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@npub1mx75...ggnq #Writing #Publishing #Translators #PSA Some publishers are delegating translation of your work to GenAI/LLMs, which a) puts humans translators out of work, and b) ensures you'll lose readers, because GenAI/LLM translation is basically Google translate: no context word for word translation. So you need to contact your publisher about this AND make sure you future contract include a clause demanding human translators for the FULL job--not just "fixing" slop.

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How Translation Works, Book Title Edition

As any translator will tell you, translating a piece of fiction isn’t about simply transcribing words one-to-one from one language to another...

#Romancelandia @npub1mx75...ggnq #CallToAction #USPolitics #KOSA (and if you go, "well, I write ~clean~ romance, so it doesn't affect me", please know that fascism never runs out of targets/enemies, and that it *will* affect you sooner rather than later)

Tech Policy Press

US House Subcommittee Advances 18 Child Online Safety Bills | TechPolicy.Press

Some members expressed "fury" at the tech industry for not doing more to protect children and teens.

Writing vs AI slop: "AI slop is... vomited into existence...something they read, not something the wrote. And to a writer those are not the same." #Writing #GenAI #AISlop @npub1mx75...ggnq

#PSA #FoodRecall #Listeria URGENT: Cheese Recall - Listeria Walmart & Sam’s Club pecorino romano recalled for possible Listeria. Brands: Locatelli, Boar’s Head, Member’s Mark, Ambriola, Pinna Dates: Expires Feb-May 2026 DO NOT EAT. Throw out or return. Dangerous for pregnant women, elderly, immunocomp.

The Healthy

Walmart and Sam’s Club Just Recalled Cheese in a Total of 31 States and Washington, D.C.

The recall effort seems to be growing rapidly amid Listeria bacteria concerns as other retailers also alert customers.

"A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating." #JamesWatson #Racism #Bigotry #Sexism

STAT

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

Hey, women, are you still doing the NYT's wordle? or reading their cooking stuff? their book stuff? their political essays or advice columns? Listen to their fucking podcasts? Part of your subscription fees are paying for THIS. Consider shunning the NYT for life. #NYT #FascistPropaganda

#PSA #CallToAction #TeenVogue Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning. That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine. If you or someone in your family has a subscription, now it's a good time to explain what boycotts are and what they can do. Note how "facts" becomes "progressive politics"

I really wish more people paid attention to what book bans, library purges, demonization, stalking and threatening of librarians, and the changing "education' standards championed by assholes like DeSantis mean for the future of this country. First it was, "states rights", not slavery as the reason for the Civil War, now this.

The Direct Line From The Red Scare to Red Hats

Florida's embracing McCarthy era politics in their updated state social studies standards–it's the normalization of today's sociopolitical reality.

#CallToAction #PSA If you were on the fence about disconnecting your ring cameras, perhaps this will help you do it: amazon is now giving access to all its ring cameras to the Feds, local cops and ICE. So they can arrest your neighbors.

Yahoo News

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."