TROM II: Volunteering should be normality https://videos.trom.tf/w/hU5CHdy2pYewDEx89JJBQD
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EURONEWS Iinterview
This Wednesday I was taking a part in Euronews TV show "The Road To Green". They travel around and highlight various sustainable initiatives, ecology and conservation projects. But also people behind such initiatives. I am happy that I had a chance to participate.
Here is some info on my Patreon about the experience.
The episode will be aired on 30/04 on TV and later will be available online.
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TROM II: Mountains of Waste https://videos.trom.tf/w/2tA9iTuPGmDdTRZSNF4GoZ
#waste #pollution #climatechange #ewaste #capitalism #trade #TradeRuinsEverything
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TROM II: Trade ruins creativity
Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/videos.trom.tf
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Such a shame the total solar eclipse was not visible in Europe...but well you can see some super amazing photos on https://tromnews.com/photos/ :) - here is my favorite:
I love our TROMnews website...I visit it every single day.
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Some people still think that humans, or other creatures, are born one way or another. But is that true? See https://videos.trom.tf/w/2EPQXShdHCrKPfgLLCXWbc
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Civilians and aid workers killed in Gaza: "Is this a war against Hamas or a war against civilians?" https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=W6FAdhkzWz8
#Israel #gaza #war #doctorswithoutborders
Civilians and aid workers killed in #Gaza: "Is this a war against Hamas or a war against civilians?"
Executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA Avril Benoit joined "Face the Nation" on Sunday, April 7, 2024, to discuss the impact of the war in Gaza on civilians and aid workers.Doctors Without Borders / MSF-USA | Invidious
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Welcome to planet Earth. A random rock in the Universe where the most "intelligent" species only cares about trade. Trade this for that. So that the members of its species spend all of their life trading. That's all it is.
It is not about creating smarter and relaxed humans, and a nice environment for everyone. Not about exploring and learning, or enjoying. It is about trading.
Primitive species.
#TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #work #jobs #slaves
EDIT: Funny that this fits so well with the latest bit we shared from TROM II - You are a disposable tool https://videos.trom.tf/w/rEieFEBWghVcJgQqDb4Tuh .... weird coincidence.
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One is a billionaire who is selling all of his books, the other one is a quite-broke human who has the courage and decency to provide her book online for free. Trade-Free. No ads, no data collection, no subscribe-here-to-read bullshit.
That's the world in which we live. The ones who make a fortune are trained and incentivized to not even share their "must read" books for free, despite having so much wealth.
Oh look, Bill Gates released a book about "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster"! It must be important.... so it is worth 18$ to read.
Grab @Sasha 's book from here https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/ - she also talks a lot about Climate Change, solutions, and a new kind of worldview.
#gates #climatechange #capitalism #TradeRuinsEverything #climate #billionaires
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TROM II: You are a disposable tool https://videos.trom.tf/w/rEieFEBWghVcJgQqDb4Tuh
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TROM II: Money made us crazy https://videos.trom.tf/w/gArnE9mtYXfq4iTizbFbCc
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@bigworldsmallsasha has finally released her new book that she had been working on for the last couple of years! I'm really excited to read her memoir because I know she has had one of the most interesting lives, if you're unfamiliar with Sasha I recommend taking a look at her website - https://bigworldsmallsasha.com
She has been traveling around the world for more than a decade with little to no money and has gained an extensive understanding about our world through these experiences.
Big World | Small Sasha
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022-2024 2007 Freed from slavery (finished high school). Drove across North America 3 times. Lived in Whistler, Canada. 2008 Lived in Canada and California.Big World | Small Sasha
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A book years in the making
Big World | Small Sasha
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022-2024 2007 Freed from slavery (finished high school). Drove across North America 3 times. Lived in Whistler, Canada. 2008 Lived in Canada and California.Big World | Small Sasha
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My Book Release!
Book
The e-version of my book is free as a PDF. You can download it, flip through it, and read it however you like.Big World | Small Sasha
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TROM II: Values and The Kindergarden
Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/videos.trom.tf
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TROM
This project argues that trade is the origin of most problems: from climate change to slavery, waste and pollution, corruption, crime, you name it. And if we understand the cause, we have a chance ...videos.trom.tf
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mastodon has what, 15 million users ?
hard to say with twitter, but FB is so much larger we aren't even round off error
and , at least in biological science, most people are still on twitter
so why do you think anyone will care ?
aside from you and me and one or two others ?
I for one started to care more when my videos started to be banned on those platforms, alongside some of my posts. Videos and posts that were educational and I never made any money off of them. So I, being hurt, started to care more about using other platforms. Thus, pain. That combined with my understanding about how these platforms like ytb, twitter, fb and the like operate, that they are in fact businesses/markets and not "networks".
So I think that's one way for people to start to care about changing some of their digital habits: to be extremely pissed off at those platforms, while at the same time have some curiosity to try something different.
It is very difficult, but from my experience what works is to be an example. I moved and gave no fucks about the other platforms so if anyone wanted to follow our TROM project or me, they had no choice but to move too. I made a bunch of people switch to these other alternatives.
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TROM II: The many ways we are destroying this planet https://videos.trom.tf/w/w1jW1t8p7LXrAvvaQSubea
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Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
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Oh look, the Jews doing the Nazi move....
Also, how hilarious is the notion "war crimes". As if war was not a crime in the first place. Israel killed so many innocent people... to still "wonder" if what they are doing is wrong, is wrong!
Also this:
Our place in the universe, galaxies and galaxies that we can see from our little rock. How shameful to create a society where humans are divided into little groups: nationalities, beliefs, patches of land, etc.. And to kill each other and destroy this planet....
But if we are to get ourselves out of this shit, we have to first understand why this situation was created in the first place. What forces pushed humans to end up in this disastrous situation.
#capitalism #TradeRuinsEverything #war #gaza #israel #money #warcrime
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GPT-4V(ision) Unsuitable for Clinical Care and Education: A Clinician-Evaluated Assessment
Another evidence that LLMs and generative "AI" in general were just overhyped and overinflated by Microsoft and others. What was sounding horrifying and threatening for the people's jobs and work positions on the one hand and on the other as a new "neverseen breakthrough" for humanity, ended up as just a product of agressive PR, the same as crypto and web 3.0 a few years back, the same as any further potential bloated promises to raise the profits and sell more exaggerated innovations.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12046
GPT-4V(ision) Unsuitable for Clinical Care and Education: A Clinician-Evaluated Assessment
OpenAI's large multimodal model, GPT-4V(ision), was recently developed for general image interpretation. However, less is known about its capabilities with medical image interpretation and diagnosis.arXiv.org
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Not surprised. The PDF can be found here btw https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12046.pdf - I am sure the use of "AI" in science could be useful. There are some examples that if you train it on relevant data and gear towards specific goals can have good results https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68607059
But yah, the fucking hype around it is astonishing.
NHS AI test spots tiny cancers missed by doctors
An AI tool called Mia found missed breast cancer symptoms in the scans of 11 women during an NHS test.By Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)
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Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
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Never come close to the seals
I have joined North Seal Team volunteers in Belgium for this mission to protect grey and common seals.
Also I have visited SeaLife Blankenberge which have the only seal sanctuary in Belgium and they are doing great job of taking care of the seals.
Support me on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/BeBraveToAct
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Our Friendica instance got updated to the latest stable and all of our custom themes were updated and we added 2 more: Brown and Grey.
Go to Settings - Display to test them out.
They will be shared with the Friendica's developers if they want to include them in the default Friendica's themes or get some ideas about future changes.
Big thanks to these people who create Friendica for being so awesome and for keeping Friendica so useful and feature-rich!
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We are now using the wonderful https://listmonk.app/ for our TROM Newsletter. Open Source and awesome! A proper self hosted Newsletter system. You can subscribe here https://newsletter.tromsite.com/subscription/form
That being said we have removed the email notifications when new posts are created for all of our websites: tromjaro.com, videoneat.com, directory.trade-free.org, and so forth. This was done because the plugin we were using was discontinued for security reasons, but also because it is not a great idea to send emails like that, from a Wordpress website. And on top of this very very few people were using this feature.
All of our websites have a "follow" page where you can follow them via RSS or the fediverse.
listmonk - Free and open source self-hosted newsletter, mailing list manager, and transactional mails
Send e-mail campaigns and transactional e-mails. High performance and features packed into one app.listmonk.app
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In January 2022, Lufthansa admitted it had operated over 18,000 empty flights to keep airport slots during the pandemic.
And they are not the only ones. Read more here.
Welcome to Earth, where trade is the main practice that everyone is a follower of, willingly or not. Where humans care mostly, if not entirely, about trade and how to maximize their advantage.
How can we get ourselves out of this shit, unless we start by understanding what the shit is made of!?
First: understand the problem. TRADE. The fact that we've built a society where you cannot survive unless you trade this for that. Once we understand this, hopefully we can tackle it. Give people a way to have a decent life, access to at least their basic needs as trade-free, and then try to replace more and more trade-based services (like say transportation) with trade-free alternatives.
Volunteers plus trade-free goods/services can create more of them, replicating over time and replacing the cancerous trade-based practices.
#TradeRuinsEverything #capitalism #money #corruption #airlines
European carriers are flying thousands of near-empty planes this winter just to keep their airport slots
Airlines in the EU have complained that other regions and continents are not imposing such requirements.Natasha Turak (CNBC)
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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
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Also I just saw this news on TROMnews "UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant " https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/uk-600m-backing-jim-ratcliffe-carbon-bomb-petrochemical-plant
"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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EU restrictions on certain single-use plastics
From 3 July 2021, single-use plastic plates, cutlery, straws, balloon sticks and cotton buds cannot be placed on the markets of the EU Member States.Environment
Fascinating Connection between Opals and Bats
In February I've joined Slovakian Bat Conservation Society for their yearly census of bats in Opal mines. That's the oldest opal mines in the world, for around 100 they been closed, and recently opened for tourism. But it also perfect place for bats to hibernate during winter. And that's why it's the best time to count them to monitor their population.
Slovakian Bat Conservation - https://netopiere.sk/en/
Slovakian Opal mines - https://www.slovenskeopalovebane.sk/en/home/
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Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6
KDE MegaRelease 6
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.KDE MegaRelease 6
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🚀 Exciting News! 🚀
We're consolidating our cryptographic libraries with Rust! 🦀
With a unified crypto library, we simplify development, speed up deployment, and ensure consistent security measures across all clients.
This milestone marks a significant step in our journey.
Join us in celebrating this achievement, and looking forward to even more exciting developments ahead! 🎉
https://element.io/blog/meet-element-r-our-new-unified-crypto-implementation/
#Element #Rust #Security #ElementX
Meet Element R: our new unified crypto implementation
We’ve created a common cryptographic library implementation in Rust - codenamed Element R - for all our Element clients.Archie W (Element Blog)
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Unable to type a message, input field is invisible · Issue #8328 · element-hq/element-android
Steps to reproduce At the main screen I enter my private room which I use as a diary (I am the only user in the room) Outcome What did you expect? Being able to type in and send a message. What hap...GitHub
Offshoring emissions through used vehicle exports
This is why it is almost impossible to solve climate problems without entire humanity effort. There are always the poor countries to sweep those issues under their carpet, which, of course, are happy to buy a cheap shit, since nobody there can afford anything else. It is the same with the garbage and waste, by the way. But this harmful practice is completely "normal" in our society, because it is just the trade, a pillar of the economies..
We need more trade-free resources and services, which can be naturally focused on making our environment better and not making business profitable and also can be adopted by the less developed countries since it is absolutely free to use.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-01943-1
#TradeRuinsEverything
#tradefree
Offshoring emissions through used vehicle exports - Nature Climate Change
International trade of used vehicles lacks regulation on emissions standards. This study shows that vehicles exported from Great Britain generate substantially higher carbon and pollution emissions than scrapped or on-road vehicles.Nature
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We have one Planet ffs, we cannot keep throwing shits to the others' fans and expect the pieces of it will never return back.
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...and you're assuming that here in the EU everything is fine. I'm an #ebike rider in Portugal, where out in the countryside, there's still thousands of vehicles with defective, stolen or removed emission control mechanisms, or still legal but just pre-dating effective controls. Practically all the old farmers have them.
These drivers often have to demonstrate their frustration at having their pace on tiny roads set 5km/hr slower by a bike, meaning they /have to/ struggle past, foot to the floor benching thick black toxic-smelling smoke for kilometres. Often I have to stop, wait for the fumes to clear before proceeding.
For the first time since 2014 we are able to provide access to our own RSS Feeds for TROMnews, for those who want to keep in touch with what we curate via TROMnews, but want to do so via their RSS readers. See https://tromnews.com/about/
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in reply to Sasha • • •One little notice: it was quite a puzzle for me to find a PDF version to get into. I didn't think that the picture is actually a clickable e-book! :D Probably there should be an additional button like "Read PDF book" as the last one in the buttons row.
It was puzzling because some people are offering their books for a donation/free fee, like you can enter "0" on a platform and get access to a book - so I thought that a BuyMeACoffee had that option... xD Confusing a bit.
DLed on my reader, will share my review after a read, if will still be alive xD
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Sasha
in reply to Eugene • • •Ok, thanks for letting me know, we'll add a button or explanation there then 🙂
Shit I hope you are okay. Let us know if there's any way we can help you escape 😬
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