Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

It's not too late to join the Utrecht SIG for this week’s online meeting about AI/MT versus human translation in marketing. Join the event this Wednesday by RSVPing at www.sense-online.nl/events/calen....

They should make an international franchise out of Murder She Wrote called Murder She Translated, where Jessica Fletcher's various translators in different countries also happen to solve crimes in their spare time

Private Eye reporting on bottom feeder practices. Note: this is NOT satire.

This #CeatlFriday, we would like to highlight the CEATL Companion for Literary Translators’ Associations, put together by our Best Practices Working Group: companion.ceatl.eu Remember: knowledge is power! #EuropeanTranslators

I'VE NEVER HEARD OF THE TOTALLY IRRELEVANT SHOW OF ARJEN #LUBACH. HIS RATINGS ARE DOWN AND HE HAS NO TALENT AS YOU CAN SEE IN THIS CLIP THAT I'VE NEVER HEARD OF EITHER. I WILL CONTACT THE DUTCH GOVT TO MAKE SURE THEY ALSO NEVER HEARD OF HIM. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

Let op. #LinkedIn heeft alvast zelf het vinkje aangezet bij de vraag of je toestemming geeft om met je persoonlijke gegevens en je content generatieve #AI te “trainen”. Dat kan dus ook weer uit, maar dat moet je zelf doen.

"The translation models available may enhance the range of offering of foreign books, adding to our culture." Guess what: just like good writing, good translation is not a regeneration of other people’s material. AI translation is just as detrimental to authors as AI writing.

Oh @sylvanasimons.bsky.social, the woman you are.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

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Looking for recommendations for a hotel in central Berlin, near public transport (we're going by train). Doesn't have to be super-cheap, but super-fancy would be wasted on me and the 12-year-old. We like good breakfasts.

Errors uncovered in a Deloitte report prepared for the federal government in Australia raise fresh concerns it may have been partly generated using AI. www.afr.com/companies/pr... #FITEurope #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIethics #Accountability #PublicSector

Fleur Speet: "Ik las twee artikelen van ‘een zekere’ Paul Sebes, ‘een man die ik verder niet ken’." neerlandistiek.nl/2025/09/hoe-...

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

Een lagere premie, maar je moet óók een buffer opbouwen om de 2 jaar te overbruggen tot je een uitkering krijgt. Hoe is dat goedkoper? Waarom krijgen zzp'ers niet dezelfde regeling als werknemers, alles moest toch worden rechtgetrokken? O nee, alleen als het in het voordeel is van de werknemer...

Today I'm on a virtual shopping spree at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas... #AmTranslating

If "AI" was as valuable as they say it is, they wouldn't be selling it to you. They'd be using it themselves in secret to make the next Minecraft, the next Avatar, the next Hello Kitty and then they'd sell that to you. They're trying to sell you a sick goose, while pretending it lays golden eggs.

Last week my translation mentioned chocolate. Today I started with a translation on tea. And now I'm working on my book translation. Chocolate, tea and books. What more can a person ask for? #AmTranslating

Potential client asks me to do a certified translation of marketing material "to reassure our end-client that the text was translated by a qualified native linguist and not AI". I sort of get their point, but how long would it take for AI to learn to add a certification stamp to its translations? 🤷‍♀️

Always nice when clients share positive feedback. It'll shut up my impostor syndrome for a day or two.

If you are using AI for everything, ask yourself: are you willing to have a data centre next to your home? No? Then stop using it.

** fietsdemo dolle Mina’s en anders komen we de volgende keer op de trekker **

If my translation mentions chocolate, I should eat chocolate, right? And I'd better proofread that sentence again and again and again...

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Breaking news in 2025: PEOPLE SUDDENLY HAVE TO USE THEIR OWN BRAINS (or what's left of it)

In translation, this already started with the introduction of Google Translate and it's gotten worse with AI: clients paying less than peanuts for correcting machine "translations", which takes at least as long, if not longer, than translating from scratch.

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

It's a little cruel that there is an 's' in 'lisp.'

Hou. Op.

Werk je als zzp'er of werknemer in de culturele of creatieve sector? Vul de peiling van de Creatieve Coalitie over de impact van AI op werk en inkomen in. creatievecoalitie.typeform.com/ai-peiling

Today is my 20th anniversary as a freelance translator. I will stubbornly continue because I think it's the most beautiful and rewarding profession. Nothing beats a human translator with decades of experience and an undying passion for recreating a text, a message, a story in another language. 😉

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

Nieuw op VertaalVerhaal: het ZKD (Zeer Kort Dankwoord) van Jan Robert Braat bij de aanvaarding van de Aleida Schot-prijs 1983. vertaalverhaal.nl/project/dank...

"Huize Zwaan" van Zhang Yueran in het Parool! Vertaald door mij, verschenen bij @prometheusuitgever.bsky.social #China #literatuur

** ik liet ChatGTP praten met de klantenservicebot en nu heb ik een mooie nieuwe broodrooster ter vervanging van mijn kapotte mixer **

Absolutely disgusting...

This song is mentioned in my translation and now I can't get it out of my head. You're welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsqD...

Denmark says "Post-editing of machine translated books should not be called translation."

"Freedom shouldn't be something that only some people can buy." *slaps table* THANK YOU! --- Visit @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Unite Against Book Bans for more information: uniteagainstbookbans.org

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/... *with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions

Vergeten te plaatsen! En nu kom ik ‘m tegen in mijn fotorol. Bij dezen dan maar nog even. Weer een argument om ondertiteling te laten maken door een mens.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Ik ga gewoon regelmatig borrelen/koffiedrinken met andere zzp'ers. Veel gezelliger. 😉

Het loopt toch wel gek in de wereld! The world is a crazy place! Anne Frank, Monday, 8 May 1944