Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

@FerdiZ@mastodon.cloud
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From Indonesia. 🇮🇩 he/him, but they/them is fine, too.

#fz_drawing | #fz_thinkingOutLoud | #fz_links | #fz_webVideos

#Socmed addict but working on it. Four years unemployed per 2024 but still going strong (by mooching off of my family & friends of course). Very occasionally depressed but not infectiously so I promise. On the Mastodon side of the Fediverse since 2017-ish.

Also I have decided to participate in the Tootfinder opt-in full-text federated text-search project per March 2023.

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"A Letter From an Iranian" (June 2025)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-letter-from-an-iranian
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A Letter From An Iranian

My family is in Tehran. Here's what this war means to me.

Persuasion
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"A Letter From an Israeli Shelter" (June 2025)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-letter-from-an-israeli-shelter
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A Letter From An Israeli Shelter

On the horrors of the Iranian regime and the complexities of preemptive war.

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Show threadFerdi F. Zebua 🌏Jun 6
@jbond Somewhat precariously related, from "infamous" Internet personality Johnny W. Harris: https://youtu.be/JZqa2wQdORo?si=QBAQTPT2XYmIULou
Space War is Real, Here’s How it Works

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏Jun 6
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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

The Story Behind This Perfectly Normal Photo

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏May 30
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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

The Insane Influencer Logic That Tricked Millions of People

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏May 22
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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.
Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏May 22
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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

Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (@FerdiZ@mastodon.cloud)

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. #fz_thinkingOutLoud #SocialMedia

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏May 18
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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.

#fzThinkingOutLoud #fzThinkingOutLoud

Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏May 13
If you're still following this Mastodon account today, might I interest you in also following @ferdifz (at hachyderm dot io)..
Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏May 13
*ping*