Jacob
@kumafriend.bsky.social
ゲーム、読書、翻訳に興味がある人です。本がもっと読みたい。最近本格ミステリにはまってます。よろしくお願いします。
Aspiring J-E translator. I like games, reading, and particularly love translation. Recently gotten into mystery books.
Aspiring J-E translator. I like games, reading, and particularly love translation. Recently gotten into mystery books.
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I realize that language is strong, and for a long time I have been skeptical of this notion that 'AI bros hate artists' or such—but seeing the response to this critique, which on the other site really actually has too often been literally 'Fuck Miyazaki', what other conclusion are we to come to?
March 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I realize that language is strong, and for a long time I have been skeptical of this notion that 'AI bros hate artists' or such—but seeing the response to this critique, which on the other site really actually has too often been literally 'Fuck Miyazaki', what other conclusion are we to come to?
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March 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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This might be the worst TL advice I've ever seen. The number one thing I tell students is to look everything up all the time. Look it up in monolingual dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, corpora, thesauruses, whatever! The ability to question your own knowledge is the mark of a good translator.
years ago, a native speaker on a forum declared, "you'll never make it as a professional translator if you're looking up words all the time."
was ever a piece of advice so dogshit?
632 published books later, I've built a career on proving him wrong. spite as effective motivator 🤷♂️
was ever a piece of advice so dogshit?
632 published books later, I've built a career on proving him wrong. spite as effective motivator 🤷♂️
March 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This might be the worst TL advice I've ever seen. The number one thing I tell students is to look everything up all the time. Look it up in monolingual dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, corpora, thesauruses, whatever! The ability to question your own knowledge is the mark of a good translator.
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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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I miss her so much, but the work is on the rest of us now.
@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
Ursula Le Guin
YouTube video by National Book
www.youtube.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I miss her so much, but the work is on the rest of us now.
@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
@ursulakleguin.com at the 2014 National Book Awards. "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9N...
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Another great article on localization!
"Delivering a top-notch game localization requires great linguistic skills, attention to detail, detective-like abilities, nerves of steel and a whole lot of patience to deal with the industry."
"Delivering a top-notch game localization requires great linguistic skills, attention to detail, detective-like abilities, nerves of steel and a whole lot of patience to deal with the industry."
Ambassador Virginia Casagrande exposes the emotional impact a lack of context can have on those working in video games localization. 👇
safeinourworld.org/stories/cont...
safeinourworld.org/stories/cont...
Localization: How context is crucial to game dev mental health - Safe In Our World
Ambassador Virginia Casagrande exposes the emotional impact a lack of context can have on those working in video games localization.
safeinourworld.org
March 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Another great article on localization!
"Delivering a top-notch game localization requires great linguistic skills, attention to detail, detective-like abilities, nerves of steel and a whole lot of patience to deal with the industry."
"Delivering a top-notch game localization requires great linguistic skills, attention to detail, detective-like abilities, nerves of steel and a whole lot of patience to deal with the industry."
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Time and time again translators are pointing out how machine translation produces terrible quality work, but it's normally the translators who are forced to make it somewhat readable for pennies, while middle men pocket the profits.
"'We would like to inform you that we have changed our processes, and now all project requests sent to you will be post-editing. This is our post-editing rate.' Take it or leave it, basically."
Read Good agency gone bad, by Laura Vuillemin here: www.guerrillamedia.coop/en/translato...
Read Good agency gone bad, by Laura Vuillemin here: www.guerrillamedia.coop/en/translato...
Translators Against the Machine #1: Good agency gone bad, by Laura Vuillemin - Guerrilla Media Collective
This article is by Laura Vuillemin, an English and Portuguese to French translator who raises awareness about the rights of translators in the face of AI and machine translation. You can learn more ab...
www.guerrillamedia.coop
March 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Time and time again translators are pointing out how machine translation produces terrible quality work, but it's normally the translators who are forced to make it somewhat readable for pennies, while middle men pocket the profits.
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March 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Iceland, 2017
from my series Anarres, inspired by Ursula K Le Guin's novel, The Dispossessed
from my series Anarres, inspired by Ursula K Le Guin's novel, The Dispossessed
May 5, 2023 at 7:34 AM
Iceland, 2017
from my series Anarres, inspired by Ursula K Le Guin's novel, The Dispossessed
from my series Anarres, inspired by Ursula K Le Guin's novel, The Dispossessed
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.
Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾
Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾
January 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM
So deeply not kidding when I say that the current paradigm of "Gen AI" is doing deep, lasting harm to our ability to make knowledge, meaning, & truth w/ each other.
Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾
Like… it's really fucking us up & if we don't stop it soon we're gonna see a kind of negative chaos frankly unimaginable to most ppl 👍🏾
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me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:
January 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:
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陰の太陽グウィンドリン / Dark Sun Gwyndolin
#DARKSOULS
#DARKSOULS
January 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
陰の太陽グウィンドリン / Dark Sun Gwyndolin
#DARKSOULS
#DARKSOULS
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My Genre Grapevine report on "AI and the Enshittification of Life" is out. I spent a year wading through the slop of generative artificial intelligence to show what happened with the programs in 2024, how they affect artists and writers, and where we go from here. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/ai-and...
AI and the Enshittification of Life, or My Year Wading Through the Slop of Generative Artificial Intelligence | Jason Sanford
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December 29, 2024 at 6:44 PM
My Genre Grapevine report on "AI and the Enshittification of Life" is out. I spent a year wading through the slop of generative artificial intelligence to show what happened with the programs in 2024, how they affect artists and writers, and where we go from here. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/ai-and...
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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
Anyway, AI has already stolen friends’ work, and is going to put other people out of work.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
I do not think a political party that claims to be the party of workers in this country should be using it. Even for just a silly joke.
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.
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This is why publishers should have been crediting translators on their websites and front covers, and book reviewers normalised into crediting translators with authors much earlier--to give translators more visibility. To show that translation is writing that requires humans to do well.
December 17, 2024 at 9:57 PM
This is why publishers should have been crediting translators on their websites and front covers, and book reviewers normalised into crediting translators with authors much earlier--to give translators more visibility. To show that translation is writing that requires humans to do well.
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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
December 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
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One of my pet peeves when playing games is bad subtitles. Tiny text, illegible fonts, no speaker names, poor line breaking, the list goes on! Movies and TV have standardized style guides, so why don't games?!
Anyway, so I decided to rant about it.
j-entranslations.com/why-do-video...
Anyway, so I decided to rant about it.
j-entranslations.com/why-do-video...
Why Do Video Game Subtitles Suck? - J-En Translations
A look at why some video game subtitles suck and what game devs can do to improve the standard of subtitles in all languages.
j-entranslations.com
December 22, 2024 at 2:07 AM
One of my pet peeves when playing games is bad subtitles. Tiny text, illegible fonts, no speaker names, poor line breaking, the list goes on! Movies and TV have standardized style guides, so why don't games?!
Anyway, so I decided to rant about it.
j-entranslations.com/why-do-video...
Anyway, so I decided to rant about it.
j-entranslations.com/why-do-video...
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I'm sure Duolingo revels in people's ignorance around AI because they mean to exploit it as they continue their pivot to AI. www.pcmag.com/news/as-duol...
December 19, 2024 at 3:49 AM
I'm sure Duolingo revels in people's ignorance around AI because they mean to exploit it as they continue their pivot to AI. www.pcmag.com/news/as-duol...
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I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
December 4, 2024 at 9:23 AM
I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
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Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.
December 3, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.
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"I just don't think that's going to happen."
September 1, 2023 at 4:22 PM
"I just don't think that's going to happen."
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I will be giving a presentation, Rage Against the Machine: A Case Against LLMs, at IJET-33 in Fukuoka (May 9-11, time TBD) about why not to use these bullshit engines in anything intended for humans to read.
There will be cursing, and not all of it by me!
Reposts welcome!
#Translation #IJET33
There will be cursing, and not all of it by me!
Reposts welcome!
#Translation #IJET33
Session | International Japanese-English Translation Conference
ijet.jat.org
December 3, 2024 at 12:12 AM
I will be giving a presentation, Rage Against the Machine: A Case Against LLMs, at IJET-33 in Fukuoka (May 9-11, time TBD) about why not to use these bullshit engines in anything intended for humans to read.
There will be cursing, and not all of it by me!
Reposts welcome!
#Translation #IJET33
There will be cursing, and not all of it by me!
Reposts welcome!
#Translation #IJET33
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November 6, 2024 at 7:28 PM