Getting reaaaaal fed up of that phrase being used as a get out of jail free card.

Darren Hupke@darrenhupke.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The attitude of so many in the comments section of the internet* is “it’s all bad, who cares, move on” You don’t look enlightened or elite because of your “knowledge,” you look lazy and sad for not trying. Be a good human. Make good decisions. Learn. Try again tomorrow. *I know

I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

cashier today told me he knew me from twitter and said him and his partner still use “the butter’s penthouse” 😭

Appreciate that this touches on how awful MTPE (machine translation post-editing) is, and glad that there are still some companies who refuse to use it. Also, reminder that contractors are far more likely to get shafted in the credits, either being reduced to a company name or nothing at all.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w ago

Thousands of full-time video game industry workers have been laid off in the last several years as game companies scramble to cut costs. But there are even more cuts happening quietly to contract workers, wh... https://kotaku.com/amidst-mass-layoffs-contract-workers-devastated-video-games-2000718416

If you're on psychatric meds, there's a pretty good chance you're also dealing with some extra heat intolerance, don't overexert yourself when there's a heat wave! You might not think you need water, but you probably do!

You all are sweet 🥰

The Screentoney Awards@screentoneys.com · last mo.

The Screentoney Award for "Creative editing extraordinaire" goes to @carlysmith.net screentoneys.com/award?id=44896

✨ Welcome to The Screentoney Awards 2026 ✨ We have a record-breaking 161 awards this year! Please join the Awards Committee in celebrating talented manga localization professionals 🧵

Anime is great for practicing Japanese listening, but the subtitles aren't made for learners. And just because they're not direct translations, doesn't mean they're wrong. They tell you what the characters are saying, not the words that come out of their mouth. That's a big distinction in Japanese.

unhinged eldritch abomination@rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

Procrastinated by rearranging my manga shelves. I used to a strictly organize alphabetically, but I threw caution to the wind and did it by vibes. Sorta alphabetical at the top, then a Splatoon goodies shelf, then all my Natsuki Takaya books, Madoka, Original, Spiral, and Orange b/c they fit well--

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Arrested Development ass administration.

Yet another reason why I am zero tolerance on AI.

Madhusudan 🦉 Katti@leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 3mo ago

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT DO YOUR STRETCHES.

Some thoughts on writing in AI times countercraft.substack.com/p/surfs-up-i...

Surf's Up in Slop City

How should authors navigate a world with disappearing books coverage and a rising flood of AI slop books?

countercraft.substack.com

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

capitalism as a whole is just this massive roiling scam that rewards people who sell their peers out without any trouble. The less community and trust you have, the easier that is, the more you're rewarded it's why white supremacy and capitalism are inextricable

will never not be crazy to me that anita sarkeesian made critiques that were mild for 2012 feminism and Gamers still haven't gotten over it 14 fucking years later

This is all about this (publisher created) embarrassment of a book cover 👇 What? You don't remember how "Pretty Space Cat Sorceress Nyan-Chama" changed the world?

Martin@concretebadger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I admire Clements a lot, so I had to find out what, if anything, he had to say about the book's cover. All I could find was this FB comment that implies that 1. the cover art wasn't his decision and 2. he's not happy about it. Disappointing to see how little influence authors have on this stuff 😐

ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^

Kall@highlandkall.bsky.social · 3mo ago

as much as i get the sentiment behind "make more bad art" there's gotta be a better way of communicating "you don't have to be technically proficient or hold yourself to a specific standard of practice" that doesn't sound as backhanded lol

Freelance translators (because they're almost always freelance and never in-house) don't have the luxury of being able to defend themselves and stop these decisions to use slop instead of humans. They need people on the inside to step up and say "this won't actually benefit the game or sales."

More and more I see people say "it's ONLY used for translation" when it comes to genAI in games. As if the act of writing into another language is not worth respecting. As if people in other countries (both gamers and workers) don't matter at all. Translation IS writing. Translation IS art.

On this International Workers' Day, stand against executives pushing LLM usage (aka AI--we all know it's not actually artificial intelligence) while laying off workers and eliminating jobs.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

This is one of many reasons why I'm so against people relying on LLMs to make things for them. *YOU* need the practice of finishing projects on your own. They don't have to be perfect. Done is better than some weird aspirational view of delivering something utterly perfect.

Alex de Campi@alexdecampi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

creators get better by finishing projects no project ever comes out as good as it is in your imagination but that’s ok, the next one will be better also it’s ok if projects fail, taking risks and big swings is an important part of growing as a creator

Literally translating the way the Japanese language uses quotation brackets makes everything sound sarcastic in English.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Toei Company establishes Toei Games - first game announcement on April 24 www.gematsu.com/2026/04/toei... games.toei.co.jp/en/

“GlobalComix’s AI translation copilot delivers 85–90% cost savings compared to industry-standard manual translation.” These AI tools will always rely on underpaid freelancers doing three jobs for a fraction of the wage of one. They’re merely a justification for not paying people.

Comic Book Yeti@comicbookyeti.com · 4mo ago

So I was in that Global Comix Discord meeting awhile back where they said, checks notes, we won’t use AI for translating. Well… Sorry to repost a Substack article but here’s the full icky details 👇🏻 leadvc.substack.com/p/1b903618-4...

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

A bunch of artists will lose work, the flow and immersion for the reader is ruined, the mangaka's vision is butchered...and they'll probably raise the price on consumers anyway. but at least a corporation made more money 😀

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Square Enix has created an AI tool that could cut up to 3000 hours from manga production It automates typesetting like font, size, and placement