Anett | geekycatlady
@geekycatlady.bsky.social
I translate videogames for money.
Musician, writer, worldbuilder, geek.
Worried about the state of things , and willing to do something about it.
Writing into the void.
Will post about: Gaming, translation, politics, random thoughts.
Musician, writer, worldbuilder, geek.
Worried about the state of things , and willing to do something about it.
Writing into the void.
Will post about: Gaming, translation, politics, random thoughts.
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Early @gamesground.bsky.social highlights: A great talk about #SensitivityReading!
Just like I keep saying with #CommunityManagement, it's more than a "niche add-on" to your development process.
No, there is a real business argument to be made about improving the overall quality of your game 🎮 📈
Just like I keep saying with #CommunityManagement, it's more than a "niche add-on" to your development process.
No, there is a real business argument to be made about improving the overall quality of your game 🎮 📈
November 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Early @gamesground.bsky.social highlights: A great talk about #SensitivityReading!
Just like I keep saying with #CommunityManagement, it's more than a "niche add-on" to your development process.
No, there is a real business argument to be made about improving the overall quality of your game 🎮 📈
Just like I keep saying with #CommunityManagement, it's more than a "niche add-on" to your development process.
No, there is a real business argument to be made about improving the overall quality of your game 🎮 📈
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Interessanter Artikel bei Autorenwelt über die Übersetzer*innenhonorare im Allgemeinen und bei Bastei Lübbe im Besonderen.
www.autorenwelt.de/blog/branche...
www.autorenwelt.de/blog/branche...
Proteste gegen zu niedrige Übersetzungshonorare bei Bastei Lübbe
Schon seit Jahren fällt Bastei Lübbe in Literaturübersetzer:innenkreisen sehr negativ auf: Kaum ein Verlag zahlt schlechtere Übersetzungshonorare und beharrt auf unterirdischeren Vertragsbedingungen. ...
www.autorenwelt.de
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Interessanter Artikel bei Autorenwelt über die Übersetzer*innenhonorare im Allgemeinen und bei Bastei Lübbe im Besonderen.
www.autorenwelt.de/blog/branche...
www.autorenwelt.de/blog/branche...
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"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from top-selling musicians to train its language models in what creative industry advocates described as a landmark European ruling" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.
It’s time to cancel your account.
It’s time to cancel your account.
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.
It’s time to cancel your account.
It’s time to cancel your account.
I love how my entire feed today is full of dancing frogs from all over the world. Keep it coming!
(I wish I had gotten a banner to hang out of my window, because, sadly, there's no protest in my town today.)
#nokings
(I wish I had gotten a banner to hang out of my window, because, sadly, there's no protest in my town today.)
#nokings
October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I love how my entire feed today is full of dancing frogs from all over the world. Keep it coming!
(I wish I had gotten a banner to hang out of my window, because, sadly, there's no protest in my town today.)
#nokings
(I wish I had gotten a banner to hang out of my window, because, sadly, there's no protest in my town today.)
#nokings
We really are in the stupidest of timeslines.
This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
![As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugcmot4f3ool6cottht63wx4/bafkreierpoqvjgg5hqx3zhtlfmvrfq3vaakb3h5wppcdzrvs5jh3zr7ce4@jpeg)
October 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We really are in the stupidest of timeslines.
The fact that the Nobel Peace Price was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan woman, is just absolutely priceless.
October 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The fact that the Nobel Peace Price was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan woman, is just absolutely priceless.
Please consider participating, these guys are making a truly lovely game!
🚨 Kickstarter for The Signal is NOW LIVE 🚨
Explore, craft, and survive on Sirenis, an alien world that's claimed countless victims before you. Uncover the mystery behind the planet and put your building skills to the test.
#indiegame #IndieDevs #indiegaming #videogames
Explore, craft, and survive on Sirenis, an alien world that's claimed countless victims before you. Uncover the mystery behind the planet and put your building skills to the test.
#indiegame #IndieDevs #indiegaming #videogames
September 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Please consider participating, these guys are making a truly lovely game!
Sure hope that Netflix isn't doing anything disgraceful soon—I'm pretty much boycotting everyone else at this point. There is not much else I can do, but at least they're not getting my money.
September 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Sure hope that Netflix isn't doing anything disgraceful soon—I'm pretty much boycotting everyone else at this point. There is not much else I can do, but at least they're not getting my money.
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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Pacific Drive has been one of my favorite things in 2024, I can't wait for this DLC to drop!
Also, check out the amazing voice work!
Also, check out the amazing voice work!
September 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Pacific Drive has been one of my favorite things in 2024, I can't wait for this DLC to drop!
Also, check out the amazing voice work!
Also, check out the amazing voice work!
I keep watching the WH press briefings out of curiosity (and to see what's going on as part of getting a better idea of the other side's information environment), and OMG, they've descended into a complete fantasy world. The spin is absolutely unreal—at least in the AP's yt chat no one is having it.
September 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I keep watching the WH press briefings out of curiosity (and to see what's going on as part of getting a better idea of the other side's information environment), and OMG, they've descended into a complete fantasy world. The spin is absolutely unreal—at least in the AP's yt chat no one is having it.
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I know Silksong credits discourse is maybe over, but I got the full credits up on Mobygames for anyone who wants to see what the full team of the "game by three people" ends up looking like www.mobygames.com/game/246839/...
Hollow Knight: Silksong credits (Windows, 2025) - MobyGames
The official game credits for Hollow Knight: Silksong released on Windows in 2025. The credits include 97 people.
www.mobygames.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I know Silksong credits discourse is maybe over, but I got the full credits up on Mobygames for anyone who wants to see what the full team of the "game by three people" ends up looking like www.mobygames.com/game/246839/...
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I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one.
AIKilledMyJob@pm.me
AIKilledMyJob@pm.me
September 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one.
AIKilledMyJob@pm.me
AIKilledMyJob@pm.me
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People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
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The Author’s Guild has a good explainer on the settlement, and according to them, it’s not too late to provide your info: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
authorsguild.org
September 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Author’s Guild has a good explainer on the settlement, and according to them, it’s not too late to provide your info: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
Travel advice from the Canadian government to Germany:
"Exercise a high level of caution".
"Crimes committed by far-right extremists against individuals belonging to ethnic, religious or political minorities occur".
That about sums it up I guess.
travel.gc.ca/destinations...
"Exercise a high level of caution".
"Crimes committed by far-right extremists against individuals belonging to ethnic, religious or political minorities occur".
That about sums it up I guess.
travel.gc.ca/destinations...
September 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Travel advice from the Canadian government to Germany:
"Exercise a high level of caution".
"Crimes committed by far-right extremists against individuals belonging to ethnic, religious or political minorities occur".
That about sums it up I guess.
travel.gc.ca/destinations...
"Exercise a high level of caution".
"Crimes committed by far-right extremists against individuals belonging to ethnic, religious or political minorities occur".
That about sums it up I guess.
travel.gc.ca/destinations...
TIL: AI podcasts. What? Why? Who'd want such a thing?
AI Podcasts Hosts Have an Existential Crisis—Intentionally
Translating complex information into captivating podcasts is no simple task. Is AI up to the challenge?
www.scientificamerican.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
TIL: AI podcasts. What? Why? Who'd want such a thing?
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Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor.
Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster
Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster
August 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Still my favorite explanation of the difference between INT and WIS: int is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor.
Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster
Wis is knowing that Frankenstein was, in fact, the monster
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Journalists stop prentending that using synthetic text extruding machines to extrude synthetic text is "interviewing" them challenge
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
August 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Journalists stop prentending that using synthetic text extruding machines to extrude synthetic text is "interviewing" them challenge
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Came home from Gamescom with a cold, but I've got the best nurse.
August 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Came home from Gamescom with a cold, but I've got the best nurse.
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Thank you, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, for giving translators a chance to speak their piece. I see a lot of replies and QRTs along the lines of "I'm glad I didn't finish my translation degree" or "This is all I know, am I really doomed?", so allow me to share a few thoughts:
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Thank you, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, for giving translators a chance to speak their piece. I see a lot of replies and QRTs along the lines of "I'm glad I didn't finish my translation degree" or "This is all I know, am I really doomed?", so allow me to share a few thoughts: