Random Geek
If anything's going to keep FOSS alive it won't be web-scale upstream-owning megacorps, and it won't be yesterday's problematic icons alienating everybody they talk to today.
It's gonna be you, doing stuff you think is cool and helping other people do stuff they think is cool.
jakΓΆb
I guess we should all defederate from weedis.life ASAP
Ferdi F. Zebua π
@mala Also (and I do know Danny you already know this one, I'm just adding this to this thread for all those following along):
βContemporary propaganda isnβt about convincing someone to believe something, but convincing them to doubt what they think they know.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2018/06/20/the-messy-fourth-estate.html
Case-in-point the recent "Area-51 raid prank"...
Ferdi F. Zebua π
Absoblume - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8YQoY5CyUs - remix artist Pogoβs remix of My Fair Lady. Starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. Published 2019-07-18. Enjoy folks! #fz_webVideos
Lex! π³οΈβπ:beepboopone:π³οΈβπ
"What came first, the chicken or the egg?"
π codepoint: U+1F414
π₯ codepoint: U+1F95A
There you go, Unicode wouldn't lie to you, the chicken came first.
Ferdi F. Zebua π
@mala Also (and I do know Danny you already know this one, I'm just adding this to this thread for all those following along):
βContemporary propaganda isnβt about convincing someone to believe something, but convincing them to doubt what they think they know.
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2018/06/20/the-messy-fourth-estate.html
Case-in-point the recent "Area-51 raid prank"...
Ferdi F. Zebua π
A Mastodon plugin/algorithm to recommend to me whom to unfollow...
Ferdi F. Zebua π
@mala The Algorithmsβ’ have been optimized to Connect People More Easilyβ’.
Ferdi F. Zebua π
@mala it's already hard for people to read & find me so whatever.
(Disclosure before we continue further: I'm feeling rather raw right now and am short on time & energy. Might be more productive to continue this conversation on a delay-time* basis.)
*Delay-time, as opposed to real-time
Ferdi F. Zebua π
@mala Nazis, free-speech absolutists, freethinkers, anti-SJW activists, whatever.
Ferdi F. Zebua π
@mala I choose to deplatform snake-tongued Nazis actively. Defaults or no defaults.
Danny O'B
What Mastodon and tools like it offer is some ability to differentiate between what we keep between ourselves, and what we show to the world. That's a power that is often removed from us in social media platforms, who need to trick us to share information with them, and need us to expose ourselves to increase "engagement" and attract new "consumers". 10/?
Ferdi F. Zebua π
@noctiluca I have a problem with stress-social-media-ing.
And am constantly & consciously working on it. (And dare say constantly making progress.)
Ferdi F. Zebua π
"Your present emotional state is not permanent. Sit with your feelings. Let them pass. Try to understand them. But don't take them too seriously."
Hear, hear.
Julia
Freestyler by the Bomfunk MC's is 20 years old and they remade the video with a girl!
Ferdi F. Zebua π
Puddles Pity Party - "In The End" - [official video] https://youtu.be/g2a9dVs1ioc #fz_webVideos #music
Ferdi F. Zebua π
Ferdi F. Zebua π
...And now for someone who plays music *much*, much better than I personally ever can and most likely ever will... :youtube: https://youtu.be/fD4rxj7-uO0
Ferdi F. Zebua π
:youtube: https://youtu.be/fW2BC75Y6_A - Song from "Pelengkap Kidung Jemaat" (PKJ) Indonesian Christian service songbook. PKJ no. 265 "Bukan Kar'na Upahmu". Melody by Godlief Soumoukil, 1988.
Recorded on a cellphone. Trimmed in Windows 10 Photos app Video Editor. Uploaded from a laptop on WiFi.
Ferdi F. Zebua π
Have you checked out Andy Rehfeldt's latest remix of Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" yet?
Billie Eilish - "Bad Guy" (Bad Country Version) - remixed & performed by Andy Rehfeldt
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