Karolina
@yumekautsutsuka.bsky.social
EN / FR / SK / JP to DE translator (science, tech & lit). into space, poetry, cafes, #scicomm & #sciart. will die on the #transculturality hill. she/her.
From Sawad Hussein‘s piece in @wasafirimag.bsky.social - rolling at the term FIGS but also crying because it‘s the same kind of overshadowing giant when translating into German (switched for English as a source language, of course) #xl8
full article here, well worth a read: shorten.ly/l5ht
full article here, well worth a read: shorten.ly/l5ht
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
From Sawad Hussein‘s piece in @wasafirimag.bsky.social - rolling at the term FIGS but also crying because it‘s the same kind of overshadowing giant when translating into German (switched for English as a source language, of course) #xl8
full article here, well worth a read: shorten.ly/l5ht
full article here, well worth a read: shorten.ly/l5ht
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Usual reminder: decisions like this don't mean that AI can do the job of a human translator; they mean that some C-suite creature who is basically a LinkedIn profile wrapped in ham and an expensive suit has decided it provides an alibi for paying human translators less money for less rewarding work.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Usual reminder: decisions like this don't mean that AI can do the job of a human translator; they mean that some C-suite creature who is basically a LinkedIn profile wrapped in ham and an expensive suit has decided it provides an alibi for paying human translators less money for less rewarding work.
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Readers and bookshops: please boycott any publisher that replaces literary translators with the non-reading, uncultured, lying, manipulative plagiarism regurgitator.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Readers and bookshops: please boycott any publisher that replaces literary translators with the non-reading, uncultured, lying, manipulative plagiarism regurgitator.
ok i only just discovered nikhil suresh and am already going full speed down the rabbit hole that is wanting to read Every Single Article. please don‘t stop writing, eloquent sanity paragon
This is still my favourite article against slop machines. It's informative AND hilarious.
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
ludic.mataroa.blog
December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ok i only just discovered nikhil suresh and am already going full speed down the rabbit hole that is wanting to read Every Single Article. please don‘t stop writing, eloquent sanity paragon
Straßenbahn macht Vollbremsung, Fahrer kommt besorgt aus der Kabine: „Alles okay? War ein Taxler…“
Fahrgast laut: „Soll ich ihn hauen?“
Fahrgast laut: „Soll ich ihn hauen?“
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Straßenbahn macht Vollbremsung, Fahrer kommt besorgt aus der Kabine: „Alles okay? War ein Taxler…“
Fahrgast laut: „Soll ich ihn hauen?“
Fahrgast laut: „Soll ich ihn hauen?“
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This is still my favourite article against slop machines. It's informative AND hilarious.
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
ludic.mataroa.blog
December 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is still my favourite article against slop machines. It's informative AND hilarious.
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
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If you don’t train enough people to understand narratives and how they shape the world, they will be at the mercy of the powerful who do. It’s the perfect weapon, because they don’t even know they’re being had
Signed, a literary scholar who is often told that studying literature isn’t “useful”
Signed, a literary scholar who is often told that studying literature isn’t “useful”
December 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you don’t train enough people to understand narratives and how they shape the world, they will be at the mercy of the powerful who do. It’s the perfect weapon, because they don’t even know they’re being had
Signed, a literary scholar who is often told that studying literature isn’t “useful”
Signed, a literary scholar who is often told that studying literature isn’t “useful”
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Die Grazer Stadtbibliothek bietet auch eine Bibliothek der Dinge. Und sie hat den bestmöglichsten Namen.
DINGEBORG
DINGEBORG
December 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Die Grazer Stadtbibliothek bietet auch eine Bibliothek der Dinge. Und sie hat den bestmöglichsten Namen.
DINGEBORG
DINGEBORG
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Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher. Read “A Primer on Pitching Translation (or Why We Should Throw Books at the Evil Machines)" on WWB:
A Primer on Pitching Translations - Words Without Borders
Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.
wordswithoutborders.org
August 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher. Read “A Primer on Pitching Translation (or Why We Should Throw Books at the Evil Machines)" on WWB:
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Sommer, 17:00: Was mach ich mit dem angebrochenen Nachmittag?
Winter, 17:00: Warum ruft mich die mitten in der Nacht an??
Winter, 17:00: Warum ruft mich die mitten in der Nacht an??
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Sommer, 17:00: Was mach ich mit dem angebrochenen Nachmittag?
Winter, 17:00: Warum ruft mich die mitten in der Nacht an??
Winter, 17:00: Warum ruft mich die mitten in der Nacht an??
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Job alert: @oecd-ocde.bsky.social is recruiting a conference interpreter with active English and French in Paris.
#1nt #OECD
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/OECD/7440000...
#1nt #OECD
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/OECD/7440000...
Conference Interpreter
Company Description: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation comprised of 38 member countries, that works to build better policies for better...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Job alert: @oecd-ocde.bsky.social is recruiting a conference interpreter with active English and French in Paris.
#1nt #OECD
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/OECD/7440000...
#1nt #OECD
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/OECD/7440000...
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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Great fucking news everyone at last, raccoons are on track to become even more plush-like, they too yearn for domestication
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets
City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Great fucking news everyone at last, raccoons are on track to become even more plush-like, they too yearn for domestication
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
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Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees.
For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Literary translators! Our publisher, @twolinespress.com, is currently open for submissions for animal stories in translation (from any language) & the Stevns Translation Prize (for Vietnamese translators). As always, no submissions fees.
For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
For more info visit: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...
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I did my part! Have you?
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I did my part! Have you?
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Die in Wien lebende ukrainische Autorin Tanja Maljartschuk gibt ukrainische Klassiker in deutscher Übersetzung heraus - um der Abwesenheit ukrainischer Kultur entgegenzuwirken. topos.orf.at/archive-des-...
"Ukrainische Bibliothek" gegen Putins Propaganda - ORF Topos
Seit Jahren lebt sie in Wien, spätestens seit ihrem Gewinn beim Bachmannpreis-Wettlesen 2018 ist sie auch in der deutschsprachigen Literaturwelt ein Begriff: die Ukrainerin Tanja Maljartschuk. Seit de...
topos.orf.at
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Die in Wien lebende ukrainische Autorin Tanja Maljartschuk gibt ukrainische Klassiker in deutscher Übersetzung heraus - um der Abwesenheit ukrainischer Kultur entgegenzuwirken. topos.orf.at/archive-des-...
book translation deadline 2/2 for the year done and it feels like that time i closed all my tabs after finishing my grad thesis #xl8 #amtranslating
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
book translation deadline 2/2 for the year done and it feels like that time i closed all my tabs after finishing my grad thesis #xl8 #amtranslating
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Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Having to talk about AI as if it’s a serious concern and not a money laundering scheme is taking years off my life
If you hold any kind of copyright on a published work, you can check here if it is one of the (mostly English-language) millions AI firm #Anthropic pirated to train their engine, in which case you could be entitled to infringement damages: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup.
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
If you hold any kind of copyright on a published work, you can check here if it is one of the (mostly English-language) millions AI firm #Anthropic pirated to train their engine, in which case you could be entitled to infringement damages: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup.
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Une seule rencontre cette semaine à la librairie Libertalia de Montreuil: vendredi 7, à 19h30.
Avec l'illustratrice Hélène Aldeguer, pour parler de Tokyo 68, une BD qui revient sur un temps où le fond de l'air était rouge dans l'archipel japonais.
editionslibertalia.com/catalogue/ho...
Avec l'illustratrice Hélène Aldeguer, pour parler de Tokyo 68, une BD qui revient sur un temps où le fond de l'air était rouge dans l'archipel japonais.
editionslibertalia.com/catalogue/ho...
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Une seule rencontre cette semaine à la librairie Libertalia de Montreuil: vendredi 7, à 19h30.
Avec l'illustratrice Hélène Aldeguer, pour parler de Tokyo 68, une BD qui revient sur un temps où le fond de l'air était rouge dans l'archipel japonais.
editionslibertalia.com/catalogue/ho...
Avec l'illustratrice Hélène Aldeguer, pour parler de Tokyo 68, une BD qui revient sur un temps où le fond de l'air était rouge dans l'archipel japonais.
editionslibertalia.com/catalogue/ho...
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Falls sich wer gefragt hat, wann ein neues Buch von Kohei Saito @koheisaito.bsky.social auf Deutsch erscheint: Bald, siehe Bild :)
Ich hab wieder das absolute Privileg, das Buch zu übersetzen.
Ich hab wieder das absolute Privileg, das Buch zu übersetzen.
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Falls sich wer gefragt hat, wann ein neues Buch von Kohei Saito @koheisaito.bsky.social auf Deutsch erscheint: Bald, siehe Bild :)
Ich hab wieder das absolute Privileg, das Buch zu übersetzen.
Ich hab wieder das absolute Privileg, das Buch zu übersetzen.
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The UN chief says 1.5C is dead.
While I disagree that anyone not on the frontlines of climate breakdown gets to say this, let's assume he is correct and ask the question:
Who killed it?
Fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
While I disagree that anyone not on the frontlines of climate breakdown gets to say this, let's assume he is correct and ask the question:
Who killed it?
Fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The UN chief says 1.5C is dead.
While I disagree that anyone not on the frontlines of climate breakdown gets to say this, let's assume he is correct and ask the question:
Who killed it?
Fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
While I disagree that anyone not on the frontlines of climate breakdown gets to say this, let's assume he is correct and ask the question:
Who killed it?
Fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lieber @derstandard.at, dieses Buch ist nicht einfach auf Deutsch vom Himmel gefallen. Mit keinem Wort werden im Artikel die Übersetzerinnen erwähnt: Andrea Alvermann und Brigitte Große. Auch sie sind Teil des Werks. #namethetranslator #xl8
In seinem Roman "Jacaranda" rekonstruiert der Autor Gaël Faye in Rückblenden und Erinnerungsfragmenten die Geschichte seiner Familie. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Gaël Faye stellt sich in "Jacaranda" der blutigen Vergangenheit Ruandas
Der Autor rekonstruiert in Rückblenden und Erinnerungsfragmenten die Geschichte seiner Familie und versucht, eine Sprache für das Unaussprechliche zu finden
www.derstandard.at
October 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Lieber @derstandard.at, dieses Buch ist nicht einfach auf Deutsch vom Himmel gefallen. Mit keinem Wort werden im Artikel die Übersetzerinnen erwähnt: Andrea Alvermann und Brigitte Große. Auch sie sind Teil des Werks. #namethetranslator #xl8