Ferdinand F. Zebua
@ferdizebua.bsky.social
Just another unemployed/underemployed someone from Jakarta, Indonesia. No one particularly special, in that sense.
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So some days ago a thought intruded into my mind: "Culture is a 'Red Herring', a figment of the human imagination"...
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#fz_drawing #fish #herring #sardine #RedHerring #shiny #bright #lights #hands #abstract #conceptual #sketch #illustrationVisualisation #sembah #ikan #mancingmania #budaya
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#fz_drawing #fish #herring #sardine #RedHerring #shiny #bright #lights #hands #abstract #conceptual #sketch #illustrationVisualisation #sembah #ikan #mancingmania #budaya
"Debate and the Ritual Theory of Propaganda" - youtu.be/2wnRMKtbtcw
The Morbid Zoo youtube channel analyzes and critiques "Jubilee Surrounded" and the particular episode featuring Channel 5's Andrew Callaghan surrounded by 20 conspiracy theorists.
#USPol #Debate #RadicalEmpathy #SocialMedia
The Morbid Zoo youtube channel analyzes and critiques "Jubilee Surrounded" and the particular episode featuring Channel 5's Andrew Callaghan surrounded by 20 conspiracy theorists.
#USPol #Debate #RadicalEmpathy #SocialMedia
Debate and the Ritual Theory of Propaganda
YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo
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November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Debate and the Ritual Theory of Propaganda" - youtu.be/2wnRMKtbtcw
The Morbid Zoo youtube channel analyzes and critiques "Jubilee Surrounded" and the particular episode featuring Channel 5's Andrew Callaghan surrounded by 20 conspiracy theorists.
#USPol #Debate #RadicalEmpathy #SocialMedia
The Morbid Zoo youtube channel analyzes and critiques "Jubilee Surrounded" and the particular episode featuring Channel 5's Andrew Callaghan surrounded by 20 conspiracy theorists.
#USPol #Debate #RadicalEmpathy #SocialMedia
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[Thread] All the times Arnold Schwarzenegger almost reprised his role as Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer (Predator, 1987) in another Predator movie, but oops, he didn't.
You could make a movie just about that.
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You could make a movie just about that.
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a close up of a man 's face with the words if it bleeds below it
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words if it bleeds below it
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November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
[Thread] All the times Arnold Schwarzenegger almost reprised his role as Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer (Predator, 1987) in another Predator movie, but oops, he didn't.
You could make a movie just about that.
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You could make a movie just about that.
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And I finally got to play flute during church service today.
That's supposed to feel good.
Feel great, even. If it wasn't for our Milo dying.
*breathe in, breathe out*
For every thing a turn, a time for every season under heaven.
That's supposed to feel good.
Feel great, even. If it wasn't for our Milo dying.
*breathe in, breathe out*
For every thing a turn, a time for every season under heaven.
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
And I finally got to play flute during church service today.
That's supposed to feel good.
Feel great, even. If it wasn't for our Milo dying.
*breathe in, breathe out*
For every thing a turn, a time for every season under heaven.
That's supposed to feel good.
Feel great, even. If it wasn't for our Milo dying.
*breathe in, breathe out*
For every thing a turn, a time for every season under heaven.
#TooMuchInformation Our oldest cat (almost six years old) died this afternoon. With no official diagnosis except suspected complications from severe flu (possibly one of several possible viruses, but was never tested/confirmed).
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
#TooMuchInformation Our oldest cat (almost six years old) died this afternoon. With no official diagnosis except suspected complications from severe flu (possibly one of several possible viruses, but was never tested/confirmed).
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I wrote about Bluesky a year after the big post-election surge in users, and whether you can build a happier version of Twitter while keeping its same basic shape www.platformer.news/bluesky-2025...
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I wrote about Bluesky a year after the big post-election surge in users, and whether you can build a happier version of Twitter while keeping its same basic shape www.platformer.news/bluesky-2025...
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This is a good thread
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
This is a good thread
Why Trump's ICE is kidnapping & disappearing so many legal US residents today: youtu.be/aDbtrdfYqBc (45-minute YouTube video-journalism essay) #UsPol #FuckIce #FuckTrump #fzWebVideos
Why the US is deporting so many people
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
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November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Why Trump's ICE is kidnapping & disappearing so many legal US residents today: youtu.be/aDbtrdfYqBc (45-minute YouTube video-journalism essay) #UsPol #FuckIce #FuckTrump #fzWebVideos
To be honest I personally don't use ad-blockers but I do support their use to pressure platforms and their egregious enshittification.
November 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
To be honest I personally don't use ad-blockers but I do support their use to pressure platforms and their egregious enshittification.
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"Whose foot is a foot?" The curious origins of imperial and metric units - youtu.be/pM3c328VifA #fzWebVideos
The curious origins of imperial and metric units
YouTube video by RobWords
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November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Whose foot is a foot?" The curious origins of imperial and metric units - youtu.be/pM3c328VifA #fzWebVideos
Yes there are real-world current harms to AI. (Facial recognition, wage theft, elimination of junior work positions, elimination of work in general etc.)
All that said, THAT DOES NOT MEAN that companies racing to "produce Superintelligence" gets a free pass at doing whatever they like to do either.
All that said, THAT DOES NOT MEAN that companies racing to "produce Superintelligence" gets a free pass at doing whatever they like to do either.
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Yes there are real-world current harms to AI. (Facial recognition, wage theft, elimination of junior work positions, elimination of work in general etc.)
All that said, THAT DOES NOT MEAN that companies racing to "produce Superintelligence" gets a free pass at doing whatever they like to do either.
All that said, THAT DOES NOT MEAN that companies racing to "produce Superintelligence" gets a free pass at doing whatever they like to do either.
To be honest though I was dismayed when Scott Adams got red-pilled all those decades ago. He should be smarter than that. But turns out he wasn't.
The old Dilbert cartoons will continue to remain smart though. The ones before he turned all incel-manosphere and antivaxx.
The old Dilbert cartoons will continue to remain smart though. The ones before he turned all incel-manosphere and antivaxx.
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
To be honest though I was dismayed when Scott Adams got red-pilled all those decades ago. He should be smarter than that. But turns out he wasn't.
The old Dilbert cartoons will continue to remain smart though. The ones before he turned all incel-manosphere and antivaxx.
The old Dilbert cartoons will continue to remain smart though. The ones before he turned all incel-manosphere and antivaxx.
Hot-take unpopular opinion: I am cautiously in favor of the Bluesky dislike button. My hard non-negotiables though are (among others) :
1) The dislike number must officially be hidden for public
2) Each user must somehow have access to his/her dislikes, and are able to rescind their at any time
1) The dislike number must officially be hidden for public
2) Each user must somehow have access to his/her dislikes, and are able to rescind their at any time
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hot-take unpopular opinion: I am cautiously in favor of the Bluesky dislike button. My hard non-negotiables though are (among others) :
1) The dislike number must officially be hidden for public
2) Each user must somehow have access to his/her dislikes, and are able to rescind their at any time
1) The dislike number must officially be hidden for public
2) Each user must somehow have access to his/her dislikes, and are able to rescind their at any time
#DrawingIdea I love Mesh Wi-Fi networks with gigabit Ethernet backhaul, using cheaper previous-generation Wi-Fi routers!
November 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#DrawingIdea I love Mesh Wi-Fi networks with gigabit Ethernet backhaul, using cheaper previous-generation Wi-Fi routers!
"ChatGPT isn't smart. It's something else much weirder." - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CKu...
A one-hour-and-change deep conversation between Science YouTuber Hank Green and AI researcher Nate Soares. October 31st, 2025.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #GenerativeAI #AIregulation
A one-hour-and-change deep conversation between Science YouTuber Hank Green and AI researcher Nate Soares. October 31st, 2025.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #GenerativeAI #AIregulation
ChatGPT isn't Smart. It's something Much Weirder
YouTube video by Hank Green
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November 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"ChatGPT isn't smart. It's something else much weirder." - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CKu...
A one-hour-and-change deep conversation between Science YouTuber Hank Green and AI researcher Nate Soares. October 31st, 2025.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #GenerativeAI #AIregulation
A one-hour-and-change deep conversation between Science YouTuber Hank Green and AI researcher Nate Soares. October 31st, 2025.
#ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #GenerativeAI #AIregulation
And this is how I, an Indonesian, found out that there's some sort of big Baseball thing happening in the USA right now...
#StanfordPrisonExperiment #MajorLeagueBaseball #Internationalism #Cosmopolitanism
#StanfordPrisonExperiment #MajorLeagueBaseball #Internationalism #Cosmopolitanism
I’m watching the World Series. I’m taking part o the Stanford prison experiment. I’m at the combination World Series/Stanford prison experiment
October 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
And this is how I, an Indonesian, found out that there's some sort of big Baseball thing happening in the USA right now...
#StanfordPrisonExperiment #MajorLeagueBaseball #Internationalism #Cosmopolitanism
#StanfordPrisonExperiment #MajorLeagueBaseball #Internationalism #Cosmopolitanism
#DrawingIdea "Inside of you are two Chinese embassies. And both of them are not sheep."
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#DrawingIdea "Inside of you are two Chinese embassies. And both of them are not sheep."
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by popular request, reupping my 'how did the Chinese Embassy in Ireland come to make a very weird post' explanation. (for fuller background, see here, also w/commentary by me - www.theguardian.com/world/2021/a...)
October 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
by popular request, reupping my 'how did the Chinese Embassy in Ireland come to make a very weird post' explanation. (for fuller background, see here, also w/commentary by me - www.theguardian.com/world/2021/a...)
This is not post-modernism. No.
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
This is not post-modernism. No.
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#DrawingIdea Internet rage trolls is the reason why we can no longer have nice things anymore.
October 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#DrawingIdea Internet rage trolls is the reason why we can no longer have nice things anymore.
"Oh look it's an anti-zionist" Fuck you you little cunt.
You want to troll on anti zionists fucking go to a pro-Palestine rally in Jakarta you ass.
You want to troll on anti zionists fucking go to a pro-Palestine rally in Jakarta you ass.
October 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"Oh look it's an anti-zionist" Fuck you you little cunt.
You want to troll on anti zionists fucking go to a pro-Palestine rally in Jakarta you ass.
You want to troll on anti zionists fucking go to a pro-Palestine rally in Jakarta you ass.
If she & (some) American Jews feel their personal safety & security have been severly compromised by Hamas, she should work harder to stop Bibi & his far-right friends from continuously genociding Palestinians.
Not voting for Zohran *is not* going to improve her & her family's personal safety.
Not voting for Zohran *is not* going to improve her & her family's personal safety.
“My name is Jennifer Wolff. You killed my father. Prepare to receive my vote.”
October 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If she & (some) American Jews feel their personal safety & security have been severly compromised by Hamas, she should work harder to stop Bibi & his far-right friends from continuously genociding Palestinians.
Not voting for Zohran *is not* going to improve her & her family's personal safety.
Not voting for Zohran *is not* going to improve her & her family's personal safety.
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The vintage movie venue was destroyed this week as part of the Trump administration's plan to build a new $300 million ballroom. Former President Bill Clinton called it the office's "best perk."
The White House movie theater demolition ends a storied era in presidential history
The vintage movie venue was destroyed this week as part of the Trump administration's plan to build a new $300 million ballroom. Former President Bill Clinton called it the office's "best perk."
n.pr
October 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The vintage movie venue was destroyed this week as part of the Trump administration's plan to build a new $300 million ballroom. Former President Bill Clinton called it the office's "best perk."