Chris Pearce
@kobehonyaku.com
Japanese-to-English technical/industrial translator
日英 技術・産業 翻訳者
日英 技術・産業 翻訳者
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December 29, 2025. Jomhouri Street. Tehran. #Iran #IranProtests
December 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
December 29, 2025. Jomhouri Street. Tehran. #Iran #IranProtests
There was so much good music that wasn't grunge. This is silly.
Just saw Tool in Kobe. Will get to see Dream Theater in Osaka next March 🤘
Just saw Tool in Kobe. Will get to see Dream Theater in Osaka next March 🤘
December 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
There was so much good music that wasn't grunge. This is silly.
Just saw Tool in Kobe. Will get to see Dream Theater in Osaka next March 🤘
Just saw Tool in Kobe. Will get to see Dream Theater in Osaka next March 🤘
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After my daughter spent over 6 months in the hospital over the past year, we're kicking encephalitis in the ass in 2026!
What is your theme for the new year?
Mine is: Go where you are wanted.
Mine is: Go where you are wanted.
December 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
After my daughter spent over 6 months in the hospital over the past year, we're kicking encephalitis in the ass in 2026!
This kind of review is pointless if the reviewer is not skilled enough in Japanese to know whether the translations are correct.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
Can Apple’s AirPod Translation Get You Through Tokyo? We Tested It.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This kind of review is pointless if the reviewer is not skilled enough in Japanese to know whether the translations are correct.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...
metal a.f. 🤘
After a rough couple of days that culminated in an emergency root canal yesterday… I enjoyed waking up after a good night’s sleep and spending some time taking portraits of this gentleman doing his thing at Western Springs this morning. 🪶🇳🇿
December 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
metal a.f. 🤘
jfc Japanese taxis solved this problem ages ago.
“Because riders and passersby can be unreliable, Waymo pays workers in Los Angeles $20 or more for rescuing a robotaxi by closing a door, summoning help through an app called Honk that is like an Uber for towing companies.”
When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue
Waymo robotaxis get stranded when a passenger leaves the door open. Tow truck operators can get paid $22 to close a door and set them free again.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
jfc Japanese taxis solved this problem ages ago.
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not so hidden costs of (bad uses of) genAI
This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids
#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.
December 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
not so hidden costs of (bad uses of) genAI
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Japanese artists are fleeing Bluesky because Elon just made all of their work editable by GenAI
bsky.app/profile/hele...
bsky.app/profile/hele...
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Japanese artists are fleeing Bluesky because Elon just made all of their work editable by GenAI
bsky.app/profile/hele...
bsky.app/profile/hele...
An issue has come up where a few years ago I translated 「1日おきに」 as "every other day" and then last week I translated it again in the same manual as "every day." lol wat?
The solution will be to have the engineer confirm what they actual mean and to never use 「1日おきに」 again.
The solution will be to have the engineer confirm what they actual mean and to never use 「1日おきに」 again.
「1日おきに」？ | ことば（放送用語） - 最近気になる放送用語 | NHK放送文化研究所
Q:「１日おきに連絡をすること」ときょう言われたら、次はいつ連絡をしたらよいのでしょうか。 A:伝統的な解釈では、「あさって」になります。しかし人によって解釈が異なるので、注意が必要です。 解説：「～おきに」ということばはあいまいであるということを、このコーナーで以前にも取り上げました（2002年10月）。「1日おきに船が来ます」という文について「多くの人は『2日に一度』というように考えるのではな...
www.nhk.or.jp
December 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
An issue has come up where a few years ago I translated 「1日おきに」 as "every other day" and then last week I translated it again in the same manual as "every day." lol wat?
The solution will be to have the engineer confirm what they actual mean and to never use 「1日おきに」 again.
The solution will be to have the engineer confirm what they actual mean and to never use 「1日おきに」 again.
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A key thing about corporate use of genAI is that it removes all the friction involved between the executives' weird fetish shit and inner thoughts, and public display
It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
using AI cuts corners on involving people who know better. negativity for christmas is an awful ad concept even if it was made by people - so a creative team would push back on the request. business people like AI doesn't argue, not understanding experts were protecting them from their own bad ideas
"The most terrible time of the year"
McDonald’s pulls AI-generated Christmas advert in the Netherlands. The advert, titled "the most terrible time of the year," depicts Christmas chaos, with Santa caught in a traffic jam and a present-laden cyclist slipping in the snow
u.afp.com/S7sF
McDonald’s pulls AI-generated Christmas advert in the Netherlands. The advert, titled "the most terrible time of the year," depicts Christmas chaos, with Santa caught in a traffic jam and a present-laden cyclist slipping in the snow
u.afp.com/S7sF
December 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A key thing about corporate use of genAI is that it removes all the friction involved between the executives' weird fetish shit and inner thoughts, and public display
It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
It does to corporations what alcohol does to a bigot.
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Before, an executive would have a shitty fucking idea and then have to convince many others to implement it. Even if they were sycophants, there was friction involved.
Now, he's got that liquid courage on prompt. Far less inhibition.
Now, he's got that liquid courage on prompt. Far less inhibition.
December 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Before, an executive would have a shitty fucking idea and then have to convince many others to implement it. Even if they were sycophants, there was friction involved.
Now, he's got that liquid courage on prompt. Far less inhibition.
Now, he's got that liquid courage on prompt. Far less inhibition.
Best paprika chicken this winter.
December 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Best paprika chicken this winter.
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I'm a human translator. Automated translation is not solved. You are suffering from this 👇
bsky.app/profile/emil...
bsky.app/profile/emil...
I don't know how many times this needs to be said, but apparently a lot: If you are not in a position to verify the accuracy of some synthetic text, the synthetic text is not useful/has a high potential to be misleading.
This is one of those cases.
This is one of those cases.
The rationale I was given for AI Summaries *alongside* ordinary abstracts:
* The AI-generated summaries are intended to be more accessible to non-experts.
(1/3)
* The AI-generated summaries are intended to be more accessible to non-experts.
(1/3)
December 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I'm a human translator. Automated translation is not solved. You are suffering from this 👇
bsky.app/profile/emil...
bsky.app/profile/emil...
I was just in Osaka and lost my jars of human organs. If anyone finds them, please DM me. Thx!
December 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I was just in Osaka and lost my jars of human organs. If anyone finds them, please DM me. Thx!
Yep. He looks like Reverend Kane from Poltergeist 2 more and more in each new picture.
The Trump administration halted the US green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor
Trump Suspends US Green Card Lottery After Brown, MIT Attacks
The Trump administration halted the US green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
bloom.bg
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Yep. He looks like Reverend Kane from Poltergeist 2 more and more in each new picture.
Same for translation.
I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages."
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder.
I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
December 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Same for translation.
Having a conversation with myself where Northern Europe would probably prefer to eat beef stroganoff with rice if they could grow rice.
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Having a conversation with myself where Northern Europe would probably prefer to eat beef stroganoff with rice if they could grow rice.
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Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.
Kristen Stewart on Men and Method Acting
YouTube video by The Interview
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.
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Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...
Microsoft’s holiday Copilot ad is wrapped in empty promises
I don’t want Copilot for Christmas.
www.theverge.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...
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“AI is just being used as a placeholder” is the new “I am a fucking dickhead.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“AI is just being used as a placeholder” is the new “I am a fucking dickhead.”
Tool was great. These ear plugs made it better. Probably the loudest sound I've ever experienced. Each kick on the bass drum made my entire body vibrate. Great purchase.
December 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Tool was great. These ear plugs made it better. Probably the loudest sound I've ever experienced. Each kick on the bass drum made my entire body vibrate. Great purchase.
Going to Tool like this because I'm a weirdo.
December 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Going to Tool like this because I'm a weirdo.
I was forced to square dance as a child, and I will hate it with a passion until my dying day.
Henry Ford HATED Jazz because too many Jewish & Black Folks were a part of it. He pushed the Department of Education to make square dance part of the curriculum to counter Jazz.
December 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I was forced to square dance as a child, and I will hate it with a passion until my dying day.