airco
@airco.bsky.social
Freelance translator/フリー日英翻訳者. message to all bitches: please survive.
she/they
she/they
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we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
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another reason i watch children's cartoons is because i'm emotionally stunted enough to still be targeted by them
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
another reason i watch children's cartoons is because i'm emotionally stunted enough to still be targeted by them
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tetsuya mizuguchi truly, earnestly believes, with his whole heart and whole mind, that generic vocal trance from 2003 has the power to awaken humanity's shared consciousness and guide us to universal peace. The strength of his conviction is so powerful that it might actually cause this to be true
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
tetsuya mizuguchi truly, earnestly believes, with his whole heart and whole mind, that generic vocal trance from 2003 has the power to awaken humanity's shared consciousness and guide us to universal peace. The strength of his conviction is so powerful that it might actually cause this to be true
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the new Steam Machine looks pretty kool
November 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
the new Steam Machine looks pretty kool
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New girl dynamic everyone!
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New girl dynamic everyone!
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lemme add the just-as-ugly flipside: rather than plainly leaning on MTL, some outlets try to launder their own forfeiture of responsibility by instead citing the same small handful of trash-peddling zerolingual SNS "aggregators" as sources, conferring authority in exchange for absolute dogshit
I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.
You Can't Report on Hunger While Taking Bread Off the Table
On the proliferation of machine translation in video game outlets covering the effects of AI on labor.
dateemups.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
lemme add the just-as-ugly flipside: rather than plainly leaning on MTL, some outlets try to launder their own forfeiture of responsibility by instead citing the same small handful of trash-peddling zerolingual SNS "aggregators" as sources, conferring authority in exchange for absolute dogshit
there's nothing I can say that isn't gonna be better said by Tom.
just, man, if you're against LLMs in other creative fields, please hear translators out about ours. it's been brutal out here.
just, man, if you're against LLMs in other creative fields, please hear translators out about ours. it's been brutal out here.
I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.
You Can't Report on Hunger While Taking Bread Off the Table
On the proliferation of machine translation in video game outlets covering the effects of AI on labor.
dateemups.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
there's nothing I can say that isn't gonna be better said by Tom.
just, man, if you're against LLMs in other creative fields, please hear translators out about ours. it's been brutal out here.
just, man, if you're against LLMs in other creative fields, please hear translators out about ours. it's been brutal out here.
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[screams in freelancer]
gonna go ahead and keep this one out of the mind palace for a bit :)
gonna go ahead and keep this one out of the mind palace for a bit :)
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
[screams in freelancer]
gonna go ahead and keep this one out of the mind palace for a bit :)
gonna go ahead and keep this one out of the mind palace for a bit :)
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Reminder that, unless a creative freelancer has a spouse with a day job that offers health insurance, they likely have an ACA plan. And with the hits to creative industries the past few years, I'm guessing many qualify for subsidies.
Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.
Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Reminder that, unless a creative freelancer has a spouse with a day job that offers health insurance, they likely have an ACA plan. And with the hits to creative industries the past few years, I'm guessing many qualify for subsidies.
Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.
Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.
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This is the future leftists want
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is the future leftists want
Today in Beyblade tournament bracket news: this 100 person event is finally being sorted into pools instead of one big double elim bracket!
The bad news: they are running the first round for every single pool at once (to get dqs out of the way) before going back to run one pool at a time.
The bad news: they are running the first round for every single pool at once (to get dqs out of the way) before going back to run one pool at a time.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Today in Beyblade tournament bracket news: this 100 person event is finally being sorted into pools instead of one big double elim bracket!
The bad news: they are running the first round for every single pool at once (to get dqs out of the way) before going back to run one pool at a time.
The bad news: they are running the first round for every single pool at once (to get dqs out of the way) before going back to run one pool at a time.
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Decided to look into the Gozyu/Imamori stuff myself, and huh, Japanese audiences are really believing a story published by *Weekly Bunshun* at face value. Guess that's what happens when it's a woman who's the victim.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Decided to look into the Gozyu/Imamori stuff myself, and huh, Japanese audiences are really believing a story published by *Weekly Bunshun* at face value. Guess that's what happens when it's a woman who's the victim.
┐(´ ∀｀)┌
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See also: being a Japanese translator.
"Not a penny to her name--wait, no. Wrong currency. Not a yen? Sounds bad. Hm."
"They went to bed--uh-oh. They only have futons in this era. They went to futon? Ugh."
"Not a penny to her name--wait, no. Wrong currency. Not a yen? Sounds bad. Hm."
"They went to bed--uh-oh. They only have futons in this era. They went to futon? Ugh."
Being a fantasy writer is typing "they extended an olive branch" and then going "shit, do they even have olives in this world?"
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
See also: being a Japanese translator.
"Not a penny to her name--wait, no. Wrong currency. Not a yen? Sounds bad. Hm."
"They went to bed--uh-oh. They only have futons in this era. They went to futon? Ugh."
"Not a penny to her name--wait, no. Wrong currency. Not a yen? Sounds bad. Hm."
"They went to bed--uh-oh. They only have futons in this era. They went to futon? Ugh."
I wasn't really feeling Appmon at first, but after the midseason upgrade digimon revealed that he was a fudanshi who needed to see some Powerful Male Bonds on the valentine's day episode before cooperating, I think the show's finally gay enough to be considered a real hobbyani.
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I wasn't really feeling Appmon at first, but after the midseason upgrade digimon revealed that he was a fudanshi who needed to see some Powerful Male Bonds on the valentine's day episode before cooperating, I think the show's finally gay enough to be considered a real hobbyani.
whoa whoa WHOA wizards of the coast is publicly acknowledging Duel Masters in ENGLISH and playing with ENGLISH CARDS WOOOOA 🤯
www.twitch.tv/videos/26121...
www.twitch.tv/videos/26121...
EXTRA LIFE - EMPLOYEE TAKEOVER STREAM - magic on Twitch
magic went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Magic: The Gathering VOD now.
www.twitch.tv
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
whoa whoa WHOA wizards of the coast is publicly acknowledging Duel Masters in ENGLISH and playing with ENGLISH CARDS WOOOOA 🤯
www.twitch.tv/videos/26121...
www.twitch.tv/videos/26121...
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If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.
As machine translation tools under the banner of AI become increasingly accessible and easy to use, the light novel landscape is at a crossroads. Do light novel publishers compromise their product for more speed, and if so, by how much?
Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI?
www.animenewsnetwork.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.
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The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!
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If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency
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You don't need me to tell you this is yet more good money being burned after bad. But as someone who's worked with that QA team, I'll say they're unsung heroes who truly play a huge role in maintaining SE's reputation for high quality locs and to attempt to replace them with AI is deeply insulting.
Square Enix wants 70% of its QA work to be handled by generative AI by the end of 2027, in partnership with the University of Tokyo's Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory. https://bit.ly/4qKdyQR
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
You don't need me to tell you this is yet more good money being burned after bad. But as someone who's worked with that QA team, I'll say they're unsung heroes who truly play a huge role in maintaining SE's reputation for high quality locs and to attempt to replace them with AI is deeply insulting.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re hiring!
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply
Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda.
Could that be you? Apply using the link below.
transition2025.com/apply