Kings and Queens are a primitive and insulting notion. A ruler over the ruled. A "have it all" over "have it none". A hilarious imagination supported by primitive minds, that results into a needless and cruel power imbalance.
It is astonishing that the people who believe in this, do not find it ridiculous and disgusting.
Thank you Handelsfrei for becoming a Patreon supporter and Nick Saura for the financial help you've been sending for the past months. We will release TROM II, a 5h long documentary, in June. If you want to support our work please do so here tromsite.com/donate/ - everything that we do is trade-free. #tromlive
I've sent the documentary to those who were part of it. They all watched it and provided a ton of feedback. What was absolutely surprising to me were their reactions overall. I am still unable to compute why they thought so positively about it. You see I have edited this documentary a thousand times so I was unable to understand it anymore. I did not know if it makes sense or not.
So maybe it is good?
I can tell you that their comments range from "Tio deserves and Oscar" haha, to "this documentary is a masterpiece", to "it's a brilliant work" or "the best documentary ever". This seems quite a lot for me to digest but they keep on telling me that. @Georgi watched it first, she could not wait, and digested it in one go sending me tons of feedback while watching it.
She bought a pizza and she said she was so captivated she could not eat much hahah.
@Sasha came in the second place but just 1 hour later than Georgi haha. She 'forced' me to re-watch it all in one go :D. She was so amazed and happy she kept on telling that to me, to the point of me being confused and thinking that she exaggerates. I even asked her to please not exaggerate. haha.
Don't be deceived!
Now, please do not let these feedbacks, some of which were public, influence you when you'll watch it. These people took part in the documentary, they agree with these ideas, and we are very close friends. I keep on saying to lower your expectations even now when you see these first reactions. Please! I am 1 guy, with 1 laptop, and this is the first time I had to record for a documentary and do it in this fashion. Put it into that perspective please. Their reactions and feedbacks are valuable (very much) but I do not want to make people have big expectations from this documentary.
Ok. So these guys also had a few criticisms but way less than I expected. Some 6-7 people watched it and 2 said there are a few "boring" moments in the first part of the documentary. Others said that was their favorite part and not boring at all. One said in the last part we repeated a few things, quite a minor offense ;). Lastly @Dima had some good inputs about the colors of the recordings. Most are ok, but they need to be improved and I am doing it now (again....I improved the colors so many times idk what colors are anymore haha).
But that's all the criticism so far.
The PLAN.
On 20th of May we have that special TROM Meeting. We had one in 2019 after I released the book The Origin of Most Problems. It was great to see all of these wonderful brains together.
For TROM II I still have to do a few things: color correct that may take a week or some 10 days; make a trailer - and I want to make a very good one so this can take a week or more; make a poster (easy); do the sources (time consuming); prepare tromsite.com for the release.
With these being said, I should not force myself to do all of those before the May meeting and quickly release just before that. I want to enjoy that meeting and not think about the release. Plus would be fantastic to make an english subtitle that we can then translate in several languages and release TROM II with them. Wouldn't it be better to release TROM II in a few languages? I think so.
Therefore when we meet in May we can also work on some of these things. Let's do this well!
Release.
I think the best would be to release in the beginning of June. With a good trailer, in multiple languages, better color correction, and all that. This is entirely doable. I do not know the exact date, but should be in the first half of June FOR SURE!
I am quite excited about the release :). And I may try to make the trailer in May. Will keep you posted!
Watch the latest @Dima video videos.trom.tf/w/kq6Jvh5beUKbR… about how some people use the food waste to feed the ones in need. Dima makes great and important videos about volunteering. Make sure you follow him. He is also part of the upcoming TROM II documentary. #tromlive
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Watch the latest @Dima video videos.trom.tf/w/kq6Jvh5beUKbR… about how some people use the food waste to feed the ones in need. Dima makes great and important videos about volunteering. Make sure you follow him. He is also part of the upcoming TROM II documentary. #tromlive
How a Free Food Shop is Fighting Food Waste and Help People in Need
In this heartwarming video, I take you on a journey to the heart of Vienna to introduce you to an inspiring organization called Verein M.U.T. These dedicated individuals have set up a free food shop to provide for those in need, while also tackling the issue of food waste.
Every year, they rescue over 60,000 kilograms of food that would have otherwise been thrown away and distribute it to people who need it most. They go even further by delivering food to other organizations that support underprivileged people in Vienna.
But their work doesn't stop there. Verein M.U.T. also donates clothes to homeless people and provides a safe, welcoming environment for those who are struggling.
I had the privilege of volunteering with them and was inspired by their passion and commitment to making a difference in their community.
Join me on this journey as we explore the incredible work that Verein M.U.T. is doing and learn how we can all make a difference in the fight against food waste.
If you would like to donate money or time, or if you need help go to : verein-mut.eu/
MUT steht für die Einheit von Mensch, Umwelt und Tier. Wir sind ein Kollektiv aus Menschen, die sinnhafte Tätigkeiten mit unserer gemeinsamen Philosophie verknüpfen. Alles, was wir machen…
Wow, what an amazing video! Seeing people help others like this makes me so happy 🙂
And it boggles my mind to think that all those good quality food would've gone to waste if it wasn't for organizations like this. 40% of all food produced in the world is lost in one way or another?! Now that is a hauntingly high number, we should try to reduce it as much as possible. Thank you Dima for finding such organizations, helping them, and shining a light on them through your videos.
Thanks for sharing ! @Rokosun Thank you ! It's indeed crazy how much food are wasted. Yeah about 40%. Interesting fact that 60% out of those 40% are wasted in households. That was huge discovery for me, i was sure that supermarkets and production facilities waste the most. Which was true some time ago, but now it's changed.
Finally the TROM II documentary is done and it was sent to the ones who took part in it for review. From now one there will be no change, unless they notice anything that is REALLY REALLY bad and needs to be fixed. Or typos.
4 parts, some 5 hours long. Soon we will make a post about it and about when we plan to release it.
Stay tuned and follow us on the fedierse trom@social.trom.tf or via our updates tromsite.com/live/
I cannot promise watching all 4 hours long videos, but I would suggest "beta-testing" it with people in the community already. I could watch one of these mainly yours as I have provided feedback on some of your writings already, but then you did not seem to see value or have time to deal with my previous feedback. Actually some of my feedback, mainly about the health ones, now I kinda agree considering I watched the videos you did with experts on the matter...
Unaware of your feedback but I (Tio) try to reply to every single email. Currently I will be busy with releasing this documentary so I may take some time to reply but you can always contact us via the contact page on tromsite.com.
Not sure how you plan to introduce it, but definitely as you have 4 long vids, I woud suggest an introduction with idk 5 min max, and something way more short like 10-30s for publishing on social media to grab quick attraction.
Will see, but we are not here to "grab quick attention". I (Tio) personally am tired of that. I tried to "reach" people with these projects for too many years. Now I do stuff and share them. That's all.
That was not what I meant to imply (attention economy), sorry. I meant reaching as many people as possible in an accessible way considering the formats people are familiar today, so they would then be more interested in seeing the whole thing, I assume as a non-professional.
I clearly say this in a way that would be more effective in sharing the vision of your project which I think is very important to highlight all things leading and maintaining unfair inequality, exploitation, resource and capital accumulation, attention economy (which is what I assume you are tired of just as me). It is your project anyway; that was just a suggestion. I'm already glad you're going to release the vids.
Yes would be fantastic to get more people to be interested in what we talk about. We will see how things will progress after the documentary is released.
It seems that the Manjaro team got very excited these past weeks with 3 stable releases in just about 2 weeks. All good, we are keeping TROMjaro up to date too. So nothing new for this ISO, just the normal updates. Grab it form here.
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.
Subscribe to Dima here videos.trom.tf/c/soberpirate/v… - he is doine some very interesting and important videos about volunteering. He is also part of the upcoming TROM II documentary. #tromlive
Join me in this inspiring adventure as we clean up Croatia's caves and witness the shocking amount of trash that has accumulated over time. Learn about the r...
A couple weeks ago I had an interview from an organisation called Helfa about TROM and the trade-free idea. I am very happy to be able to answer some questions and present these very important projects/ideas. It was my first interview and I was a bit excited, so I said many ehms, and the video and audio quality are not that great. But I can work on that and improve this for next time :) The interview was in german and if anyone is interested, here's the link: youtube.com/watch?v=r18pyAltRw… Let's see how we can push this movement further and reach more people. #tromwork
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
In dem Interview geht Ricarda den Fragen nach, ob geldfreies Leben möglich ist und wie man dies realisieren könnte. Dazu befragt sie Aaron über die Projekte ...
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.
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.
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 this endless fight, despite getting less and less financial support. Thus is the nature of this cruel system. If you can please support us here tromsite.com/donate/ .
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…
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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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, ... show more
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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, you name it. It would integrate with a lot of apps and devices.
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.
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The normal Manjaro Stable updates plus: Docklike stuff The apps panel, where the opened apps are displayed, got an update. One minor change for our default TROMjaro: right click on any app from Docklike then Properties.
“The Killing of a Journalist” tells the story of the 2018 murders of OCCRP’s Slovak colleague Ján Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kušnírová. Investigative journalists used leaked police files from the murder investigation to uncover vast corruption at the highest levels of Slovak society.
“The Killing of a Journalist” tells the story of the 2018 murders of OCCRP’s Slovak colleague Ján Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kušnírová. Investigative journalists used leaked police files from the murder investigation to uncover vast corruption at the highest levels of Slovak society.
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!
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/.
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