Going Live in about 2 hours at 21:00 Madrid time, here https://videos.trom.tf/w/cZqJuu8qEHvbCRqZKc71DB
TROMcast: Looking Back, Looking Forward
A solo TROMcast by Tio, looking back at what TROM did this year, and what we want to do for the next year(s).
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@Aaron is going to present TROM tomorrow in Hamburg at the Chaotic Computer Club event. Unfortunately he only has a small, few minutes long opportunity to present the project in a workshop-like way. We tried to get TROM to the main event but there were too many applying (over 600) so we were no accepted. We will try next year.
But awesome that Aaron is there and he is trying to spread the message.
If we will have any videos and photos we will share with you on our Friendica :)
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TROMcast Live: Plans for the next year
Saturday 30st, 21:00
I (Tio) will do a live for several hours to talk a bit about my plans for TROM for the next year(s). I may allow others to join in but since this is a special TROMcast about some specific updates I want to talk about, it may only be me streaming. I will post the Peertube streaming link on the same day :).
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TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (documentary) - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
Now fully subtitled into Spanish, making it available to many millions of people who only speak spanish. All thanks to the wonderful Rafa and Vicky, and Cesar.
The amount of work to subtitle such a documentary in a professional way is quite intense and these people are doing it without asking anything in return. That's how we all should be. To do the things we feel are important and not worry about how to survive on this planet.
If you want to help us translate the documentary in more languages please contact us. https://www.tromsite.com/contact/
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Wow. @emilymbender, University of Washington computational linguist, deconstructs algorithmic tools, aka automation.“#AI” is a marketing term dating to the 1950s, when it was employed to secure research dollars.
What is being automated?
By whom and why?
Who benefits?
Who is being harmed?
How well does it work?
Who is accountable?
What laws/regulations apply to what is being automated?Well worth the ~5 minute investment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0md9tQ1KY
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@futureisfoss @alexHow should regulators think about "AI"?
On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on "AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstand...YouTube
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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..
‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza
Concerns over data-driven ‘factory’ that significantly increases the number of targets for strikes in the Palestinian territoryHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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Zeitgeist Requiem by Peter Joseph
https://apnews.com/press-release/ein-presswire-newsmatics/movies-779237be298601465d5c35fa2c5dc829
https://youtu.be/zlJ8KPZakNI
"Zeitgeist | Requiem” - New Film By Director Peter Joseph
Continuing the 4th installment of the globally acclaimed "Zeitgeist Film Series," author, activist and director Peter Joseph presents "Zeitgeist | Requiem”AP News
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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.
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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
The Ring of Fire: 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse (Official NASA Broadcast)
Watch live with us as a “ring of fire” eclipse travels across the United States on Oct. 14, 2023, from Oregon to Texas. This event occurs when the Moon passe...YouTube
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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/
How Is the Sun Completely Blocked in an Eclipse? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
It all has to do with the distance between Earth and the sun and Earth and the moon.spaceplace.nasa.gov
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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/
files.trom.tf
This is a trade-free tool, part of the trom.tf suite of trade-free services.files.trom.tf
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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
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.
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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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FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client
FreeTube is a feature-rich and user-friendly YouTube client with a focus on privacy.freetubeapp.io
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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 😀
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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!
ZDay: How to Grow a Saner Society. A Lifetime Adventure --- by Tio
On 26th of August, 2023, we presented TROM at the annual ZDay event in Prague. This was the last ZDay after a decade long of making them every year.videos.trom.tf
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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
ZDay: How to Grow a Saner Society. A Lifetime Adventure --- by Tio
On 26th of August, 2023, we presented TROM at the annual ZDay event in Prague. This was the last ZDay after a decade long of making them every year.videos.trom.tf
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Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
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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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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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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
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (documentary)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.videos.trom.tf
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https://videos.trom.tf/c/trom/videos
Added to my watchlist! (and subscribed via #Mastodon)
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 to come up with realistic solutions.videos.trom.tf
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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 😀
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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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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.
#tromlive
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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.
#tromlive
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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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> 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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