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I discovered yesterday, in a mass email sent at 3am, that I will not be receiving the roughly £40,000 that my publisher Unbound/Boundless owes me for pre-order sales of The Paradox Paradox. The payment for five years of work, gone. #unboundless

submitted 12 hours ago • 39 comments

On a le même problème en Belgique, des coupes budgétaires dans les départements de traduction/langues et lettres, surtout en néerlandais faute d'étudiants, et en même temps une pénurie de professeurs de néerlandais.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation... Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

we desperately need fans to: A. know that AI localization will absolutely ruin their favorite manga, anime, games, and books B. fan outrage over AI use is one of the best and only ways we can fight back. most loc professionals are freelance. we're not union. we have no power. Fans must speak up.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Polite reminder to anyone who needs it today: AI doesn’t “help you to write.” PRACTICE helps you to write.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Thankfully, the Swiss trust science and evacuated the town days earlier. But yes, add this town's disapperance to the many, many costs of climate change.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

Stick + Ink:

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Donc jusqu'ici les "IA" génératives servent à : -Polluer+++++ -Raconter de la merde -Créer des vidéos mensongères ou porno -"Déshabiller" des photos de femmes -Mettre des artistes/ auteurices déjà précaires encore + en danger Mais oui vous avez raison, si on dénonce ça c'est qu'on est rétrograde.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Question for a writing project: How similar are eating cultures in Spain and Portugal? Do people in Portugal also have "sobremesa" (in the sense of an actual concept, with a name)? Do they order pesticos/tapas to share together with the rest of the table? Are they also talking loudly?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I'm watching XO, Kitty right now Why are these guys talking in English together even tho all of them are Korean and there's NO English speaker around???

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Merci de faire front uni pour cette histoire d’IA et pas juste quand ça concerne votre gagne-pain. #messagedeservice

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

If an industry cannot survive without obeying the law, it should die. In effect this is asking some of the poorest among us- artists often unpaid for what they made public- to subsidize an industry that hopes() to make billions in profit (but is very far from it currently)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not a big fan of this take as a translator because how can you know how bad and useless ChatGPT is if you've never tried to use it? I feel like you need to know your enemy. Experimenting with it for translation helped me to know what it can and can't do around me

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

somewhere deep in the forest …🌳🐇

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

iiiiiiits FOXGIRL FRIDAY!!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

more mermaid megafauna

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall. Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Translating is difficult, but editing bad translation is even worse.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Voilà je n’aurai pas dit mieux

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

It’s super cool being an author just trying to puncture the membrane of getting noticed, and yet a list of AI-generated recommendations of books that don’t even exist are taking up that space

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Je relis de tout, je suis déclarée officiellement freelance. Et vu que c'est la saison des mémoires... Bien entendu, je peux travailler dessus également !

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Dites y'a bestie @elyanlia.bsky.social qui cherche désespérément du travail de correction (syntaxe, tournures, typo-ortho etc) parce que son éditeur lui a fait faux bon. Elle a bossé sur des trucs a moi (pro et pas pro) et a un master FLE. Elle a des taxes à payer donc c'est assez tendu ! Merci 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️✨️

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

#pixelart #ghibli

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Sailor Princess Daisy

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Casual Zelda

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

This. Image description: 'There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists.'

submitted 187 days ago • 0 comments

I English OK sauf when I mélange with le French.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Seriously, do not buy, stream, or otherwise support of promote more Harry Potter bullshit. It is no longer theoretical - Rowling is funelling those wizard bucks into getting the law changed to actively oppress an already-vulnerable minority.

submitted 14 days ago • 39 comments

Pardon mais ÇA, là. Les ruptures qui s'enchaînent, pour des traitements essentiels en santé mentale. Est-ce qu'on pourrait faire un plan d'urgence pour ÇA ? Permettre aux malades de VIVRE DIGNEMENT, avant de leur demander s'ils veulent mourir ? Bien sûr qu'elles vont vouloir mourir, banane ! 😡

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments