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.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
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.
Oh look if you buy a "modern" car that has a "cool-screen" and useless features, it costs you money to update that shit.
How cool. New business opportunities for the traders. Since you can't really make these boxes on wheels more useful than they already are, now they are adding more and more useless "Features". That's the incentive in a trade-based society.
those look like basemaps for the navi, which are outsourced to TomTom (who at the same time have managed to enshittify the otherwise reasonable standalone satnavs by using poor quality batteries in later models)
to be entirely fair, satnav companies have been doing this since the early 2000s at least, it's just that with modern cars the manufacturers can cut out the middle man there and just run the annual update racket themselves instead.
The far more dodgy aspect is that eg. BMW lock features like remote heating (so you can turn the heating in your car on in winter from your house so the car's warm by the time you get in) behind a literal monthly subscription
like with maps they'll be licensing the map data from someone else and passing the cost on (and of course that in itself is a Capitalism Problem), but for things like letting you turn on the heating via an app it's just pure greed
Yes indeed. This is just an example, but since the navigation is perhaps the central point of such a screen, and can be useful, it is ridiculous that you have to pay to update it. Because if you do not update, then it becomes entirely useless. All of those GPS modules, the hardware, and everything else. Pointless.
I suspect that's "for now".... but I had no clue about these. This is a car my parents bought and honestly didn't consider the GPS to be that important since you can use the phone for nav anyway. But thanks for the headsup I had no clue.
@mark I would quite like to swap out my current dinosaur burner for an FEV at some point but also even this car which is almost a decade old now has an infuriating amount of extremely locked-in technology about it and
like what are the chances that EVs don't even have DIN form factor dashboard computers anymore so you just straight up *can't* switch the manufacturer's audio/satnav system with one that isn't, as they say, a physical instantiation of a business model
@mark like on this car I could buy an aftermarket fascia and just stick a 2-DIN Android radio thing in there to have OpenStreetMap and a Subsonic client to use with my home server and connect a reversing camera that doesn't cost hundreds because the manufacturer radio will only work with the manufacturer's cameras
and somehow I highly doubt any of that is possible on a modern FEV
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.
Learn how to fight deforestation in paperback :) haha Some time ago there was an album of singer Jack Johnson who with it was fighting the plastic pollution. He made a nice music video collecting plastic on a beach, and was promoting especially problem on the beaches of Hawaii, of course the album was in a plastic CD format :) I pointed out that in the comments, and I believe his manager replied that if I don't want CD i can buy digital download :) But the fact that they are selling hundreds of thousands of plastic CD's haven't confused him at all :)
Yeah I am so not surprised. I wonder if these people understand the irony and choose to ignore it because they make money off of it, or simply they cannot see the connection there....
Thank God that companies are now starting to become more environmentally conscious!
100% recycled paper. Tell me that does not give you more confidence that we are going to, finally, make this world a better place.
So what that inside of it are 2 plastic bags full of chips!? I mean, they are at least trying!
I find it so hard to take this idiocracy of a society seriously. I think it is me who is in the wrong here, trying to think that this society can become sane. But perhaps I should take it for what it is: a total joke.
I don't know how this specific product was packaged before the paper bag, but IMO this kind of green advertising just adds an additional paper waste to the existing plastic waste.
yes ofc....I was sarcastic. that's a lot more waste. they already put the chips in a plastic bag so there is no need to add yet another layer of paper on top of that just so that they can pretend to be "green"
haha, i thought the same when I have bought this chips in Spain :) I was actually angry at them, it feels like they tricked me, and not even 1 plastic bag, 2 of them :)
I like the focus on "the system" rather than the "AI". The "AI" is not really the problem here, the system is, where it incentivizes the use of AI for bad purposes. From big companies who want to harvest people's data and show ads to them, or sell their "AI" as a service, and thus be incentivized to make this tool for profit motives, to individuals who are using these tools to create more shitty content online in order to get more clicks, more views, more money.
In the end it is what we talked about for years now: the problem with trade. We live in a trade-based society where everyone is forced and incentivized to trade. So instead of making a tool like AI for detecting skin cancer, or creating videos more easily, and overall to help the soci
I like the focus on "the system" rather than the "AI". The "AI" is not really the problem here, the system is, where it incentivizes the use of AI for bad purposes. From big companies who want to harvest people's data and show ads to them, or sell their "AI" as a service, and thus be incentivized to make this tool for profit motives, to individuals who are using these tools to create more shitty content online in order to get more clicks, more views, more money.
In the end it is what we talked about for years now: the problem with trade. We live in a trade-based society where everyone is forced and incentivized to trade. So instead of making a tool like AI for detecting skin cancer, or creating videos more easily, and overall to help the society, people, and be useful, humans make these tools in order to trade them: for data, attention, or currency.
We need to talk about that! We need to talk about our society more than we need to talk about AI.
I’m sorry for the YouTube link but watch this, write down every word that comes out of @Mer__edith’s mouth, frame it, hang it on your wall, and read it every morning until it really sinks in.
In the final episode of the AI series with Maria Ressa, we meet two women on the front lines of the battle to make artificial intelligence accountable.Camill...
So ridiculous how people think that they are "free", when in fact we are all imprisoned by rules and laws, many of which are entirely harmful and primitive.
So ridiculous how people think that they are "free", when in fact we are all imprisoned by rules and laws, many of which are entirely harmful and primitive.
When nine-year-old Maya Kowalski was admitted to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in 2016, nothing could have prepared her or her family for what they were about to go through. As the medical team tried to understand her rare illness, they began to question the basic truths that bound the Kowalskis together.
@gnutelephony This is just inhumane..... There is no other way to describe it and I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Often times when people bring up issues regarding racism and such I've never seen many of them mention this one, maybe there needs to be more awareness about this issue 'cause it's an important one.
I need to divorce myself more from the society/politics/conflicts part of our world. It is insane what it has become. When Russia put hundreds of thousands of troops on Ukraine's border and were accused of preparing an invasion, they said that's entirely false. Then they invaded, then they called the war against Ukraine as a "special military operation".
They bombed hospitals and schools and residential or public spaces, killing so many innocent people...
UK, USA, and EU were "horrified" at these atrocities, while China was "on the fence" and Iran and the like were kinda cheering up for Russia and helping them.
Day by day, people dying, politicians lying. People were crying...
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I need to divorce myself more from the society/politics/conflicts part of our world. It is insane what it has become. When Russia put hundreds of thousands of troops on Ukraine's border and were accused of preparing an invasion, they said that's entirely false. Then they invaded, then they called the war against Ukraine as a "special military operation".
They bombed hospitals and schools and residential or public spaces, killing so many innocent people...
UK, USA, and EU were "horrified" at these atrocities, while China was "on the fence" and Iran and the like were kinda cheering up for Russia and helping them.
Day by day, people dying, politicians lying. People were crying...
And now Israel drops thousands of bombs on Gaza, killing again so many innocent people. Creating a total disaster.
So much suffering, just like in Ukraine. And yet USA, UK and EU are cheering up for Israel.
Even helping them...
Suddenly there is no more genocide....
Israel says they only kill the bad people, despite the videos and photos showing the contrary. They say they are saints and are fighting against evil, because you see Hamas killed over a thousand innocent Israeli people and that's EVIL, so they must go and kill thousands more innocent people....because that's GOOD!
Not to mention what Israel has done to palestinians over the past decades....trapping them in an open prison basically...
Then Russia is like: Oh my god, this is genocide! Unbelievable! To drop bombs on hospitals and kill entire families. This is terrible!
And China speaking up against what Israel is doing, more than what Russia is doing. And Iran talking about "human rights"....
And Ukraine not putting any blame on Israel for doing what Russia is doing to them....
Add to the mix the Hamas and other groups that create a lot of misery and terror, and the values of the so called "Arab countries" that are full of shit, and the primitivism of religion overall.
Ukraine is also not an angel, or any other tribe for that matter. Politicians are lying, propaganda is a daily news, and people continue to suffer while at the same time we have problems like cancer killing so many people, tuberculosis that is treatable killing the poor by the millions; diseases, climate change, pollution....
But the thing is, many of these situations are still a result of our trade-based society. The destruction of our environment, enslaving people, making humans into consumers, and so on, are a result of this society.
But even when it comes to wars they are a result of boiling trade-interests on a high flame. Where politicians say all sorts of stupid things, create propaganda through social (ad) networks that also rely on trades, promoting nationalism and patriotism to get more votes, to then have these politicians rule over others, and have luxurious cars, do all sort of businesses, and gain more power.
In other words do you think the "head of states" really care about their tribe when they are almost always caught avoiding taxes, doing shady businesses, and stealing form their tribe?
They care about them and their families, but then they start to promote "patriotism" and "us the tribe" stupidity, to gain votes to be elected as "heads of states". And they use these platforms that care mostly about you paying them to promote your posts. The cycle of vomit.
The thirst for power comes mainly from humans being trained to trade to acquire, because the more you have the more power you have, and vice versa.
And then starting wars is part of the power thirst and the need to get more "support" from the "nationals".
A mix of rich people who lie and have power over others, and the others who are confused patriots, busy workers, and idiotic consumers. Going at war is easy.
And these things are not new at all. For thousands of years these things have existed. From the Roman empire to the Iraq war....
Conclusion.
This is a totally insane society, full of lies and idiots. A horror carnival. And I think the sanest way for me is to force myself to ignore this side of our society. Ignore everything that any politician says (I already do this anyway), ignore these conflicts that I cannot do a thing about and are wrapped in propaganda and misery; ignore this society and focus more on the natural world.
I want to try and do astrophotography to reveal what my eyes can't see. To go more in nature, to grow TROM and its many positive projects, to live a less stressed life, because the society is too retarded and chaotic to even make sense of it, let alone do anything about it.
Very good point Tio, and great artworks! Yeah, that's exactly my thoughts, like wtf, they bomb civilians in Gaza like crazy, and it's ok for EU and US, they even help doing this. And people opinions are divided, some are for Palestine others for Israel when in fact all of them committing brutal crimes and one side is no better than the other. Of course Gaza it is like an open prison for many many years already, which is also very cruel and inhumane. I was also quite sadden to see the reaction of EU... But that's politics. Good point, not to trust or even take seriously any politician, it's all corrupted and fake. They twist everything as its more beneficial for them.
You just pretty much summed it up in this blog post, politics is full of lies and propaganda man..... Every now and then I see these images of the atrocities caused by wars, on the internet, newspaper, etc..... be it in Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, etc.... Does it really matter which place is getting hit? Innocent people are getting hurt, and many die because of these wars..... This is very sad and awful...... 😔
Well....Youtube labels itself as a video platform instead of an ad platform or video-ad platform, or something similar. So yeah...people may get confused when Youtube act like an ad company. But they are.
Same way that facebook is not a social network, is an ad network.
Did you ever realize that the most popular browser in the entire world, is made and controlled by an ad company? And the most popular search engine....Same goes for the most popular "social networks". And mobile operating system....
Insane....
And now Google, who has the power to change the internet for the worse, is trying to do something that I had anticipated many years ago. You see, we think that we fooled these companies by using adblockers, or some interfaces like invidious and the like, but the truth is that we could do that because they allowed us to. As soon as these will threaten their existence they can throw massive amounts of money at it and make it difficult if not impossible to bypass these.
Example: since Google owns the search, the mobile operating system, maps, the most popular video platform and so on, AND they own the most popular browser in the world, they are trying to introduce some technical things into the browser and some of their websites to block the adblockers and more.
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Did you ever realize that the most popular browser in the entire world, is made and controlled by an ad company? And the most popular search engine....Same goes for the most popular "social networks". And mobile operating system....
Insane....
And now Google, who has the power to change the internet for the worse, is trying to do something that I had anticipated many years ago. You see, we think that we fooled these companies by using adblockers, or some interfaces like invidious and the like, but the truth is that we could do that because they allowed us to. As soon as these will threaten their existence they can throw massive amounts of money at it and make it difficult if not impossible to bypass these.
Example: since Google owns the search, the mobile operating system, maps, the most popular video platform and so on, AND they own the most popular browser in the world, they are trying to introduce some technical things into the browser and some of their websites to block the adblockers and more.
Basically if you visit Youtube.com via Chrome, then Youtube first asks Chrome about you. Like...are you using an adblocker? If Chrome says yes, then Youtube can refuse you. Therefore you cannot visit Youtube.com unless you do what Youtube says you should do. In this case deactivating your adblocker.
Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they're human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.
And this is their first point in their explanation. Of course they will fight for this. It will get harder and harder, if not impossible to block ads and trackers.
This is easily predictable when you understand that the main goal of humans on this planet is to trade. This for that. An evolution that results in big companies doing this sort of shit, even when they have more than enough.
I have been screaming about this for more than a decade. But most people do not listen. Do not want to talk about this. They make it look complicated (ad-based economics, surveillance capitalism, blah blah blah). In truth it is the same practice and incentive for Google as it is for the guy who owns a small grocery store. Stop thinking that this is an issue with big companies and billionaires. It is not. We are all, or most of us, scammers, charlatans, tricksters. On small or big levels.
What can we do about it?
First understand it. Understand why these things happen, because if you do not at best you can make some politicians approve some laws to try and stop these big players. And this does not work. We made a big book and a huge documentary all about this.
We need to understand where the problem originates (trade) and inform people about it, but also try to use alternative platforms and software, so we don't depend on this motherfuckers.
I agree. Unfortunately there aren't many alternatives. I use Firefox for many years now, but except that, what are other options that are not Chromium dependent or dependent on Firefox who receives a lot of money from Google?
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@rotfarm my knowledge about this is very limited, but from what I understand Google is proposing a method for web developers to verify the integrity of users who visit their websites, so if this proposal becomes a success and people started implementing this verification on their websites then you won't be able to access those sites from firefox, unless firefox also implemented this thing in their browser.
I really hope I'm wrong here and that it won't affect firefox users.....
@aral @rotfarm Maybe organizations like EFF would fight against this, that's my only hope now. If you actually think about it what Google is doing here is also anticompetitive in nature, other web browsers should be given the choice to not implement their design, but how can that be with a verification system like this being put on websites we visit.
@rotfarm Where “a lot of” = ~half a billion dollars every year = if Google stopped paying them tomorrow, they’d be bankrupt the next day = totally dependent on Google for their existence.
@aral so an important question here that needs to be asked......if there is an absance of alternatives, why aren't people making them? Is it defeatism? No profit? This doesn't seem to stop most FOSS projects from being made, so why not make a web browser?
@rotfarm A web browser is a huge undertaking. No reason why the EU couldn’t fund an independent organisation to make one, though. (Apart from lack of political will and a myopic insistence on framing everything through the lens of “The Single Market.”)
Our Teddit instance, like all others, is starting to feel the effect of the Reddit API limitation. It mostly does not work. Our Nitter now works, which is really cool. And Invidious was removed but I may bring it back on another server separate from trom.tf to not impact the IP. I'll wait to see if they find a fix for it, then I'll try it out.
Reddit, Twitter, Youtube....these ad-platforms that do not like when the content created by their users, not themselves, is accessed for free.
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Fun! When I scream and scream and scream that eventually trade ruins everything, and nothing escapes...some people think I exaggerate. 'alright...
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023 / Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
So Facebook and Instagram do not let you see any page/profile even if they are public, without you logging in:
Now Twitter does the same (although they say it is "temporary"....like the special 3 day military operation in Ukraine. Ok):
And Reddit will basically not allow 3rd parties to access the content so you are stuck with the terrible Reddit website/app.
Now Youtube is cracking down on services like Invidious to make sure no one accesses Youtube unless they use the official website/app. And Nitter/Bibliogram/Teddit and the like, that were interfaces for the above ad networks, will probably either stop working or be a pain in the ass to keep them working.
Let's see how this evolves, but probably we will h
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So Facebook and Instagram do not let you see any page/profile even if they are public, without you logging in:
Now Twitter does the same (although they say it is "temporary"....like the special 3 day military operation in Ukraine. Ok):
And Reddit will basically not allow 3rd parties to access the content so you are stuck with the terrible Reddit website/app.
Now Youtube is cracking down on services like Invidious to make sure no one accesses Youtube unless they use the official website/app. And Nitter/Bibliogram/Teddit and the like, that were interfaces for the above ad networks, will probably either stop working or be a pain in the ass to keep them working.
Let's see how this evolves, but probably we will have to give up ytb.trom.tf, bird.trom.tf and rdt.trom.tf. And basically people should forget about Twitter and move to the fediverse. Forget about Reddit entirely and not even move anywhere else, do something else with their life. As for youtube the issue is that they completely own the video space, so moving to Peertube is never going to be an option in terms of finding videos to watch. So I highly recommend the amazing FreeTube https://freetubeapp.io/ - that runs locally and it seems to be a long term robust solution. It makes youtube a video platform and not an ad platform.
These companies do not provide social networks or video platforms, they may partially provide that but in truth they are ad networks. Like a Mall that has benches, fake palm trees and recreational areas. The Mall's main purpose is to sell you shit, not for you to go there and meet with your friends and relax. Therefore these companies will do all they can to restrict the content that OTHERS have created on their platforms, so that you "go to their Mall" to watch those ads, and for them to collect your data, and grab your currency.
So, you know, I and Sasha try to live together on this planet. We've been trying that for the past 3 years. Documents and documents and documents, and endless documents. You have no clue how much shit we've been through. And yet, still no fix for it. I will make a big post about this when (miraculously) it will be partially solved, because there seem to be no "full fix" for it.
But, there are TWO major realizations overall, so far:
ONE.
This system is not working!
All of these bullshit jobs that we have, the paper world, are irrelevant. We went to so many institutions, to lawyers, to this and that. Sasha talks to 3 lawyers at once now. And for the past 3 years no one provided us with a clear answer as to what we can do to "stay together". We bumped our heads into so many walls.
And that's the illusion: it seems like this system works, but in fact the suffering and fuckery is dispersed to the you and the me. To everyone. We suffer, we try to fix our issues, all ourselves. The struggle is for us, the people. While these institutions... show more
So, you know, I and Sasha try to live together on this planet. We've been trying that for the past 3 years. Documents and documents and documents, and endless documents. You have no clue how much shit we've been through. And yet, still no fix for it. I will make a big post about this when (miraculously) it will be partially solved, because there seem to be no "full fix" for it.
But, there are TWO major realizations overall, so far:
ONE.
This system is not working!
All of these bullshit jobs that we have, the paper world, are irrelevant. We went to so many institutions, to lawyers, to this and that. Sasha talks to 3 lawyers at once now. And for the past 3 years no one provided us with a clear answer as to what we can do to "stay together". We bumped our heads into so many walls.
And that's the illusion: it seems like this system works, but in fact the suffering and fuckery is dispersed to the you and the me. To everyone. We suffer, we try to fix our issues, all ourselves. The struggle is for us, the people. While these institutions that are in place dealing with the paperwork, are there mostly for the facade. Even for me who had very low expectations from this fuckery, it is quite shocking how pointless these institutions are. Trust me, several times these lawyers and paper people had to GOOGLE when we asked them some "legal advice". GOOGLE!?
TWO.
It's all about that trade!
You know how much I bitch about this trade based society and say that almost everything revolves around it...The fact that Sasha could easily get papers if I were to have a well paid job, tells you so clearly that ALL it matters in this world is for you to be a player in the trade game. That's all they care. Not love, not kindness, not smartness, not this, not that. NO. All it matters is if you can trade, be part of the trade system.
Our suffering is in fact a direct proof that trade is the origin of most problems. Go argue with me about that now! 😛 Because it is so in everyone's faces, that only the normal ones who adapted to the smell of shit, do not realize that they pooped themselves. And everyone else did as well.
Watta hell man. This is one fuckin prison on Earth. Decent humans must be free to go around and live wherever they want with whom they want. I was actually shocked when you said that even dancing in the marriage ritual isn't enough to get out of this paper hell. Apparently, in this society the decent human beings = those ones who can trade themselves till they die and no way around. Yeah, suuure.. huh
I feel sorry for the both of you for having to go through this much trouble, and all for just being able to stay together in one place?! What a fucked up society we live in, all these zombies seem to care about is papers, papers and papers... And also money probably.
haha that's nothing. Try to open a business by trading with another country, for example with a country outside the European Union. It's just a nightmare. many 'specialists' can't cope with the requirements, certificates, etc., hiring lawyers and special additional companies for the wholesaler to buy something abroad. Selective border checks can bury you forever. This is how a large number of companies operate - until the first inspection.😐
We suddenly went from like three registrations per minute to 900 a minute,” Chaput said. “There was nothing in the Mastodon software to detect that activity, and the protocol is not designed to handle this.”
This is very worrying especially with the rise of these "AI" language models that can make it nearly impossible to detect these spambots.
Our Friendica and Peertube will still be ok since they require manual approval and everyone is forced to explain why they want to join, so I can filter out most of the bots. But our Nextcloud and Matrix are going to be flooded. I am worried about
We suddenly went from like three registrations per minute to 900 a minute,” Chaput said. “There was nothing in the Mastodon software to detect that activity, and the protocol is not designed to handle this.”
This is very worrying especially with the rise of these "AI" language models that can make it nearly impossible to detect these spambots.
Our Friendica and Peertube will still be ok since they require manual approval and everyone is forced to explain why they want to join, so I can filter out most of the bots. But our Nextcloud and Matrix are going to be flooded. I am worried about our Matrix that is perhaps already hosting a bunch of these bots and eventually we may be defederated from the greater matrix network.
I am afraid that it is going to become hellish for us who host these services because we do not have the resources and manpower to deal with this.
This looks ugly.
And it is, of course, another side effect of the trade-society we live in. Where people need to trade in order to survive, and over time that mutates into a craze of trades where people are not just struggling to survive, but want endless shit. And thus, they cut forests, and make spambots, and pollute, and deceive, and lie, and all of that.
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I wonder what's the motivation behind these bots? I bet it's not the incentive for humans to trade, and thus consume, and thus want more, and thus aquire more, and thus steal, and thus deceive, and thus create these bots...
Mindblowing. It will only continue to increase, I assume. The internet becomes more and more about advertisment, promotion and selling shit now. Bots can be very effective in that regard and other scams of course.
Same way trade pushed humans to consume forests, and mountains of resources, and other creatures to deplete populations, and in the process create a lot of waste, the internet is now the new territory of exploitation. Very predictable when you understand how the force of trade operates and incentivizes humans. Terrible.
Abso-fuckin-lutely. Just to imagine amount of the resources and energy are spent to support them bots, just scamming and advertising. Insane! What a fucking waste..
@esh How do you define trade again? For me it about energy/matter, socioeconomic status, power, resources, ... inequality. And trade is just a means for that.
Trade is one the method to distribute scarce resources between people, I would say. It has played a defining role in human societies evolution. But unfortunately, at current moment it became a global foundation and most influencing force affecting people lives and behavior. Even if at this level of development we can provide more and more resources in abundance for all people, it still has to be profitable, to be traded to keep the system work. And I would argue that status, power and inequality, all are actually by-products of trade. Artifitial limits, exagerrated marketing, false values are also helping in creation inequality or such concepts like "status", which is used mainly to trade even more "deluxe" stuff to obtain those "statuses". An entire TROM project, which is led by @Tio is about that actually, how trade might be the origin of the most problems humanity faces nowadays and what are the alternative methods of distribution (like trade-free) that may be applied to societies to make them saner and more sustainable.
The fear we should fear is not some super-intelligent AI, but what this trade-based society pushes people to do with these tools: more scams, more fake shit, more nonsense content, more hype, selling more shit and so forth.
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I have uploaded the trailer to our old Facebook page too, and our Youtube channel. Just because it is a very rare evet so in case anyone still follow us there. Let me tell you....Facebook is such a clusterfuck. I already knew that but I did not get to interact with it for a long time now. To simply add a video and a description is a mess. A million buttons, a million popups, a million boxes. Promotions and ads everywhere, and all of the crap. If people call that a "social network" they might as well call a Mall a "family home".
Friendica compared to Facebook is haven on earth. A pure social network.
So after I uploaded the trailer on FB and clicked "publish" the post popup disappeared and I was lost. I waited for like 10 minutes and I wanted to post again because I could not find that post....to then see that it was posted after those 10 minutes out of the blue. Took a while and no notification....so terrible.
Youtube is also a mess. An ad-video-platform where the focus is on clicks, views, how to monetize, where to put the ads, how to engage and all of this crap... show more
I have uploaded the trailer to our old Facebook page too, and our Youtube channel. Just because it is a very rare evet so in case anyone still follow us there. Let me tell you....Facebook is such a clusterfuck. I already knew that but I did not get to interact with it for a long time now. To simply add a video and a description is a mess. A million buttons, a million popups, a million boxes. Promotions and ads everywhere, and all of the crap. If people call that a "social network" they might as well call a Mall a "family home".
Friendica compared to Facebook is haven on earth. A pure social network.
So after I uploaded the trailer on FB and clicked "publish" the post popup disappeared and I was lost. I waited for like 10 minutes and I wanted to post again because I could not find that post....to then see that it was posted after those 10 minutes out of the blue. Took a while and no notification....so terrible.
Youtube is also a mess. An ad-video-platform where the focus is on clicks, views, how to monetize, where to put the ads, how to engage and all of this crap. I added a few subtitles to our trailer and it was like 5-6 clicks to add a single one, compared to 2 clicks on Peertube.
Again, Peertube is haven on earth, or the digital space. A simple and efficient VIDEO PLATFORM.
And that's how we can see how trade has a powerful and bad influence. If a social network or a video platform engages in trades with its users (data trade, attention trade, currency trade) then those platforms will never remain that, they will metamorphose into bazaars. Marketplaces.
Thank fuck that we now have our own social network and video platform, and they all connect with the greater fediverse. I LOVE that I can post our documentary on Peertube and not fear any Youtube BS rules. SO awesome!
Let me tell you that working on TROM II and having to find specific videos about say some tech, some places, etc. on youtube to grab some footage, was a complete misery. Not only that Youtube is full of crap, like entirely full of garbage videos created for views, many times by automated software, but Youtube also pushes these short videos they originally call "shorts".
Overall it was easier and saner 10 years ago when I made the first TROM to find footage. Today, with all of the "smartphones" and "4k 8k" kkk, you can barely find real and good quality footage.
From my tests these "AI"s are terrible. Very wrong, fed from the same BS advertising and SEO nonsense....
It is true search engines are ad-driven search engines. Everyone is competing to have their own shit rank high to get more clicks, more views, more currency.
Youtube channels like MrBeast and his "philanthropy" are a sign of a failed society from all perspectives. Sure, he at times helps some people, but the way it is done is a sort of a freak show. Get those views, be shocking, extreme, wasteful, clickbaity. Inject ads, promote bullshit, and mix it all up with mostly retarded videos.
Let's give money to people by making them do retarded and dangerous and uncomfortable things, and film them. Let's help others by making videos about their suffering and getting tons of money from ads. Perverse.
Anyway, I wanted to briefly rant about this utter disgrace.
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I want to boost this but I'm hesitant to because of how explosively a lot of leftists react to the r word 😅 I agree with everything else completely though, of course
@futureisfoss because that's the neo-leftist model "we don't care if you actually fight for progressive causes, just that you use the popularly accepted nomenclature at all times." @tio
Yeah, i got mixed feeling about him. Of course his videos are made in are quite retarded and dumb manner. On the other hand he at least helps someone. Compare to 99% of others in similar to him position. But the way his business model based on poor people is really perverse 🙁 Yet he is hero to many, bcs he helps others. But would he helped others if it wouldn't be possible to earn a lot of money from that ? That the question. In any case the whole situation is fucked up.
Musk, Bezos, Gates and others help poor people too at times. But this doesn't feel right to me, to profit so much on one hand and promote complete BS, and destroy and all that, while you help a little here and there. And it gives people the wrong impression about these acts - like "Wow look these youtubers and billionaires are solving many problems quicker and better than governments or other nonprofits". Just because these celebrities are very loud.
So I'd say it is great that the guy helps some people, and despicable that it has to be transformed into a "show", littered with ads and other retarded content. Not entirely his fault, since that's how this society "works".
There is this massive myth on a global scale, almost like a huge conspiracy, that humans are predisposed to being like this or like that. Predisposed to becoming depressed, ADHD is an illness, sexual orientation is inborn, violence can be detected in one's brain, and so forth.
This notion that humans have a certain biology and their behavior is based on that.
False.
From sexuality to mental disorders, violence or anything else. There are no genes, no chemicals, nothing biological that can predict any such behaviors. None.
We should start to abolish this mentality. This approach is succulently pushed by companies who sell the "miracle" drugs, and everyone is hypnotized by the cattle-society practice: treat humans like they are on a conveyor belt. Feel angry, sad, and all that? Well probably you have a "disease". Take this pill! Bye!
Anyway. Here is a recent publication by Joanna Moncrieff that debunks the myth of the "chemical imbalance" of depression. And here a more general overview of how depression cannot be linked to any bio-chemical marker.
Some very important quotes from this group of proper scientists that have the dignity and courage to remain scientists:
I have shown that family, twin, adoption, and molecular genetic studies have failed to provide scientifically valid evidence that genes play a role in causing depression. Combined with the recent findings by Moncrieff and colleagues that serotonin is not associated with depression, the idea of MD as a medical condition is in serious trouble.
To understand the true causes of depression, we must focus on family (including abuse and trauma), social, and political environments, including racial, gender, class, and other types of oppression/discrimination. We must address people’s increasing social isolation and disconnection from each other, lack of meaning and purpose, consumerism, and fears of present or future calamities such as pandemics, climate change, and nuclear war. The idea of depression as a medical/genetic condition must be reevaluated, and non-medical prevention and intervention strategies should be promoted.
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“suffering as being rooted in individual rather than social causes, leading individuals to think that it is them rather than the economic and social system in which they live that is at fault and in need of reform.
It is this trade-based society that makes humans sad, depressed, angry, demotivated and so forth. FIX SOCIETY!
American's have been lied to about so much. And everybody lies to us. Now we find that we never could trust the pharmaceutical companies. Thank God for computers. Had it not been for them we never would have recognized that the USA is as good an example of a third world country as any other.
My mobile phone is 7 years old, but works just fine. 2k screen, waterproof, whateverthefuck. My electric scooter is 8 years old. 1000W, range just about 12KM. But works fine. I may change the battery to double/triple the range. I have a 10 year old Windows tablet with TROMjaro. Works great. My headphones are some 4 years old. My laptop probably 6 years old!?
While I was watching some random videos about electric scooters (to fix something on my own), and realizing that they have become a thing now, I saw many people referring to 2-3 years old scooters as OLD and "of course is OLD so it does not work anymore". I saw that with phones too....nowadays a 3 year old phone seems ancient.
This is bullshit and it is a consequence of the trade system we live under, where "new" models, most of the time almost identical with previous ones, have to be released. Combine that with planned and perceived obsolescence and you got yourself the perfect waste-system.
So yeah...I think the newest gadget in my room is a few years old. We should not have to replace our stuff every year... show more
My mobile phone is 7 years old, but works just fine. 2k screen, waterproof, whateverthefuck. My electric scooter is 8 years old. 1000W, range just about 12KM. But works fine. I may change the battery to double/triple the range. I have a 10 year old Windows tablet with TROMjaro. Works great. My headphones are some 4 years old. My laptop probably 6 years old!?
While I was watching some random videos about electric scooters (to fix something on my own), and realizing that they have become a thing now, I saw many people referring to 2-3 years old scooters as OLD and "of course is OLD so it does not work anymore". I saw that with phones too....nowadays a 3 year old phone seems ancient.
This is bullshit and it is a consequence of the trade system we live under, where "new" models, most of the time almost identical with previous ones, have to be released. Combine that with planned and perceived obsolescence and you got yourself the perfect waste-system.
So yeah...I think the newest gadget in my room is a few years old. We should not have to replace our stuff every year or two. This is insanity! Creates so much waste...
If you come a day later to work, your "boss" will be really angry and may fire you. If your "boss" pays you a day later, is all fine. #TradeRuinsEverything #tromlive
This one is not a direct consequence of trading itself, the problem here is that contracts do mention the days you have to work, but not the day you will get paid.
I wish you were right. But you are not. There are countless of examples that I personally know, where it states in the contract when you have to be paid, and they were not. So often it is tiring. And it is a consequence of trade since it makes humans prioritize their own selves, so those "bosses" do not care much about their "slaves".
Also, in the contract it is mentioned you need to work only 8h a day, but many times you work more than that.
All of these agreements, written or verbal, will never be respected simply because the trade relationship between the "boss" and the "worker" is imbalanced towards the "boss" who has a lot more power.
And stuff like this is why I'm so thankful for working in a team and having a union. My team covers in case of emergency leave and my union makes sure they paycheck isn't late
That's good. I wonder tho how wide-spread and overall efficient these "unions" are. On top of that, it is quite concerning that we need them in the first place, it says a lot about the abuse of power in a trade society.
Yeah watch this documentary....what we are talking about for years now, how trade fucks things up. It is not just about money, money is just a form of trade. Likes, shares, comments, can be traded for products. #TradeRuinsEverything
Kids nowadays are growing up in an even more fucked up society. We are FoCkEd. #tromlive
Fake Famous is a 2021 documentary film directed by Nick Bilton. It is a social experiment involving three non-famous people who attempt to become social media influencers by “faking” fame.
Fake Famous is a 2021 documentary film directed by Nick Bilton. It is a social experiment involving three non-famous people who attempt to become social media influencers by "faking" fame.
I cannot trust any company. Period. It is like trusting Coca-Cola to do research on the effects of sugar on health. Any company is entangled with whatever they are selling. This entanglement is too strong. Even if there are any companies that seem to be more fair, in the long term they will fuck things up. I've seen this countless of times. Also, overall looking at the entire world-wide society, even if you may get a few more "fair" companies, overall most are corrupted and fucked up.
So yeah, companies should not even exist in a saner society. We should have organizations that do things. Plant trees, make computers, software, whatever. Like we showcase here. But no trade involved.
This is a show from a few days ago from the little town I live in:
It used to be this:
So messy.
Great! It seems that the world is starting to replace fireworks shows with drone shows. No more noise pollution
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This is a show from a few days ago from the little town I live in:
It used to be this:
So messy.
Great! It seems that the world is starting to replace fireworks shows with drone shows. No more noise pollution, smoke, waste from the burned fireworks, and so forth. Sounds much much better!
Here's a more advanced and cool example:
But I am concerned they will use them to also display some ads, like brands and promote shit...
Oh wait, they already do it!
FUCK.
Above Sydney so that everyone can see them...and loud music....so still noise pollution. What about those batteries and components for these thousands of drones that are used for such shows? Where do they go after not working anymore? Probably land-fields...
Ok ok....I know, nothing can end up well in a trade-based society. Everything gets traded, and thus marketed. Nothing is what it seems. A drone show is not just a drone show, it is an opportunity to advertise. A book is not just a book, it is an opportunity for the author to buy a new car. A piece of software is not just a piece of software, it is a way for the developer/company to collect more data, to then transform that into currency, to then transform that into holidays, houses, and fancy shit and so on for themselves.
This is the most fundamental thing that everyone should understand about our society, that we are forced and incentivized to trade. Very few people can afford to, or are willing to do things for the sake of doing things. And of course this creates a very messed-up society when you do something in order to get something else. We did that in school where the goal was to get good grades to pass the exams. Most kinds would cheat, not learn anything, because the goal was not to learn. And so it goes for our society...the goal is not to write books, do drone shows to protect the nature, create a PDF converter or whatever. Nah....
So we should not be surprised that everything goes to shit. Pollution, waste, bad products, scammy services....
On a positive note, I'm happy they're getting rid of fireworks, I hated the loud noise, the smoke and everything. I've never seen a drone show before, so it'd be nice to see that one day.
But yeah I knew trade would get in the way, #TradeRuinsEverything - this is why we can't have nice things. So does this mean I have to watch ads in the f**king sky now ?! Why is no one talking about this ?
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in reply to Tio • • •Alt text: BBC article: Retiring in your 60s is becoming an impossible goal. Is 75 the new 65?
By Chris Stokel-Walker, Features correspondent
People are living longer, and daily life is getting more expensive. It may be time to rethink the timeline for leaving the workforce.
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in reply to Tio • •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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