I’ve been meaning to write this blog for well over a year, and finally managed to get it done:
bigworldsmallsasha.com/2025/12…
It's about my whole journey of writing and publishing my book (all the sweat and tears it took + how much I earned in the end), as well as a few other updates about what I've been doing over the past few years and where we'll likely head next.
Thanks to everyone who's been there for me throughout this journey! I appreciate you all 💛
My Book Release – and Other Ultra-belated Updates
I released my book in 2024 but never got around to writing a blog about it, so here it is— (better late than never, right?) In a nutshell, the book explains my story of traveling around the world for the past 15 or so years with little money (and it …Big World | Small Sasha
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How We Catch Owls at Night
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
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For trade reasons the Internet has become a marketplace (trade currency, attention, data). Therefore monopolies have formed, owning and controlling search, major platforms, and apps.
On the other had the other marketers want their websites/content to rank higher, to get more views, show more ads, make more money. So shitty websites and content for the sake of that.
Thus the Internet is a load of poop nowadays. Hard to find what you are looking for.
So now these monopolies are inserting these AI chatbots into search. They seem very convenient for people. Go straight to an answer. And the monopolies do not care that these chatbots lie a lot.
Happy business everyone!
Trade is the root of most problems. As I've been saying for many years now.
#TradeRuinsEverything #trade #ai #chatbots #chatgpt #gemini #bbc #study
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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.
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#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)
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By-catch of sharks is a huge problem. Industrial fishing and especially bottom trawling is not only completely destroying seafloor and underwater habitat but also created so many unneeded and useless death of thousands of sea creatures. I don't even understand how it is legal.
In this episode we went to Albania to the "Sharklab" laboratory which conducting numerous studies on sharks, but also work in shark conservation and protection.
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The Hidden Cost of Seafood
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Hungary Boats
We've joined Plastic Cup in Tisza river in Hungary. 15 teams on a boats made out of trash for 5 days going down the river. But it's not about speed, it's about collecting trash. Team which collects the most trash wins the race.
In this video we share our experience of joining this competition first time, our struggles and accomplishments.To know more about Plastic Cup - petkupa.hu/eng/
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All money raised!
Thank you so much I have ordered this laptop es.wallapop.com/item/lenovo-th…
Does not look the best but perhaps it works just fine. Lets see when I get it. Should be next week. I will close the campaign for now since the money raised will cover the cost of the laptop, fees, and transport.
Thank you so so much for your help!
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My laptop broke...cannot charge anymore and I cannot fix it.
Long story short I spent so many hours trying to fix it, and I decided it is cheaper and better to buy a used and cheap Thinkpad...
I have made a Gofundme in case anyone can help out gofund.me/b8bc330a
I have to run a lot of projects and this laptop is really important for me. Without it I am fucked.
Planned Obsolescence, this is what is happening with so many products. Not meant to last or be repaired...really awful....
But I have no choice need to urgently get another laptop...
#plannedobsolescence #trom #gofundme #thinkpad #laptop #repair
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Anyway my intention is not to force anyone to buy from them. I just think it's a good option when you can afford it. Enjoy your machine and long life to it ! :)
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Capture the Atlas project published their anual collection of the Milky Way photos from the enthusiatic photographers from all around the world 😍 Look at this beauty!
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Capture the Atlas is a project that is aiming to provide guidance, knowledge and adventures to the photographers around the world to elevate their picture-taking skills, travel the jaw-dropping locations on Earth, build long lasting communities and friendships to learn, being amazed and grow together.
#astropgotography
#capturetheatlas
#photography
#milkyway
#earth
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2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year - Capture the Atlas
The 2025 Milky Way photographer of the year. Discover the best Milky Way images taken around the world in 2025!Dan Zafra (Capture the Atlas)
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Extinction Rebellion may have gone quiet, but climate protest will come roaring back
The pandemic and harsh laws suffocated climate movements as we knew them. Get ready for a new kind of action, says journalist Oliver HaynesOliver Haynes (The Guardian)
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And exactly as I thought instead of education and simplifying workflows purposes these companies' "AI's" will be used to generate a "better" ads experience for you. Absolutely disgusting.
While they are still available use the Ad Blockers or FreeTube App if you want to see more sane and adequate ytb like it used to be long time ago.
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#AI
#adblockers
#tblockads
#freetube
#TradeRuinsEverything
YouTube’s AI is going to start showing ads at the absolute worst time for viewers
YouTube viewers are going to start seeing ads on videos at the worst possible times thanks to Google’s Gemini AI.Michael Gwilliam (Dexerto)
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In an example shared by YouTube, a man proposes and the couple shares a kiss. YouTube then recognizes this as a “peak” moment and suggests an ad window immediately following it.
Welcome to dystopia.
A predictable one if you understand that Trade is the Origin of Most Problems. So predictable.... and 0 chances we change anything within the same system...
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Finally, a new revision of switching.software has appeared, incorporating lots of hints we received via our issue tracker.
What's more important: We finally got Woodpecker CI working with Codeberg Pages – which means that from now on, all changes to the main branch will appear on the website immediately. We no longer need to run Hugo on a local computer.
tl;dr: Changes will become visible more quickly now.
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You nailed it @AuthorJMac ! 🖖
Edit : Original (and complete) post on March 29, 2024
« You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. »
Cf. indiepocalypse.social/@AuthorJ…
Joanna Maciejewska (@AuthorJMac@indiepocalypse.social)
You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.indiepocalypse social
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TROM II: Sasha's story - Free Bird - videos.trom.tf/w/hRkyUTJGXWHv2…
Watch the entire documentary here - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
#trom #travel #tromsite #world
TROM II: Sasha's story - Free Bird
Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/videos.trom.tf
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in reply to Tio • •Exactly my feeling these days with the modern internet. I was updating my adblocker recently and had to disable it for a moment and then I forgot to re-enable it back and oh my fucking god.. I had to witness what the modern internet looks like without constanly blocking the shit flow of pop-ups, ads, banners and ai chat windows, fucking hell. I totally agree, I dunno how people use it these days without blocking anything, total disaster. I would be pissed off after a minute of using that shit.
There's this "joke" website to mock on the "modern internet experience" that for long time I giggled about: how-i-experience-web-today.com… but we went even waaay beyond that already I think 😵💫
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in reply to Roma • •I noticed people who watch youtube and have ads playing. I was shocked by the fact that they simply have accepted that. I would throw my phone into the bin if that was the case. Ads after ads after ads.
how-i-experience-web-today.com this website is really on point I swear!!
What a fucking shitshow the internet has become....but I am not surprised at all, I was sure it will become like this. If the incentive is to trade, then profit, data collection, restricted content and more ads are a normal practice...
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in reply to Tio • • •as a regular user, my experience is better. I don't "fight" that much, but use alternatives. And install alternatives for others.
Some examples how I do it differently:
... show more- Adblocker (never used) -> Brave browser
- RSS reader -> Inoreader (paid service)
- Censorship -> I have not experienced it somehow
- Wordpress -> Drupal (a truly open source, clean without ads, non commercial experience, but has no templates YET, so it was very time and knowledge intensive to build websites with, but things are changing, and they are creating a 'template marketplace', it means commercializing 💰 a little bit, more info inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WNEyg3U… (starts from 14:25), but it is reducing time needed to build a website. You may find some interesting things in this talk. What they are showing in this talk, is all new for me as well, despite me using Drupal since forever. They are completely reimagining how Drupal worked, or copying wordpress (and
as a regular user, my experience is better. I don't "fight" that much, but use alternatives. And install alternatives for others.
Some examples how I do it differently:
- Adblocker (never used) -> Brave browser
- RSS reader -> Inoreader (paid service)
- Censorship -> I have not experienced it somehow
- Wordpress -> Drupal (a truly open source, clean without ads, non commercial experience, but has no templates YET, so it was very time and knowledge intensive to build websites with, but things are changing, and they are creating a 'template marketplace', it means commercializing 💰 a little bit, more info inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WNEyg3U… (starts from 14:25), but it is reducing time needed to build a website. You may find some interesting things in this talk. What they are showing in this talk, is all new for me as well, despite me using Drupal since forever. They are completely reimagining how Drupal worked, or copying wordpress (and everyone's else) success a little bit. Yea, in the end Drupal is (or was, or still is) very clean, no adware, paywalls or premiums.
- Youtube -> I ~haven't opened Youtube in many years, but yes, it increasingly and ever more aggressively blocks alternatives. Alternatives as of now still work.
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in reply to Mindaugas • • •"Censorship -> I have not experienced it somehow"
Remembered few exceptions. Once I opened facebook (usually I never use it) and wrote a post about dangers of AI and it immediately disappeared, so I thought facebook was censoring it (and there are endless news stories about big tech censoring alternatives: facebook deleting info about linux or pixelfed, or x censoring info about signal or mastodon etc.). So yea, I had some little experience with big tech and immediately they censored.
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Re Youtube, I use #Freetube to avoid ads, autoplay, algoradicalization etc
Downside, it often breaks & you have to wait until the devs find a solution to Youtube's sabotage
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in reply to Rokosun • •MegatronicThronBanks
in reply to Tio • • •It's making me think I should pay for an account, but $11 is too much. $3 maybe.