"The book has long been considered impossible to translate thanks to the intricacies and uniqueness of its prose" hahahahahaha www.eurogamer.net/horde-of-the...

The "untranslatable" book that inspired Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been translated, and you can buy it later this year

La Horde du Contrevent (or: Horde of the Counterwind) is available in hardback later this year.

eurogamer.net

The last thing in the world I want to see is an AI image of your food. Take the worst picture in the world of the food you actually make, that's fine, because I want to see _what you actually make_.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...

My dog barking at ANGINE DE POITRINE.

Had a webserver getting crushed by Claude for some reason. Dug in to the logs and someone made a shitty php hangman game back in 2008, the dipshit computers found it, and were “playing” it 1M+ times a day until I blocked it. The future sucks ass

It's So Hot That Japan Needs a New Word for It Japan this week recorded its first kokushobi, a term that means "shit's hot, yo," as temperatures reached 40°C.

Matt Alt@mattalt.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a really odd translation of this new term for an extremely hot day. The NYT renders 酷暑日 (kokushobi) as “cruel heat day.” But that implies an agency that weather cannot have. “Brutally hot day” is a better localization.

One of the great things about getting older is that you realize a lot of youth trends are actually stupid, and you can ignore them 🥰

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm actually fine with sounding old.

The famous Furby-to-Collagen pipeline.

You don't own your baby. A child is not property. They have a right to live that eclipses your right to believe stupid shit

i think all world leaders should be forbidden from sleeping, and ultimately from every other bodily function. thank you sanae takaichi for taking the first step towards a brighter future.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she gets just “zero to three hours” of sleep a night, prompting a debate in the country over work-life balance.

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

Timeline blessed by Jimothy

Ethan M. Aldridge@ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 4w ago

New cryptid

www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Of course viewers are giving up on Netflix shows

Pivoting to short form video isn’t going to fix things.

theverge.com

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 4w ago

Netflix has revealed that roughly 300 of their TV shows have used generative AI at some point in the production process. (Source: variety.com/2026/biz/new...)

Cursed 💀

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last mo.

Thank you everyone who sent me horrible AI generated flyers from around the world at my request. I was fully overwhelmed with hundreds and hundreds of these. These are the worst I saw. The hall of shame. Please enjoy and/or numb your brain: www.404media.co/these-are-th...

The corporate dream is a product made by nobody for no money, sold to nobody for eternally increasing amounts of money. AI represents a crudely made facsimile of this, with generated material getting generated views from generated accounts. For delusional corpos, the Dead Internet is a goldmine.

If you know my daughter and you know she has encephalitis, just know she's had a full relapse and things are bad again.

A translator translates meaning and not words. Thanks for coming to my TED talk 🥰

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last mo.

None. A good translator will find a local equivalent (and have done in the past). A good translation is NOT transcription. It gets the vibe right. Which is why I insist a human translates my novels, not "AI."

I’m not sure I like the term “AI hallucination.” It implies that regurgitative AI can perceive things, which it can’t, because it’s just plagiarism soup. Degenerative AI doesn’t hallucinate - it makes mistakes, spreads misinformation, and indiscriminately scrapes material without context.

I cringe at non-sex scenes in movies. I have never watched a non-sex scene that was actually imperative to the story. It always makes me feel like the producer is a virgin.

This is great advice

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

This is how AI companies will make money

Frances Meh@francesmeh.reviews · 2mo ago

friend at a big tech co just told me that her company's chatbot and their client's chatbot have been caught in a mutual support loop for several days that has generated nearly 20k emails

I'd like to warn Lenovo that I'm not going buy a god damn Lenovo thing ever again.

lunamoth@lunamoth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lenovo Warns High Memory Prices Are The "New Normal" Through 2030, As DRAM And NAND May Never Return To Early-2025 Levels wccftech.com/lenovo-warns... - 레노버는 DRAM 및 NAND 공급 부족으로 인해 메모리 가격이 2030년 이후에도 과거 수준으로 회복되지 않고 고착화될 것이라고 전망 (🧵1/2)

““The entire consumer electronics industry is struggling with the current components crisis, but the effects are particularly hard on consoles," (Microsoft, who are a major investor in OpenAI) added.” www.eurogamer.net/xbox-major-p...

in the end the only value that was really made was goose shit

I am often saying this

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo ago

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

I just sent a snarky email. I do not post edit AI slop. If you, as a company, want to take your company in that direction, okay, but I won't participate. Good luck with the bottom feeding.

i am a retail investor. my strongest belief is that the nonconsensual pornography machine the government uses to kill children is worth twenty five trillion dollars

#pug #dog

Remarkable footage. Moscow has arguably the most concentrated air defense network in the world, and a Ukrainian flamingo can get through with what looks like no interference.

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The moment the FP-1 drone struck one of the units at the Moscow oil refinery.

Oh, another real world example of why accurate translations are important 🥹

Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote@thefred.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Real diplomatic instruments are not full of basic grammatical errors and unintentional ambiguities. It is a unique humiliation that the American regime did not even have a professional translation and resolve ambiguities. They ran it through grok and signed it.