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Space traveler. Stuck on Earth, but not for long.

While AI bubble keeps growing ridiculously high, disturbing news are coming from NASA.. Imagine investing at least a portion of those enourmous money into researching the reality and world we all live in.. into something that actually may help to make our lives better as science did many times already.

latimes.com/science/story/2025…

#nasa #jpl #layoffs #aibubble #ai #TradeRuinsEverything #trade-free

JPL may not recover from its budgeting woes

After four rounds of layoffs in two years that cut a quarter of its employees, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory now faces a daunting task: reclaiming its place at the vanguard of exploration and innovation.

^{Noah Haggerty (Los Angeles Times)}

#AI #nasa #JPL #trade-free #TradeRuinsEverything #aibubble

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Tio

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Awful indeed...but well for Idiocracy to come into effect we also need to destroy science...so...

Instead of putting 10 times more resources into science, this is happening...

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Yeah.. bonkers society 😔

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This had to be pointed out, yeah ridiculous way of spending money..... So sad to see this.... 😮‍💨

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Recycling Doesn’t Work—and the Plastics Industry Knew It

And here we go about the waste.. As I have said many times, recycling plastic is not a solution, but rather a convenient distraction and a way to shift the responsibility of large companies for mass production of plastic onto the shoulders of the people. There are some very disturbing news that recycling is not going to help in a long run and there is only 5-6% of collected plastics estimated as being recycled (!). On the other hand, the poorest countries and regions suffer the most from toxic waste products and landfills, because this brings the greatest profit, and if this is still the case, the problem will never be solved.

We need more trade-free goods and services that can be designed from the scratch to reduce the waste, instead of generation the endless profit or competition advantage. In this way, more devices and products that are reusable, free to use, repairable, and durable can benefit our Planet's environment and Human society as a whole.

Recycling Doesn’t Work—and the Plastics Industry Knew It

The industry knew decades ago that recycling was never viable in the long term, and now we’re all being poisoned by its product.

^{The New Republic}

#trade-free #TradeRuinsEverything

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in reply to Roma • 1 year ago •

Also I just saw this news on TROMnews "UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant " theguardian.com/environment/20…

"Campaigners say Ineos project in Antwerp will turbocharge plastic production on a scale not seen before in Europe"

So yeah...what a timing....what can you say...

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Roma

in reply to Tio • 1 year ago •

What fuckers.. geez. And all of that together with an effort of EU to reduce usage of single-used plastics. Yeah, when big buck is in the game, an urge for profits is unstoppable..

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Great video @Nick @ The Linux Experiment ! I totally agree that the modern ad-bloated internet is unusable and it will definitely become worse. It is great you demonstrate alternative federated networks and actively use those to share your content too, thank you for that. This is also a very good that you emphasize that YouTube content (or any other content) has never been free and it has always been in return for your data and attention (ads). That is a really good analysis, but I would also like to encorage you to look even beyond that, on the root-cause of this urge for profits, which eventually ruins everything - the incentive to trade. We have to build a society, which fulfills at least basic needs for the people for surviving in this world, so they can have more time to create something meaningful, share wi

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#trade-free #TradeRuinsEverything #thelinuxexperiment @Tio @Nick @ The Linux Experiment

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in reply to Roma • 2 years ago •

I am pleasantly surprised by @Nick @ The Linux Experiment 's conclusion and the fact that he had the decency and humility to accept that even what he does now, relying on ads, is not a healthy way of moving forward and that the best would be to perhaps support the creators via donations. Else the incentive is really bad. I was skeptical about this video but I gained more respect for the guy.

And I don't just talk about this, I have been creating content online for more than 15 years now. I wrote some 30 books, released 2 huge documentaries, made a lot of videos, and continue to do more. All scientific and sourced till they bleed. All free.

But fuck me, how in the fucking world can I "make it" when it takes me a year to write a book, 3 years to make a documentary....I can't pump 5 books a month and a documentary every week. Even if I wanted to rely on the ads-model, I would be totally fucked.

This is a complicated situation and there are

@Nick @ The Linux Experiment @Roma

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Nick @ The Linux Experiment

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Basically, as long as the current model holds, I’ll use the platform it allowed me to access, to raise awareness about Linux and free software. Once it crumbles, or as it crumbles, I’ll try to adapt!

If I can’t keep doing it as a job, so be it!

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Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation

This is a very disturbing report about decreasing level of social communication between people in US for almost two decades which shows that amount of time humans spend there with each other in person decreased almost up to 70% (!) and keeps running down. And this is not even about the COVID years, though it only accelerated this process.

The loneliness and falling out of the social participation very negotively affects health, mental stability, increases the risks of strokes, dementia, unexpected death in old age.

All this only emphasizes what a ruined society mankind has been building for itself throughout these years. The only answer goverments have to this is to create another ministery to do the "patchworking" on top of the broken system (please welcome t

#trade-free #TradeRuinsEverything

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I think, this is nothing wrong if people willingly prefer to pull themselves out of social interactions, to stay alone with themselves if they do not feel any need or desire to participate in those or they are simply tired (if we are not talking about social anxiety disorders and repressed feelings). The problem appears when people are open to participate and seeking for healthy relationships, but cannot find any way to do this within our rapidly changing, trade-based society, which does not care about a sanity of the environment these people have to navigate in, but about them to be healthy and operational enough to continue participate in the cycle of constant consumption and trading.

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Amazing to see what even small amount of Humans are capable of.. Yes, this is just a tiny drop in the big ocean of problems Humanity keep accumulating because of the power of trade, but on the other hand it is a GREAT "small" example of the Power of Collaboration, those you may find everywhere even in the today's world.

We could relatively easy restore the natural environment and biodiversity of our beautiful Planet, rewind back at least some of the impact of the anthropogenic intervention, if there would be more people free of the constant trading for their lifes out there. Instead of spending their precious time wasted on figuring out dull and manipulative ways to sell the shit or themselves, more and more of these people might choose to participate and would come up with ingenious ways to ACTUALLY make a difference, fullfil the Human unique potentials at its max..

#InstitutoTerra #environment #reforestation #SebastiaoSaldago #trade-free

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Sebastiao Salgado finds hope in reforestation

Photographer Sebastiao Salgado has been honored for environmental work in Brazil, where he revived the lost forests of his childhood. The German Publishers and Booksellers Association said his work promotes biodiversity.

^{Thomas Milz (Deutsche Welle)}

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in reply to Roma • 2 years ago •

More about the Instituto Terra non-profit organization: institutoterra.org/

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When I am trying to speak with people about how the trade based world inevitably turns any initially good idea to utter shit and nonsense, I usually use the music streaming services as an example.

Being a big fan of different kind of music and having it as a huge part in my life I remember how I always tried to find a better way to collect my favorite music together. It was a different challenge each time. I had all kinds of music players throughout the years. When I had a cassete player, I recorded my favorite tracks from different cassetes to make personal mixes and to have them in the order as I want them to be, took me hours. Then I have got my first MP3 player, it was on 128mb of memory and it allowed only 15-20 tracks to be uploaded (with better quality of course, with more compression it might be even more tracks), but it was such a blast. No more rewinding back and forth, tracks switching is instant, you can shuffle them, it was amazing. Obviously I had a bunch of folders with different track to reupload each time when needed.

After even more time when the Inte

When I am trying to speak with people about how the trade based world inevitably turns any initially good idea to utter shit and nonsense, I usually use the music streaming services as an example.

After even more time when the Internet was developed enough in my country, the music streaming started to emerge. Just think about it: you have an access to millions of tracks, you can listen to them almost instanly, you can try some of them and add into favorites if you want, you can listen all sorts of recommendations to discover new music you may like, mix your own radio stations or playlists and share it with your friends. Just awesome. On the other side of things: the musicians themselves have a convinient platform to release their songs quickly and having a huge audience to be probably interested in listening to. This is what is the Internet for, this is the way it should be..

And then there is always the trade base world to interfere. Your carefully crafted music collection is actually not your own. Do you want to open your music player one day and realize that some of your songs are miraculously disappear because of the licensing problems? You got it! Do you want your player to remove all your downloaded music because you have not payed the subscription in time? You have it! Do you want your player not to be able to switch tracks, listen to some ads in between songs or other amazing "freemium" features? Be my guest. And of course there are the musicians which can be underpayed easily, because nobody has any idea how the musician can calculate his/her wage in this total mess of the license owning companies which are selling each other rights on the music and do not give a shit about any of it, except making more profit. At the end we have the annoyed music lovers who does not own any real access to the music they love and the utterly confused musicians who do not control their music anymore. What a waste!

Just listen to Benn who is an experienced musician and who, I think, provided a pretty damn good analysis of Spotify and similar services from the both sides of things: ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=gDfNRWsMRs…

We need more trade-free goods and services, including the music share services. People who like making music should be connected with those who like listen to it, that is it, it is that simple. Just imagine if the musicians would not need to trade their asses to simply survive, but to easily share it with all others in the world with no cost, finding more people who can relate to their thoughts and feelings, instead of relying only on those who can afford to buy it. To make even more really honest art without being pushed to produce more and more to sell..

#trade-free #trom #music #streaming #spotify #applemusic

Why Spotify Will Ultimately Fail

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#music #Streaming #trade-free #trom #spotify #AppleMusic

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Tio

in reply to Roma • 2 years ago •

Bravo. Great post! 100% agree. And to make matters worse we talk about digital stuff. Small in size. We can replicate and host these so fast and everywhere. It is a messed up society, because of trade. Nonsense, useless. We should do better than this.

#TradeRuinsEverything

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Roma

in reply to Tio • 2 years ago •

Thanks man! Absolutely! In the digital world of the total abundance of the stuff, to create a horrible artificial scarcity should be considered indespicable by truly civilized society. And yet here we are.. we definetely should do better than this.

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@Roma @Tio
The thing I hate most about our trade based society is how it gives zero fuck about people and their well being. An artist should be able to survive and live a good life, not because their art sells good, but because they're a human being like you and me. Our trade based society forces us to sell stuff in order to survive, if your art doesn't sell or if you don't want to sell it, then your needs are ignored. We're in 2023 and people are still left alone to fend for themselves, when are we gonna grow up and act like an intelligent species? to help our fellow brothers and sisters so that they can live a happy healthy life in this planet, instead of forcing them to sell more shit.

#TradeRuinsEverything

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Lorraine Lee

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Somehow #TradeFree seems akin to #anagorism.

#tradefree #anagorism

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Tio

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First time I hear that word. I cannot find any wiki article about it and to be sure I don't read some random website that has a weird interpretation of it, where can I find more about it?

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Lorraine Lee

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I made a subreddit: reddit.com/r/anagorism/

And a blog: astoundingteam.com/wordpress/

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Dima

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Roma, i might add a bit from me as a professional musician - i hate spotify. And i don't use it.
As a band if you want your music to be published on spotify and similar platforms you need an agency who will deliver your music to them. You need to pay for it. As a musician you need to create music, record music and then pay to some agencies to publish it on streaming platforms. Price might be different , depending on the agency and if it's one single, several, or album, but more or less 15-20$ per song. Some agencies ask for yearly subscriptions. In return as a music band we've got profit from streaming. The numbers are follow, for around 3-7 streams the band got 0.01$ . Then from this 0.01$ agency will take a fee and the rest have to be divided between band members in our case 4 people. And also after that you will pay taxes.
Only top 1% of musicians can make some money there. The ones who got millions streams.

Again as a musician i am for free music for all everywhere digitally. Would be great to have similar to spotify platform but trade-free. The problem that not ma

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Lorraine Lee

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The young think they can beat the #LongTail distribution, in which the median income for creatives is definitely 0, bless their sweet innocent souls. I for one choose denying myself entertainment (and in the process, I suppose, denying someone an audience) over spending discretionary $ I don't have. Rightly or wrongly, I treat it as a lesser evil than #piracy, but there are no good answers. "Intellectual" "property" is a hostage situation. Like food aid to a famine region, the local warlords have to be paid off. Or like in the ancient TV show “LA Law,” some young associate got into law because of its potential to help people, but are alarmed about the amount of billable business they have to drum up to be afforded the privilege of a little pro bono work. Whatever pro-social things are instituted are set up as negative sum games; the house always wins.

#piracy #Longtail

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Thanks for your opinion Lorraine! It is actually another big topic to tackle - the social services.. Yeah, it is rather a cover up than a real deed in the society like we have. We can be taught that it is all matters and actually makes a difference, moving our world to a better place, but all I can see is that we keep participating in this circle of trades to survive. Like in this movie Matrix - once you see how the world looks like for real, what are the building blocks of the system, you see these "falling green symbols" everywhere..

There are people who no doubts would spend all their energy to help others (I believe people in general gravitate toward being good rather than bad, though some of them have no other choice to behave like jerks because the survival needs make them), but in reality it is only possible to stay "out of trades" as much as possible, otherwise your help becomes just another good to trade or you would only help others to build a successful business. There are great world organisations like Doctors without borders and all sorts of non-commercial projects, which actually care about people, but even those may suffer a lot to keep going since every participator should still be able to fullfil at least basic needs for itself. So yeah, this is a real hostage situation here - either play our Monopoly game and don't ask any questions or simply starve or at least live on minimal. We can continue to name our businesses as "with people in mind", "with nature in mind", "with all good causes" and pretend that it is genuine, but to be honest with ourselves and others, to actually make the people around happier is the hell of a challenge in the world like that and not everyone is ready for this leap of faith, again, not to be judgemental here.

The intellectual property you mentioned is also a good example of creating the artificial scarcity and the only reason for that is to allow only the "owner" to milk his idea, because it is what Humans do for their entire life on this planet - trying to find their own "holy grail" to trade and if they found it, to clung on it whatever it costs (people in law are happy to help setting this "right" of theirs in stone). No way they may want others to have a piece of this sweety pie, you all should go and find your own "thing" to milk! In this way obviously they call the fact that people would still try to share the idea sowehow or copy it with some very unpleasant name as "piracy" and set a hunt on those, because of course everyone needs to respect the game..

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Thanks for your reply Dima! It's very valuable to see how things are from perspective of the people who are making music.

Thanks for your reply Dima! It's very valuable to see how things are from perspective of the people who are making music.

Yeah, the musicians are in the dependent situation as any of us, we all have to find a way to sell our shit somehow whatever it is. From selling useless garbage on the streets to the tourists, to selling yachts, cars, penthouses, painting, you name it and searching the most profitable way to do it with all sorts of scam and fraud. Our initial intention of course might be, hey, I can actually sell it and be a good guy, I would never try to fuck with people, but sad truth is that in this society it's actually impossible, you will be caught in the nets of trading and to keep your shit together you will be pushed to grow your profits infinitely. What I've noticed is that almost all "responsible businesses" starting very good, doing a really good product, going famous with it and eventially falling into complete fuckery. And that's because capitalism model is good when things are calm and steady, you're growing, income is growing, everybody's happy. But an inevitable truth is that you cannot grow forever, it's just impossible. At certain point crisis is comming and you'll have to start to search for the ways to continue growing. The easiest way is to start to fuck with people who believed in you, using your previous good reputation to cover it, to buy out the competitors and to make them go total shit, to exploit your previously accumulated user base, so you still can use these little wins to showcase that you're still making money to your investors.

I think my point was exactly this. In general, Spotify or Apple Music do not like a bad idea, it might become a some sort of social network for music loving people, who connect and share with each other, find a new technological ways to make the process interesting and enjoyable. But as any other great idea in this world, being based on trading and making money in the foundation, become useless kind of a parody to itself after a while.

And I totally agree we need something like this in the Open Source world. Some federated alternative. The most close thing I know is the Funkwhale, but it's mostly about organisation your media library, but might be developed into something we think about. Unfortunately, it would also require the people of your mentality, liking to share their music free and with nothing to return, but as you mentioned, it's hard to get a decent amount of the musicians on board with that idea, since they have to sell their music, not share it for free. Not to blame anybody, I complety understand their motives. There's not people to be blamed, there's a fucked up cruel trade-base society we live in to incentive people behaving like that..

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2020-05-17 19:28:32

Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:
Funkwhale
Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralized, open network.
#music #social-network
More here:
directory.trade-free.org/goods…

Funkwhale
^{Trade-Free Directory}

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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 lu

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