The Librarians is a 2025 American documentary film, directed and produced by Kim A. Snyder. It follows librarians in Texas, Florida, and other states, as they unite to combat book banning in the United States. Sarah Jessica Parker serves as an executive producer under her Pretty Matches Productions banner.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2025, and was released on October 3, 2025, by 8 Above.
librarians are incredible people. They not only have a working knowledge of most every book (source) in their collection but also of what is not there, what they want and what (if anything) to avoid. And they are enthusiastic to help you find whatever interests you.
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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..
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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.. 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....
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 🤞
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The usual Manjaro Stable updates plus a fix to the “speed dial” addon for Firefox that got updated and removed all of our custom bookmarks and added a Google search.
Some news and updates : 1 - The good news our videos will be published on Ecoflix - ecoflix.com/ It's kind of Netflix for nature and wildlife documentaries, most are about conservation and restoration. It's for free, and it's great. I won't get paid anything from them, as all of the profits are going to nature conservation projects it's a "no profit" platform. But maybe we will reach new people there. So I was buys preparing 10 episodes which will be season 1 from them
2 - At the end of March, me & Mara will be going to Brussels to perform a duo music performance with the sounds of the whales at the European Commission. There will be conference about Climate Change. And we will also speak about Oceans and Cetaceans. We also not getting paid for that, but
Some news and updates : 1 - The good news our videos will be published on Ecoflix - ecoflix.com/ It's kind of Netflix for nature and wildlife documentaries, most are about conservation and restoration. It's for free, and it's great. I won't get paid anything from them, as all of the profits are going to nature conservation projects it's a "no profit" platform. But maybe we will reach new people there. So I was buys preparing 10 episodes which will be season 1 from them
2 - At the end of March, me & Mara will be going to Brussels to perform a duo music performance with the sounds of the whales at the European Commission. There will be conference about Climate Change. And we will also speak about Oceans and Cetaceans. We also not getting paid for that, but at least our expenses are covered since Brussels is very expensive. We will also take Night Train from Vienna. Which I am very curious about.
3 - While I've been in January in Latvia I've managed to appear at 2 radio shows, had long interview at Delfi.lv - largest news platform in Latvia, and in 2 TV shows on Latvian TV. All of it is in Latvian language, so I won't share it here, just some pictures. But it was good coverage. In all of the interviews I spoke about nature protection and volunteering.
5 - Meanwhile I am looking for other project to join and volunteer. Probably in March it will be Moldavia, then there are probably will be something in Montenegro and Serbia.
So actually quite a lot of things going on even if I am not actively volunteered these month. But winter is like this, there are not many projects at this period. Everything starts in spring.
I was a bit depressed and discouraged for the couple of months, but I can't give up, somehow we all need to keep going and doing good things in life even if sometimes it seems impossible or feels like there is no point.
Our Friendica has been more stable for the past days. This is good. Maybe leftover database tasks from the recent update made our CPU work so hard. So far all is looking good.
Our Friendica is struggling. We get a lot of 502 Bad Gateway (nginx). CPU is at 100% all the time eaten by Friendica. This has happened after the update to the latest Friendica stable. It seems that there are many processes happening in the database.
The post-user table has 64,135,238 rows...I suspect this is an issue. I am not sure if Friendica is reindexing or doing something now after the update...
A stunning portrayal of war in the trenches from the Oscar®-winning team behind 20 Days in Mariupol. A FRONTLINE and Associated Press collaboration, this documentary reveals combat bodycam-footage and powerful moments of reflection, following a Ukrai…
I have been saying for over a decade now that this "mental disorders" business is indeed a lot of business and not much science. You cannot categorize people like that and put them into boxes like ADHD, Depression, Bipolar, etc.. People's mental states are far more complex.
But it works well to have these labels in our trade-based society where everything needs to be in boxes, so that insurance companies, drug companies, or companies who employ people can "understand" that Jen is depressed, will prescribe her some pills through an insurance company, and Jen can get some paid leave.
Yet in the process no one understood what made Jen feel that way or how to fix her problems. Maybe she has little money, little time, maybe she is stress that her rent increased or her brain is a mush because her phone is consuming her life with ads and data collection. Trades trades trades
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Psychiatry’s playbook is about to get torn up | Science Quickly Podcast
I have been saying for over a decade now that this "mental disorders" business is indeed a lot of business and not much science. You cannot categorize people like that and put them into boxes like ADHD, Depression, Bipolar, etc.. People's mental states are far more complex.
But it works well to have these labels in our trade-based society where everything needs to be in boxes, so that insurance companies, drug companies, or companies who employ people can "understand" that Jen is depressed, will prescribe her some pills through an insurance company, and Jen can get some paid leave.
Yet in the process no one understood what made Jen feel that way or how to fix her problems. Maybe she has little money, little time, maybe she is stress that her rent increased or her brain is a mush because her phone is consuming her life with ads and data collection. Trades trades trades.
Now Jen can anesthetize herself with some prescribed medicine, and can get back to her life soon.
So WOW now finally the people in charge of the bible of mental disorders, DSM, are starting to see through their thin diagnosis practice and say perhaps things need to change since you cannot do any medical test to see if someone has ADHD, or is depressed or whatever...
How about (I know wild idea) when people have problems we try to understand what causes these problems and try to help them!? Housing, access to free healthcare, access to a fucking life that is not about being a worker!
She is a practicing psychiatrist and a part-time academic and author. Her work is focused on the use, misuse and misrepresentation of psychiatric drugs. For 10 years Joanna was a consultant for a psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit, helping people with severe and long-lasting mental health problems. For the last 3 years Joanna has been based in various community mental health services in North East London. She teaches and does research at the University College London.
Joanna is one of the founding members and the co-chair person of the Critical Psychiatry Network, which consists of a group of psychiatrists from around the world who are skeptical of the idea that mental disorders are simply brain diseases and of the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry.
She is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of the biomedical model of psychiatry. Lucy has authored a number of books, articles and chapters on topics such as psychiatric diagnosis, formulation, the psychological effects of ECT, and the role of trauma in breakdown.
She is currently convening a group of leading UK clinical psychologists and mental health experts who are working to develop an evidence-based and conceptually coherent alternative to the current diagnostic systems.
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I think the overall congress was about some "secret space program", but this talk had really nothing to do with it. It is about the invention of mental illness, as described in the DSM, for the purpose of profit making and control. Furthermore, it is about the denial of paranormal phenomena by mainstream psychology and how they are really trying to medicate people out of it. It is a fascinating talk if you are able to keep an open mind...
it is about the denial of paranormal phenomena by mainstream psychology
I will have to give this a pass then. If there is anything para-normal it is either "we do not know what this is" and leave it as that, or it can be explained with science and thus is nothing "para" about it.
What I am talking about, and what psychologists and psychiatrists are recommending is to be more honest about the labeling of human behavior in this simplistic DSM way, and focus on what makes people struggle mentally. Sure may be that the pharmaceutical industry is enjoying the livestock approach where they sell pills for these mental disorders and they push for the labeling, but the focus is on the positive side to understand that these behaviors are complex and need help more than just some pills.
It is sad and terrible to combine this valid criticism of the current diagnosis of mental disorders with "paranormal" and all sort of conspiracies.
Psychic phenomena tend to be dismissed, but only by today's western culture.
That psychiatric medicine "medicate[s] people out of it" fits with what a friend once told me, namely that the medicine he had to take closed his "third eye".
The Power Threat Meaning Framework makes sense. But as long as therapies are covered by insurances one will need at least an assessment by the doctor that one has to be treated.
I very much doubt that there is a suppression of seeing a different reality via the Psychiatric field, other than seeing how this trade based society consumes us and makes us idiots and depressed.
What makes "Psychic phenomena" remain in the realm of fantasy is their lack of scientific validity.
@Tio I too don't think this is deliberate. If you ask me it's just an unconscious outcome of a misled approach to what is known as "mental disorders". Mental processes are described as electricity in the brain, fuelled by neurotransmitters. That's one reason why mental illnesses are treated with pharmaceuticals.
Psychic Phenomena can be validated, and have been for a long time. Take for example Rupert Sheldrake's experiments with phone calls, a more recent validation which you can read about here: sheldrake.org/research/telepat… I must add that I haven't read this particular text, but know about these experiments from one of Sheldrake's books.
The question why it is dismissed remains open. I think one reason is that it seems to contradict today's common sense. Belief systems are tough. Research in this field is a reputation killer.
Watch the Video Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 68, 168-172 by Rupert Sheldrake, Hugo Godwin and Simon Rockell PDF Introduction Apparent telepathy in connection with telephone calls is common.
What makes "Psychic phenomena" remain in the realm of fantasy is their lack of scientific validity.
If you are interested in looking past your prejudices, I recommend to you the books of Dean Radin, especially his latest piece called The Science of Magic. (I got to know him through Jon Rappoport, by the way.)
@Tio Wikipedia is common sense. I haven't read it, because I think I know the main argument, and would have used it myself some time ago. It's how I was educated in school and at home. If there is something in the article you want me to answer to, please tell me.
Apart from that I recommend thinking about Sheldrake's experiment, and what it would mean if it wasn't fake.
Not having seen the Rappaport video (@-jonny-), to me it is clear that the recognition of psychic phenomena would have an impact on how mental illnesses are percieved and treated, apart from the diagnosis issue.
A variety of tests have been performed to demonstrate telepathy, but there is no scientific evidence that the power exists.[9][83][84][85] A panel commissioned by the United States National Research Council to study paranormal claims concluded that "despite a 130-year record of scientific research on such matters, our committee could find no scientific justification for the existence of phenomena such as extrasensory perception, mental telepathy or 'mind over matter' exercises... Evaluation of a large body of the best available evidence simply does not support the contention that these phenomena exist."[86] The scientific community considers parapsychology a pseudoscience.[87][88][89][90] There is no known mechanism for telepathy.[91]
Case closed. There is nothing we can talk about if there is science and experiments showing this obvious thing is nonsense. I would like you to kindly accept that and move on. Am definitely not interested to talk about telepathy in 2026 no more than talking about witches.
@Amina Jojo I'd say that is definitely the case. It is interesting to note that the view of mental illness in tribal societies is completely different. In fact they don't see it as illness at all but some kind of communication from the spirit realm. There is an article about that topic I read some time ago I can recommend. It is linked to the concept of the dark night of the soul.
Seeing these states of mind as something different than a "mental disorder" is normal, specially in different cultures, but that does not make wishful thinking and fantasies become reality. There is no such thing as "spirit". Only perhaps as a metaphor. You are your brain, and that is cells (neurons).
@Tio Thank you. So this is what you're referring to. All I know is that there is controversy among scientists about the topic. Sheldrake is a biologist, and his approach in the case I linked to you is simple, and scientific, and there are others, too.
Well....you are your brain. And if you get a stroke, you will see how brain damage = losing your abilities to move, think, talk, etc.. Unfortunately this is the case as blunt as it is.
@Tio My friend, I really don't feel the urge to argue with you, since it is very hard to argue with someone who obviously has some kind of superiority complex. Believing your truth is the only one out there is arrogant at best (or fascist at worst). Keep your materialistic world view if it suits you. I have nothing against it. In fact I have been there myself. My opinion about paranormal phenomena though is not based on a Wikipedia article (which btw is not a very reliable and far from scientific source to quote). It is based on personal experience.
Which concludes this topic for me. I guess the only thing we have in common is our love for free software. That's okay.
It is fortunately not my own worldview, but a scientific worldview. Wikipedia is merely a summary of that, but choose any scientific literature you want about that topic. Don't let yourself be fooled by you. We need science for a reason, to not fall into these personal "beliefs".
Talking to you reminds me talking to a religious fundamentalist. They also are not willing to look beyond the dogma. You will understand what I mean when you learn to distinguish science from scientism.
Quite an irony for you to say that when you are talking about a total nonsense that has been debunked by scientists via the scientific method for hundreds of years now, and by scientists from all around the world. You need to understand what science is. Experiments, replication from independent organizations, measurements, etc.. Not some dude who makes a youtube video or some book written by who-knows-who.
But man such an irony for you to associate me with a religious fundamentalist. I wish you could see the astonishing stupidity you have soaked yourself into. But you won't. As it usually is with those who are "awake" and "against science" or "scientism" as they call it. What a joke.
Let's move on. You go live in your make-belief fantasy and I live in a scientific reality. And we can ignore each other. I think that would be better for both of us.
Go believe in whatever you want, the world is a mess anyway it won't make any difference, we are already in the Idiocracy era.
I have just one last question. You seem to have the need to lecture me about what “science” is. Like a religious person that wants to convince me how and why his religion is better. Why is that? (I’m asking because I hold a scientific degree for over a decade now and am well aware about its benefits and its limitations)
I never said I am “anti science”. Far away from it! The scientific method is an incredibly valuable tool (even for paranormal phenomena). And since I am 100% certain about that I don’t have the need to convince anyone.
I am far from lecturing you, all I am saying is that you go against what is scientifically proven at this moment in regards to that "paranormal phenomena". You make extraordinary claims, and you need ofc extraordinary evidence. Don't take it with me, the random fedi guy, go do some science with your scientific background and prove that these "paranormal phenomena" are actually scientifically valid. Until then they are not. If you want to accept it or not, it is a different question....
When something is scientifically proven to be factual we have no choice but to accept it. And so would I if these "paranormal phenomena" will be scientifically valid.
We can't solve this issue here. Go do the science.
As I already said. The science is there and has been there for decades now. If you are interested you are invited to inform yourself (and no I don't mean Wikipedia ^^ ). If not, that's also okay. Fortunately everybody has the freedom to believe what he or she wants. I don't do missionary work nor do I care if you believe me or not. I just thought you might be interested in the talk I posted at the beginning. That's it.
There is a reason why you make "is" italic in "The science is there" because even you probably understand that the "paranormal phenomena" is not accepted by the scientific consensus. Nothing scientifically proven. It is floating around circles of people who proclaim is something scientific about it, while in fact they lack any scientific proof to make it science.
I can't help you I'm afraid..."paranormal phenomena" is fantasy. Until it is proven to be anything scientific about these phenomena we can leave it as that....try to be humble and accept this reality.
I will keep it scientific yes. Try to be more humble. The world does not have to bend to your liking, at times you have to accept uncomfortable truths. This is how you grow and learn.
But I cannot see you being humble or scientific. And I hope you may be one day. On the other hand I am simply reflecting the scientific understanding and my "humbleness" is that I do not pretend to have discovered anything "para" normal, outside science.
That's because you don't know me Tio. Actually, you don't know anything about me. You are merely projecting your prejudices onto me based upon some text I've written. But I must admit it was really funny, so I guess I have to thank you for making me laugh.
Now, if you had read what I wrote earlier, you would have noticed that my opinion is based on personal experience. Not on pretending, not wishful thinking, and certainly not on a Wikipedia article. But you chose to put something in my mouth that came right out of your imagination. That's not "humbleness", that is pure ignorance paired with arrogance.
Instead of playing games with me, if I misunderstood you, correct me. Else we waste our time. The fact that you dismiss Wikipedia so fast is a telling sign as well. You "came to me", I merely posted something important about the way these mental "disorders" are dealt with in today's livestock society. And you started to talk about paranormal phenomena.
"When something is scientifically proven to be factual we have no choice but to accept it."
This is tantamount to not only saying "trust the science", but also a gross misunderstanding of what "science" itself is.
At the end of the day, "science", may be likened to a philosophical branch that begins with a premise of "We don't know sh*t" (regarding THE "truth"), which then progresses to, "in an attempt to know sh*t, we're gonna fook around to try to find out and record our results." BUT, it doesn't stop there, because the whole reason to "f around and find out" paired with recording results is two fold: A. The first assumption, "we don't know sh*t" B. So that others can then also "f around and find out if the conclusions drawn from our previous attempt(s) still seem solid"
The part B. is crucial, because implicated in that is the fact that SCIENCE DOESN'T TRUST THE SCIENCE. "scientific fact" ≠ Truth and NO WHERE in the sciences has "scientific fact" EVER meant anything more than "we f'd around to try to find out and sh*t still SE
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"When something is scientifically proven to be factual we have no choice but to accept it."
This is tantamount to not only saying "trust the science", but also a gross misunderstanding of what "science" itself is.
At the end of the day, "science", may be likened to a philosophical branch that begins with a premise of "We don't know sh*t" (regarding THE "truth"), which then progresses to, "in an attempt to know sh*t, we're gonna fook around to try to find out and record our results." BUT, it doesn't stop there, because the whole reason to "f around and find out" paired with recording results is two fold: A. The first assumption, "we don't know sh*t" B. So that others can then also "f around and find out if the conclusions drawn from our previous attempt(s) still seem solid"
The part B. is crucial, because implicated in that is the fact that SCIENCE DOESN'T TRUST THE SCIENCE. "scientific fact" ≠ Truth and NO WHERE in the sciences has "scientific fact" EVER meant anything more than "we f'd around to try to find out and sh*t still SEEMS solid" In FACT, one can find SCIENTIFIC records of previous "scientific facts" having been discarded, changed, or otherwise revised throughout virtually all scientific history.
"Psychology", in many respects, then does in FACT become a "Pseudo Science" in many regards. Why? Well for one, not in the DSM, nor much of anywhere in the "(academic/mainstream) sciences" is one going to find a cold hard "scientific" definition of "consciousness."
Or, as I often like to say, "I may perhaps forever find myself perplexed by how, to the tune of billions, people came to accept as both experts and leaders, those that could not explain to them what consciousness is, yet had the audacity to sell them life insurance."
Next, "Psychology" frequently bypasses the part B. of the "scientific philosophy" by making assertions while leaving no repeatable observable record of how one may go about to "f around and find out if our prior results still seem solid".
People like to detach "science" from "philosophy" for some reason, and it's a grave error, because as noted, SCIENCE IS A BRANCH OF PHILOSOPHY. Similarly in grave error, people mistake "science" as some sort of establishment of "truth", when the fact is that more than an "establishment of truth", it's simply a philosophical approach to "seeking truth". Further, because science is merely "truth seeking" as opposed to "truth establishing", SCIENCE DOESN'T TRUST THE SCIENCE (never has, never will).
Science is the best tool we have. Period. And yes science always changes and improves. But what is today scientifically valid it is the best we have and the truth-est truth. And that can change.
All of this philosophical talk is a lot of poop drops. Let's keep it to the point.
Foundational corner stones aren't poop drops mate. And saying "science is the BEST tool we have" is itself, scientifically, a bit of a stretch. Is it "a" tool, yes. Far as it being "the best".... May we remember Goddell.... math.uni-hamburg.de/home/khoms…
And as already prior noted, one may have fun in attempts to bring their "scientific facts" regarding what consciousness is. *and if one can't establish that cornerstone, where's that leave the "psychological sciences"?*
My intent here, more than arguing for or against things "paranormal", Rapport, Wikipedia, etc. was simply to try to help keep arguments and/or debates from one way or another stretching outside their own boundaries. Such said, in a look to placating appeals to "scientific fact"; the further work on Goddell has been offered for standing FACT on current and running "scientific facts".
"mate" if is not science what is? Tell me a better method to find out what is happening in the world? And by that I mean how we discover stuff, know stuff. If science cannot explain something, neither can you.
Am so tired of these para-people with their own theories, thinking they are above the scientific method.
I deleted 2 nonsense comments that are spamming already about the utter nonsense of paranormal and spirits. Go talk to other people about this crap. Don't spam my thread.
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Our TROM Social (friendica) was successfully updated. Likely there are still database updates in the background in case some things may seem not to work.
However it was so fast and stable.
Thank you to the #friendica team! Amazing people doing basically trade-free stuff without calling it like that.
Our TROM Social (friendica) was successfully updated. Likely there are still database updates in the background in case some things may seem not to work.
However it was so fast and stable.
Thank you to the #friendica team! Amazing people doing basically trade-free stuff without calling it like that.
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!
A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.
What are these humans living for?
In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.
Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
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Some 600 pages. I put so much effort into this wow....and the design, was really difficult to design a book about language. The subject was super complex but I am so so happy with how it ended up.
Some 600 pages. I put so much effort into this wow....and the design, was really difficult to design a book about language. The subject was super complex but I am so so happy with how it ended up.
370 pages of understanding in detail how money came to be. I looked at so many isms that tried to organize our society. This was the bedrock of my understanding of our society.
Over a THOUSAND pages long. Comic-book style design with superheroes and characters. By far the most difficult book I ever wrote or ever write probably. This made me have a complete understanding of what this global society is made of. I even created a mega search engine to showcase how a few companies own most stuff - unfortunately I had to discontinue it since it was impossible to update....but yah this book is the achievement of my life :D
This one is a unique book in terms of the subject. Also smaller than the rest around 70 pages. The title is the core of the book and the design was also difficult and unique.
Some 200 pages of pure joy. This one I really loved writing and designing.
I wrote more see here - tromsite.com/trombooks/ and I would love to write more, even if I am sure today is nearly impossible to make anyone read them. People have no patience plus they use these tiny screens (phones) so reading them in this digital format heavily reliant on a landscape design....is a no no for most.
Sad. But maybe I will publish my next content in the same format if I won't be comfortable with making videos.
Anyway, thank you past me for spending so many years creating these. They are really valuable books and they completely changed the way I see the world.
I have read "The Origin of most problems" book, and have read most of "The Money game and beyond" book but I unfortunately didn't finish it. Now I'm not much of a reader or anything, but both of those books were really fucking impressive and I remember feeling such joy and excitement reading those. I also read the "The ugliness of beauty" book which was a shorter one. I can only imagine the amount of effort you must've put into creating these books man, you not only had to research about these topics and write the books but you also designed them in such a beautiful manner. That is genuinely an achievement and something to be proud of 🙂
And personally I think perhaps I should start reading more books and such, there are some problems like my eye strain issues and such which hold me back but I realize that getting into a habit of reading will do me good long term.
And about the device.... I read these on an old tablet device that I had with a 10 inch 720p
I have read "The Origin of most problems" book, and have read most of "The Money game and beyond" book but I unfortunately didn't finish it. Now I'm not much of a reader or anything, but both of those books were really fucking impressive and I remember feeling such joy and excitement reading those. I also read the "The ugliness of beauty" book which was a shorter one. I can only imagine the amount of effort you must've put into creating these books man, you not only had to research about these topics and write the books but you also designed them in such a beautiful manner. That is genuinely an achievement and something to be proud of 🙂
And personally I think perhaps I should start reading more books and such, there are some problems like my eye strain issues and such which hold me back but I realize that getting into a habit of reading will do me good long term.
And about the device.... I read these on an old tablet device that I had with a 10 inch 720p display, I haven't turned it on for a long time now not sure if it still works lol 😅 But yeah the resolution wasn't great for such a big screen, it was all I had at the time.... The form factor of a tablet was still pretty great for reading a book tho, I could hold it in my hand like an actual book 😄
I would like to know what other format than video would be better suited for new TROM content? I understand that these books may be hard to read unless you do it on a laptop of decent screen. But on the other hand these books allow me to fully express myself via the design.
Making video content would be an obvious choice these days but I understand it can be a lot of work. A middle ground between the two might be Audio books or a podcast style format, however this can be limiting if you wanna include some visuals. I think technically it's possible to include some attachments along with your audio but if your content is predominantly visual then yeah this might not be the best option.
BTW, I will also say that one other advantage of the podcast format in particular is that it's one of the only media that isn't controlled by a single big tech platform and their algorithms. I think Spotify and Apple podcasts have tried to make it their walled garden but failed, almost every podcast is available through RSS feeds even today.
For me podcasts do not work in terms of creating them. Maybe if you have a cool voice and clear, may be more interesting. But this is not for me. I am also a very visual person and the way I designed our books was a great way to express myself.
Yeah I understand about the voice, if I think about it I would also get very self conscious about my voice if I were to sit in front of a mike to record a podcast lol 😅 And about you being a visual person, yeah that's what I was thinking how you expressed yourself so clearly with some simple figure drawings in your last blog post - that made me realize that this is your thing haha 😄 So audio won't help you with that.....
@Tio I remember "The Money Game and Beyond" was my first book that I read and it changed my life basically! I had this thought of "If I were to write a book about the world, I would write it exactly like this!" Amazing how you compress so much relevant knowledge into each of the books and I couldn't be happier to have translated most of them into german - it was a journey that I enjoyed so much 😊 Looking forward to new TROM content and materials however they might be 😉
Thank you so much wonderful friend @aaron you are so amazing for translating almost everything into German. So amazing. And yah can't wait to create more content. Thank you again for this wonderful message!
@aaron I know everyone talks about the origin of most problems book but I feel like the money game and beyond book was just as good and eye opening. I honestly don't remember why I didn't finish reading that book, I think I had to stop due to exams or something - or else there's no way I'd stop reading something that captivating. I should probably go back and read these books sometime 🙂
@Rokosun @Tio yeah for sure, you should! Especially since the last parts were so captivating for me. First chapter is a summary about fucked up the past and our current world is and why, second chapter about different ideas that people proposed to create something better and how they did end up in the world. Third chapter is about what really works and how we can "approach" this world - how to be scientific about the "disease" that exists in the world and "treat" "it". I love all parts and it is written so well :)
@aaron I think I have read most of the book already, because I remember the analogy using aging as a disease and comparing it with our society. Also one of the things that really impressed me in the book is how it answers a lot of the questions that would naturally arise in the readers mind, like how to handle scarce resources - the book talks about the example of organ donation and how that is distributed based on some ethical standards humans came up with.
@Rokosun @Tio yeah, I love those! It's fantastic to come up with good analogies and I think all TROM books do this very well! I feel like it's easy for people to grasp - for me at least :)
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