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Sarah Timmer Harvey
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https://scribepublications.com/books-authors/books/people-with-no-charisma-9781964992211
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clpolk.com
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
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 8:41 AM
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largeheartedboy.bsky.social
"Like many debuts, People With No Charisma is a partly autobiographical coming-of-age story...autobiographical in terms of theme, and the protagonist’s disco outfit."

Jente Posthuma & Sarah Timmer Harvey shared a playlist for the novel People with No Charisma largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/10/j...
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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womenintranslation.bsky.social
Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025! Featuring 10 languages, 12 publishers, 4 collections of poetry - and much more. The longlist travels from Argentina to South Korea, from Haiti to Romania, from Sweden to Slovenia.
tinyurl.com/4cu8sdv9
A photograph of the 14 titles longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The books are stood on a wooden table against a brick wall with their spines facing the camera.
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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peter-butler.bsky.social
Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
For the past few months, I've been corresponding with the brilliant Elizabeth Bryer about translation, AI, remuneration & the 2025 NSW translation prize, which Bryer won. You can now read our entire conversation at the Sydney Review Of Books:
sydneyreviewofbooks.com/interviews/t... 📚✨️
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
It's US publication day for my translation of Jente Posthuma's brilliant, quirky novel, People With No Charisma!! North Americans, you can now buy it from your fave indie bookstore and gift it to the most charismatic person in your life 📖✨️
A picture of translator Sarah Timner Harvey holding a copy of Jente Posthuma's novel, People With No Charisma. The cover is Blue and orange with the image of a deer on it.
September 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
Q: Are there any other advantages to using ChatPerson over chatbots?

A: Each of our server centers (human beings) only consumes enough water and electricity to sustain a human body in a modest studio apartment.
Introducing ChatPerson
Joining ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta, and many other powerful chatbot services, we are proud to announce the release of our new RI (real intelligence) ser...
buff.ly
September 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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jasonsanford.bsky.social
Lots happening with the Anthropic AI settlement including the judge temporarily rejecting the settlement terms. I've written an update about all the recent news along with must-read threads from @courtneymilan.com @corabuhlert.bsky.social & @susankayequinn.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...
Genre Grapevine Updates on the Anthropic AI Settlement | Jason Sanford
Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon
www.patreon.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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jamesfolta.com
A blog for @literaryhub.bsky.social about how authors deserve more from an industry that unabashedly treats all of our work and private information as grist for their own profits
Never thought $1.5 billion was a small amount of money until this AI settlement.
The New York Times is reporting some new details about the settlement agreement between the AI company Anthropic and the authors whose work the company stole. The class action settlement, it was an…
lithub.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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brianbergstrom.bsky.social
Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected).

Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside
Tiang: As Maureen alluded to, when we sign a contract, we get paid for our translations. But, in fact, we’re also doing a lot of other labor that is expected but not compensated. This can start way before the contract is signed. Many of us are pitching books to publishers, and to do that, we have to be reading wisely. We have to be making contact with authors and publishers to make sure that the rights are available. We have to do sample translations and synopses, for free, and we have to email them to publishers that we have taken care to build relationships with. All of this is unpaid until a publisher accepts the book, at which point you are negotiating for money after having done a lot of labor. And then there is, as Adam has pointed out, a power differential where the only power the translator has is to say, “This is what I would like.” Beyond that, all you can do is accept what you’re offered or walk away. In one sense, you’re being paid for the labor of your translation. But in another sense, you’re an all-around concierge who, in my case because many of my authors do not speak English, is expected to translate emails between the author and the publisher, to act as a kind of go-between: an agent, a rights agent, and a publicist all in one. We do what has to be done in order to get the translation to market, and often we are the only person in the equation with access to both languages and both cultures and both literary scenes, so we’re the only person who can do this work. But it’s not in our contracts, and we’re not getting paid for it. But it’s what has to happen to keep everything running. Tiang: Honestly, any kind of disruptive solution would be great. I am someone who makes the majority of my income from literary translation, even though my language isn’t particularly in demand. I do this by pitching a lot, generating a lot of my own work, never taking a day off, not sleeping. And that’s not really sustainable. The question for someone like me, who is relatively established and working constantly translating three to four books a year, is: Should I not be making a living? The fact that I am not suggests a problem with sustainability in the industry. It can’t just be people with outside sources of income. But I will say that this conversation has been hugely generative, and I’m going to suggest we start a group chat and continue it.
August 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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iti-uk.bsky.social
Denmark's Ministry of Justice has announced that post-editing machine translation (PEMT) does not qualify as "translation" under its legal framework.
#Translation #ProfessionalStandards #AITranslation
Denmark Says Post-Editing Is Not Translation
Danish associations get legal backing to stop AI translation editors from getting credit as original translators.
slator.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
Sharing memes of Trump and Putin kissing or engaged in any s*x act or dressed as women is not the huge own you think it is. It's actually deeply homophobic & rooted in misogyny 🧵
August 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.
August 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
August 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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womenintranslation.bsky.social
We are pleased to publish the list of eligible submissions to the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025.
tinyurl.com/2wax9t5r

The list includes 145 titles from 34 languages - plenty of reading inspiration to mark #womenintranslation month this August! #WITMonth
tinyurl.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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sepoy.bsky.social
Historian Rashid Khalidi cancels his Fall class
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
My translation of Jente Posthuma's quirky and darkly funny debut novel People With No Charisma is out now in the UK & Australia. You can find it at your local indie bookshop or order directly from @scribepub.bsky.social...📚✨️
July 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
Delighted to hear that my translation of Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About has been shortlisted for the NSW Literary Awards Translation Prize. I'm excited to be heading to Gadigal country/Sydney in May! Huge congratulations to the other nominees #NSWLA
April 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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harikunzru.bsky.social
Freedom is when your boss tells you what to write
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · Feb 26
New: Jeff Bezos emailed staff at the Washington Post this morning announcing that the Post opinion pages going forward were largely going to focus on defending personal liberties and free markets. Current opinion section editor David Shipley is out.
February 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
Congratulations to this year's International Booker Longlistees!! I'm particularly excited to see Lucy Scott's translation of Astrid Roemer's excellent novel On a Woman's Madness make the longlist. I do not envy the judges.This list will so hard to narrow down! 📚💚
February 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
I recently spoke to Kyo Gerritson of INCREC about my approach to translation and the threat of AI. The interview is out on Spotify now! ⬇️
January 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
New York: I'll be at Molasses books in Brooklyn on January 31st reading my translations of @nadiadevries.bsky.social & @mauritsdebruijn.bsky.social alongside these fine people ⬇️
Come through!
January 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
sarahtimmerharvey.bsky.social
The low countries asked me for my Dutch book recs so I got to wrote about the legendary Astrid Roemer and Maurits de Bruijn's brilliant new novel ⬇️📚

www.the-low-countries.com/article/sara...
Sarah Timmer Harvey’s Choice: Astrid Roemer and Maurits de Bruijn - the low countries
www.the-low-countries.com
January 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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womenintranslation.bsky.social
We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024 is Revelation Freshly Erupting, by Nelly Sachs, translated from German (Germany) by Andrew Shanks and published by @carcanet.bsky.social.
A picture of the book Revelation Freshly Erupting, by Nelly Sachs, translated by Andrew Shanks, on a desk in front of a brick wall.
November 21, 2024 at 7:44 PM