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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. We backup up these claims via documentaries, books and videos that are freely available for everyone.

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WHO for all.

The World Health Organization wanted to create a worldwide healthcare system basically, to take care of all humans at no cost. Because healthcare should be a fundamental access for all humans. Many decades later and there is no sign that this will ever be achieved. WHO did a lot of good in this regards when it came to several virus/bacteria outbreaks and poor regions of the world, and worked with many volunteer organizations. But the trade-based society we live in incentivizes people to shift their focus from such goals.

Things like: companies creating trade-based health services and promoting them aggressively, drug companies that need to be paid if anyone wants to access their drugs, entire tribes (cough USA!) who have no incentive for this since their healthcare system is private and a huge trade-machine overall; the fact that most humans are busy with their jobs, with consuming and being consumed by whatever is traded best....

So we are this, as a species:

We would worship football players and other celebrities, or make movies about fantasy superheroes, while ignoring the real superheroes, the ones who volunteer to save lives and who want to create a better world for all of us.

The trade-based society is, again, the creator and instigator of such situations.

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Thank you for writing such thoughtful pieces, the world desperately needs to hear these words.

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Our ytb.trom.tf/ and search.trom.tf/ have been improved and seem to work much better. A lot less crashes. We are basically restarting them much often to prevent them from "hanging". So far so good. We may switch from SearX to Searxng this year, since the latter seems better maintained. The transition should be seamless for users.

So basically if you want to use a search engine that has 0 ads and does not track you, plus seem to have better results since it combines different search engines, and if you want to use youtube via a simple interface and 0 annoyances, then use those tools.

Plus a lot more tools at trom.tf/

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Debunking ‘MH370 The Plane that Disappeared’ – The Worst Documentary on Netflix ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=18Ym8djFvo…

You see Netflix is a trading platform. They sell subscriptions. Users have to give them their data, attention (seeing ads), and currency. In return Netflix gives them content. Like with all trading-practices, this too goes downhill quite fast. Netflix mainly wants to keep the users subscribed so it will produce whatever crap, in great amounts, to get you hooked.

Thus, the "documentary" practice has become a complete shitshow nowadays. Well made trailers that attract more viewers, for multi part, badly made series about nothing important.

This is why we continue to recommend our baby project VideoNeat where you can see some properly made documentaries. And it is trade-free. No need to trade anything in order to watch them.

We are still fighting th

Debunking ‘MH370 The Plane that Disappeared’ – The Worst Documentary on Netflix – #1

The new three-part Netflix docuseries ‘MH370: The Plane that Disappeared’ is a podium for baseless conspiracy theories from people who are more interested in fame and notoriety than an actual explanation for the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Fli…

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Wow, thank you for sharing that YouTube video. Documentaries about BS conspiracy theories are the worst, its hilarious seeing these people trying to come up with various "explanations" just to cover up the holes in their theory.

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AI is ASS

NOTE: This post contains many images and text formatting, if you do not see this via our Friendica page then please use this link to read it fully social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4…

Back in 2015 I wrote a book for TROM about humans and the machines they have created. It is called the Human Machine and you can read it here.

Back then it was one of the first hypes about A.I. And as you may know by now, AI stands for Artificial Intelligence. Back then Google and Apple started to promote their AIs: Google Now and Siri. You could talk to these bots and they will provide you a lot of answers from many different domains. Ask how many dogs are in the world, ask them to set up an alarm for you, how's the weather,

NOTE: This post contains many images and text formatting, if you do not see this via our Friendica page then please use this link to read it fully social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4…

Back in 2015 I wrote a book for TROM about humans and the machines they have created. It is called the Human Machine and you can read it here.

People were asking these bots existential questions like what is the purpose of life:

I remember the Google supercomputers generating these weird images and the news outlets calling them "machines dreaming". Meaning, how machines dream:

And that Pepper robot that you could talk to...

These came after a few years of another hype: the self driving cars that were about to revolutionize transportation. In the book Automated Autonomous World that I wrote for TROM in 2013 , I partially fell for that hype and wrote in a very non-skeptical way about them.

To be fair with my past-self, I was focused entirely on how in a saner society the tech-part of the world could look like. So I presented many prototypes and unproven tech. I talked about how we have to change the infrastructure for these to work, and so forth. However, what I did not realized as deeply, was how misleading the world is. You see I naively thought that the big tech companies may not exaggerate as much about their tech. I sourced their own claims from their own engineers. But 10 years later I could say for sure that the vast majority of the tech I showcased in that book, was BS. For the most part at least. That means, the words that came out of the mouths of these engineers and "specialists" that work for these big companies, were mostly crap. Marketing.

That book may be removed from TROM when we do a cleanup this month in preparation for the upcoming TROM II documentary.

Back to AI.

In 2016 I started to be more and more aware of how the tech world is full of bullshit and bullshitters. For that reason I chose to present tech that was already there, working, and when it was just in testing phases I would present it as such and link to scientific papers about that tech.

When it came to AI I already smelled the bullshit. The stupid fear that AI will take over the world, and all of that crap. But I said let's educate myself. And so I said the best way is to understand a bit how these things work. I took several courses and read a bunch of stuff. I learned how AIs can categorize objects:

How it interprets text and speech:

I learned how facial recognition works:

I looked at how AIs learn to play games, drive cars, do science research.

Of course I only scratched the surface of these since they are complex. But I got a solid understanding I think. I realized that these are Statistical Software. Added with a bunch of filters and rules. They are complex, cool, interesting, but nothing WOW in terms of how they work. I learned that data and computer power is what makes the difference. I realized how non-magical these AI look when you have a clue about how they work. The end result is mesmerizing only for those who have a very dim understanding of these pieces of software.

I then talked about how they compared to humans. And of course the conclusion was that AI is just a complex set of statistical software with filters and rules and a lot of data, and has nothing to do with either artificial or intelligence (whatever that means).

Of course there are some applications for these pieces of software that I touched upon in the book, but mainly it was a grotesque hype.

Anthropomorphizing

That's a new word that I learned while writhing this book. It means "to ascribe human form or attributes to (an animal, plant, material object, etc.).". That's what AI are mostly.

The present.

7 years later and the AI "revolution" has resurfaced again. This time it seems even more mesmerizing, although not so much for me. I fee like I've seen this before...

ChatGPT and the like, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, now they have different names and do similar things. They are fun to play with. Can create some weird images out of text, something I was showcasing in 2016 in another book about Language.

And the craze is starting again with people thinking these AIs will revolutionize the world, or will take over, and then no more jobs, no more artists, no more life. If you look again at how these work, they seem a lot less mesmerizing. The companies that push them use anthropomorphism to make them sound like they "think" and are like humans: neural nets, learning, hallucinating, and so forth. In fact they are still the same statistical machines that produce probabilities and that results in interesting outcomes.

Without going into specifics I recommend this funny video that explains the entire situation quite well: A.I. is B.S. ->>> ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=ro130m-f_y…

Also read through the sources of that video.

When I asked chatgpt about TROM I got this:

Which is not bad.
But when I asked who made TROM I got a very bad and totally wrong answer:

No idea who Catalin and Andrei are, but it is totally wrong. The project did not start as a research project, whatever the hell that means.

You see although it says some true things, it also says some entirely false things. Because this AI only knows how to put words together. Has no clue about anything else. And it will always produce well written sentences that can be totally wrong. Thus, this chatbot is entirely useless for factual information. And if you think it will get better and better, for one let's wait for that and then "hype" it, but second it may never be able to due to how it works (statistical prediction of what words go with what other words).

When I tell chatgpt that the project was not created by those two dudes, it invents new ones:

And so on it goes:

AI is ASS!

AI is actually Anthropomorphized Statistical Software, or ASS :)

We may find good uses for this ASS, maybe when they only rely on a main source of information like some specific research papers and provide exact quotes and sources. They are fun to play with for a bit tho. They may help us create more creative content or video/photo/audio effects. But "they" are as much as "they" as websites are "they". Depends what websites we are talking about. Same here, these ASS are diverse and made for a diverse set of purposes.

But what it is clear to me is that the HYPE is just that, a HYPE. Pushed by companies who want to make these ASS more appealing and sell them, by the bloggers and youtubers who jump on the hype train for clicks and views, by the media that does the same. Combine that with the fact that we live in a dumbed-down society where humans are just workers who have no time to learn/digest any of these things, and we are faced with an Idiotic society that has no clue about any of these.

Our trade based society is at fault here again, for incentivizing humans to hype these things all the time, in order to trade them. And for the fact that it keeps us all busy idiots for the sake of trading to survive. This has created a Land of Confusion.

Welcome to Earth.

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A.I. is B.S.

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in reply to TROM • 2 years ago •

great article :)

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Rokosun

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This is so well written, I love it! 😃

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For those who understand Spanish this is a recent review of TROMjaro in Spanish ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=eto-8S1lbW… - many thanks to those who review TROMjaro. Not only that TROMjaro is a very good Linux distribution and quite unique, but the idea behind is the important bit. The promotion of trade-free software. A purely free software that wants nothing from you. Not your data, not your attention, not your currency.

We released TROMjaro 4 years ago and for the past year or so more and more people discovered our distro, and thus came across our main TROM project. This is fantastic!

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I wish I knew spanish 😅

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hehe - it is a very positive review. He talks about the trade free idea too, which is great.

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We have removed most mirroring accounts from our Friendica instance that we have created. These were zombie accounts pulling from RSS sources and reposting on the fediverse. There is no need to spam the fediverse and anyone can follow any RSS feed via our social network anyway.

We've also updated our TROM Videos and it is fantastic that there is a new feature which stops bots from registering. All accounts need to provide a reason why they want to join our platform, like our TROM Social already does, and these accounts are not public unless we manually approve them. This will cut down the spambots registrations by a huge factor. We were bombarded with several bot-made accounts daily.

We will make our TROM Videos more exciting this year, by creating more videos but also by trying to invite others to join the platform. This is where TROM II will be released, and not on Youtube mind you. We have to move away from the trade-based platforms like youtube, facebook, twitter and the like, to alternative ones that are trade-free like we provide via trom.tf/.

Join us!

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We are planing to release the TROM II documentary in May. It should be around 5 hours long, divided into 4 parts. It was a massive amount of work and right now we work to do the final edits and prepare it for the release. #tromlive

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Another good review of TROMjaro ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=S5EoTO7bOq…

Especially when the ones reviewing our distro focus a bit on the trade-free idea. That's the most important part of it all. #tromlive

Trom - Jaro | Manjar Based Spin | Trade Free Linux Distro | The Linux Tube

Trom - Jaro | Manjar Based Spin | Trade Free Linux Distro | The Linux Tube A TRADE-FREE OPERATING SYSTEM BASED ON MANJARO LINUX Designed for your brain, but you can install it on a computer.

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Rokosun

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I did wrote the code for it but you're the one who did all the research and found out the XFCE commands we needed, and you also designed all those beautiful layout buttons, couldn't have done it without you 😊

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Team! :)

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Schools are not for learning.

School can be seen as an abusive and inefficient system that has little to nothing to do with "education".

Children are forced to wake up at a certain hour, every day, 5 days a week, for 12 years. They are categorized by ages and their "knowledge" level. School creates a competition between the kids, makes then hate science and learning in general, it is a boring and colorless place for these young minds, and overall ends up not teaching children much at all about the world we live in.

In a trade-based society the parents NEED to trade themselves in a job, so these kids need to be "livestocked" somehow. That's what school is, a place where kids can be while their parents trade to survive in this society. More to that, Universities almost exclusively prepare these young creatures to become workers, like their parents.

All in all, kids go to school to compete, memorize, get ready to be work

School can be seen as an abusive and inefficient system that has little to nothing to do with "education".

All in all, kids go to school to compete, memorize, get ready to be workers. NOT to be EDUCATED.

If humans could have a decent life without trading in this society, they could have the time to engage with their kids, discover, learn, enjoy. And schools could be places where kids of all ages can go because they want to. A place where experts can teach them about the world and how to do something productive.

EXAMPLES:

Tell kids: See this red dot? This is the farthest thing we can take a photo off. They call it a "star". And you show them a real photo taken by the WEBB telescope. From there on you and your class of kids will investigate what this red dot is, and in the process you'll teach kids about light, physics, maths, distances, stars, the universe.

Or show kids a real dinosaur bone and tell them: Our mission is to understand how old it is and what creature this is. And thus you can go into a journey of discovering what geology is, paleontology, rocks and fossils, and so forth.

Or tell them that our mission is to build a robot. And they will learn mechanics, programming and so forth.

We could create real schools where kids can become curious and learn so much about our world. So that they can become the next Einsteins, the next Teslas, the next ones who can discover new things.

That's the world we should have had by now....

And we wont be able to have it unless we change the trade-based society into a tradeless society. Where humans are not forced to trade in order to survive. Where humans like "teachers" can engage and develop such schools as explained above, to have time for that, not to go to school because that's their job since they have to pay their rent so they are forced to do it.

A few years ago we made a video: Rethinking Education videos.trom.tf/w/2y5RSgvREzT6m… - where we go in depth abotút this.

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05. Rethinking Education

We create documentaries out of our eBooks. These documentaries are entirely based on the books themselves but they may differ here and there in terms of the script and overall presentation, but in general they are the same as the books. All sources for all of our videos are greatly detailed/sourced in the books they are based upon. These videos are also available without the narration voice so anyone can dub them into any language.
This video is based on this book tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-d…

Books
DETAILS We approach a wide variety of topics through our books. Some books are small (a few tens of pages), some are huge (hundreds of pages).
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One of the most asked questions in class is "Will this be on the test?", schools were never about education or learning new things......

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Thank you NICHOLAS SAURA for the ongoing financial help you provide for TROM. #tromlive

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Thank you Neodmium for becoming a Patreon! Financial help is important to help all of our TROM projects alive! tromsite.com/donate/ #tromlive

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Here's a cool thing: make an account at files.trom.tf (our trade-free nextcloud instance). You get 5GB of space. If you need more you can ask us and we can expand to 20GB. You get access to a powerful document editor (onlyoffice), Notes, Music and Photos app.

You can manage you files with this, for free.

Now you can easily sync your files using the Nextcloud Desktop app or even integrate your TROM FIles into your file manager in TROMjaro, in seconds. See this.

Thus, a free and open source way to manage your files, your photos, your documents, your videos, your music. And to integrate it with your desktop.

We provide all of these as trade-free, in a reactionary move to this bullshit trade-based society that pushes us all to be cunts. We want to be the opposite. And that's just 1 o

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Big thanks to @Roma again for donating 100€ for our backups donation campaign. Since he did it directly we changed the goal from 250 to 150 Euros. Please if anyone can, help us out to pay for the backups. We have 3 more weeks to raise the funds. This amount covers a full year of backups.

See tromsite.com/fundraiser/

For tromsite.com, trom.tf, videoneat.com, tromjaro.com the Trade Free websites and everything we heave created.

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Did you know that we provide a trade-free Nextcloud instance at files.trom.tf via our trom.tf/ project? We give 5GB for free to anyone and can raise up to 20GB to anyone who needs more. Just let us know. Everything, trade-free, out of our kindness. We provide it with OnlyOffice + the Photos app. Server side encryption and all that.

It would be great if we could also get some financial support to pay for our yearly backups for all of our trade-free services. We have a campaign here tromsite.com/fundraiser/ and we need to raise some 250 Euros. It is going very slow and that's a bit sad considering that at least hundreds of people use these services on a daily basis.

If you use them please consider helping us. We do not engage into any BS trade thing. We treat everyone as equal, do not sell anything, do not collect your data or insert ads into your face.

Hopefully we can raise the amount and this time not by large donations by the same handful of people who keep on supporting TROM, but by small donations from those who use these services so we can make this more sustainable. #tromlive

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The TROM II Documentary update and a little help required.

The TROM II Documentary update:

For those who may not know, we are working on a documentary for the past 2 or so years. It is our second documentary. The first one we have released in 2011 and you can watch it here.

TROM II will have 4 parts, and there will be some 5 hours in total. Currently we have finished the first 3 parts, so around 4 hours. We are working on the last part and we hope to release before May. The work is immense and the documentary covers many subjects. We present realistic solutions to the problems we showcase. After the release we should reboot our TROM-Cast, make more books, new tools, and be more active.

Speaking of our projects we need a little help. We are doing our annual donation campaign for our backups. We run over 30 websites via tromsite.com and its tools. We backup around

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Thank you Nicolae for the 50 Euros donation! Much appreciated! tromsite.com/donate/ #tromlive

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A big thank you to @Rafa Peris for the 260 Euros donation! Much much appreciated. This guy is amazing overall. He has always helped TROM with the Spanish translations and continues to do so as much as he can. Now he helps the project financially too. Can't thank you enough Rafa, hermano! :)

We are working hard to finish the TROM II documentary before May, and in May we are planning a TROM Meeting with a bunch of close TROM friends. We may create videos and brainstorm about the future of this project. We will update you all via our Friendica page as always.

Stay engaged! #tromlive

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Thank you very much DARIUSZ for the 25 Euros donation for the TROM 2 documentary! Much appreciated! #tromlive

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$649 Dyson Fan vs. $15 Walmart Fan: The Hard Truth ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=dS0oFmzU06…

We live in the Bullshit Society, where new products are being made for the purpose of being made. To trade. Often these products are pointless. Like the example above. A classic fan vs a "modern" one that costs 50 times more. Despite this, the classic fan is better at....well...cooling you down. And yet, these nonsense products are advertised as better.

As long as we live in this trade based society we will be flooded by such nonsense. Wasted resources. Pointless products. Wasted lives in the end. Both for those making them, and those using them.

We need to move away from this cancerous trade-based society. #tromlive

$649 Dyson Fan vs. $15 Walmart Fan: The Hard Truth

When I was young, I was a little obsessed with how cool Dyson fans were. But are they actually worth that amount of money? In this relatively silly video, I'm going to compare it to my $15 Walmart fan with wind speed and sound level tests! Dyson Pur…

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The time, energy, skills and resources spend on designing and making these fans could've been spend on something actually useful for our society, but how can that be when their sole purpose is to trade and make more money for themselves 🤦

You forgot the hashtag #TradeRuinsEverything

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Air is air, I'll buy the one that can produce the same amount of wind for less energy consumption, whichever it is.
Well, unless the price difference is THAT high. I'm ready to pay 5 times more, not 50.

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Our Friendica node social.trom.tf/ got updated to the latest stable. Hopefully everything works well. #tromlive

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