Michelle Kyoko Crowson
@michellekcrowson.bsky.social
Writer-Translator, Asian American, Comparative Literature PhD. Recovering academic making a living in alt-ac spaces.
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They won’t be translations. They will be fraudulent text-like things that appear to hold meaning but will not. It’s not benevolent or about access, it’s capitalism.
Unavailable, because they don't hire (and pay) a (human) translator, perchance? www.thebookseller.com/news/taylor-...
Taylor & Francis to use AI translation tools to publish books ‘otherwise unavailable in English’
Academic publisher Taylor & Francis (T&F) has announced plans to use AI translation tools to publish books "that would otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers".
www.thebookseller.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
They won’t be translations. They will be fraudulent text-like things that appear to hold meaning but will not. It’s not benevolent or about access, it’s capitalism.
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As a product of its historical time and culture, performance can take many forms. 🎭 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Ai Yamamoto (UBC) on “Performing Nationalism in UBC’s Kamishibai Propaganda Plays” to learn how “paper theater” reflected the WWII moment. #紙芝居 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
March 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
As a product of its historical time and culture, performance can take many forms. 🎭 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Ai Yamamoto (UBC) on “Performing Nationalism in UBC’s Kamishibai Propaganda Plays” to learn how “paper theater” reflected the WWII moment. #紙芝居 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
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#ICYMI: An ICE contractor and Washington state are back in court as the company tries to reverse a decision requiring the contractor to pay detainees minimum wage for work done at the facilities where the government has forced them to live.
By @mckenziefunk.com
By @mckenziefunk.com
An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
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March 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#ICYMI: An ICE contractor and Washington state are back in court as the company tries to reverse a decision requiring the contractor to pay detainees minimum wage for work done at the facilities where the government has forced them to live.
By @mckenziefunk.com
By @mckenziefunk.com
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More and more readers have found a Japanese translation of Brothers Grimm’s “Schneewittchen”(Snow White) edited by KIKUCHI Kan in our public digital collection: www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001091...
青空文庫所収のグリム兄弟「白雪姫」（菊池寛訳編）がただいまよく読まれているようです。作品ページはこちらからどうぞ。
青空文庫所収のグリム兄弟「白雪姫」（菊池寛訳編）がただいまよく読まれているようです。作品ページはこちらからどうぞ。
白雪姫 (グリム ヤーコプ・ルートヴィッヒ・カール グリム ヴィルヘルム・カール)
むかしむかし、冬のさなかのことでした。雪が、鳥の羽のように、ヒラヒラと天からふっていましたときに、ひとりの女王（じょおう）さまが、こくたんのわくのはまった窓（まど）のところにすわって、ぬいものをして…
www.aozora.gr.jp
March 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
More and more readers have found a Japanese translation of Brothers Grimm’s “Schneewittchen”(Snow White) edited by KIKUCHI Kan in our public digital collection: www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001091...
青空文庫所収のグリム兄弟「白雪姫」（菊池寛訳編）がただいまよく読まれているようです。作品ページはこちらからどうぞ。
青空文庫所収のグリム兄弟「白雪姫」（菊池寛訳編）がただいまよく読まれているようです。作品ページはこちらからどうぞ。
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Maybe—just for kicks?—could be a good moment to re/read Michela Murgia's How to Be a Fascist (Istruzioni per diventare fascisti).
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
Now Trending: How to Be a Fascist - Words Without Borders
These days, there could be fierce competition over who could write the book on “how to be a fascist”—if we could agree on what a fascist is. Michela Murgia’s lapidary definition, depicted in a Forrest...
wordswithoutborders.org
February 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Maybe—just for kicks?—could be a good moment to re/read Michela Murgia's How to Be a Fascist (Istruzioni per diventare fascisti).
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...