(testing a keyword theory, here...) (see video for details) (also search 'Monsanto Let Nothing Go')
Just another underemployed someone @ Jakarta, Indonesia. No one particularly special, in that sense. about.me/ffz hachyderm.io/@FerdiFZ threads.net/@ferdizebua tumblr.com/ferdifz twitter.com/f_fz instagram.com/ferdiz_draw #fzDrawing #fzThinkingOutLoud
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(testing a keyword theory, here...) (see video for details) (also search 'Monsanto Let Nothing Go')
Monsanto's Roundup causes cancer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVX...
Jadi Indonesia akan punya tim Hoki Es, gitu? Atau malah sudah..?
Eh gimana gimana?
Anyone who dares ask me for a sexy watto will get AI slop. I'm serious.
Fuck no I ain't doing a Sexy Watto! No! lol 😆🤣
Because fuck man, like 90% will be unemployed by the time they graduate, even if they're way more deserving.
The last thing I drew is an (imho) mediocre Silksong fan-art. And no I don't feel like doing anything more at this time. There are first- and second-year graphics design students multiple-times better than me. Ask them to do things if there's something you want. Not me.
Nice dream, yes...
Not towards the conservative, not towards the progressive. Not towards left, nor right. But towards the negative. Downwards. Deep, deep dark.
One big problem with media today, both user-generated media and commercially-supported media, is that media in its race for financial survivability has built a bias towards the negative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIBU...
Are you insulting me? I feel insulted. [/sarcasm]
Not just the influence of Cameras, but also the general influence of Media, including the influence of Social Media. ("Death of a Fantastic Machine", from NY Times Op-Doc, July 2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf3w...
Oh and yes, Palestinian donation activists, please do block me. Also mark me as evil or a spammer too, while you're at it. Please do.
I wonder how Tumblr solved their Palestinian donation-scammers problem though. They used to be so rampant over there, like virtually every single Tumblr post used to have a Palestinian donation solicitor which turns out to be a mass-produced bot. They virtually don't now.
I love @theresthistory.bsky.social but one of the co-hosts has the anti-woke virus. My comment on his attitude:
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Cari mati, ketemu mati. #HidupAmarah #HidupKekerasan
Kalau udah gelap mata mah, ya gelap mata aja. Cara paling efektif untuk membuat gerombolan marah untuk semakin marah, adalah dengan meminta gerombolan untuk jangan marah. Lihat saja.
Nggak akan pengaruh terhadap kelanjutan bakar-bakaran.
Hydrogen fuel, bioplastics, potential battery minerals, and even carbon nanotubes. All of this, potentially, from pesky seaweed that washes up onto beaches by the tons each year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAYi...
Investigating Social Media Algorithms In this reporting guide, GIJN offers tips, techniques, and best practices for covering the algorithms – and their corresponding impacts – used by tech giants’ social media platforms.
The year I was born. we basically had no idea why cancers happened and now we understand the underlying force behind it with 100% clarity and the molecular forces behind it with many orders of magnitude more resolution. We were entirely in the dark, and now the room is lit.
Anyways remember to drink water regularly folks. Replenish your liquids. That's a universally useful recommendation for human beings I think.
Which may sound unrealistic but maybe ask yourself: Are you arguing nonstop, all the time, without rest?
Arguing is sometimes fun, sometimes beneficial, and sometimes essential to building mental health. Kinda like jogging. And kinda like jogging, arguing consumes your energy. And like jogging, I think, you can overdo jogging. You can die of jogging if you jog nonstop without rest.
Once again, more than thirty years on, Poe's Law continues to be proven to still apply on the open and wild Web. (Just kidding.) (Or am I?)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was released 14 years ago today. The story takes place in 2027 ☝️
AI giants are seeking data that can’t be scraped from the internet (Aug. 21, 2025) It’s a bid to make their models more accurate and to find new use cases. (Rest of World magazine via MIT Tech Review The Download newsletter) - restofworld.org/2025/ai-data... - mailchi.mp/technologyre...
I don't really do fan-art... but tonight, I kinda felt like it...
Multidisciplinary Californian artist David Choe answers (among other questions): "Why are artists so petty, passive-aggresive, jealous?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNk... #fzWebVideos #ArtistLife #SelfHelp #UnstuckYourself
Hollow Knight Silksong, this September 4th! It's official. Two weeks. teamcherry.com.au
Sore losers, is what I'm saying. Self-destructive sore losers at that, that among others want the freedom to go unvaccinated, and to cut off their fingers on table saws and choke on asbestos. For trickle down profit from billionaires or some other imaginary shit.
All because Obama became US president in 2006... And it gets worse now that Zohran is about to lead NYC...
Kadir jualan botol minum di TikTok. Doyok jualan gerobak sorong. Bikin mikir sih ya... ...terutama bahwa dua-duanya masih tetap kaya... #IndonesiaKaya
bsky.app/profile/zohr...
Whoa, the radioactive Walmart shrimp was Indonesian! #PTBMS
Make Americans Die Before 50 Again!
Mungkin menanggapi kasus #Pati (Jawa Tengah) dan Bone (Sulawesi Selatan) dan situs-situs protes massa keras lainnya...
Scientists gain breakthrough on method for detecting (many if not most types of) cancer earlier than ever thought possible before: --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oA6... (Dr Ben Miles, Aug. 18, 2025) #Cancer #Bioscience #Medicine #Science
Also: #MirrorLife #ChiralCells #AminoAcids #GeneticManipulation #Bioscience #NuclearArmageddon #SciFiConcepts
This video-essay by Kyle Hill (@khill.bsky.social) mentions Chyrality and the Chyral Networks a lot... /cc Hideo Kojima (@hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp) because #DeathStranding thematic innuendos... --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU3H...
The quite recent podcast episode where Trevor Noah had Adam Grant as guest is also very nice, I say.
Stay away from Twitter/X, folks. Seriously. Like no matter what you think you might be missing out on, really think deep & hard whether it's even worth your mental health and sanity.
Oh my god I thought it was just a bunch of random insignificant Elon dry-humping Twitter trolls spending all day arguing back & forth with Grok; but Matt Taibbi!? I mean, not unbelievable no. But still though. Just when you thought 'journalist' Taibbi couldn't get any more stupider & gaslit.
Anyways: Russia invaded Ukraine. And also Putin is murdering young Russian men by the thousands. Every month. Sending them into a meaningless war with essentially no training and empty promises of never-to-be-paid death-pensions.
So... Zelenskyy's in the White House again, today... at this very moment, even..(?) He's wearing an all-black suit this time, instead of military fatigues...
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Interesting; plot of "The Forever Winter" multiplayer looter-shooter game, but the machines are not eating/consuming humans?
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Hunter Biden Apologizes... uh, but no he didn't lol :)) youtu.be/Fs9v0sdZixs #Channel5 #AndrewCallaghan #HunterBiden #MichaelWolff #MelaniaTrumpBillionDollarLawsuit #TacoTrump #USPol #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheCuomoFiles
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Is this about "The Roaring '20s is Repeating" meme again..? bsky.app/profile/dave...
Speaking of The Roaring '20s... ✌🙏 bsky.app/profile/dave...
We're probably doomed to endless toxic feedback loops unless someone hits upon a brilliant fundamental redesign that manages to change social media's core dynamics.
Nice... cc @noupside.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social @joescott.bsky.social @smartereveryday.bsky.social @malwaretech.com
The Roaring Twenties, then and now
From one of the comments in the YouTube Shorts version of this video: "I’m always getting flooded with videos saying invest in index funds reminds me of the roaring 20s"..!
📌 ...Also: cc @hankgreen.bsky.social check out the above TikTo— I mean, short vertical video from Dave Jorgenson's "Local News International"..!
Perplexity *does not* have $34.5 billion; the company itself is 'only' worth $14.5 billion. But Perplexity has effectively 'secured' the funds from various third parties (like how Elon secured almost $45 billion to buy Twitter back in 2022).
Perplexity AI officially offers to buy the Chrome browser from Google for US$34.5 billion. www.pcworld.com/article/2875...
The thing about Donald Trump wanting a Nobel Peace Prize (which Obama already won, by the way), is that Trump is in the Epstein Files and obviously he's in there way worse than anybody thought because of how badly Trump wants everybody to forget about them already.
@vladvexler.bsky.social Another Moscow coup rumor. ...Yes yes, yet another coup rumor, like we haven't heard literally hundreds of these since 2022 already, but like... do these rumors have legs this time, I wonder..? (and specifically I ask to you, Vlad...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0nz...
The problem with cargo-bicycles (and how to solve it)..: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcfI... (from the Oh The Urbanity channel on YouTube, Aug. 2025) #bicycle #urban #transportation #greentech #bakfiets #cargobikes #electricbicyles #advocacy
#fzDrawing
And every notification ding then traumatizes your heart forever more with the same emotional force. Which is fucking stupid.
The problem with contemporary smartphone notifications is, the notification that says your close aunt had just died is given the same priority by your operating system as the notification that some stupid knickknack you wish-listed on your shopping app ages ago just got a 90% discount.
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I have no frame of reference other than Telo press releases and vlogs from tech YouTubers and car YouTubers. …But my understanding is they're trying to compete price-wise with an entry level Ford Maverick. (Maybe.) (Utilizing as much off-the-shelf parts & established electric motors etc.)
Foreign Policy magazine republishes an article from the Institute for the Study of War. #geopolitics
Speaking of.. ✌️ bsky.app/profile/telo...
I crosspost to 3 different platforms, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon. I write the post in Bluesky on desktop (shortest character limit and I can copy the alt text after I post) Does this mean I browse 3 timelines now? No, the opposite. I just post and then leave. I very rarely browse my timeline.
I think it has helped a bunch with my mental health. I just think of something silly to say, take a few minutes to write it and try to make it funny, post it, check my notifications and then close all 3 tabs. Rinse and repeat. You are all probably posting wonderful things, I just can't anymore.
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982): A cheerful advertisement
A little micro-blog post reflecting on my unlocking all achievements in Need For Speed: Heat last night..: www.tumblr.com/ferdifz/7907... #gameing #videogaming #blogging #fzThinkingOutLoud #fzDiary
Speaking of communists on Substack (lol): slavoj.substack.com/p/welcome-to... (yes, *the* #SlavojZizek)
And so the pendulum keeps swinging back and forth, between absolute darwinian anarchy and absolute fascistic authoritarianism.
And so the pendulum keeps swinging back and forth, between absolute darwinian anarchy and absolute fascistic authoritarianism.
The question is: Modify weather how? Like as in, are you for example the type of person who would recommend flooding the Australian Outback to create an artifical inland sea, in order to "attempt to" alleviate Australian drought? www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYX5...
The actors who play Cleon/Empire in Foundation are so lucky: every year, they get to play a new variation of the character. It must be as exciting for them as it is for us. 👌
...and Vlad weighs in: bsky.app/profile/vlad...
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I'm really intrigued by Suwan Promsri's comments in this AFP story. He's a 73 y.o. Thai man who has lived along the border forever, so has seen it all. He says before people were 'indifferent' but social media nationalism is making things much worse www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...
It's hard to transition away from the dopamine slot machine (phone). Getting back to work, or a gentle evening wind down… Anything else is boring. Boring is healthy but uncomfortable. Tools can help the transition – mental tools & tech tools. Here's a great little tool that I've been using:
ICE agents are getting as demoralized as those Marines deployed to LA by MAGA DC instead of fighting wild-fires & hurricane relief.
ICE needs to get back to killing druglords and kingpins in Mexico... stop it with all this political-showboating immigrant shock-mock 'arrests' state-side. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guak...
...And if any of you disapprove of or even outright *hate* the existence of that link, go get the Internet Archive deleted from the Internet or something nuclear like that.
Oh hey! If any of you reading this have run out of free articles and like can't even afford lunch nevermind yet another monthly subscription, there's an actual archive of the linked article already: archive.ph/LESiY
I'm no New Yorker. I'm not even American. But honestly man, I find this very inspiring.
The best? Logging off and touching grass. But better yet, doing so while meeting real friends in real life.
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"Social media users are tired of losing their identity and data every time a platform shuts down or pivots. In the ATProto ecosystem, users own their data and identities. Bluesky is the first big example, but a new wave of decentralized social networks is just beginning."
...Anyways here's engagement, of which I'm not sure is worth anything anyway. Neither socially, culturally, economically, or in some other esoteric way I'm sure I've not thought of yet.
I'm Liking this post neither because it is true nor because it is funny. Nor am I Liking this post because of the responses to it. I'm not entirely sure why I Like this post. Nor why I'm expressing why I'm not entirely sure why I Like this post.