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David B. :SetouchiExplorer:

David@setouchi.social

<p>Blogger, Teacher, Father, Immigrant.<br />🇪🇺 🇯🇵 🇫🇷</p><p>- Gallivants on the Seto Inland Sea art islands.<br />- French, but teaches English at a Japanese university.<br />- Raises two wonderful kids that drive him nuts.<br />- Friend of crows.<br />- Neo-Luddite.<br />- Writes things. Tries to be better at it, both quantitatively and qualitatively.<br />- Hopes the world doesn&#39;t end soon. Not too optimistic about that.<br />- Mostly talks about <a href="https://setouchi.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Japan</span></a>, <a href="https://setouchi.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Education</span></a>, <a href="https://setouchi.social/tags/Crows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Crows</span></a> and <a href="https://setouc

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    TIL that the film NAZA reveals that the Israeli military is using (unreliable) AI for its targeting of Palestinian targets. I don&#39;t want to sound cynical, but I&#39;m surprised they used any sort of targeting at all.

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    Well, no typhoon means that I need to bring my son to school tomorrow morning, and that I also have classes to teach so... Have a good night y&amp;#39;all...

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    Well, that&amp;#39;s interesting. My e- ink notebook (Super note) now has an e- ink web browser. I&amp;#39;m writing this message with it. Ok, it&amp;#39;s a bit slow for writing but it could be great to read blogs and such.

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    I think I just converted to a religion... https://note.com/hisanomotohiro/n/nab558b9373f1

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    Une des fonctions que j&#39;adore sur Mastodon, c&#39;est la possibilité de ne pas voir les boosts d&#39;une personne que l&#39;on suit. Et j&#39;écris ce post en français parce qu&#39;on dirait que certains de mes compatriotes sont payés au nombre de &quot;posts d&#39;outrage&quot; qu&#39;ils partagent. Les gens, ça fait combien d&#39;années que vous avez quitté Twitter? Vous n&#39;avez toujours pas trouvé de manière moins toxique d&#39;utiliser les réseaux sociaux. ⤵️

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    Good morning. 33°C at 8h30 a.m. This is fine. #ClimateDiary #GlobalHeating #ThisIsFine

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    I just watched &quot;The Creator.&quot; How come a movie with such great visuals and high production value can be so poorly written and nonsensical? (note to self: read movie reviews before watching them, it&#39;s not like you have the opportunity to watch movies all the time these days) #movies

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    Yes, I&#39;m an old fart. I&#39;m also a teacher of university students, and I see first-hand how replacing paper, pens and books with screens for everything is impacting cognition and learning. (spoiler alert: the act of learning is as much a physical activity as a mental one, and yes, writing with a pen or holding a book and turning its pages are an important part of the learning process) https://fortune.com/article/how-did-us-spending-30-billion-dollars-on-laptops-result-in-first-generatio...

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    I saw an American comment on the FIFA red card reversal scandal and saying &quot;now we are going to be seen as the bad guys.&quot; Oh my sweet summer child, I have big news for you....

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    Fireworks pretty much anywhere in the world: &quot;Ohhh... Ahhhh.... It&#39;s beautiful!!!&quot; Fireworks in the US: &quot;Yeah! Let&#39;s blow up shit!!! Yeah!!! USA! USA! USA! Boom!!! Boom!!! Yeah!!!!&quot; #fireworks #Murica #America250

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    Alright, I&amp;#39;m deleting Ubuntu and installing Mint. I hope it will drive less nuts.

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    RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116588626536297925 When technofascists leave their ivory tower and go out in the real world:

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    Alright, I reinstalled my PC (with Mint this time). I haven&amp;#39;t tested everything, but so far the good news is that Beeper is working with Mint (it didn&amp;#39;t with Ubuntu) but I can&amp;#39;t figure out how to type in Japanese. I downloaded a bunch of things (fctix?) it tells me that it&amp;#39;s working (i.e. I can switch the input method) except that... nope... it&amp;#39;s Roman alphabet and only Roman alphabet. Okay, I&amp;#39;m tired, I&amp;#39;m going to bed.

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    I just stumbled a post of a guy saying &amp;quot;so we humans have to adapt.&amp;quot; about AI and.... I never wanted to burn a data center more than right now... #FuckAI #NoAI #AI

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    A/C season just started.... This is fine. #GlobalHeating #Climate

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    Alright people, it&#39;s time for one of the biggest #CrowUpdate of the year! I heard Mr and/or Ms Crow making quite some noise for the past hour or so in the park. Some familiar calls (&quot;where are you! come here!&quot;) and some I heard before but I don&#39;t really understand. I suspected something and... I was right!!!! Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to Junior 1 and Junior 2, 2026 edition!!! ⤵️ #crows #birds #corvids

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    #CrowUpdate Wow, this morning, Mr Crow was waiting for me on the neighbor&amp;#39;s roof, and he even came grab the peanuts in the yard while my son was nearby. He must have been really hungry. But that&amp;#39;s not all, when I got home, I saw a crow flying toward my car as I was parking it and it was Ms Crow. She too, came down to pick up peanuts I gave her (the park was too crowded). What&amp;#39;s happening? I think the baby(ies?) are ready to leave the nest so Mr and Ms Crow have been watch...

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    RE: https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/116558995067396859 Cue to &amp;quot;this is fine&amp;quot; memes.

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    Motoi Yamamoto&amp;#39;s art is made with salt. It&amp;#39;s a painstaking process, and always an ephemeral one, but... it&amp;#39;s not to be missed if you ever have the opportunity. https://davidbilla.net/weaving-time-by-motoi-yamamoto-utazu-setouchi-triennale-2025/ #Japan #Art #SetouchiTriennale #ArtSetouchi

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    @dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz No notes.

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    Je vous ai préparé un peu de lecture en ce dimanche pluvieux. https://metaphorismes.com/vision-densemble/ #fiction #écriture

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    If anyone is still using Chrome, today is a great day to delete it from all of your machines: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/google-chrome-silently-downloads-4gb-ai-model-to-your-device-without-permission-report-claims-researcher-says-practice-may-violate-eu-law-waste-thousands-of-kilowatts-of-energy #NoAI #ClimateCrisis #Chrome

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    I always liked Rogue One, but never loved it. Not sure why. Maybe the fact that the characters are not developed enough for the most part. However, I just rewatched it for the first time just after rewatching Andor, and it does hit different. In parts because of Cassian Andor himself (who&amp;#39;s now more than &amp;quot;fleshed out&amp;quot;) but also because of characters like Saw Guerrera or General Draven, etc. And over all, the show is so good that it makes the movie better. #movies #Star...

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    I just finished my rewatch of Andor. I&amp;#39;m still pinching myself that such a show was every produced and made it to our living rooms and to our minds and hearts. I always have the strange feeling that it will never happen again. #TVShows #TVSeries #Andor #StarWars

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    So, apparently, yesterday was &amp;quot;Crow and Raven Appreciation Day.&amp;quot; Isn&amp;#39;t it a waste of a special day? I mean, isn&amp;#39;t it &amp;quot;Crow and Raven Appreciation Day&amp;quot; every day of the year? #crows #ravens #birds #corvids

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    RE: https://famichiki.jp/@unseenjapan/116451284255133416 I blame Takaichi for this.

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    This awkward moment when you want to take a nap, but you have a class in 15 minutes. Why do they schedule classes during nap-time, I&amp;#39;m asking you? This is so inconsiderate.

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    I&amp;#39;m watching For All Mankind season 5. I&amp;#39;m a few episodes behind, and what happened in episode 3 surprised me. I mean, not that it happened, but the fact that it happened so early in the season. Beautiful episode, though. ⤵️ #ForAllMankind

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    RE: https://famichiki.jp/@mainichi/116411262712631847 Fun fact: The Japanese Alps is one of the places with the most snowfall in the world. #Japan

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    @yogthos Meh. You can make the whole thing more or less difficult depending on graphic conventions. Why use &quot;ſ&quot; for &quot;s&quot; for example? That was not a rule and it&#39;s not a difference in language just in typography. Both co-existed depending on the publisher. Same with handwritten &quot;u&quot; and &quot;v&quot; before printing. Finally, between the 11th and 15th Centuries, English was not standardized at all. This whole thing is more clickbait than anything accurate or hist...