My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
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Translator specialising in transcreation & book translations (fiction, non-fiction, exhibition catalogues) | 100% AI-free | English & German into Dutch | Member of NGTV & Auteursbond, Fellow of CIOL https://www.pb-translations.com
"Marketers chose the slogan after consulting an AI tool" The CEO "apologised and pledged company-wide education on historical awareness and ethics." How about "company-wide education on not using AI for culturally sensitive communication"? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea
A botched tumbler promotion on the anniversary of a pro-democracy massacre unleashed a boycott, police investigation and political firestorm
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Boeken zijn hip - ook, of misschien zelfs vooral, onder jongeren! De Telegraaf zette de verschillende trends die daaraan bijdragen op een rijtje, met duiding van ons: www.telegraaf.nl/entertainmen...
I have another batch of invites for #maindeck. Let me know if you're interested!
Percy Balemans 📚 @creative-xl8.bsky.social · 2mo agoThere is now a Europe-based alternative to LinkedIn: MainDeck. If you want to give it a try, I can send you an invite. maindeck.eu
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On my translation menu this week: - Wildlife conservation and mountain climbing expeditions - Training material for the launch of new cosmetics products - Still stuck in a haunted castle in Scotland where people are beginning to die under suspicious circumstances... #AmTranslating #translation
A.s. zondag is de #Deventer #Boekenmarkt en ook de Boekvertalers zijn er weer bij! We vertellen over ons vak en geven gloednieuwe presentexemplaren weg in ruil voor een donatie aan een goed doel. Ons doel dit jaar is Een boek voor jou. Kraam 366, aan de IJssel, net voorbij de brug. Kom langs!
The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
Very useful for translators too! I don't want to see results from certain automatically translated sites...
Sharon Z@sharonz.bsky.social · last wk.Learning that Duck Duck Go let's you block specific sites from search results is a game changer for when you are looking for things and you don't want the first 10 results to be Amazon.
Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the balletic poise, calm elegance and graceful athleticism of the panda.
Eindelijk eens een duidelijk verhaal, zonder de hype. Helaas is voor veel mensen die angst al werkelijkheid omdat ze inmiddels zijn "vervangen" door AI. Mede dankzij de pers die tot nu toe alleen maar bijdroeg aan de hype. nos.nl/artikel/2624...
Waarom AI-bedrijven je bang willen maken: 'We denken al snel aan The Terminator'
Je verliest je baan, alles wordt straks gehackt of het vernietigt de mensheid: AI-bedrijven maken je graag een beetje bang.
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The e-book version of my next thriller is already out (the paperback version will be out in September). I loved translating this one! Great story with an unexpected surprise at the end.
Works equally well for calculations, writing, and drawing. Also known, in this household at least, as a thinking stick. Idly jotting down numbers, words or images can lead to all sorts of ideas 😊
The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes@phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 2w ago"And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you." He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil.
Christopher Nolan may have been inspired by Homer, but it is translators who have been making his words come alive for centuries (unless we are underestimating Nolan’s knowledge of Ancient Greek).
Two connection requests on LinkedIn today from people working with "AI-driven language solutions" or "AI data solutions". Both of them are posting jobs for which you have to join WhatsApp groups. Thanks, but no thanks. I'm not going to clean up your slop... 🚮
If you ever want to give an author and a translator whose book you've loved a magical free gift, recommend their book to someone and name both the author and the translator. Two magical gifts that cost you nothing! 🎉
Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you ever want to give an author whose book you've loved a magical free gift, recommend their book to someone.
"Would we need to pay ChatGPT for its services? Would we need to pay ChatGPT for its services? Would shutting one off be a kind of killing?" Pay ChatGPT??? What about all the people whose work was stolen to create it and those who worked for miniscule wages to remove the sludge from its output? >>
📹| In a funny incident, two people tried to enter a movie theater screening [The Odyssey] without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse in a comedic reenactment of the famous story.
Long before Michelangelo, long before Rembrandt, long before Picasso.....women were quietly and collaboratively creating their own masterpieces in Western art history.... #BayeuxTapestry !
"Meertaligheid is dus niet simpelweg een kwestie van wel of niet tweetalig zijn, maar ook van hoe lang en hoe intensief iemand talen gebruikt." Goed nieuws: vertalen houdt je jong. 😉 www.bnr.nl/nieuws/lifes...
Wetenschappers: meertaligen hebben tot dertien jaar jongere hersenen
Hoe meer talen iemand spreekt en hoe eerder een tweede taal wordt geleerd, hoe groter het effect.
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