Every time we talk about comics industry treatment of freelancers, somebody among our ranks inevitably burrows out of the woodwork like, “Actually this is just how it is, don’t you know,” and I 🙄. Look. I can clearly observe that this is how it is. I still insist that things should be better.

I remember seeing this a few days ago, and as a fan of both CLAMP and Magic Knight Rayearth, this one makes me especially mad. Crunchyroll should have decent closed captions for an important series like Rayearth, especially in preparation for the upcoming remake series.

They’ll literally force feed you AI and tell you that you like it And then when a gay person just exists in a narrative they’ll tell you you’re being force fed

Stars Align. Unfortunately it did a Wonder Egg and never had a proper ending.

This makes me feel disgustingly old.

#peaceprize #tacos

Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

nobody will remember: - your salary - how "busy" you were - how many hours you worked people will remember: - that one person or fictional character you could NOT shut up about, you made sure they never forget

Going to a local anime con tomorrow!

I'm looking for participants for my master's study about transmasc/trans men fans of manga and anime! Please fill out my 10-minute survey: form.jotform.com/253308772919... #transmasc #t4t #ftm #nonbinary #transresearch #transsurvey #nonbinarysurvey #transresearchbytransrsearchers

Btw, the ballet dancer who posts every year on TikTok their rat costume for the Nutcracker is already posting their yearly Rat Season. Credit: @belle_urwin on TikTok

This insane bit, from the dub of Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus ep 10 The line is actually "I'm enraptured."

Does anyone know if either volume contains art from Legal Drug/Drug & Drop?

I am no a financial expert, nor am I a historian or mathematician. But, like many writers, I understand human nature and social patterns. Jobs are down, the economy is down, prices are up...and the stock market is roaring due to a bubble on AI. This is not sustainable. There will be a crash.

this has been said before a million times of course, but the fact that immigrants are all somehow BOTH destitute criminals draining government benefits AND snapping up all the best houses is a contradiction I wish these people were forced to explain every time they try to get away with it

Not re-linking my Crunchyroll account to a new credit card until there aren’t anymore AI subs or CCs.

Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡ Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

If anyone is looking, I am on the hunt for freelance or permanent part-time or full-time work in localization! I mainly work and have been trained in print and film media.

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

Yes this!!!

2005: started studying Japanese in high school 2015: just missed passing N2 2023: passed N2 2025: switched gears to German, hoping to get B1 next winter 2027: might try N1 or BJT

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

Banana Fish getting a terrible AI “dub” might be the motivation I need to finally make an ADR sample once my DVDs arrive, just to prove even someone who hasn’t actually written an ADR script before can do better.

Anyway, I literally am short rent, due in six days, because the anime workflow I once had in spades has run dry thanks to nonsense like this. If you're a content creator who could use captions for a video, please consider commissioning me. 113 minutes of video by next Thursday could make it happen.

What a great headline

Guillermo didn’t need to make the Monster this hot, but when does it ever?

A problem with the 'if you're a good artist, AI won't replace you' is that you aren't born a good artist. You learn. If entry level art jobs are taken over, then the only way to practice, learn and improve and still pay your bills is outside of a proffessional environment. Which means either... 1/2

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

People should watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Me after I read the comment:

After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!

Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts

i hate when im in the mood lighting cave and they make me hold the dick rock

extremely grim report about Wong Kar-wai's treatment of a young writer on his new TV series. www.whatsonweibo.com/the-wong-kar...

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

No one has ever been more right than this woman

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear "Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks! Let it Go!

“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

selling AP-style deep dish pizza

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

I wanted a knee length dress and pinafore until I was, like, 14.

Brandy you're a fine girl What a good wife you would be But my life my love and my lady Is the See

One specific episode of Sesame Street, this book, and then my high school offering Japanese as an elective but not Chinese.