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   Kurt Hohmann (kurthohmann@writing.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 20:14:58 JST Kurt Hohmann

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   @gahlearner Most recently, I've been framing artwork for my wife: building substrates that can hold all that broken glass and putting a finished, hardwood frame on the pieces once they're complete. While necessary, those don't let *me* show off 😀 , so here's another recent project. This is a tongue drum crafted from cherry, my second or third attempt at making this instrument and the first that actually sounds good.

   It's what Bill Bruford is playing in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6E1b8qWB3Y

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   Shaula Evans (shaulaevans@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:23:59 JST Shaula Evans

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   I took university courses in French, wrote academic papers in French, and briefly worked as a French-English technical translator. My reading and writing used to be quite good.

   It's all rusty now, but to be fair, I'm a bit rusty on writing academic papers in English, too!

   I'm thrilled at how many French shows are available for streaming. They greatly help me keep up my aural comprehension. 4/n

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   Patrick (patrickoftheg@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 02:19:34 JST Patrick

   I finished the first season of #From and I am genuinely surprised by how much I like it. I thought it was going to go in about a thousand cliched and annoying directions, for a horror/suspense show, and it only went in a few of them.

   That's good.

   It also has done a good job of keeping all the mysterious mysterious and not over-explaining those items. It keeps my mind working.

   It also feels like it has been planned out more than shows of its ilk.

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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 20:36:10 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   «Ang Mutya ng Section E» («The Jewel of Section E"») is actually good.

   It is a live-adaptation of a #NAVER #Wattpad novel. The show is being produced by #VIVA with actors from #Ppop groups #LITZ and #Gat, and more.

   #Pdrama #PHdrama #AsianDrama #Philippines

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   Cadu [ •ᴗ• ] (cadusilva@bolha.one)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 23:28:08 JST Cadu [ •ᴗ• ]

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   @SteffoSpieler I've just moved @Ursalzona there and so far, so good.

   It's still in Germany but seems better than Hetzner management. The support is good too.

   Let's see one year from now hahaha

   But for what I saw when looking for reviews, they seem like a good place to host a site, a fediverse instance, etc.

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   CrazyMyra (outonthemoors@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 20:47:36 JST CrazyMyra

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   The final new bot wave I've identified alarms me greatly because I'm not even sure it exists.
   I've been "bot-hunting" for years - and I'm no longer sure I can spot them all now. The AI is getting really good.

   It takes high-level language skills to identify them, and the apps and the sites persist in throwing more tech at the problem.
   They're mostly Reply-Guy chatbots at the moment.
   The problem is exacerbated by users who keep engaging with these bots, significantly blurring the lines.
   It's all shits and giggles now, but I suspect these will become very high calibre trollbots - and hellishly difficult to spot. They could overwhelm a smaller site rather quickly.
   Their objective, like that of most bots, is fake traffic metrics. The platforms are lying to the influencers, and the advertisers, and the investors. They're all pretending to offer "eyeballs" (that's you and me) - and the new bots are passing the Turing test.
   We all laughed at the Twitter egg-avi influx, and we're still paying the price.

   Clear your delusions: SkyNet is human and it's not sending the T-1000s back one at a time.