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

I think I need to go on a one-week total social-media fast to even begin to consider creating artworks again. Nevermind creating any meaningful ones.

Throwback from 2023:

As has been well-established for quite some time now, the problem with social media is mainly sociological not technological. Even technological adjustments to social media sorely need to be firmly grounded on good sociological analyses.

…And anyone can distrust and/or vilify Marshall McLuhan all they want, but that doesn't change the fact that we humans cannot not communicate, and that communication by default mostly err towards miscommunication.

And the solution to the problem of rampant miscommunication, /is not/ to stop communicating, but rather to communicate better.

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#fzThinkingOutLoud #fz_thinkingOutLoud #SocialMedia #Communication #SocialInteraction #SocialMedia #SocialInteraction

Originally posted at Mastodon dot Cloud:
-> https://mastodon.cloud/@FerdiZ/111328451156426589

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.

#fzThinkingOutLoud #fzThinkingOutLoud

If you're still following this Mastodon account today, might I interest you in also following @ferdifz (at hachyderm dot io)..

*ping*

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

@queen_fennec @randomgeek

Every enterprise software company's leadership page :

(quip & pic stolen from Threads/the Internet; not my original)

Just to be clear I am no programmer nor hacker and I know nothing about nothing.

*Im not the creator. I don't know who made this.

@bea Not sure of at times when I didn't check Mastodon Cloud but yes, I guess..? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also have been visiting the Fediverse less frequently lately. I would hope the same could be said about socmed in general but... I don't think so..? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Trump's El Salvadoran Concentration Camp (abstract)" - April 2025 / #fzDrawing #fz_drawing

*i found a message from a stranger...recorded in 1977* | Kawehi Makes (a daily vlog series) episode 050 (April 11, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvjOzBuLuYU

@bea Just noting that I saw this toot over 10 hours later...

and yes this is quite happenstance; I don't visit Masto Cloud that often anymore... nevermind the glitcsoc family of servers/instances...

*visit*

Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian's Digg launches a $5 early-access program called Groundbreakers, giving a "front-row seat to how Digg is being rebuilt" (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/rebooted-digg-launches-early-access-community-with-5-fee/
http://www.techmeme.com/250410/p31#a250410p31

China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. Until recently, the so-called “Smishing Triad” mainly impersonated toll road operators and shipping companies. But experts say these groups are now directly targeting customers of international financial institutions, while dramatically expanding their cybercrime infrastructure and support staff.

The pace of innovation coming from these phishing groups is something to behold, as are their success rates. And thousands of US financial institutions are sitting ducks.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/china-based-sms-phishing-triad-pivots-to-banks/

*visit*