The plans for the next weeks:
- Update our Friendica and test to make sure everything works fine
- Move our Peertube storage to an object storage so we free up space on our server. Currently we are at the limit when it comes to storage. Using an object storage allows us to scale up.
- Add Pixelfed to our TROM.tf services
- Release a new TROMjaro
All of these require a lot of time and resources. So it make take more than just weeks.
If you can support this work and can donate 5 Euros a month, maybe you can join the 200 for TROM tromsite.com/donate/ - currently there are some 30 people supporting us and we only need 170 more to make TROM forever sustainable :)
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Fact Check: Dolly Parton Didn't Ask for Fire Victims' Donations, in Contrast with Oprah and The Rock for Maui?
Online users made incorrect claims about the past after Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson announced a fund to help victims of the Maui wildfires.
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A YouTube video claimed that the pair was "entangled in some eyebrow-raising alleged shady dealings" regarding the August 2023 Maui wildfires.
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She purportedly caught the virus for a second time in September 2023 after multiple rounds of shots.
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The U.S. health agency published a risk-assessment summary in response to reported cases of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant in late summer 2023.
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Our ZDay presentation is now translated into 4 languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Czech and Catalan videos.trom.tf/w/d5wwwrwGD7D3E…
Kudos to the people who are translating these TROM videos without anyone asking them to do so or how to do it. At TROM we work in this decentralized and more emerging style: people can get involved with whatever they can, and do it on their own.
We only provide some tools and platforms, like our Translation Matrix chat matrix.to/#/#translation:matri…
Amazing people. One of them actually, Lenka, we meet at ZDay. She came because of TROM and she quickly became our friend.
Now she made the Czech subtitle for the presentation and she wants to work on the entire TROM II documentary to subtitle it into Czech. Awesome people!
ZDay: How to Grow a Saner Society. A Lifetime Adventure --- by Tio
On 26th of August, 2023, we presented TROM at the annual ZDay event in Prague. This was the last ZDay after a decade long of making them every year.videos.trom.tf
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Capitalism is good. Let me explain.
Learn more about financial models, quantum mechanics, or many more topics in science and maths with Brilliant! First 200 to use our link https://brilliant.org/sabine will get 20% off the annual premium subscription.Sabine Hossenfelder | Invidious
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I have visited Aaron this weekend:
Such an amazing guy! As always. In 2 days I will return home, I am still at @Roma 's place.
After I return I will make a big article about the entire ZDay experience and meeting lots of wonderful people. Then I will focus to update our servers and services, including our Friendica! Currently we need to put Friendica in maintenance mode for some 20 minutes a day to backup the database....but that sucks since you cannot use it for this period of time. So I need to fix that too.
Anyway, I have had a wonderful experience for these past 10 or so days and I hope to have more of these experiences.
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Fact Check: Vintage Pic Shows Bizarre 'Blizzard Cones' To Protect Faces from Snow?
After its invention in 1907, the new synthetic material called "plastic" took the world by storm.
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I just watched that video and it was much much worse than I expected! How can someone like her become so delusional?!
Capitalism only ever works in theory when you're talking about trading apples for eggs and such, but it's a completely different story when you practice it in large scale. In her previous video this woman was talking about how to do your own research and stuff, ironically in this video it feels like she hasn't done any research at all and is just giving out her opinion on things.
> Scientists tent to associate the stunning societal progress we've seen since then to science and technology, but I think that's having it backwards. The driver of all this progress was the capitalist system that allowed an efficient allocation of resources.
It's baffling to me how someone can ever reach that conclusion, especially coming from someone like her. So then she goes on to talk about how people only started manufacturing penicillin a decade after Alex
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I just watched that video and it was much much worse than I expected! How can someone like her become so delusional?!
Capitalism only ever works in theory when you're talking about trading apples for eggs and such, but it's a completely different story when you practice it in large scale. In her previous video this woman was talking about how to do your own research and stuff, ironically in this video it feels like she hasn't done any research at all and is just giving out her opinion on things.
> Scientists tent to associate the stunning societal progress we've seen since then to science and technology, but I think that's having it backwards. The driver of all this progress was the capitalist system that allowed an efficient allocation of resources.
It's baffling to me how someone can ever reach that conclusion, especially coming from someone like her. So then she goes on to talk about how people only started manufacturing penicillin a decade after Alexander fleming made its initial discovery, and in her mind that somehow proves that capitalism is good and helpful - if anything this proves to me that capitalism stalled us from manufacturing this medicine for a decade until someone with enough money and resources was finally willing to invest money in it.
>. For the market to optimize the use of fossil fuel resources, we should have put a price on releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We did not, and this's why we're now in deep shit. So, yes, our current capitalist systems do have a problem with environmental protection. But the reason isn't that there's something wrong with capitalism per se, it's that we didn't set it up correctly in the first place. Basically, the origin of the problem is that no one paid attention to economists.
This is another one of those nonsense takes in this video, and keep in mind that this is just one of the many many issues with capitalism that she brushed aside by saying "but that's another story". How many more patches we'll have to apply to this unjust & broken system called capitalism until it finally works? How many more new laws and rules we'd have to make? If capitalism was a bucket then there'll be so many (loop) holes in it that you'd think it was a strainer, lol 😆 And talking about putting a price on carbon emissions, perhaps we should also ask those economists what's the price of pollution, famines, slavery, mental anguish and even deaths around the world that are directly or indirectly caused by this capitalist system. What is the price of human beings? What is the price of happiness? What is the price of our natural environment? Because I can imagine someone in the distant future repeating these same talking points and saying the reason why this system caused the destruction of so many human lives and the environment is because we didn't put a price on it.
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