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by Blender Dumbass

Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".

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Blender Dumbass ( aka J.Y. Amihud ) is a Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".

History

Was born on 30th of July 1997 in Dnepropetrovsk Ukraine. By August of 2009 ( age 12 ) relocated to Israel. Was doing computer graphics, 3D animation and programming since 2009. In 2012-2013 worked in a religious film studio as a VFX artist. In 2015 finished a music video called "Call Night Moon" which was shot on Amihud's 18th birthday. In 2018 released an animated short film I'm Not Even Human. Then a few months later released a live-action short film The Package, The Car & The Time Is Running Out. By August of 2023, after 3 and a half years of work, released Moria's Race. Since then was developing Dani's Race, the game-sequel and a new film-project.

Public appearances

On 5th of May 2024 presented at LibrePlanet with the talk titled Making a libre movie only with libre software. The talk was about the making of Moria's Race. Mostly about the technical aspects of the projects and the software that was used in making it.

On 15th of May 2025 was interviewed on Fireside Fedi, where the topics ranged from technical movie-making aspects, to political and legal discussions about philosophy and freedom.

Contributions

Edited the LibrePlanet 2024 online event videos. Helped the Free Software Foundation with technical aspects of running a PeerTube channel, which included writing custom software for them, including a PeerTube API mover tool, and a title card generator script for in person event videos. And including writing, voicing and editing a short video announcing the joining of various FSF channels into one.

Designed the stream layout and overall aesthetic of the Fireside Fedi show. This included also composing a musical piece for the stream's countdown. Developing a tool for easy generation of promotion material. And writing a small PeerTube Clipper Application for the clips channel. Also written, voiced and edited a short video announcing the move of Fireside Fedi to a new server.

Beliefs

Does not subscribe to either "Left-Wing" or "Right-Wing" political ideology. Does not consider himself a "Centrist". Jokingly considers himself at the square root of minus one on the left-to-right scale.

An avid supporter of Freedom and Freedom of Speech. Concerned a lot about the side-effect of speech called Norepineuphoria. A believer that instead of solving uncomfortable speech, we need to solve Norepineuphoria, to allow tackling important issues more directly.

A user and avid supporter of Free / Libre Software. Pretty much shares the views of the Free Software Foundation, with maybe a few minor disagreements.

A supporter of Richard Stallman. Pretty much agrees on almost everything with Stallman, also with maybe a few minor disagreements. Most importantly finds Stallman admirable because of the more outlandish ideas, due to their political significance. Finds Stallman brutally honest. Finds opposition against Stallman weak and unable to cope with either hard logic, or Norepineuphoria.

Finds Michael Bay a properly good director. Admires films by Steven Spielberg, Luc Besson, Nicolas Winding Refn, Lars Von Trier, Edgar Wright, Yorgos Lanthimos, Luca Guadagnino, Tony Scott, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott and more... Finds Luc Besson's film The Fifth Element extremely tragic. Finds Lars Von Trier's The House That Jack Built traumatizing.

Anti-Paternalist. Believes that Paternalism and specifically age-restriction laws, are to blame for the worlds idiocracy. Specifically due to age-restriction's utter failure to give incentive to grow-up to children. If no matter how hard you learn in hopes to be recognized as adult, you still need to wait till you are 18 and learning absolutely nothing will give you the same exact result, then it is absolutely obvious why our generation is full of dumb imbeciles that are not ready for life. Believes that there is not enough opposition against the core problem of age-restriction when it comes to things like age-verification online and chat-control. A supporter of anti-ageism movements such as Free Range Kids / Let-Grow.

Views AI-generated content as pointless at best and deeply dehumanizing at worst. Values human decision-making and problem-solving, especially when it comes to art. Does not view all algorithms the same way. Views things like Intel's Open Image Denoise as a good example of machine-learning done right.

Happy Hacking!!!

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