Michele Hutchison
@michehut.bsky.social
Translator, editor, writer, poet
¿Podría traducir un LLM un fragmento como este? Supongo que sí. Pero ¿podría traducirlo con una atención tan detallada a las fuentes, el ritmo y el léxico entre arcaizante, técnico y accesible para el lector medio? Ni de coña. diariodeuntraductor.es/a/3mrx2pwo7q...
Jenofonte: breve ejemplo de lo que cuesta a veces traducir un párrafo
Amberes, viernes 31 de julio de 2026 • Día 40
diariodeuntraductor.es
looren.net/en/blog/tran... the end of the 'faithful translation' as a mode?
Translation on the Edge of Time?
looren.net
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int... every human thought is accompanied by a feeling - to paraphrase Jeanette Winterson.
How AI is changing language
As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson refl...
theguardian.com
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
Karel, a bored Dutch teenager is desperate for ANYTHING to happen. Then Hitler invades, Karel falls in love with his uncle's mistress's daughter, and the whole country collapses. Funny, alarming, and completely convincing. It might be teen angst, but sometimes the world really is ending. From 1950.
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AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
theguardian.com
Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong
blair@blairaf.com · 2mo agoOne of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
www.cognitiveprivacyproject.org/research/ai-...? While many around me blithely ask Chatgpt about every little thing, I worry and worry away.
AI as an Invasive Species: Displacing Cognitive Ecosystems — The Cognitive Privacy Project
AI is not a tool; it is an invasive species. Discover why framing AI as ecological displacement changes the legal and governance mandates for cognitive privacy.
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This is the excitement that awaits us. How to narrate from a microbe's p.o.v. #flipthroughflanders #translation
www.flandersliterature.be/news/whats-g... I'll be leading another free online workshop (Dutch-English translation) in July and Laura Watkinson will be tackling graphic novels in November. [1/2] #flipthroughflanders
Literary Translation Workshops 2026 | Flanders literature
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Current #translation projects! Frank Westerman for Extraordinary Books, Rozalie Hirs for Copper Coin and Gemma Plum et al for Self-Made Hero.
Some stuff in English at the Translators' Cafe (not really a cafe but a stage and seating). #bolognabookfair
Checking out the White Raven selection at Bologna book fair. Hall 29.
“This hotel with an old dress on / asks why I call her faded glory” Read Carmien Michels’ poem, “The Tavistock,” translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison. www.thedial.world/articles/lit...
A poem by Carmien Michels — The Dial
"The Tavistock"
thedial.world
www.thedial.world/articles/lit... I was approached by The Dial for recent translation work and this is what they picked - one of my favourites from Carmien Michels' collection We've Come A Long Way, recently published by Copper Coin.
A poem by Carmien Michels — The Dial
"The Tavistock"
thedial.world
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Dutch printmaker Jan Hamstra from Cluck: The Eggstaordinary Story of Chickens by Evelien De Vlieger, translated by Michele Hutchison. Magic Cat 5 March. One of the spectacular, elegant & decorative prints in this enlightening non-fiction. @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social
📣 Join Michele Hutchison for the Multilingual Prose Fiction Workshop at BCLT Summer School 2026 📣 This year's Summer Summer School will take place ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026 🌞 Find out more & download an example programme on our website: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
#translatorfashion Walking around Leiden's old defenses and talking translation with Davids McKay and Colmer.
www.publico.es/sociedad/tar... ¡Qué poca vergüenza! (>editores españoles) #paguealtraductor
Tarifas estancadas durante veinte años, pluriempleo y ahora la amenaza de la IA: la precariedad de la traducción literaria en España
Tarifas estancadas desde hace veinte años fuerzan el pluriempleo de los traductores literarios en un sector editorial en plena bonanza.
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📣 Join Michele Hutchison for the Multilingual Prose Fiction Workshop at BCLT Summer School 2026 📣 ONLINE from Monday 20 July - Friday 24 July 2026 🌞 Find out more: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
NBCC member Catehrien Parnell reviewed "Sea Now," written by Eva Meijer and translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo, for MicroLit:
“Submerged” a review of Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW by Catherine Parnell — BIRCH BARK EDITING
Sea Now By Eva Meijer, translated from Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo Two Lines Press / Peirene Press, 2025 180 pages It’s abundantly clear that we, the inhabitants of Planet Earth, have created an untenable...
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Don’t miss World in Verse, a free virtual reading today at 11am ET! Readers include Eileen O’Connor, Jackson Watson, Katerina Iliopoulou, @michehut.bsky.social, Nathalie Handal, Nisrine Mbarki Ben Ayad, @samanthaschnee.bsky.social, and Yolanda Castaño. RSVP here: wwborders.live/WorldInVerse2026
The thing that depresses me in the whole AI revolution in my industry (I’m a literary translator and publisher) is that the question is not whether machines can replace human translators, but how will we deal with the fallout after machines are forcibly introduced regardless.
To say that AIs can replace human translators is to say that AI can replace human painters and sculptors and singers and poets. It's to assume that AIs as they are currently made and will be made for the foreseeable future can surpass humans in those things which require a soul.
