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‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza

And here we are, folks, using the modern tech to kill people more effectively. Don't forget to ask the chatgpt which people of what part of the world deserve to be anihilated today, while consuming your morning coffee..

And yeah, there's something utterly disgusting and barbaric in naming their war AI in the name of religion, the holy crusades are back..

Crazy, fucked up world we live in..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets



Zeitgeist Requiem by Peter Joseph

https://apnews.com/press-release/ein-presswire-newsmatics/movies-779237be298601465d5c35fa2c5dc829
https://youtu.be/zlJ8KPZakNI


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Hey I put that image in TROM II if you didn't notice https://videos.trom.tf/w/nrhE21Nuqsr3FG8xVbLD74?start=1h5m45s :D

100% agree with you ofc!


TROM II: 4. Hope


Despite the fact that humans have created so much misery, so much destruction, so many mountains of waste, and wasted so many brains for the past thousands of years, there is some hope in sight. But to understand and harness that hope, they must take a giant step back and look at their society from an alien perspective.

They have to let go of what they think is normal and try to undress the layered society they have created, to see the naked reality behind it all. Only then can hope be understood. Only then, the understanding of hope can become the bedrock for change.


Oh wow, indeed! Great choice, my friend! I didn't remember it from multiple times I watched the documentary, but I love it even more now 😌
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Annular Solar Eclipse "Ring of Fire" hits the North America continent.

Watch it live at NASA's official broadcast: https://youtu.be/LlY79zjud-Q

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I missed the live but saw some of the replays. It is always astonishing to me that the alignment of the moon and the sun and their sizes are so damn good, that allows s to observer such rare events.
Yup, mesmerizing.. And even the fact that these exact parameters - the sizes of the Moon and the Sun and the distances between them and Earth, allow to observe full or annular eclipses from the surface how they are, is so unique to our planet. There's no other planet in our solar system which allows to see such a perfect coverage of the sun by its moon or moons.
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yup that's what I was saying - quite something. ofc nothing compares to seeing it in reality. did you see any full solar eclipse directly?
Yeah, I've seen one, but only partial. It was still surreal tho, seeing how it becomes way darker in the mid of the day 🤯 And you?
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Yes I saw a full one when I was 12. I remember even now. Quite vividly. Yeah so bizarre to see day transform into night so quickly. I'd love to see one now through my telescope :D
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I was told that you're not supposed to look at a solar eclipse directly without using special eclipse glasses to protect your eyes, be safe guys! 🙃
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We had special googles. You can't even look at it that well without googles.

@Roma @Tio

You know why the moon can perfectly cover the sun during a solar eclipse? There's nothing mysterious about it, the moon is actually getting further away from Earth as its orbit grows about 1.5 inches larger every year, it's just that all of us happen to live around the exact time where earth and moon are at the right distance away to make total solar eclipse possible - a wonderful coincide 🙂 However this also means we won't always have this kind of eclipse forever as the moon gets further away from earth.

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/total-solar-eclipse/en/

@Tio @Roma

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TROM Files (Nextcloud) provides 10 GB of storage space for everyone! And we can extend up to 20 GB to whoever needs more storage. All trade-free.

TROM Files is like Google Drive + Google Photos + Trello + more into one single package, but no bullshit subscriptions, ads, data collection.

You have access to Collabora (Libreoffice cloud) - a powerful Office suite that allows you to edit any documents and collaborate on them.

You have access to a Photo Gallery app and the ability to edit your photos directly in TROM Files:

You have access to a Notes app and a Music player. Plus "Deck" to organize your teams and tasks.:

Lastly you have access to a fully featured Calendar:

Please share so that everyone takes advantage of this. There is no catch if you understand what we do at TROM. We've been creating trade-free materials and services since 2011.

And please consider becoming one of the 200 people that we need in order to support this TROM project forever --->> https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

#tromlive

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The first part of the TROM II Documentary, Humans, is fully translated into Spanish https://videos.trom.tf/w/uzkzwYtn1XK2EyYGbowovY thanks to @Rafa Peris and Vicky! If you want to help with the translations please head over to our Translations chat on Matrix https://matrix.to/#/#translation:matrix.trom.tf

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TROM II: 1. Humans


What does Romania, Russia, Latvia, Germany, and the United States have in common? A planet, and the human imagination. We imagine borders, nationalities, and differences. In truth we are all very much the same. We grow up in a culture, we watch the same TV, listen to the same music, follow similar traditions. We are "educated" and "trained" by institutions that are rarely questioned by the masses.

So how does a newborn human become someone in this culture of humans? And how does the human-invented world contrast with the vast universe we are part of?


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Hello people,

I (Tio) had a great time in Prague at the ZDay event, and I made a blog post all about it, here - https://www.tiotrom.com/2023/09/the-zday-experience/ - it is a big blog post, because it was a big and wonderful experience.

#tromlive

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A mesmerizing image of the protostar by JWST

This Herbig-Haro 211 (HH 211) object image depicts a Class 0 protostar in the state that our Sun could be when it was a few tens of thousands of years old.

I was thinking recently how fascinating is the fact that something beautiful and unique like our Earth can be born out of probably one of the most powerful, horrific and destructive events in the Universe - a Supernova. Indeed, the scale of those events isn't even comparable with what we experience in everyday life. Any of these happening relatively close to us and everything we know would be annihilated within the seconds.. Another reminder how fragile our world is and what unique opportunity we have here, simply wasting it on meaningless fights, trades, money..

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/09/Webb_snaps_supersonic_outflow_of_young_star

#jwst

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@Tio keeps tesing the @Rokosun's attention 😁
100%

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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 https://www.tromsite.com/donate/ - currently there are some 30 people supporting us and we only need 170 more to make TROM forever sustainable 😀

#tromlive

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Our ZDay presentation is now translated into 4 languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Czech and Catalan https://videos.trom.tf/w/d5wwwrwGD7D3EE2BuTw6uT

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 https://matrix.to/#/#translation:matrix.trom.tf

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!

#tromlive

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If Jesus or Superman were to exist in today's society, they would not be able to survive just by doing good things, by helping others and so forth. They would have to become social media influencers:

Sell their own shampoo line, advertise for companies...

Watch the entire talk here https://videos.trom.tf/w/d5wwwrwGD7D3EE2BuTw6uT

#tromlive

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The ZDay event and the fun days with the fun people are over now. I am just with @Roma and we will chill, relax, and plan for the future of TROM 😀. Well, he has to work....unfortunately.... I wish he would not have to.

So everyone left. Well, except one girl who is from Prague and came to the event because of TROM. That was super cool. She, Lenka, is such a nice person and we spent a lot of time together. This week we will for sure meet again. I will still stay in Prague for a week or so.

I will work on the presentation video and I will perhaps make a bigger post about the entire experience. Stay tuned! #tromstuff

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We will work on the presentation recordings these days and we will make it available soon. These past 2 days were really amazing and have spark new friendships and relationships, and new ideas about what we can do in the future. We may even do a Trade-Free Yearly event, but let's see, it is a raw and wild idea now. #tromlive

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The ZDay is over and the reactions we got were really encouraging. We will give you more info and hope to post the recording tomorrow. In the meantime here are some photos:




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Q&A Panel with Tio at the ZDay Annual Event in Prague is starting!
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TROM is presenting right now at the ZDay Annual event in Prague!
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We wont be streaming the presentation but we are recording it and will post it as soon as we can.

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have fun! 😉

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TROM Crew is in Prague for ZDay. Tomorrow is the event. #tromstuff

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Tomorrow we are at ZDay in Prague. Tio will present TROM with the focus on why trade is the origin of most problems and why creating trade-free goods and services is so crucial.

We will try to post photos and videos over here to our Friendica page. So stay tuned!

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This is the schedule for the ZDay event in Prague, on 26th of August, in a few days time:

You can still register here https://cloud.tzm.community/apps/forms/s/o78djCtWPHY2YjnMjZrikRD2 if you want to join. It is free.

See you there! #tromlive

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Tio:

I kinda finished the presentation for ZDay! 😀 Am happy with it. Around 40 minutes long and I tried to make it fun and interesting and put things in a different perspective from what I did in our previous TROM materials. So even those familiar with TROM may find it, I hope, interesting.

75 slides, and a lot of animated stuff 😀. I LOVE LibreOffice Presentations. Trade-Free software at its best. You can make some really cool presentations with it.

Half the talk will be about what our society is made of. You know, trade...and how it influences everything. The other half is about our trade-free approach. I will also explain The Fediverse, will talk about TROMjaro and our other tools.

These days I need to get ready for the trip. How awesome that I now have a good laptop that I can take with me, thanks mostly to Roma and Gui who donated money so that I can buy it. I definitely use it mostly for TROM.

That's all. I kinda struggled with this presentation and I worked on it quite a lot. But now that it is done I am relieved ;).

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this is beautiful the documentary and the cause!
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For those who don't know this documentary is also the first feature-length film to ever be released exclusively on the #Fediverse, the whole thing was released on @peertube - https://videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrWawHkggKi7Wz

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May I just say thank you for posting the #TROM videos on your #Peertube site as well at:
https://videos.trom.tf/c/trom/videos

Added to my watchlist! (and subscribed via #Mastodon)

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21 people support TROM forever with a fix 5 Euros a month donation! We need 200 people to be able to become fully sustainable. Please donate here if you can https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

These days we will release a new awesome TROMjaro update. Improved Theme and Layout Switcher and a very nifty welcome screen.

And we will give you more info about our ZDay presentation.

But please, if you see the value in what we do, support us with a little donation so that we can keep on TROMing 😀

#tromlive

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Our TROM Call has been restored because we figured out why it stopped working after a while - https://call.trom.tf/

TROM Call (Jitsi) is a complete Zoom alternative, but a lot better because there are no restrictions. No registrations needed, no participants limit or duration of the call. Plus a lot more features.

We hope that now it will work well. Give it a try! #tromlive

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We now accept Paypal donations for our 200 for TROM campaign! https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

Please help us. We are right now close to get enough monthly support to pay for our servers. But we need more in order to keep TROM active.

We need 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month to support TROM forever.

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15 people are already helping us achieve the 200 for TROM donation campaign - https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

Mind you this approach may take some time to achieve, but we have to in order to keep TROM alive and sustainable. Only 5 Euros donations are accepted, so that we can spread the load on 200 people in order to make sure that we get this support for a long long time, and that we do not put any pressure on any individual to donate a large amount of money.

Please, consider donating 2 cups of coffee to TROM and the so many projects we have.

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TROMcast 74: 200 for TROM, ZDay, and more https://videos.trom.tf/w/2KDsPz7gP8qpPKwrYKg9ei

WILL START AT: 21:00 Madrid Time, 28th of July.

In this cast we will discuss about our new approach to support our project forever. See https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

We only need 200 people to donate 5 Euros a month. Equal contributions by a handful of people, to distribute the financial support in order to make it sustainable and fair for all.

We will also talk a bit about the upcoming ZDay in Prague where we will present our project, plus a few more things.

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Bitching about billionaires is stupid


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> When Bezos launched his small business in the early 1990 he was praised for making books available for more people.

This makes me wonder how many small businesses there are today that are being praised by everyone, people only seem to notice the problem with these businesses when they get too big, not realizing that if you kill one big business then there are hundreds if not thousands ready to replace that one.

> We need to make companies and billionaires obsolete. Because what Google and the like fear the most is not the competition (because they can buy that), but becoming irrelevant. When people do not see any value in what they "sell", in what they "do".

Right on point here, we should try to create a world where we don't have to rely on any kind of businesses to get our things done, instead of replacing one business with another.
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Google wants to end adblocking


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news for chrome users.....stop using chrome or browsers based on chrome
I agree. Unfortunately there aren't many alternatives. I use Firefox for many years now, but except that, what are other options that are not Chromium dependent or dependent on Firefox who receives a lot of money from Google?
I just didnt want to say "use firefox" but Oprah?
Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera.[11][12][13] The browser is based on Chromium, but distinguishes itself from other Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, etc.) through its user interface and other features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
oh bummer.....yeah. "just use firefox" then
@rotfarm my knowledge about this is very limited, but from what I understand Google is proposing a method for web developers to verify the integrity of users who visit their websites, so if this proposal becomes a success and people started implementing this verification on their websites then you won't be able to access those sites from firefox, unless firefox also implemented this thing in their browser.

I really hope I'm wrong here and that it won't affect firefox users.....

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Ah yes....that's another fuckery indeed.
@aral @rotfarm Maybe organizations like EFF would fight against this, that's my only hope now. If you actually think about it what Google is doing here is also anticompetitive in nature, other web browsers should be given the choice to not implement their design, but how can that be with a verification system like this being put on websites we visit.

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@rotfarm Where “a lot of” = ~half a billion dollars every year = if Google stopped paying them tomorrow, they’d be bankrupt the next day = totally dependent on Google for their existence.
@aral so an important question here that needs to be asked......if there is an absance of alternatives, why aren't people making them? Is it defeatism? No profit? This doesn't seem to stop most FOSS projects from being made, so why not make a web browser?
@rotfarm A web browser is a huge undertaking. No reason why the EU couldn’t fund an independent organisation to make one, though. (Apart from lack of political will and a myopic insistence on framing everything through the lens of “The Single Market.”)
Webkit browsers. Epiphany, Midori, Safari...

Edit: apparently Midori is no longer among them, switched to Electron.
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Framework Laptop 16 now available for pre-order

Way too expensive in my view, but the conception is very interesting, I would like to see more modular designs.

https://frame.work/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040


And so it begins....

"Nirav, Founder & CEO of Framework sat down with Frank Azor, Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions & Marketing at AMD to discuss partnership, innovation, and revolutionary design that brought this laptop to life!“

https://youtu.be/L9Ww_7wwNkM


Yup, I was playing around with the configuration on their website....if I were to configure one that's similar to the one I have now, would be some 600 Euros more expensive....and mine is also a convertible one. So the difference is even bigger. Unfortunately. However I keeping an eye on this one.
Yeah.. true. I'll be seeing how it goes too.

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Tomorrow the 12th at 7PM Madrid time, we will do a TROMcast about the recently released TROM II documentary: A Message to the Aliens. Everyone is free to participate. We will have most of the "cast" of the documentary and the live will go to our Peertube, here https://videos.trom.tf/w/n6jXRKRZi3BnxDB9KFC5Pv

You can participate via our live chat or join us for the video call (we will share the link shortly after the live will start).

#tromlive

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