have a search, something we wanted to have for so long...
Also improved how the reader works on mobile screens.
So far so great :). #tromlive
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TROM II: Values and The Kindergarden
Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/videos.trom.tf
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Thank you so much Eduard for becoming the 77th supporter of TROM! We run a unique fundraiser for TROM in that we need only 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month in order to support us for the long run.
Distributed support so that it won't put a big toll on anyone, and a limited goal so that we do not get rich.
If you appreciate the so many things that we do at TROM (see tromsite.com) then please consider supporting us.
#tromlive #foss #opensource #privacy #documentary #fediverse
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βThis project argues that trade is the origin of most problems: from climate change to slavery, waste and pollution, corruption, crime, you name it. And if we understand the cause, we have a chance to come up with realistic solutionsβ
=> what kind of solution could this be? Iβm just curious as I couldnβt find any hint on your website. How could a word without trade look like?
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This project argues that trade is the origin of most problems: from climate change to slavery, waste and pollution, corruption, crime, you name it. And if we understand the cause, we have a chance ...videos.trom.tf
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I for one started to care more when my videos started to be banned on those platforms, alongside some of my posts. Videos and posts that were educational and I never made any money off of them. So I, being hurt, started to care more about using other platforms. Thus, pain. That combined with my understanding about how these platforms like ytb, twitter, fb and the like operate, that they are in fact businesses/markets and not "networks".
So I think that's one way for people to start to care about changing some of their digital habits: to be extremely pissed off at those platforms, while at the same time have some curiosity to try something different.
It is very difficult, but from my experience what works is to be an example. I moved and gave no fucks about the other platforms so if anyone wanted to follow our TROM project or me, they had no choice but to move too. I made a bunch of people switch to these other alternatives.
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TROM II: The many ways we are destroying this planet videos.trom.tf/w/w1jW1t8p7LXrAβ¦
TROM II: The many ways we are destroying this planet
Watch the entire documentary here - tromsite.com/documentaries/troβ¦
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TROM II: Data Trade - the new oil
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TROM II: We can automate almost anything
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Our Friendica instance got updated to the latest stable and all of our custom themes were updated and we added 2 more: Brown and Grey.
Go to Settings - Display to test them out.
They will be shared with the Friendica's developers if they want to include them in the default Friendica's themes or get some ideas about future changes.
Big thanks to these people who create Friendica for being so awesome and for keeping Friendica so useful and feature-rich!
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Since there are still some people who donate regularly via Patreon or Liberapay for our project, we have added that amount of money to our 200 for TROM campaign, as "people" supporting us. In a way that would be around 76 people out of 200 that we need. tromsite.com/donate/
Not bad. Almost 40% of the support that we need.
If we'll reach 100% then TROM will be sustainable indefinitely.
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The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades, new report finds pbs.org/newshour/show/the-plasβ¦
Of course...one must be very skeptical when the companies producing plastic are so keen about "recycling". Of course they like these programs even if they do not work (which is the case today) since it allows them to produce more plastic and make more profits.
Recycling is only relevant when there is not a huge incentive to produce waste in the first place.
#TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #recycle #recycling #greenwashing
The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades, new report finds
The world produces an average of 430 million metric tons of plastic each year. The United States alone produces tens of millions of tons of plastic waste annually. Yet on average, only about 5 to 6 percent of plastic in the U.S. is recycled.Ali Rogin (PBS NewsHour)
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Massive THANK YOU to the anonymous donation that covers all of our backups for another year! Massive thank you! tromsite.com/trom-backup/
This for sure boosts the confidence around TROM, that there are some people out there who can help out when TROM is in need. Hopefully more updates to come the following weeks about the new video series!
Many thanks!
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Revealed: Gates Foundation's $1.4bn in fossil fuel investments
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in reply to TROM • • •and i'm sure Gates doesn't mention the obvious solution: Submergibles!
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in reply to Jordan (Damn Good Tech) • •Indeed....Gates really needs to feed his family from the sales of that book....
As for those who depend on book sales, at least they should be honest and admit that it is unfortunate they have to sell their books in a world where digital copies come at almost 0 cost in terms of resources. At least Sasha is also putting it for free online.
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Relevant info from her website:
> For every physical book that I sell for $18, Iβll get a cut of about $3 to $4 (sometimes less), so if you donβt care to have a physical copy but you would still like to support me, even a $3 donation is very much appreciated.
You can go to bigworldsmallsasha.com/book to get the book. Clicking on the book's image will open up the free online version, but you can also pay for the physical copy if you want.
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in reply to Tio • • •I'd like to see her make a living wage.
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in reply to Professor_Stevens • •She won't like most authors, musicians, and artists won't. It is a messed-up society and that's where we should look if we are to blame anything. It should not be that we are all like rats in a cage competing for survival, in a society where we have mountains of waste and an abundance of stuff.
We should provide for all with at least the basic needs, this way when one writes a book they can simply share it online at very little cost in terms of resources/energy and not worry about surviving in this trade society,
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Fine thoughts.
What do you live on?
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