Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘

@FerdiFZ
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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 🐘5d ago
Scott Galloway5d ago
If I were Ted Sarandos, I would call Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper, pay them $10 million each, and offer a weekly Netflix show called, “The Hour.”

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZNaqiCuLCA/
Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway on Instagram: "“We’re going to bomb the village to save the village?” @KaraSwisher and @ProfGalloway comment on CBS leadership shaking up 60 Minutes in the name of fixing it."

5,796 likes, 241 comments - pivotpodcastofficial on June 5, 2026: "“We’re going to bomb the village to save the village?” @KaraSwisher and @ProfGalloway comment on CBS leadership shaking up 60 Minutes in the name of fixing it.".

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘May 24
Ferdi F. Zebua (backup)May 24

A nugget of a thought:

Maybe Samsung, Apple, and all the big phone brands are holding back on Silicon Carbon because they were hoping for a breakthrough on Sodium batteries...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MIBsuC9REo

This Ben Miles video is on the latest developments of Sodium batteries possibly replacing Lithium-Ion batteries as Industry's favorite battery chemistry.

This Battery Doesn't Need Lithium and It Just Hit Mass Production

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘May 12
Show threadFerdi F. Zebua (backup)May 12
"People are tired of AI slop and misinformation," writes Hank Green. "The social contract of our digital age is broken."
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘May 12
Show threadFerdi F. Zebua (backup)May 12

On the other hand though, there's this article from Hank Green about the "salience machine" (and on Hank's theory on "how to save the Internet"), which had recently been posted at, and by invitation from, TIME Magazine...:

https://time.com/article/2026/05/07/how-to-fix-the-internet/

How to Fix the Internet

"People are tired of AI slop and misinformation," writes Hank Green. "The social contract of our digital age is broken."

TIME
Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘Apr 20

I find it frankly at least a bit annoying that the first instinct of quite a number of people on Mastodon when they heard that Bluesky is having operational problems was... to celebrate.

To go all naa-naa pooh-pooh. Point and jeer.

...But I MUST ALSO remind myself that IT IS NOT the first instinct of many people on Mastodon. In fact I would argue it is not the opinion of MOST PEOPLE.

Anyways I still believe most Mastodoners do not yuck other people's yum. No.

Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘Apr 18
Electronic Frontier FoundationApr 18
American-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is being held by the Kuwaiti government for his social media posts. EFF calls for his immediate release. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-calls-kuwait-release-journalist-ahmed-shihab-eldin
EFF Calls on Kuwait to Release Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

EFF calls on the Kuwaiti government to immediately release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. An award-winning journalist and television host who worked for Al Jazeera for many years, Shihab-Eldin—a dual American-Kuwaiti citizen—was arrested in Kuwait on March 3 while visiting family. The Committee to...

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘Apr 18
Synthetic kerosene jet-fuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_QRzelRXo
The Company Creating FUEL From Sunshine

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘Apr 16

Is it just me or is Bluesky down?

Edit: Yup confirmed Bluesky is down right now. Globally.

And because it prompted me to ask around I just recently found out that Bluesky had been blocked in Indonesia since December 2025, and I hadn't noticed at all since I've been using Cloudflare Warp for God-knows how many years now...

Edit again: About eight hours later Bluesky is back again. And three days later no further outages in my experience.

Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘Feb 13

Para "pejuang kemerdekaan" Papua ngapain sih berulang membunuh pilot sipil kemanusiaan di Papua? Apa karena gak bisa lagi dapat duit dari menyandera?

Terus duitnya buat apa sih, buat beli bedil M4 atau buat beli tuak mabuk-mabukan?

Ferdi F. Zebua 🐘Feb 2
Ferdi F. Zebua (backup)Feb 2

Proto-thought:

Bigotry should not be outlawed. Specifically feelings of bigotry. Because all humans will always be bigoted to some level or another.

What should be punished should be unfair and unjust actions motivated by bigotry.

Let people feel bigoted, it cannot be prevented. What can be managed though, are harmful actions motivated by bigotry.

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As usual with proto-thought, this needs deeper analysis and more thought.

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#fzThinkingOutLoud #bigotry #society #socialInteraction #law #norms #culture