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A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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TROMjaro 2026.05.08 - forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-…

#linux #xfce #foss #trade-free

TROMjaro 2026.05.08

The usual Manjaro Stable updates, that also fix that nasty Linux security issue. And a few changes: Kernel 618 We moved to the new LTS kernel. If you want to do that open the “Kernel” app on your sytem and install it. Reboot the system.

^{TROMjaro Forum}

#Linux #foss #trade-free #xfce

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That is great and frustrating at the same time. This "enshitification" is totally a natural result of trading stuff. There is 0 difference between supermarkets putting a 5.99 price on food, or putting candies where people stay in line to pay, or deceiving people with those old ads on TV, and Facebook, Youtube and the like adding clickable ads in the middle of a video or making it play the next video automatically, or not making it clear what is a post what is an ad....

These are trade-based goods and services, and for them to sell, you have to engage in these "marketing" practices.

THIS IS NOTHING NEW!

Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to sell shit. All need to be biased towards their own business. Even the local small businesses are doing it. Everyone does it.

So instead of selecting a few of the most outrageous practices, call them shitty, and point the finger at them, better do 2 things:

Understand why these products are "shitty". It is trade, the need to trade, that makes people put more ads, collect more data, etc..

These are trade-based goods and services, and for them to sell, you have to engage in these "marketing" practices.

THIS IS NOTHING NEW!

Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to sell shit. All need to be biased towards their own business. Even the local small businesses are doing it. Everyone does it.

So instead of selecting a few of the most outrageous practices, call them shitty, and point the finger at them, better do 2 things:

Understand why these products are "shitty". It is trade, the need to trade, that makes people put more ads, collect more data, etc.. Currency, data, or attention trade.
Simply make 2 categories: trade-free and trade-based. If a product or a service is trade-free, it means it does not want anything from you, the user. Not your data, not your currency, not your attention. Therefore why would it want to make that product or service shitty?

Makes no sense.

We made a book all about that - tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo… and guess what? It is trade-free. Read it online or download it.

Side note....I like Louis but for fucks sake man start prioritizing a Peertube instance and post there rather than on the "shit" youtube....

#enshitfication #trade #trade-free #facebook #youtube #ads

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2026-03-04 16:12:18

Norwegian Government comes out swinging on enshittification
youtube.com/watch?v=ii-D9LaitU…
That video was so genuinely funny I was laughing my ass off 🤣 Truly refreshing to see something like this in this day and age. And I gotta say the Norwegian government is pretty badass for doing this! Let's hope more governments follow suit 🤞

Norwegian Government comes out swinging on enshittification
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
^{Louis Rossmann (YouTube)}

#Facebook #YouTube #trade-free #trade #ads #enshitfication

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Rokosun

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> Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to see shit.

I think you meant to type "sell shit" here.

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Tio

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Yes thanks

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2 months ago

Very good video from Veritasium about that big backdoor issue on Linux recently:

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

Of course this is an issue with our trade based society 100%. How? Easy:

The incentive to do harm in this society is quite high. For profit, for power that also leads to profit, for the fact that tribes and people are divided into groups trying to outgame the other groups. Like Iran has an incentive to hack USA, USA has an incentive to hack China, Russia has an incentive to hack the EU, and so forth. They can get sensitive information, blackmail, etc.. This is a global situation that has trade (as a practice) as the director of motives. Making people do what they do. Tribes hold onto their own resources, exploit other tribes, etc.. And so fighting with each other is natural.

If we lived in a society where trading was not a necessity and provided for all equally, we would have no reason to have tribes with borders, exploit other tribes, fight against each oth

#Linux #opensource #internet #foss #redhat #trade-free #spam #trade #Exploit #TradeRuinsEverything #Veritasium

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in reply to Tio 2 months ago

What we need also is economies of generosity.

Art in particular needs to run on appreciation. People need to be able to freely express their appreciation for a thing somebody else made-- while every transaction is adverserial, everybody trying to pay as little as possible to get as much as possible, especially while we're struggling to get our most basic needs met, it doesn't come naturally to toss around donations just to honor things you really like.

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Cy

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Wait, is he starting out by saying that the xz utils backdoor was the fault of people demanding that software be free and open source?

Ugh, now he's going on about the man in the middle fallacy. I agree with you, but this video is kind of crunk.

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Tio

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Wait, is he starting out by saying that the xz utils backdoor was the fault of people demanding that software be free and open source?

Not at all. Watch till the end they make good points about how open source is far more secure and versatile than proprietary software and they explain how the open source thing started.

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And then he shows how OpenSSH is linked to XZ via (sighhhh) systemd, without one single remark or criticism of systemd. Yeah I'm done.

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Why would they criticize systemd?

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Cy

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Because it was pushed on the community by brute force and trickery, and lo and behold adding a needless (mandatory) dependency to ssh, a dependency that itself is completely sloppy and depends on everything under the sun, introduces a vulnerability to ssh.

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Tio

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Who forced it on the community?

But also isnt this besides the point of the video? The video is about how people work as volunteers and try to do good things and are not supported by this society and how some bad people can take advantage of that. Also about how wonderful Linux is.

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Cy

in reply to Tio 2 months ago

It was Lennart Pottering's uh... "passion" project. He's the one who demanded we all use his sound server even though it added a layer of complexity and a new point of failure, and sound already worked. You might know it as PulseAudio. That particular fellow realized a critical vulnerability in the "open source" community. None of us compile anything anymore.

So if he could get projects to add "optional" systemd support that could only be removed at compile time, then binary distributions like Debian or Arch had to choose: require systemd, or forbid it. He also has big influence in the Redhat project, so they turned everything to use systemd, and their users couldn't do shit about it. Debian/Ubuntu followed, and Arch was soon after. Because once most people (using Redhat) were using systemd, they went through the trouble of learning how to use it, and came to expect it.

Even if it could be made secure, the way it was introduced makes it really hard to avoid vulnerabilities, because uh... it's mandatory, so you just have to hope it's secure. And it's a big fat kitchen s

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Tio

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OK I am really not very familiar with this....but the point of the video is different.

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Cy

in reply to Tio 2 months ago

I suppose. The way it's being presented is just grating on me. Needed at least some commentary on how we need less dependency hell. Or as you put it, "DETACH FROM THE TRADE SOCIETY"

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Super impressed with @CalyxOS ! We moved to a new phone and restored the backups - pretty much everything worked great. All restored. Apps and data. All because of how easy it is to use Calyx. Many many thanks for this fantastic trade-free operating system. I love it!

#trade-free #operatingsystem #calyx #android #foss

#foss #android #operatingsystem #trade-free #calyx @CalyxOS

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wilhelm

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how is that backup recovery process working? from which system did you create a backup and using what tool?

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Tio

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CalyxOS has its own backup tool. And accepts backups to all sort of locations such as WebDav or Nextcloud. When you reinstall Calyx you are asked to restore if you want. Use the same credentials for where you saved your backups and voila all will be restored.

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Translating any video in Kdenlive automatically - videos.trom.tf/w/f8WsbH7NpNh7U…

This is how you can translate a video from any language into English using Kdenlive. I tested it with a video spoken in 5-6 languages and it did fantastic. You can also use TROMjaro Linux tromjaro.com/ for easy setup and management of your OS in general.

#linux #kdenlive #videoeditig #whisper #translate #opensource #foss #tromjaro #trom #trade-free

Translating any video in Kdenlive automatically

This is how you can translate a video from any language into English using Kdenlive. I tested it with a video spoken in 5-6 languages and it did fantastic. You can also use TROMjaro Linux https://w...

^{videos.trom.tf}

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2021-10-08 02:37:11

The trade-free app of the day:
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A Trade-Free operating system based on Manjaro Linux Designed for your brain, but you can install it on a computer.No more ads and trackers consuming you, no ‘free’ trials, noContinue readingHOME

TROM-Jaro
A Trade-Free operating system based on Manjaro Linux Designed for your brain, but you can install it on a computer.No more ads and trackers consuming you, no ‘free’ trials, no …
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#Linux #opensource #foss #trade-free #trom #Translate #kdenlive #TROMjaro #whisper #videoeditig

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NO.

This is so confusing. There are many free things where you are not "the product". We make many, see tromsite.com and trom.tf.

I wish people would stop saying this about google and the like. There is a simple and to the point way of describing these "free" services. They are TRADE-BASED. You have to trade something to them, in order to use their services.

In the same way that when you go to a supermarket you have to trade your currency for what you grab from it, you have to trade your attention (ads) or data to Google when you go on their platform. Currency, attention, data.

S I M P L E

We live in a TRADE-BASED society where pretty much everything is trade-based. Money is just a currency we invented, but trades go wi

#privacy #foss #Capitalism #Google #free #YouTube #trade-free #trom #tromsite #trade #tutanota #trade-based

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codeDude

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so nothing is free, right?

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Tio

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Did you read the post? Here are plenty of trade-free services/stuff - directory.trade-free.org/ . We also create a lot at tromsite.com and trom.tf.

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codeDude

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yup but I didn't see the no trade link. Ignore my question

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Tio

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Trade-Free :) trade-free.org/

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codeDude

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so Why there are people and companies accumulating "Trade" in their less taxes/interest banks?

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Tio

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Sorry I dont understand your question.

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codeDude

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I got your message but I think the last of goal of so much companies is sell to get money even if we mock the word money with trade at the end they need this trade to survive or don't sacrifice privileges.

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Tio

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It is true that most trades translate into "money" in today's society. But increasingly cryptocurrencies are getting more popular. However the focus should be on trade else we lose sight with whats happening online where data ant attention are traded without people realizing it.

The incentive is bad overall, from small to big companies, or individuals. Yes most have to trade to survive, and that is very bad and we should change this situation; it is also true that google and the like are not trading in order to survive, but to thrive in an unequal and ass backwards society.

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Totally agree, Until the current situation that most of the companies use, for example, tracking methods to get your information only for improve the "sell experience for company". It's good saying "if it's free, you are the product" because if we don't keep alert or we pretend that they aren't the majority, we can't protect us of this kind of abuse

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Tio

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The entire premise of my original post is that it is not good saying "if it's free, you are the product" since for one it makes it seem like whatever is "free" is not to be trusted, and second it gives google and the like approval for using the word "free" for their trade-based services.

Google is trade-based. Facebook is trade-based.
Nextcloud is trade-free. Friendica is trade-free.

This wording makes a lot more sense.

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codeDude

in reply to Tio 1 year ago

I agree if it's free is not trusted, until the user figures out that is trust. I agree that not all the companies or products are evil or want to abuse to get money but the majority do it. Also there are thousands of user that don't know about the "trade" it's not a real trade if you don't know if it's a "trade"

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Inken Paper

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trade is not the same thing as capitalism. it's not trade if it's coerced.

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Tio

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Capitalism is a manifestation of trade, and ill defined for that matter.

As for "it's not trade if it's coerced" - we are mostly coerced to trade nowadays. Want food? Trade your time, energy, skills to someone else, get a currency, go trade it for food. Food is essential yet you have to trade for it, you have no other choice. And so it goes for pretty much anything.

Trade is an exchange, voluntarily or not.

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Inken Paper

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if you didn't trade consensually, then you were coerced, and that's not trade, that's stealing.

a form of trade exists in capitalism, but trade is not the same thing as capitalism.

all employment under capitalism is coerced, if the choice is between "work or die".

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Tio

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You run a business selling food, you have little choice, you have to pay your rent. I need food. I work, make money, then buy food from you. We were both coerced into this game, now who is stealing from who in his situation?

We can have endless debates as to what we mean by trade, but I go with what is generally understood - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade

I also wrote a book about the evolution of trade - tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-t…

"all employment under capitalism is coerced" I would say most employment on this planet, currently, is coerced. From US to China.

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capitalism is global. there is no part of human society than capitalism doesn't touch.

no one forced anyone to hoard food for profit. that's a choice. no one forced anyone to exploit workers by paying them wages. that is also a choice. no one forced anyone to enclose the commons and demand rent. that was also a choice.

writing a book doesn't mean it isn't full of nonsense. Hitler wrote a book too, as did Ayn Rand, but neither of these people had any ideas worth considering nor do they make any sense.

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Tio

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The book that I wrote is digitally available for everyone and every claim is sourced where I claim it. Click and see.

That being said, these isms are a lot of mushy ideas. Also the theory of these ideas can be widely different from their implementation.

And by "no one forced anyone to do this or that", I do not know what you are saying. Of course so many people are forced by others or circumstances. All choices are influenced by external factors: needs, efficiency, fear, etc..

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@Tio Dude. Are you lazy? Are you lazy?

If not, then do yourself a favor and research. I was 100% sure that after billions of people made posts and videos, that people will believe that Google is a goddamn evil corporation. You can't trust it with your data unless you're insane and you want Google to know everything about you.

Don't take my word for it - do yourself a favor and research!

P.S. Hope that will cure from sickness a little thing in your brain, named "logic". And your brain itself too.

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What in the world are you talking about "dude"? Where did I say you can trust google with your data? I say the opposite.

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@Tio In your original post, you're justifying corporations violating users's privacy rights without their consent. You're acting like as if it was a rule you have to accept and is impossible to live without it.

Back in 1830s,everyone lived without big tech and guess what? They survived. Surprising, right???

Well now, has anything changed? Nope, it didn't.

In your original post, you were complaining about that it's confusing to see people ranting about Google whenever you're product or not, which caused you to write this big post.

My previous reply was expected for you to reduce that confusion a bit. Does it all makes sense now?

The way big tech (like Google, Meta) do their business today, like making money, is unlawful and consentless. Your post is written as if it was okay to play that way business while in real life its not okay.

Do yourself a favor and research, like I said previously.

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You certainly misunderstood. I did not justify what they are doing, I said what they do is not free to begin with, it is trade-based. This cuts the confusion when people think google and the like are free, and when some say "you are the product". Better say google is trade-based.

I dedicated the past 10+ years showcasing how this is fucked up. How trade is the origin of most problems.

See:
Documentary - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
Book - tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-t…

We showcase how we can create trade-free alternatives. And we create/enable a bunch. Just look at tromsite.com and trom.tf.

You got it 180 degrees wrong my friend.

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@Tio Dude. You've read my post partially, and while you did provided some good response, which I appreciate, hmm, I still gonna say that you did justified what big tech are doing.

Quote:

"*NO.

This is so confusing. There are many free things where you are not "the product".*"

If it doesn't has ads and trackers, then yes. Unless it doesn't violates user's privacy.

Quote:

"I wish people would stop saying this about google and the like. There is a simple and to the point way of describing these "free" services. They are TRADE-BASED. You have to trade something to them, in order to use their services."

Yes but it's consentless. Google and other big tech conpanies do not inform you about this.

Quote:

"*In the same way that when you go to a supermarket you have to trade your currency for what you grab from it, you have to trade your attention (ads) or data to Google when you go on their platform. Currency, attent

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This is so confusing. There are many free things where you are not "the product".*"
If it doesn't has ads and trackers, then yes. Unless it doesn't violates user's privacy.

Thats exactly what I argue there are many trade-free things out there, google aint one. Nor is any that forces you to trade your attention (ads) or data. They are trade-based. BAD

btw learn how to use quotes in friendica.....else it is very confusing....

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@CyborgHT
When there is no ads and no tracking, you arn't the product.
Why not install #Yunohost at home or in a VPS?
It's easy to install. Yunohost.org
And there is many apps available by one click.

And, you can look at #Chatons where there a lot of services, sometimes free of charge.
chatons.org

#Yunohost #chatons @Tech Cyborg

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@LautreG OK, I agree with you, but disagree with original author. Yes Google isn't privacy-friendly. That has been proved in many cases, articles and videos. Yet people refuse to believe this.

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The original post is all about how google and the like cannot be trusted, since it is a trade-based service.

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I finished reading @Sasha 's book after reading a rough draft some 2-3 years ago. I wrote a review when she released the book but now that I finished it and it all is fresh in my mind I want to briefly say some condensed atom-sized thoughts about it, without spoiling it for those who have not read it.

This book can be deceiving. You may think it is about a small cute girl traveling around the world with very little money. And that is part of it, but the unique aspect of this book is the overall mental growth for Sasha. This is what I LOVED about it. To see how a human grows to understand how the world works and how that makes her react. All of the crazy and wonderful (at times scary) adventures are not just that, are part of the ingredients that create the cake.

And she is a wonderful cake.

The places that Sasha saw and got to experience

And she is a wonderful cake.

The places that Sasha saw and got to experience make me feel like I lived in a cave my entire life. I bet many people will think that Sasha invented some of these stories because it is insane in a few years time to jump from tribe to tribe, meet locals, go live with them, have extraordinary experiences with them, have no money, then work a few months make a shit load of money, buy a car, live in the car; hitchhike the entire Europe, sleep in the middle of Australia, go and snowboard for free or little money on so many tall peaks from all around the world, become a divemaster, surf awesome waves in Hawaii, drive your car across the entire USA and swim with dolphins, sharks and manta rays.

Fucking shit! This human lived 55 lives in 15 years. You either get depressed at that, thinking like me that you have not experienced even 1% of what she experienced, or make you motivated to go see the world and free yourself from this trade based society (which also makes me want to do).

Sasha did a WONDERFUL job describing all of these places and experiences. No photos needed! And many of these adventures and places will forever live inside of my brain as if I was a close observer.

Best of all, in my view, is that now she signed a "contract" with me with this book, to join me in my battle! :) A battle of TROM vs Society! Her book is her contribution and there is more to follow!

With that she sandwiched her book perfectly - the beginning bun (prologue) that will give you a taste of what is about to come; in the middle are the many flavors of ingredients stacked neatly and chronologically on top of each other - some 300 pages of life; and lastly the top bun that perfectly brings it all together in a perfect taste, connecting the dots and making all of the ingredients and the bottom bun part of one big thing.

Big World.....Small Sasha...

Congratulations for this huge amount of work!

Grab her book from here bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/

#trade #capitalism #travel #trade-free #adventure #hike #book #bookrelease

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2024-04-04 20:18:26

NEW BLOG POST:
A book years in the making
Read it on my website (recommended):
tiotrom.com/2024/04/a-book-yea…
Or read it here:
This is @[url=https://fosstodon.org/users/sasha]Alexander[/url] and her most valuable project to date:
A book. But a book is not simply a lot of words or a pile of paper. It is memories, emotions, worldviews, and a lot of work to put them all together. Her book is a story that spans over 15 years. But these years are hardly what most people experience on this planet.
She was born in Russia but at age 8 had to move to the United States and deal with a new world. New language, new culture, new people; her mom, her bother, and some pets. Her father went back to Russia, and that affected her a lot.
A mountain of changes to absorb as a kid which led her to a world of drugs and anger.
She details these struggles which at times feel like hard to believe stories – a 17 year old girl selling drugs in New York, crazy mushroom trips and adventurous thefts.
But she managed to pull herself together and change her life for the better. She was not impressed by the imaginary borders humans create and call countries, so she went on flying like a free bird :). From Canada to Mexico, Australia to Europe, Russia to Thailand. 15 years of adventures with almost no money. Because money won’t stop Small Sasha :).
A way to discover the world and yourself.
When you get to experience so many cultures and places, you can understand much better what humans are, and what makes them who the are.
The places she saw and the people she met are extraordinarily described in the book, in a way that you feel like you are there. No photos needed. You’ll laugh, wonder, or feel uncomfortable reading some of her uncensored experiences.
It is a galaxy of stories that she had to put together using notes from the past, photos, and her own memories stored in the mushy pile of cells we call the brain.
She managed to compile this massive story in a way that it is super fun to follow, but also to get a feeling of how she grew a mind in all of these years.
That mental growth and her experiences, made her realize how fucked up this society is and how much we are destroying this environment and the creatures in it.
She started to volunteer for some organizations over the years, eventually getting closer to the project I made, TROM. And so here we are, a book later, spending our lives together.
I cannot describe how wonderful this book is, how emotional and funny. So much fun, but also a lot of reality check for many people who are going to have their values challenged.
She crafted this book so much, that at times you feel like Carl Sagan, David Attenborough and George Carlin contributed to the book :).
A wonderful read! A massive CONGRATULATIONS to Sasha for the immense work she put into this. I know too well how for the past 4 years she worked so much on this book that it almost put our relationship under a big question mark. I never saw anyone putting so much effort into anything. It was too intense!
But now it is OVER. Finally! I thought I will never see this happen. Wow!
After so many years of work, and almost no money, she is putting the book for free on her website bigworldsmallsasha.com/ in digital format, despite us not having much money to make a life for ourselves on this planet. But of course, if you want to support her (us) you can buy the physical copy too. Or donate if you can.
I helped design the entire cover and I am quite proud of it :).
Go read it! I know I will read it again. This time the physical copy, in a hammock somewhere in nature.
Sasha you fucking did ti!
PS: The book was made with trade-free software. LibreOffice, Krita, Inkscape.
#nature #traveling #society #capitalism #trade #book #bookrelease #foss

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.
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#Capitalism #book #travel #trade-free #trade #adventure #hike #bookrelease @Sasha

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Sasha

in reply to Tio 2 years ago

Thank you so much Tio, that was such a nice review that I don't even know what to say 😊 I'm so happy that you enjoyed my book and that you found something important in it. I'm so happy that you could feel my growth as a human- that was something I hoped to achieve in this book, but was difficult because there are so many stories, people, and so many things happening. Thank you for all your kind words and for the huge amount of support you've given to me and this book over many many years.

Sorry if I made you feel like you lived in a cave 😬 But you were actually doing much more important things than me in that "cave". You were growing your brain and making the important and inspiring content that brought me to you 😊 And this in turn grew my brain and the brains of many others 🙂
Thank you for your contribution to this book- the design, the emotional support, and even the content. Without you, this book would not have been the same (and neither would I 😉) 🙂

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Rokosun

in reply to Sasha 2 years ago

I already feel like living in a cave, lol 😄 Maybe reading your book will inspire me to go out more often 😁

> But you were actually doing much more important things than me in that "cave". You were growing your brain and making the important and inspiring content that brought me to you 😊 And this in turn grew my brain and the brains of many others 🙂

This is so true, Tio might be physically in a cave but he travels around the whole damn universe with his mind, haha 😂

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Tio

in reply to Rokosun 2 years ago

This is so true, Tio might be physically in a cave but he travels around the whole damn universe with his mind, haha 😂

hhahahaha thank you that made me feel a little bit better :)

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Sasha

in reply to Rokosun 2 years ago

haha yes absolutely true about Tio mind-traveling the universe 😄 (and taking some of us along 😊)

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio 2 years ago

Man I should try to grab this book as soon as possible, this is gonna be an exciting read!

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Rokosun

in reply to Rokosun 2 years ago

BTW, noticed a few typos in your post, just letting you know:

> because it is inane in a few years time

I think you meant to say "insane" here.

> the begging bun (prologue) that

Did you meant to say "beginning bun" here?

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Tio

in reply to Rokosun 2 years ago

hahaha shit correcting now thanks

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