Why Trump's ICE is kidnapping & disappearing so many legal US residents today: https://youtu.be/aDbtrdfYqBc (45-minute YouTube video-journalism essay) #UsPol #FuckIce #FuckTrump #fzWebVideos
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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Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘 boosted:
Launching http://xodus.online ! Building a movement away from toxic social media, towards alternative social media (open social web) - the why, the where-to and the how! Please support our launch ! https://xodus.online/2025/10/30/launching-xodus-online/ #MastodonMigration
"ChatGPT isn't smart. It's something else much weirder." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CKuiuc5cJM
A one-hour-and-change deep conversation between Science YouTuber Hank Green and AI researcher Nate Soares. First published at YouTube on October 31st, 2025.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #GenerativeAI #AIregulation #fzWebVideos
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘 boosted:
I get that people may think that Loops is simply a TikTok clone.
But a clone wouldn't ship 26k LoC to add ActivityPub support*, publish all source code under AGPL, or support full data export and migration.
Most TikTok competitors are driven by financial motives, whereas Loops isn't.
This matters. A lot.
You can't serve two masters — either you serve your people, or you serve the money.
We chose people. ❤️
* - https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/commit/5b0e77806c53c0cd1c68c9f09e06f16ad0debc3e
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘 boosted:
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the heading 'When you need to move fast'
"The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘 boosted:
The Bench - Release Trailer
https://comicbuzz.com/the-bench-release-trailer/
#gaming #videogames
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘 boosted:
"Gold Explained, Finally" — I think this is a great 30-minute 'crash-course' video-explainer from Johnny Harris on the historical origins of Gold as the first essentially universal international monies, or store-of-value... or currency...
(and maybe briefly as an explainer why people are buying up a significantly large amount of gold, internationally, lately...)
:youtube_logo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMObz0Dgq7M
[..and that has been my Mastodon quote-post test.] [I will continue testing, and hopefully using on other Mastodon servers too, looking forward to it.]
Yes I like this one! And I want to drive it in pedal-assist mode exclusively (or at least 80%, 90%++ of the time). It's called the TM-Q...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115419041115209812
I personally would love a pedal-assist four-wheeler quad-cycle.
I mean a pedal-assist two-wheel bicycle is cool too, as well as pedal-assist cargo bikes or even a pedal-assist three-wheel bakfiets... but yeah, pedal-assist four-wheeler...
Anyways I've gone into preferences to make sure it's enabled. And yes I do prefer it enabled. Personally speaking.
Aah; right. I see..:
How does one go about activating/enabling "Quote Tweets"/"Quote Posts" on (the current latest version of) Mastodon..?
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘 boosted:
1954 Mercedes Benz 300 SL Gullwing "replica", hand-made and "rebuilt" from scratch... in Bali:
:youtube_logo: https://youtu.be/A4pJhtKBl9A
#MakerCulture #CarBuilds #RestoMod #Hagerty #TuksedoGarage #Bali #Indonesia
Hornet raising her Needle
(Hollow Knight Silksong,
September 4, 2025)
"The greatest manga artist you've never heard of"
📹 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCus8vFbwGw
A video-essay fom Matttt of Comic & Manga History, on Japanese manga artist Jiro Taniguchi
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘 boosted:
"A Letter From an Iranian" (June 2025)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-letter-from-an-iranian
#PersuasionCommunity
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘 boosted:
"A Letter From an Israeli Shelter" (June 2025)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-letter-from-an-israeli-shelter
#PersuasionCommunity
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘 boosted:
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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