"A Letter From an Iranian" (June 2025)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-letter-from-an-iranian
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Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘
This account is an alt of @FerdiZ [that's (at)ferdiz(at)mastodon(dot)cloud]. I'm Indonesian. I signed up here at mastodon.social one day because registration was opened for a while. Using this as a backup account. Especially since Mastodon Cloud has become quite unstable these past three years (2018-2020). I still believe in federated social media though. Very much so.
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"A Letter From an Israeli Shelter" (June 2025)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-letter-from-an-israeli-shelter
#PersuasionCommunity
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The story of photographic collage artist Richard G. Ramsdell reminds me of this (perhaps once very Internet famous) Internet koan from futurist and science-fiction author Cory Doctorow (of Electronic Frontier Foundation and Creative Commons fame) that goes something like,
"The biggest threat to authors today (in the early 2000's) is not theft of work, but of falling into obscurity."
More details on Richard G. Ramsdell and the "Cooper Family Photo/Falling Body Creepy Pasta" Internet creepy photo meme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V44Ha1eZF8
#fz_webVideos #fzWebVideos #InternetMeme #InternetCulture #InternetAnthropology
By the way I'm mostly on Hachyderm dot IO nowadays, when I'm on the Fediverse/Mastodon network... posting from my account at @ferdifz@hachyderm.io
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The insane influencer logic that tricked millions of people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6g_9xZNdRI
#CarrotsAreFood #BarbarianCarrotLady #PaleoDietGrift #FramingDevice #HistoricalDishonesty #AppealToEmotion #FearUncertaintyDoubt #FramingLogic
video link hat-tip to shava23.bsky.social
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Social media is now so broken because most social media users can no longer have an honest and real conversation with another social media user anymore. Not while being complete strangers to each other.
Complete strangers can no longer trust each other on the Internet anymore. Not even in a parasocial context.
Breaking this global sociological trend is a very real, modern challenge in this current "post-truth" information age.
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This video—published just one week but I only watched just now—was how I learned that Finale was finally discontinued last year. Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqaon6YHzaU
I'm not a music student, I studied communications in college, but I did dabble in a little bit of music back then and I once used Finale to write down one single little, /very amateurish/ classical guitar etude in Finale that I had messed around with on my guitar for years by then at the time. The finale file might still be somewhere among my old hard drives & old PCs, might even be somewhere in my Google Drive or MS OneDrive or DropBox or something. I doubt I could convert it to MusicXML to rescue it at this time, even if I could find it again.
Anyways, loved the video. Very surreal. One hour long fair warning.
(And yes my use of em dashes in this post is intentional.)
#Tantacrul #Finale #GUIsoftwareDesign #MusicNotation #YouTube
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I don't really know why I even want to preserve this moment digitally, from Trump's SOTU. It's weird. Not normal.
The whole event was weird. The sign is weird. But the sign helps make the weirdness a bit more bearable, I think? Somehow? I don't know.
Anyways I got a drawing out of the feeling. Much as it's a chicken-scratch of a drawing. It's something.
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#fzDrawing #fz_drawing #Trump #SOTU2025 #StateOfTheUnion #ThisIsNotNormal #uspol
The whole event was weird. The sign is weird. But the sign helps make the weirdness a bit more bearable, I think? Somehow? I don't know.
Anyways I got a drawing out of the feeling. Much as it's a chicken-scratch of a drawing. It's something.
___
#fzDrawing #fz_drawing #Trump #SOTU2025 #StateOfTheUnion #ThisIsNotNormal #uspol
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Hank Green: "We can, and will, eradicate Measles". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvLbT1uXXg
Speaking of which: Hank Green: "We can, and will, eradicate Measles". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvLbT1uXXg
Hank Green: "We can, and will, eradicate Measles". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvLbT1uXXg
"Not everything new is good." Yes, agreed.
Not everything new is evil, either.
Stop being so fucking binary about everything, jesus fuck.
What? "Luddism began with workers wishing to preserve their wage & income?" Yes. Exactly.
It's not just reactionary hate against everything new. It was socio-economically motivated (against change).
Beware neo-luddism I say, to people that instinctively throw a bah-humbug at every attempt to do a new or new-ish thing.
You know who you are.
Project 2025 happening in real-time I guess..? With a fair bit of bungling about and unintentional & semi-unintentional incompetence here & there?
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I tried to prove I'm not AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0WvudbO04
Howtown channel video at YouTube. Run-time of 20 minutes, published Feb 21, 2025.
No one's talking to each other.
Everyone's shouting and no one is listening.
We all resent each other so much.
Moreso tribe versus tribe, but even for each of us within each our tribes.
Brad Colbow's new Blender Tutorial for Total Beginners, is really good! Really simple!
👉 https://youtu.be/nESaz92SJ0w?si=Aw8R5Anh-InRoSFK
Way shorter, and way more basic than BlenderGuru's 20-part Donut Tutorial! Almost as basic as a tutorial for SketchUp Free! Just object modelling!
#Blender #Blender3D #Beginner #Tutorial #OpenSource #ComputerGraphics #Illustration #Modeling
I find it interesting that Hachyderm IO has decided to go ahead and defederate from Threads dot Net, meanwhile Mastodon dot Social has not yet done so...
(Despite Gargron publishing a quite-critical op-ed against Zuck's latest moderation & policy moves at the official Mastodon blog...)
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