Why is my "Translation" feed full of garbage "translation apps" powered by AI?

Les petits mails mignons du soir ça fait toujours plaisir 🥰

As we boycott vile companies, a reminder that many US public libraries offer: 1) Ebooks & audiobooks via the Libby app. Pro tip: use the “notify me” tag to request your library add books by trans, disabled, & BIPOC authors! 2) TV & film streaming via Kanopy 3) Language learning via Mango 💙📚 And:

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

Je partage un très beau projet vu sur Ulule : une traduction française du roman fantastique de l'autrice palestinienne Sonia Nimr Outre la rémunération de l'autrice et du traducteur, le Ulule prévoit de reverser une partie des bénéfices à l'ONG Médecins du Monde ! fr.ulule.com/voyages-fant...

Hi Bluesky! C.T. Matthews, whose previous games I have translated, has just announced her last game! If you like cute bunny girls with giant hammer, you will love this: youtu.be/RCknkiovdNs?...

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

One day, when I'll be an established translator, I will make a thread about how fucked up my first "job" as a translator (at a non profit, to "gain experience) was Because every day, I think they cannot do worse, and they prove me they can

Ce sera la meilleur analogie de la journée

Je donne ce visuel pour ceux qui veulent !

Time to break out the chart

La rentrée littéraire, tous les ans. Dessin paru dans Les Echos Week-end.

Pour vaincre Emmanuel Macron, vous devrez d'abord vaincre La Ligue des sept Premiers Ministres Macronistes Maléfiques

Are they paid 1/3 of their rates for cleaning up the mess made by AI, or does this only apply to translators

Localization 101: someone being able to speak a language doesn't automatically become a translator. Localization 201: dear @teamcherry.bsky.social, if you decide to hire a fan for your game, show respect to your players by at least adding a 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 proofreader to the mix 🤍💫

I'm still in the first act of the game, but yes, the amount of errors I've seen that would've been caught just with basic proofreading is, unfortunately, quite high. More examples below (spoilers for very early-game content, mistakes explained in ALT)

Congratulations on the launch of Silksong, @teamcherry.bsky.social! However, it is a shame to see that the care with which the game was crafted does not extend to the French localization, which is riddled with errors. (Descriptions of the mistakes provided in the ALT text.) (1/3) #Silksong

If you need ChatGPT to do the writing for you, do you really have something to say?

this is a minuscule fraction of what they just raised on their latest funding round

Very often, I think I know fairly well how the US and their health insurance, and then I read shit like this

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

The debate about Silksong's Chinese localization has the merit of showing devs and publishers that the quality of your localization 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 to players. Even if we'd have prefered it didn't turn into the witch hunt it seems to have become...

Your reminder that Glaze and Nightshade are free standalone apps you can use to protect art or 3d renders you post online from style mimicry. If you got a RTX 2060 or beefier, Glaze takes a couple minutes on a roughly 1-2k image. With Nightshade you're looking at least 30min

I'm just saying, the more As you put on any game I work on, the less kindly I'm gonna take to you haggling my rates and the louder I'm gonna be about asking where the royalties are for me and my colleagues if it goes on to sell the sorts of gangbusters your accountants have predicted lol

we had sliced strawberries and homemade ice cream when i got home today so it put me in a mooooood #art

A bit disappointed as I was hoping for "endearing autistic guy" or, even better, "Grey Haired Middle Aged Guy"

𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐈, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. Pocketpair decided to go AI. To no professional's surprise, the result is terrible. English to Vietnamese game localizer Phú Trần made these slides to show how bad it is. How many more fiascos before we can stop this AI nonsense?

Combien de camarade voient leurs illues pompées sur displayte et peuvent rien faire et n'en voient jamais la couleur ? Et je parle même pas des glandus du parti communiste de lille qui ont pompé mes dessins en effaçant la signature parce que "à bas la PI" ? Sérieusement ?

Dépouiller un•e artiste de sa propriété intellectuelle, c'est un move de droite Et confondre propriété intellectuelle et matérielle, c'est une réflexion de con 1/n

Liberals getting excited about Gavin Newsome feels like a person who keeps settling for shitty boyfriends. Like girl, you can do better for yourself - stop thinking you can’t do better. There is a guy out there for you. Look, your bestie New York City found a great guy and she’s had so many bad exs.

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

1 Français sur 2 n’est pas au courant qu’iel fait des fautes.

Baby goats are wild... 😍🤣 #bluesky #animals #babygoats

Can Americans explain me how the Pentagon's pizzas correlate to POTUS being dead? I really want to laugh at the jokes too 😭

when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones

Why is Microsoft the king of pushing shit that almost nobody actually wants to use. Bing, Microsoft Edge, OneDrive, and now Copilot for Windows which I've heard nobody say anything about because people only care about the coding assistant. Why is Microsoft like this.

Oh my gosh, getting in touch with the BBB WORKED. PayPal is restoring my account and I should have access to my money again. If you are in the US or deal with the US PayPal and your account is randomly, without warning, and without explanation closed down, file a complaint with the BBB!

Everyone on Bluesky is poised like we're waiting for the DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen

here's the thing, don't feel bad about enjoying this moment because if he is still alive, he is now watching literally the entirety of the english speaking globe celebrating and laughing at the thought of him dying, and THAT is worth it alone

Et on se paye la tête de l'administration Trump.

Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

I can think of no better leverage that Denmark has over the United States re: Trump's Greenland fixation than withholding LEGO shipments to the United States.

"Les Français doivent travailler plus"

I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences

I am monolingual but few things make me madder faster than someone saying that LLMs translate as well as or better than humans. That is bullshit. That is lying. That is such a gross depreciation of what language and words mean and do and carry.

L'enseignement et la recherche dans les universités de pays moins dotés, qui ne peuvent pas se payer les bouquets toujours plus exorbitants des revues scientifiques, reposent entièrement sur les bases de données "pirates". De + en + il en va de même pour les universités moins dotées des pays riches.

I've just finished reading Toward Eternity by @antonhur.com and man, this was such a good read It's hard to explain what the book is about without spoiling to much of it, but it's cool af Highly recommend it to basically everyone

On rappelle qu'auteur est une profession pleine de précaires, et la seule à qui on demande de laisser piller son travail gratis et sans consentement sinon on est de droite...