If your Healthcare costs have gone up today's a good day to recalculate your freelance rate with Alexandria Neonakis' spreadsheet (make a copy to your own drive to edit) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

Ya sabéis a quiénes no hay que darles dinero porque no os respetan como lectores.

I think European leaders in failing to condemn the US invasion of Venezuela out of some fear of provoking Trump’s ire are missing the point that (a) Trump clearly doesn’t care what they think anyway, (b) Trump couldn’t hold them in more contempt anyway. /1

caught a mouse under the stove this morning and now they’re just hanging out in case it happens again

Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.

ugh

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Happy new year everybody! Here's a first look at our new project! More information to come soon ✨ !!

the US government, after grossly underfunding programs: see? these govt programs suck. we should just get rid of them. loc companies, after grossly underpaying teams: see? these human localizers suck. we should just get rid of them.

For those who don’t believe that there is reason enough to vote Democrat in the midterm elections.

I want us to say "AI slop" so many times this year that genAI models output those two terms together every time they mean to write "AI".

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.

Yella Americans... Especially those that seem to understand the laws and whatnot. Maybe don't waste your time saying "holy shit" online and instead organize yourselves, take it to the streets, protest to your representatives. I don't know, something other than looking at all this from your phones.

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

You don't have to give a big speech. They're counting numbers - seeing how many constituents care enough to call in. Just tell them to impeach for this illegal war. Also, make sure you only call YOUR reps - they don't care about out-of-district calls. You can do this. It'll just take a minute. 💪

First translation challenge of 2026.

Il y a 2 ou 3 jours, je discutais ici de la possibilité d’interdire X dans l’UE et du fait que nos politiques doivent quitter cette plateforme de l’enfer avant de parler des interdictions de RSN. Episode 3962 : le déshabillage par l’IA de filles et la non modération (et le foutage de gueule aussi)

Sillyness in perfection.

Pour rappel sur ce que ça implique : le juge français de la CPI n'a plus de carte de crédit et ne peut plus faire aucun achat par internet. Juste pour avoir fait son travail.

Heard that Harlequin France may be replacing translators with AI? Not cool. If reading a book not published in its original language, check the copyright page for the translator's name (or their business's name). Some of my favourite translators include Rachel Ward (German to FULL TEXT IN ALT.

Les stages sont inutiles aux stagiaire et régulièrement dangereux voir meurtrier. Je le dit depuis des années et je le répéterais en 2026

I don't want AI to translate the text for me, I want OCR tools that fucking work please 😭

"its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do" is one of my all time favorite tweets, but as a public service I share this tumblr collection of the entire 26-tweet reply chain it was part of (courtesy of haywire4) www.tumblr.com/haywire4/173...

I want to eat ice cream but the weather is way to cold. They should invent food with the taste and texture of ice cream, but warm.

I still have ten pages to translate today, but my brain is refusing to cooperate. It is already New Year's in my head. How can I expect myself to work when the whole city is in holiday mode??

There is no situation in which I need a random recipe site to be allowed to send me notifications. None.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

My bank won't allow me to make payment on the Nintendo eshop anymore. Authentification fails no matter what I do. Guess this is their way to force me to save money and play the games I already have? 😭

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

To translate is to leave something, almost everything, out. Translation is a conscious process where the elements that are put aside are as important as those that we choose to keep. AI, thus, cannot translate because it is incapable of understanding the act of leaving behind.

🔴 Dear #Avast, Your web ads appear on #Breizh-Info.com, a French far-right site that promotes racist pseudo-science — including claims about the supposed superiority of certain “races.” Do you really want to fund such ideologies? Please review your ad placements.

I saved you the last cookie. 🍪

I've found this to be true for the translation industry too. Making friends and supporting each other (building a network of amazing people) can open potential doors, but it takes years to build up those relationships. Fellow translators aren't competition, they're colleagues and friends.

automated translation cannot work with turns of phrase, colloquialism, nor similies it is shoddy work barely fit for quick, emergency work. hire translators and pay them their due.

Not acceptable. Authors can and should support translators.

“If they can hate for no reason, so I can love” is a wonderful statement of the meaning of Christmas and I say this as a secular humanist.

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

I thought people complaining there were too many words in a visual novels had missed the point But I'm playing the Great Ace Attorney right and there are indeed too many words in my visual novel Can they please stfu

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

I've received translation work during my only week off