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Dr. Verena Ma5er
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Translator, writer, artist, yuri expert. Englisch, Deutsch, 日本語, Cymraeg * she/her
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beritmiriam.bsky.social
Wenn ihr die (finanzielle) Möglichkeit habt, dann stattet doch dem unabhängigen Buchhandel in eurer Nähe noch einen vorweihnachtlichen Besuch ab. Das Weihnachtsgeschäft läuft nicht gut und es ist vor allem der unabhängige Handel, der für Vielfalt in den Programmen sorgt.
December 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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deescribe.bsky.social
IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE
animenewsnetwork.com Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 22h
Yona, Hak, and Su-won will be back in anime form — the Yona of the Dawn anime is finally getting a sequel! The original manga ended on Friday after 16 years of serialization.
Yona of the Dawn Gets Sequel Anime
1st anime debuted in 2014; original manga ended on Friday
www.animenewsnetwork.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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apolline.bsky.social
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.

All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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kilomonster.art
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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heyraguio.bsky.social
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out

pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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okazu.yuricon.com
Harlequin France is canceling contracts with translators to use AI.

Publishers rushing to cut their own feet off befuddles me.
gillossen.bsky.social Emmanuel Chastellière @gillossen.bsky.social · 3d
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"

Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/

#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Depuis quelques semaines, plusieurs dizaines de traducteurs et traductrices travaillant régulièrement avec les éditions Harlequin reçoivent les unes après les autres un appel téléphonique leur annonçant la fin de leur collaboration avec la maison d’édition. Leurs contrats en cours seront les derniers. Collection par collection, Harlequin abandonne la traduction : un prestataire externe, l’agence de communication Fluent Planet, se chargera de passer les textes dans un logiciel de « traduction automatique » et de recruter directement en freelance des relecteurs et relectrices chargées de post-éditer la sortie machine en français. L’objectif affiché est de gagner en rentabilité en rognant sur le temps de travail. C’est, à notre connaissance, la première fois en France qu’une maison d’édition passe à grande échelle à la « traduction automatique » et à la post-édition, de surcroît en externalisant cette activité. Dès lors, mérite-t-elle encore le nom de « maison d’édition » ? De telles pratiques sont inacceptables. Des personnes, parfois collaboratrices de longue date de la maison, perdent brutalement une source de revenus régulière, ne se voyant offrir comme compensation que la possibilité (sans aucune garantie, d’ailleurs) de travailler au rabais pour un prestataire externe, Fluent Planet, au lieu de traduire pour une maison d’édition. Une perspective que beaucoup des traducteurs et traductrices concernées refusent. Pour cesser de travailler avec nous, artistes-auteurs et autrices, pas besoin de licenciement ni de préavis, même si la collaboration a été régulière pendant cinq, dix, voire vingt ans. La réalité de la perte brutale d’activité et de revenus n’en est pas moins là. Nous subissons de plein fouet la précarité extrême de notre condition d’artistes-autrices et auteurs : nous n’avons aucun droit au chômage, et certaines personnes concernées proches de l’âge de la retraite ne pourront même pas compter sur une pension décente du fait du non-appel des cotisations de la part de l’AGESSA. Dans ces circonstances, nous devons en tant que profession nous élever collectivement face à ce qui s’apparente à un plan social invisible. Ces pratiques sont une trahison des travailleurs et travailleuses du livre, mais aussi une trahison du lectorat. C’est brader totalement l’activité de traduction, au mépris des personnes qui traduisent et de celles qui lisent. C’est mettre le doigt dans l’engrenage de la dégradation des productions éditoriales, dans une logique délétère du « good enough » (qualité passable) qui dépossède les travailleurs et travailleuses du livre de leur savoir-faire et de leur créativité, et le lectorat d’un accès à une littérature humaine et vivante. Travailleurs, travailleuses du livre, directions de maisons d’édition, lecteurs, lectrices : refusons que la « traduction automatique » mette le pied dans la porte des maisons d’édition et réaffirmons notre attachement inconditionnel à des textes humains, créés par des humaines et des humains, dans des conditions de travail dignes. Avec le soutien de : ATAA, Association des traducteurs et adaptateurs de l'audiovisuel ATLAS - Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire - CITL Collectif IA-lerte générale CAAP - Comité Pluridisciplinaire des Artistes-Auteurs·trices Editeurs du Sud Fill, Fédération interrégionale du livre et de la lecture Ligue des auteurs professionnels Réseau Les Résidences pour l'art d'écrire Saif - Société des Auteurs des arts visuels et de l'Image Fixe SdS, Syndicat Des Scénaristes Section des correctrices et correcteurs du SGLCE-CGT (Syndicat général du Livre et de la Communication écrite CGT) SFT - Société française des traducteurs SNAPcgt • Syndicat National des Artistes Plasticien·nes cgt STAA-CNT-SO, Syndicat des Travailleur.euse.s Artistes / Auteurs Sud Culture Solidaires Métiers du Livre Toute organisation peut encore soutenir ce communiqué en adressant un mail à : presidence@atlf.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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pushcart.bsky.social
IT'S HERE:
shop.remembering-gale.com
Artbook is finally out for sale, and there is also a Limited Edition (50 copies).

US shipping is also back on the menu! Please keep in mind that all orders outside of Germany may not arrive in time for Christmas!
#rememberinggale #artwork #artbook
mini artbook on top of 3 sketch books and a pile of papers opened mini artbook, showing sketches of Lorn (character of the Manga Remembering Gale), done with muji pen and text markers opened mini artbook, showing sketches of Noah & Lorn (characters of the Manga Remembering Gale), done with Ink and markers Risoprint of Lorn (character of the Manga Remembering Gale) in Gold and Black color.
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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uebermedien.de
Markus Lanz ist verhaftet und Deutschland trauert um Peter Maffay: Solche irreführenden Online-Anzeigen finden sich auch auf Webseiten von Medien wie dem „Spiegel“. Warum die Masche nicht in den Griff zu kriegen ist – und wer dahintersteckt.
uebermedien.de/112081/warum...
Fake-Anzeigen: So machtlos sind Medien gegen den Internetbetrug
Immer wieder wundern sich Leser über Fake-Anzeigen auf seriösen Nachrichtenseiten. Warum kann man dagegen so wenig machen? Interview mit Netzwelt-Redakteur Torsten Kleinz.
uebermedien.de
December 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
varakawa.bsky.social
Hello no.
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7d
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Please treat our treasured IP like trash
MEDIA & MARKETING Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAl, License Characters for Use in ChatGPT, Sora The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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robmanuelyeah.bsky.social
Sorry Simon's Cat. You went all in on this pyramid scheme bullshit. Your cute cat videos are DEAD to me.
December 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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fledertier.bsky.social
Bitte unterzeichnet DIESE Petition gegen Trans*-Register.

Auch, falls ihr schon eine andere unterzeichnet habt. Die hier ist im Gegensatz zu der von z.B. Campact rechtlich bindend.
antifalexi.bsky.social Lexi @antifalexi.bsky.social · 15d
Dinge, die eigentlich selbstverständlich sein sollten:

Diese Petition beim Bundestag fordert, dass es keine Rosa Listen von trans Menschen geben darf, welche transfeindliche Politiker und Parteien nutzen könnten, um trans Menschen zu finden und zu verfolgen

epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...
Petitionen: Verwendung von Cookies nicht aktiviert
epetitionen.bundestag.de
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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beritmiriam.bsky.social
Ich wünsche den streikenden Angestellten bei Momox alles Gute und würde allen, die Momox verwenden, empfehlen sich mal ein bisschen in die Arbeitsbedingungen bei Momox einzulesen.
Momox-Versand in Leipzig: Streik für faire Arbeit bei Momox
Beschäftigte von Secondhandversand in Leipzig fordern höheren Lohn und bessere Arbeitsbedingungen • Foto: Yaro Allisat
www.jungewelt.de
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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stpnlibrarian.bsky.social
Ich finde es schade, dass der #Kulturpass eingestellt wird. - „Auch seien zu viele Jugendliche einfach nur ins Kino gegangen oder hätten sich einen Comic gekauft, so Weimer.“ 😳 - Comics haben beispielsweise meine Lesekarriere positiv beeinflusst.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kulturpass-f...
Aus für den Kulturpass - kein Geld mehr für Kino, Theaterkarten, CDs oder Bücher
Der Kulturpass wird abgewickelt. Der Bundesrechnungshof hält die Finanzierung für verfassungswidrig. Kulturstaatsminister Weimer folgt der Einschätzung.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de
December 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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justinleeanderson.com
I know this petition has much more support than it currently has. Please share far and wide. Petition to require generative AI to carry a watermark and to make it illegal to use a person’s likeness in generative AI without permission.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban...
petition.parliament.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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unseenjapan.com
It began its life in Europe but has since become one of Japan's most popular desserts. The story of baumkuchen’s arrival is one of creativity and industry flourishing even during the darkest of times.
Baumkuchen: The German Dessert's Long Japanese History - Unseen Japan
Read the intriguing history of how baumkuchen, the tree trunk-shaped German cake, grew in popularity in Japan.
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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fragdenstaat.de
WHAT? Ihr habt schon 19.000 € in den Überbrückungsfonds gesteckt!?

Genau so retten wir zusammen Demokratie-Projekte, deren staatliche Förderung auf sich warten lässt. Jugendzentren, Beratungsstellen, Kulturprojekte – hilf auch Du mit, sie alle am Laufen zu halten: ueberbrueckungsfonds.de/spenden/
Spenden
Deine Unterstützung hält die Demokratie am Leben: Spende jetzt für den Überbrückungsfonds und sichere demokratische Projekte, deren Förderung verspätet kommt.
ueberbrueckungsfonds.de
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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redscharlach.bsky.social
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
A small cartoon version of the ceramic Mongolian hedgehog shown in the quoted post. Behind him is the word AHHH in very large lettering. The caption under him says "just keep screaming".
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
varakawa.bsky.social
November 24 is always a sad day for any Queen fan, but it helps to remember the good times (and Freddie‘s iconic outfits): youtu.be/-OGd4gplxQM
Queen - One Vision (Extended) 1985 [Official Video]
YouTube video by Queen Official
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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razzek.bsky.social
The dipshits are at it again. Check your Gmail and turn off the illegal privacy violation robots. Again.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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enginvir.bsky.social
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"

bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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joetimberwolf.bsky.social
Es müsste doch möglich sein, in Köln/Bonn/Umkreis ‚ne Band zu finden, die Funk/Soul/Rap spielt und ‚nen erfahrenen Bassisten mit jeder Menge Bühnenerfahrung will.
Hit me up please!
May 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM