the FCC rubber stamped yet another merger between two of our biggest cable companies and is clearly excited about the "more racism" part of the program

Ongoing “lol” at every entity that cuts a lopsided deal with this guy rather than telling him to fuck off

The last three books about the Choctaw language & culture that I've bought have *ALL* turned out to be just AI-generated junk🤬 It's genuinely infuriating to see this careless nonsense happening, as it dilutes the actual language and culture and makes it harder for me to learn about my own humanity

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

Anyway instead of shitty AI tl or typesetting someone should invest in automated OCR software to put manga scripts into spreadsheets for easy searching to match flashback text and shit like that

GIVE US THE LAYERED CSP FILES IF YOU WANT MANGA LOCALIZED FASTER

I was at a gathering recently and was asked what I thought about the efficiency of translating vs working with/checking MTL, and I asked them if they would rather do homework they know how to do or go over someone else's homework, and they got it right away.

I’m p sure the easiest way to get media localized faster would be to raise rates for external contractors so they can dedicate more time to individual series and hire more people on the other end of the process (typesetters/etc for manga, programmers for games, etc) to reduce those bottlenecks

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Every professional translator I know has the same position on this and can easily explain the reasons for it when asked. The fact that executives don't even bother to ask and force translators to work on AI/MTL slop regardless makes it clear where their priorities lie: money trumps quality.

I genuinely just don't know what more these people want. We're in an age where non-Ghibli anime films can be box office juggernauts and physical manga routinely does circles around Marvel and DC, all while paying pennies on the dollar for good translation talent. They're cultural rent-seekers, dude.

Anyway, pay your manga translators (and everybody else involved) a living wage and give them royalties, for fuck's sake. You're bigger than ever and can afford rates many times bigger than the 90s on the bestsellers topping the fucking NYT charts. Embarrassing you refuse to take care of your own.

If translation *alone* took six months, the pay rate would be so huge, it'd eclipse the golden years of the 90s and every manga translator I know wouldn't be juggling 10+ series. But no, it's one of the quickest, cheapest parts, for worse and for worse. You're drawing blood out of a stone, dinguses.

Cat keeps eating one of my desk plants (dw it’s non-toxic to cats) so I printed an anti-Floyd cage for the plant

complete insanity

Congrats to everyone cheering for the illegal bombing in the interest of a Free Iran

Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon

Aaaaaaaand that's the last major English manga publisher that's now no longer independent! At this point, the English manga industry is now made up of either "major" publishers that are all owned by bigger corporations (most of which Japanese), or small publishers that are independently owned

these people should all hang

Heh heh heh www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPO...

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

lol even though they banned them the government used Claude anyway. Slop strategies for the Epic Bacon War. This could not have gone worse for Altman www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Background on the underhanded maneuvering behind this, attempting to circumvent the courts “The Florida DOH’s emergency rule was filed on Tuesday, February 24, just one day before a hearing was planned between the DOH and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF).”

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

There is absolutely no reason for Sam Altman to say anything but he is currently digging the biggest hole possible, responding to all and sundry on Twitter. This is the worst possible statement he could have given!

The official release date for the English version of #EbisuStudios has been decided ! Please wait just a little longer until it’s available 🙇

Keep going Sam! One more post ought to do it, whatever it is you’re trying to do is working.

Going through Elden Ring again is making me want to rewatch Casshern Sins

This game…

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

"We are wrong because we started the war" should be the anchor point for all coverage of what's happening and it's remarkable how quickly that tends to get obscured. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-countr...

this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here

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We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Here’s the thing: a President openly contemptuous of Congress & willing, unilaterally, to recklessly and illegally commit the US to wars of aggression is an existential threat to the Republic, *regardless* of whether he can ultimately explain his acts to Congress. The demand must be impeachment.

Happy 24th to Xenosaga Episode 01. Game still rips, btw. Replayed it a few years back.

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

I like how congress isn’t gonna do shit about this either because most of them wanna larp as big strong war guys too. I fucking hate everything

Who needs Republicans with democrats like this

I would like everything to stop being an 8th grader's bad screenplay idea www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Just to be blunt: the administration's belligerence abroad and at home are not distractions, they are things they loudly promised in the 2024 campaign and close to the heart of many of the key figures involved, including Trump himself. They live for this shit, and see it as Good Content

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.