Adam spittin' the truth! I really think he's on point here.
This is what have been really bugging me for a long time actually.. I always heard how those 0,000..01% humans are the best of all, how genius and hardworking they are and how everybody should dream about being them.. But more I looked at this, more it appeared as just a modern myth to me. Most of them were lucky enough to become super rich from a certain event + the PR whitewashing, a ton of it.. and Voila! The modern mythical heros have just been born: so modest, so genius.. Then media and politicians keep speading this thought about having business men and big businesses actually make the lives of all in a society better. Yeah, say that to those people who got fired recently or lost their money believing in bullshit crypto or NFT scam.
To make human lives better we have at least to try to start fulfilling the vital human needs in a trade-free way: shelter, food, water, medicine, transport, etc. and for EVERYONE around the world. Otherwise, all we do is allowing to have great, unbelievable lives only to a lu
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Adam spittin' the truth! I really think he's on point here.
This is what have been really bugging me for a long time actually.. I always heard how those 0,000..01% humans are the best of all, how genius and hardworking they are and how everybody should dream about being them.. But more I looked at this, more it appeared as just a modern myth to me. Most of them were lucky enough to become super rich from a certain event + the PR whitewashing, a ton of it.. and Voila! The modern mythical heros have just been born: so modest, so genius.. Then media and politicians keep speading this thought about having business men and big businesses actually make the lives of all in a society better. Yeah, say that to those people who got fired recently or lost their money believing in bullshit crypto or NFT scam.
To make human lives better we have at least to try to start fulfilling the vital human needs in a trade-free way: shelter, food, water, medicine, transport, etc. and for EVERYONE around the world. Otherwise, all we do is allowing to have great, unbelievable lives only to a lucky few.
Tech CEOs aren't geniuses, and here's the proof.
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By the way if anyone wants a Mastodon server I provide via webape.site - I am already getting new requests and will take a few days to process new ones, but if you want one you can simply pay and have it all setup. Backups included.
Mind you I also provide trade-free services via trom.tf and lots of stuff via tromsite.com. WebApe is to allow me to support these free projects.
Via WebApe I also provide Friendica instances, Peertube, or Nextcloud.
Please share if you think this is helpful for others.
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Basically I need to take what is in this photo (except those galaxies):
With all of the shoeboxes full of HDDs and cables:
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527, providing insight into the beginnings of a new star.
I'm starting a new video series about hiking the GR11 (an 840-km thru-hike across the Pyrenees) on a very tight budget. Here is the first video: https://videos.trom.tf/w/bscuS7uYA2PYVJWoa7h1qw It's me packing my Ultraheavy backpack :D
Here's me getting ready to trek the GR11, alone, but not alone, since my backpack is kind of like a medium-sized person... piggyback riding me for 840 kilometers... Let's see how this goes! Thru-hiking ULTRACHEAP - the opposite of ULTRALIGHT!
At Intel Innovation 2022, #Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sat down with Linus Torvalds, the creator of #Linux who is also known as “the godfather of #OpenSource,” to talk about everything from the beginning of Linux to Linus’ advice for Intel and why he cho…
100%. Finally someone saying it as it fuckin is. He should maybe look at it through the lens of "trade". Would make a lot os sense and easy t explain. Great share!
Agreed, the trade lens would be just perfect here to explain a real reason of this fuckery to even exist.. But honestly I was so surpised to hear it even in this shape from a public figure. So rare.
Yes! I am really pleased to hear that. He really unpacked it very well. But the other ones, especially the psychologist (of course) keep on talking about "the mental diseases"· out there. What in the actual fuck. Pills and shit. Well....friend...look at society and what these platforms are incentivized to do. The comedian was more of a scientist than that psychologist hehe. :D
Totally! He looks like the only one real and sane person in the room speaking to a fuckin brick wall or something I'm following Bo for quite a while already and I generally like what he's doing. He definitely has a clear mind for some very untoucheable topics which humans don't even question usually, well packed in form of comedy.
I'm just really glad that fediverse is not into this attention trading business, no ads and algorithm here. Just the lack of these 2 things make a big difference, I feel like I'm in control of my online presence here.
Can't thank enough the communities of Fediverse for bringing these awesome projects to the world, feels like a fresh air after all the big farty ad spitting dumpsters :grinning squinting face: I personally admire an ability to choose between literally dozens of the ways to communicate by selecting specific implementation like Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, etc. with all the different ways to organize news feeds, size of the messages, etc. and after all staying connected with all your peeps which may choose another project to stick with and all of that because of the unified protocol. This is fuckin amazing and liberating..
Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for what they get done.
VIOLENCE in all its forms is perhaps the most ancient human problem, and today as humans have created systems and weapons capable of wiping out all life as we know it, and with crime, gun culture, school shootings and war on the rise, the topic has n…
Another biggest technogenic catastrophy currently passes below the radars and one of the many negative outcomes of the war and an outdated system of international relationships.
The ruptures on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline system under the Baltic Sea have led to what is likely the biggest single release of climate-damaging methane ever recorded, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Friday.
If you put a title on your post then it looks like this on mastodon (see the screenshot). So because of this its better to avoid putting titles unless its a bigger blog post.
Hm, weird. Seems like it heavily depends on the front-end. I've checked out in Tootle which is originally a mastodon client and it looks entirely opposite there (without title at all but with the text) :grinning face with smiling eyes:
In the sane, trade-free society it would be absolutely impossible.. But now here we go, everythyng is a good to trade, including living people.. Insane, sick world it is.
Traffickers in Southeast Asia force thousands of people into perpetrating cyberscams that defraud Americans out of millions of dollars. Here’s how they do it.
Like Jacque said many times: most of our problems have an engineering nature. Too bad in the trade-based world solving them is not a Humanity's first priority..
UPD: This video should be considered as an illustration of the interesting engineering ideas and as a possibility to questionize a structure and efficiency of the existing cities, towns, villages and not in any circumstances as a project to be supported or invested in, since it might be just yet another scammy project promising "the revolution" but without any real intention to do it. See this criticizing video: ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZl…
What if we could start again? THE LINE rethinks everything we know about how people live, work and play. A 170 km-long vertical city, designed around people, rather than cars. A revolution in urban living.
hm...unfortunately I think this is quite a "scammy" thing. Sounds good in theory, except for the last part where they talk positively about trade, but I recommend you also watch this video ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=rB_X5ZUcZl… :P
Unfortunately many companies are very good to lure us in, and I got sucked into a bunch of these too...impractical, money oriented, scams. I only recently found out about the above one, but sounds like many other projects I've heard of.
Anyway, if you have the time also watch the video I sent you.
I agree with what you said, but I am skeptical about this "LINE" thing.
Ah, yeah, that's true.. As any of such good looking projects might be scammy in the marketing world. Of course, it would never be possible for these ideas to come true because it implies that it is achievable in our trade-base world, but I doubt it ever is. We have seen it so many times with other good ideas around, like social medias, cloud technologies, etc., which in general very useful and helpful to people, but they turned out to become trade poisoned after all and right now - not more than just the shadows of previously great services..
I liked in that video that they are speaking about that the very essense of our cities and structures is not effective, being built too many centures ago, but we keep maintaining it - a thought, which is not told too much these days. All is focused on preserving the "cultural legacy", so those who is owning all of it can keep make money of it in different ways.
Also they speak about self-sustainability and efficiency and that in general we don't need that much space to be taken by the leaving structures - to me is a very avoidable
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Ah, yeah, that's true.. As any of such good looking projects might be scammy in the marketing world. Of course, it would never be possible for these ideas to come true because it implies that it is achievable in our trade-base world, but I doubt it ever is. We have seen it so many times with other good ideas around, like social medias, cloud technologies, etc., which in general very useful and helpful to people, but they turned out to become trade poisoned after all and right now - not more than just the shadows of previously great services..
I liked in that video that they are speaking about that the very essense of our cities and structures is not effective, being built too many centures ago, but we keep maintaining it - a thought, which is not told too much these days. All is focused on preserving the "cultural legacy", so those who is owning all of it can keep make money of it in different ways.
Also they speak about self-sustainability and efficiency and that in general we don't need that much space to be taken by the leaving structures - to me is a very avoidable discussion nowadays as well and in the same time - a very insteresting engineering task, which is very real to be solved. I still think that behind those ideas might be very good minds possibly.
Anyways, you are probably right and this project is not the best way to promote those discussions and it might be considered as that without a good explanation what I meant..
You know why it's pointless to debate "socialism" or "utopia" or whatever comparison people throw out when you criticize market capitalism? Because the system, in and of itself, without the need for comparison, is insufficient to be sustainable for the species. #systemssciencepic.twitter.com/SxDQsaKM7m
I am releasing a new project to, hopefully, make some money so that I can support our TROM project and myself. This is it -->> webape.site/
So. I provide managed instances for Mastodon, Peertube, Nextcloud, Friendica, and a few other services. On top of this I am making any kind of website in Wordpress. This is my "skill" and so I will try to make some money like this. I have to, I have no choice.
But listen.
I am not making a "business" out of this. I want to do a decent job at it, so I will only take 20-30 projects. Enough to sustain myself and have the time to focus on TROM, plus be able to properly manage these paid-for websites.
I tried to provide really cheap and very "tempting" offers, if anyone is interested, since I will only post once about this on my profile, the rest go on the Federated profile of the project -->> social.trom.tf/profile/webape
Here is what I offer:
Mastodon:
Peertube:
Nextcloud:
Wordpress:
I can setup huge instances up to 25TB of diskspace. And provide support over email or chat (Matrix).
If you think anyone may be interested, give it a share.
Absolutely nothing worse than a child in poverty. No better way to mess up human beings for their entire life than have them raised in deprivation, exposed to the characteristics we know empirically occur disproportionally in those low income environments.slate.com/news-and-polit…
An awesome post by @TROM ! True freedom of choice is only possible with open and trade-free distribution of goods and services. Fulfill the vital needs of people communities, provide them with the time and required resources and you will be amazed at how they can overcome any capitalistic company in terms of diversity, innovation and creativity.
An awesome post by @TROM ! True freedom of choice is only possible with open and trade-free distribution of goods and services. Fulfill the vital needs of people communities, provide them with the time and required resources and you will be amazed at how they can overcome any capitalistic company in terms of diversity, innovation and creativity.
Many people believe a fat myth of today's world, that capitalism (this trade-based system) is creating diversity. Look at how many chocolates there are, cars, gadgets, software, etc.. But this is a myth. The diversity is in the package/wrapper and not the product itself. Most phones are the same, nothing new for "new releases". Cars brought almost no advantage to transportation overall for the past decades. Products in the supermarket taste quite the same between brands, and clothes are recycled fashion trends. Movies and books are remakes or copy cats of whatever sells best. And so on.
Anyway, here is a search engine we made to showcase how 175 companies own pretty much everything in this world https://www.tromsite.com/tbf/
But I want to focus on 1 particular domain: software.
Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, VK, and maybe 3-4 more, are the ones that are the most used in the world. They do not communicate with each other and are very limited in terms of functionality. It means you choose one or another, or a bunch of them and manage them separately. They are trade-based platforms (you trade your data, currency, attention to them). Full of ads, full of censorship, full of crap overall.
On the other hand the Fediverse is a network of such platforms: Friendica, Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed, Funkwhale, and so forth. Look at the diversity here https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/ - these are made by different organizations and enabled by different people. A ton of diversity in terms of options.
These are video platforms, blog platforms, photo sharing platforms, platforms for musicians, live streaming, events, you name it. And all communicate with each other. If some organization has an account with Peertube (video platform) I can follow and interact with them from my social platform Friendica. How amazing! If I have a Peertube account and a Friendica one, I can easily setup so that when I post on Peertube a video, it goes on my Friendica too, as a post. The options are very diverse.
This "fediverse" is created not to be traded but to be shared. You will not find ads on these platforms (at least not on the vast majority of them), or data collection or any of that crap.
The MacOS and Windows vs Linux is yet another example of how diversity is actually achieved when humans do not sell their stuff and themselves, when you have a community of people who share their work and ideas. Linux comes in so many flavors for so many needs and wants. Look at this:
So if you look at software overall, the "capitalism" world, which is the trade-based world in which people make software to trade it (for data, attention, currency, etc.) is like a handful of options. But when the software is created for the sake of creating it and is shared and anyone can copy these, modify, redistribute, as trade-free, then real diversity is created and a better environment emerges overall.
We should take the software example and try to provide other goods/services in the same manner. But to do that we have to decouple humans from the trade-based society. At least when it comes to their basic needs. Else no one can have the time to engage in such things. Software is easy to create and maintain from the comfort of your home and in your space time, but is difficult when it comes to food or other goods and services. In any case there is still and abundance of such trade-free goods/services out there as we showcase here directory.trade-free.org/. But this is not enough.
So. If we want to create a wonderful society, we first have to decouple humans from this trade-based society by at least providing them with their basic needs as trade-free. That creates a good soil for the emergence of lots of trade-free goods/services, in a positive feedback loop. Imagine how much good we can create in this world. Imagine how much real diversity. Imagine how wonderful this could be.
This is exact thing I was talking about these days. You cannot be "nice" in this system, you need to make a profit to go on. You can say a thousand of words how you support peace, but when it comes to the profit, you keep selling the weapons, helping others to kill.
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