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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 10h

A relevant repost from @martinader.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/heal...

Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 1d

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 10h

Another report that discusses translation and/or interpreting without consulting anyone who knows what they're talking about - ably debunked by Jonathan Downie! #xl8 #1nt

Percy Balemans 📚 @creative-xl8.bsky.social · 13h

You could also send him this video by Jonathan Downie, he makes some good points about the research used.

youtu.be/Sd1lYW-Ksc8?...

Real Interpreter Easily Debunks Microsoft Article on AI Replacing Jobs

YouTube video by Inside Interpreting

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 18h

He certainly features here, saying the same. How deeply infuriating!
Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's easy - in fact, the opposite is often the case ;-)
The 40 jobs 'most at risk of AI' - and 40 it can't touch | Money News | Sky News share.google/KKxwRpJCbo9B...

The 40 jobs 'most at risk of AI' - and 40 it can't touch

Several big companies - Klarna, Microsoft and Amazon to name a few - have replaced human roles with AI, but what could this technology mean for the future of your job?

share.google

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 2d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 7d

History repeats. That’s why in Europe we have the ECHR. 🇪🇺

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 7d

History repeats.

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 10d

Attended a great workshop on Museum Translation in Glasgow at the weekend! Thanks to the ITI Arts, Media and Tourism network #ITICommunity

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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 11d

Celebrating our 5000th article today!

Thank you to all our readers for joining us in our journey 🙏

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 11d

North East Bylines have just published their 5000th article!! 🎉🎉🎉

Congratulations NEB! A very apt way to celebrate too:

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument
"We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument

"We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

northeastbylines.co.uk

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 15d

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · 18d

See you on Friday! Not long now...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28d

Exclusive: Reform’s first London councillor is a “rogue landlord” with a 33-person HMO

www.the-londoner.co.uk/reforms-firs...

Exclusive: Reform’s first London councillor is a “rogue landlord” with a 33-person HMO

Mark Shooter has been fined thousands of pounds for illegally renting out crammed bedsits in Camden. One of his former tenants just became Green Party leader.

www.the-londoner.co.uk

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G. Matthias Schüler - gmsfotos @gmsfotos.bsky.social · Sep 11

Living in the green Green Citadel Magdeburg Hundertwasser House from above #UrbanGaze
#SachsenAnhalt #germany
#ThePhotoHour #cityscape
#photography #gmsfotos #EastCoastKin #G+Circle

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ITI North East Network @itinortheast.bsky.social · Sep 9

Next up: drinks/food at The Forth, Pink Lane, Newcastle from 5:45pm on Friday 26 September.
This is a joint social event with the Medical Network after their Newcastle workshop. Please comment below if you plan to come along

Photo of translators with drinks and pub food around a table at night time

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Council of Europe @coe.int · Sep 3

The European Convention on Human Rights came into force on #OnThisDay in 1953.

All 46 Council of Europe member states have signed up to the #ECHR, an international treaty to protect people’s #HumanRights and fundamental freedoms.

How does it work? ⬇️
www.coe.int/en/web/impac...

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Johnny Nice Painter ⬛🖌️ @johnnynicepainter.bsky.social · Aug 31

I have no idea where Libraria is but it certainly seems to produce a disproportionate number of book shepherds.

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today's marketing tip: if you have to advertise something as FUN in capital letters, it probably isn't. And people will be able to tell! #amtranslating

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly.

A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum".

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Fred Heussner @fredheussner.bsky.social · Aug 21

#Must-Read

Thought-provoking, even if grim, reporting on the impact of AI on the work of translaters and Interpreters.

Thank you @bcmerchant.bsky.social for bringing their stories to our attention.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 21

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social · Aug 21

I am marking. I am currently resisting the urge to create a new 'QuickMark' shortcut saying 'Oh really?', and perhaps another one saying 'Why do you think that?' #AmMarking

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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · Aug 9

You are now the ones who plant joy and a smile on my children’s faces, and you are the ones who can, with your support and standing by our side, send a message to the world that we need food to stay alive. You are now our only hope.”

Letters from the rubble of Gaza: Part four

"You are now the ones who plant joy and a smile on my children’s faces, and you are the ones who can, with your support and standing by our side, send a message to the world that we need food to stay ...

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Marianne Dissard @mariannedissard.com · Mar 23

Beautiful film by long-time pal Beatrix Wood @trixpixmedia.bsky.social on the incredible Scottish artist Tim Stead. Watch for free link below. Sculptor, furniture maker, visionary. #scottishartist. Have a look, @neilscott.substack.com @womenslibrary.bsky.social @glasgowbell.bsky.social

Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · Mar 13

Gorgeous film from @trixpixmedia.bsky.social about the innovative wood sculptor and furniture designer Tim Stead who helped pioneer the first community woodland in the UK 🌳

📽️ Watch the full film for free on STV Player 👉