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.
Presumably the bit on "the breakthroughs we need" take a detailed look at removing the inherent injustice of capitalism, and removing the power, excess and wealth of billionaires?
Information coming from someone who is working to get it to you, is very different information than that coming from someone who limits supply in order to maintain the market for it. This is why our community radio station does not purchase programming, if it can avoid doing so. We like to get our information from non-commercial sources. The world of commercial interest has brought us to global crisis. The interests of humanity must lead us out of it. kpip-lp.org/weekly_schedule.ht…
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.
You can pay for the paperback copy but it's optional, or support her via a donation if you want. Putting it online for free allows people from poor parts of the world to access the book's contents without having to pay for it.
> For every physical book that I sell for $18, I’ll get a cut of about $3 to $4 (sometimes less), so if you don’t 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.
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,
The thing is that even if I created a barrier and prevented those who couldn't buy a book from reading it, I'm sure that I still would barely make any money. Unfortunately that's the case for most writers, they may work on a book for years and years, but the only ones who will profit from it are publishing companies and distributors. Writers only get a small percentage 😔 At least now I can feel good about sharing my book. I believe that if you think something is important, you should want to share it, not only sell it.
See also: all the "real" journalist publications having all their content hidden behind paywalls, so only the privileged few can financially afford to stay informed by reputable sources while the rest of us have to get by on headlines cherry picked and placed on Facebook memes 🙃
Welcome to planet Earth. A random rock in the Universe where the most "intelligent" species only cares about trade. Trade this for that. So that the members of its species spend all of their life trading. That's all it is.
It is not about creating smarter and relaxed humans, and a nice environment for everyone. Not about exploring and learning, or enjoying. It is about trading.
EDIT: Funny that this fits so well with the latest bit we shared from TROM II - You are a disposable tool videos.trom.tf/w/rEieFEBWghVcJ… .... weird coincidence.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
Funny that this fits so well with the latest bit we shared from TROM II - You are a disposable tool videos.trom.tf/w/rEieFEBWghVcJ… .... weird coincidence.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
The Israeli drone strike that killed seven members of World Central Kitchen is something he "will have to live with" for the rest of his life, chef José Andrés said
Thank you Michael for becoming the 78th supporter of TROM - tromsite.com/donate/ and for the wonderful personal message you sent us. Much much appreciated! #tromlive
L’utilisation du terme « réarmement », à sept reprises, durant ses vœux de la Saint-Sylvestre par Emmanuel Macron n’était pas qu’un effet de style. C’était bien la marque d’une volonté de s’inscrire dans une narration guerrière.
Face à la contestation croissante de sa politique antisociale, Macron, sans majorité pour gouverner, cherche à endosser une posture régalienne. Si l’on peut contester le Président, on ne conteste pas le chef des Armées. C’est également une façon de fixer un électorat conservateur et nostalgique d’une grandeur passée. « Réarmement économique », « réarmement de l’État », « réarmement civique », « réarmement industriel » ou « réarmement de la
L’utilisation du terme « réarmement », à sept reprises, durant ses vœux de la Saint-Sylvestre par Emmanuel Macron n’était pas qu’un effet de style. C’était bien la marque d’une volonté de s’inscrire dans une narration guerrière.
Face à la contestation croissante de sa politique antisociale, Macron, sans majorité pour gouverner, cherche à endosser une posture régalienne. Si l’on peut contester le Président, on ne conteste pas le chef des Armées. C’est également une façon de fixer un électorat conservateur et nostalgique d’une grandeur passée. « Réarmement économique », « réarmement de l’État », « réarmement civique », « réarmement industriel » ou « réarmement de la Nation », ou encore « réarmement démographique », tout cela a un arrière-goût rance de vichysme. Tout autant que la « feuille de route » de Gabriel Attal qui fleure bon l’extrême droite comme l’évoque « la mise en œuvre du projet de réarmement et de régénération annoncé ».
Macron a encore franchi une étape depuis en laissant entendre que des troupes françaises pourraient être engagées sur le front ukrainien. Le Président se rêve en chef de guerre. Outre ses effets mobilisateurs, la guerre est un bon business, et la France ne s’en sort pas trop mal. Sur la période 2019-2023 elle devient le deuxième exportateur mondial d’armements devant la Russie. Une industrie fortement soutenue par l’État qui y affecte pas moins de 900 fonctionnaires !
Alors que la casse sociale se poursuit et s’accélère au nom de la maîtrise des déficits, nous devons refuser et dénoncer cette logique guerrière et mener la seule guerre qui vaille : la guerre sociale contre la bourgeoisie et ses valets.
@Sasha has released a big big book: Big World Small Sasha. Available here as trade-free bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/ - or you can buy the paperback version from the same link (there is no other way to provide it for free in that format).
Why is this book important and how is it related to TROM?
It is a wonderfully written book about her experience on this planet, and how she grew a mind to understand what's this society made of, what is our role in it, and how much we depend on the natural world. It is about the destruction we are causing, but also the so many wonderful people that exist out there, who care and do something about it.
All of that is perfectly layered wi
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@Sasha has released a big big book: Big World Small Sasha. Available here as trade-free bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/ - or you can buy the paperback version from the same link (there is no other way to provide it for free in that format).
Why is this book important and how is it related to TROM?
It is a wonderfully written book about her experience on this planet, and how she grew a mind to understand what's this society made of, what is our role in it, and how much we depend on the natural world. It is about the destruction we are causing, but also the so many wonderful people that exist out there, who care and do something about it.
All of that is perfectly layered with her adventurous adventures, some of which are hard to believe, others are so funny and fun. You can see her grow in this book, to become who she is today.
Sasha talks about this trade based society quite a bit, about the notion of trade-free, and also about TROM.
But, If you think the book is about Sasha, you are wrong. If you think the book is about hitchhiking and traveling, you are wrong. If you think the book is about this trade-based society, you are also wrong. It is about all of these, and more. Dialogues, funny stories, a wonderful way of painting with words, Sasha did a fantastic job!
And after some 5 years of intense work, emotional roller-coasters, and being quite broke, she is brave enough to put the book for free online. No ads, no data collection, no subscribe here to read. No bullshit. If you appreciate that please support her.
So this is not just a book, it is an experience of living in this society and a unique way at looking at this society. A more real overview. It is also a neat and engaging way to introduce people to projects like TROM, and overall to make people question the status-quo.
Sasha is part of our small TROM team and she took part in our TROM II documentary as a lioness roaring facts and truths :D ! tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
Go read her book, and enjoy her wonderful stories!
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 to come up with realistic solutions. We backup up these claims via documentaries, books and videos that are freely available for everyone.
Hope that helps a bit. We've been doing a lot of online "activism" since 2011. We have a lot of materials but if there is one we would recommend is the documentary we've released last year: tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
We think that it is important what people say not who they are. For example most content is created by me, Tio. I have no "formations, professions etc." but all of the content I did is very well sourced. Every claim I make it is sourced and in a way that it is super easy for anyone to check. See our books for reference tromsite.com/books/
Turquie : des fraudes massives pour étouffer la dissidence kurde 03/04
Des élections municipales du 31 mars 2024, on retiendra la déroute de l’AKP, le parti islamo-conservateur de Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Dans les régions kurdes sous occupation militaire, les fraudes massives – observées par nos liens directs sur place – n’ont pas empêché la victoire du Dem Parti, le principal parti de la gauche kurde. L’État turc attaque à présent les résultats du scrutin, et la population descend dans la rue.
Au niveau national, c’est le CHP, le parti kémaliste historique (centre-gauche nationaliste) qui a chassé l’AKP de nombreuses mairies. Mais au Bakûr (Kurdistan de Turquie), c’est le Parti de l’égalité et d
Turquie : des fraudes massives pour étouffer la dissidence kurde 03/04
Des élections municipales du 31 mars 2024, on retiendra la déroute de l’AKP, le parti islamo-conservateur de Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Dans les régions kurdes sous occupation militaire, les fraudes massives – observées par nos liens directs sur place – n’ont pas empêché la victoire du Dem Parti, le principal parti de la gauche kurde. L’État turc attaque à présent les résultats du scrutin, et la population descend dans la rue.
Au niveau national, c’est le CHP, le parti kémaliste historique (centre-gauche nationaliste) qui a chassé l’AKP de nombreuses mairies. Mais au Bakûr (Kurdistan de Turquie), c’est le Parti de l’égalité et de la démocratie des peuples (Dem Parti) qui s’impose en remportant dix provinces (contre huit en 2019) et 82 villes, soit 16 de plus qu’en 2019. Cette victoire aurait du être plus grande encore, trois provinces (Bitlis, Kars et Şırnak) ayant été perdues en raison des fraudes électorales orchestrées par le gouvernement AKP : des milliers de soldats ont été amenés en convois pour voter (souvent plusieurs fois) dans les villes du Kurdistan acquises au Dem Parti. Là, la pression du régime est la norme : des policiers et soldats en armes à proximité des isoloirs, des véhicules blindés dans l’enceinte des écoles où l’on vote, des pressions pour voter AKP contre un peu d’argent, ou sous la menace de perdre son emploi, etc.
Tous ces soldats sont stationnés dans les communes frontalières en raison de la guerre menée au Kurdistan d’Irak, mais leur répartition est organisée par l’État turc pour maintenir une pression constante sur toutes les provinces kurdes.
Dans les petites et moyennes villes, la fraude est visible et décomplexée. Quand la presse européenne se félicite d’élections qui se seraient « bien passées », elle répète les éléments de langage de la propagande d’Erdoğan, invisibilisant la situation au kurdistan. Les observateurices du Conseil de l’Europe sont quasi absent·es ; leur délégation n’est allée qu’à Diyarbakır (Amed), où elle n’a pas pu constater les fraudes massives qui ont affecté le reste du pays.
Bras de fer victorieux autour de la ville symbole de Van
Mais la triche et l’intimidation n’ont pas empêché la victoire de l’opposition. A Van, le gouvernement AKP a tenté d’invalider l’élection d’Abdullah Zeydan à la mairie, avant de renoncer devant l’intense mobilisation populaire autour de cette ville symbole du Kurdistan. La mairie restera donc au Dem Parti. La lutte a payé !
Des manœuvres de coup d’État analogues avaient été déployées en 2016 et 2019 pour empêcher le Parti démocratique des peuples (HDP), prédécesseur du Dem Parti, de s’emparer des mairies. À ce jour, les co-maires et élu⋅es municipaux du HDP sont toujours emprisonné⋅es. L’Etat a donc déjà, pendant huit ans, confisqué un pouvoir démocratiquement élu.
La population est dans les rues dans de nombreuses villes du Bakûr pour protester contre cette usurpation et a ainsi obtenu le recul d’Erdoğan. De nombreuses personnes ont été blessées et arrêtées par la police.
La guerre de l’Etat turc contre les Kurdes, à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur de ses frontières
Dans son discours le soir des élections, Erdoğan a répété sa volonté de « sécuriser la frontière avec l’Irak avant l’été » et de créer une « corridor de sécurité » de 30 kilomètres sur le territoire du Rojava, le long de la frontière syrienne. Il réaffirme ainsi sa volonté d’intensifier sa guerre contre les Kurdes par delà les frontières.
La mobilisation – sur place comme au niveau international – détermine le rapport de force qui peut être opposé à l’AKP. L’enjeu est d’enrayer la destitution des maires du Dem Parti largement élus ce dimanche !
Restons vigilant⋅es et mobilisé⋅es, gardons nos yeux braqués sur ce qu’il se passe au Kurdistan !
Vive la résistance du peuple kurde ! Bijî berxwedana Kurdistan !
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
This is @Sasha and her most valuable project to date:
A book. But a book is not simply a lot of words or a pile of paper. It is memories, emotions, worldviews, and a lot of work to put them all together. Her book is a story that spans over 15 years. But these years are hardly what most people experience on this planet.
She was born in Russia but at age 8 had to move to the United States and deal with a new world. New language, new culture, new people; her mom, her bother, and some pets. Her father went back to Russia, and that affected her a lot.
A mountain of changes to absorb as a kid which led her to a world of drugs and anger.
She details these struggles which at times feel like hard to believe stories - a 17 year old girl selling drugs in New York, crazy mushr
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This is @Sasha and her most valuable project to date:
A book. But a book is not simply a lot of words or a pile of paper. It is memories, emotions, worldviews, and a lot of work to put them all together. Her book is a story that spans over 15 years. But these years are hardly what most people experience on this planet.
She was born in Russia but at age 8 had to move to the United States and deal with a new world. New language, new culture, new people; her mom, her bother, and some pets. Her father went back to Russia, and that affected her a lot.
A mountain of changes to absorb as a kid which led her to a world of drugs and anger.
She details these struggles which at times feel like hard to believe stories - a 17 year old girl selling drugs in New York, crazy mushroom trips and adventurous thefts.
But she managed to pull herself together and change her life for the better. She was not impressed by the imaginary borders humans create and call countries, so she went on flying like a free bird :). From Canada to Mexico, Australia to Europe, Russia to Thailand. 15 years of adventures with almost no money. Because money won't stop Small Sasha :).
A way to discover the world and yourself.
When you get to experience so many cultures and places, you can understand much better what humans are, and what makes them who they are.
The places she saw and the people she met are extraordinarily described in the book, in a way that you feel like you are there. No photos needed. You'll laugh, wonder, or feel uncomfortable reading some of her uncensored experiences.
It is a galaxy of stories that she had to put together using notes from the past, photos, and her own memories stored in the mushy pile of cells we call the brain.
She managed to compile this massive story in a way that it is super fun to follow, but also to get a feeling of how she grew a mind in all of these years.
That mental growth and her experiences, made her realize how fucked up this society is and how much we are destroying this environment and the creatures in it.
She started to volunteer for some organizations over the years, eventually getting closer to the project I made, TROM. And so here we are, a book later, spending our lives together.
I cannot describe how wonderful this book is, how emotional and funny. So much fun, but also a lot of reality check for many people who are going to have their values challenged.
She crafted this book so much, that at times you feel like Carl Sagan, David Attenborough and George Carlin contributed to the book :).
A wonderful read! A massive CONGRATULATIONS to Sasha for the immense work she put into this. I know too well how for the past 4 years she worked so much on this book that it almost put our relationship under a big question mark. I never saw anyone putting so much effort into anything. It was too intense!
But now it is OVER. Finally! I thought I will never see this happen. Wow!
After so many years of work, and almost no money, she is putting the book for free on her website bigworldsmallsasha.com/ in digital format, despite us not having much money to make a life for ourselves on this planet. But of course, if you want to support her (us) you can buy the physical copy too. Or donate if you can.
I helped design the entire cover and I am quite proud of it :).
Go read it! I know I will read it again. This time the physical copy, in a hammock somewhere in nature.
Sasha you fucking did ti!
PS: The book was made with trade-free software. LibreOffice, Krita, Inkscape.
Wow thank you @Tio This is too nice, I don't even know what to say :) Thank you again for putting up with everything. It was a lot, I know. And thank you for helping me so much, I couldn't have done it without you ❤️
“Big World Small Sasha” is a true story detailing my years of traveling continuously on a shoestring budget—from Hawaii to Siberia, from New Zealand to Nicaragua, and many places in between—couchsurfing, hitchhiking, and budgeting every way possible. The book also describes my reckless childhood years, my growth as a human being, and my growing awareness of our global world and global problems.
It is primarily a memoir, but it is also full of facts about our world, and criticism of our society.
It is hard for me to describe how much work I put into this book, I can only say that it is 470 pages long, it has been my main project for the past five years, and it took nearly all my strength and energy to write, edit, format, design, and publish this book.
It is also a deeply personal story, and telling it broke me down several times, put
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Hey guys! Just want to tell you that my book has FINALLY been published!
“Big World Small Sasha” is a true story detailing my years of traveling continuously on a shoestring budget—from Hawaii to Siberia, from New Zealand to Nicaragua, and many places in between—couchsurfing, hitchhiking, and budgeting every way possible. The book also describes my reckless childhood years, my growth as a human being, and my growing awareness of our global world and global problems.
It is primarily a memoir, but it is also full of facts about our world, and criticism of our society.
It is hard for me to describe how much work I put into this book, I can only say that it is 470 pages long, it has been my main project for the past five years, and it took nearly all my strength and energy to write, edit, format, design, and publish this book.
It is also a deeply personal story, and telling it broke me down several times, put me on an emotional roller coaster, and eventually burned me out entirely. This is why it took me so long to release it, and why I haven't written any blogs in a while.
Now, however, I am ready to let it go—and I am very happy to share it.
There is a PDF that you can download for free, or read directly on my website, and there are also some options to buy a paperback copy.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my seemingly-never-ending writing endeavor. And a big special thanks to @Tio and @Roma . I don’t think I could have done it without you. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🙏🙏🙏😊😊😊
Wooaa! This day has come! 🥳 My sincere and heartfelt congrats to you, Sasha! Amazing work! I am touched and pleased to help you out on the way, full of bumps and obstacles, it seems 😉 As one of a few who was honored though not to read entirely, but to get familiar with a few chapters of this magnificent book, I can only say that it is 100% must read and must become an unique shiny gem of somebody's book shelf or eBook collection 😌 At least mine - for sure 😄
You want to see how kids entertainment looks like in a trade-based society? Here: Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV videoneat.com/documentaries/26…
Kids being abused in many ways in order to make money - for themselves, for others (mostly), for advertisers, etc..
Part 5 will be released in a few days time and it will be available on VIdeoNeat.
I don't know why I still care about this society at all.
This organization was "featured" in the TROM II documentary. They are doing a fantastic work - they feed the ones that need to be fed. That's all they do. And now 7 of their volunteers systematically murdered by the tribe of Israel. (source)
Russia destroying big chunks of Ukraine, Israel leveling Gaza, and I bet Trump will become president again. How's China doing? Still enslaving the Uyghurs? Navalny dead?
Fucking terrible world.
Trying to stay away from these sort of news, but it is hard to. They are everywhere.
I'll try to reorganize my brain this month and star to film for the new TROM video series. Will see how that works ;).
Tio
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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!
#OceanGate, or #OceanGates
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in reply to Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire • •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, I’ll get a cut of about $3 to $4 (sometimes less), so if you don’t 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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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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