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"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

And in that instance with Noem, it also isn't even an Orwell quote. He wrote, "Those who abjure violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf."

It's from Notes on Nationalism, and it's a scathing look at how people rely on government to do evil for their benefit.

I am going to have an aneurysm one day with the amount of Republicans misusing Orwell's writing.

if i was Kristi Noem i simply would not quote Orwell

Manga companies, please pay us $8/page!
The small and new publishers can do it, surely the big companies with owners who make $3 million+ per year can afford it too!!
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No articles and doesn't make nearly as much sense with the imagery 😩

I really dislike "Journal with Witch" being the translation for 違国日記 (Ikoku Nikki)

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

feeling angry or depressed? why not fix yourself a cup of tea? then you can be angry and depressed while also holding a cup of tea

Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.

Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.

Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

IASIP meme: "I've had enough of this dude," but with a portrait of Bezos

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

When the call comes for a truce with Venefic, it falls to Inglis and her friends to set off into enemy territory! But while they’re negotiating, she comes face-to-face with someone from her past in "Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀" Volume 13! bit.ly/4a6z7nd

Basic refreshments in the pro lounge, please! 💗

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That's a fantastic way to do it! It really depends on what you think is more natural for the character. I've never done that when talking to myself, but I can definitely see it as way more natural sounding in English than directly translating 私 as "me."

Because of wider usage of the slang "no cap," I can't write "Cap?" or "No cap?" in margin notes for suggested revisions

"that's how it is on this bitch of an earth"

"It couldn't be helped" isn't necessarily a *bad* translation of 仕様がない or 仕方がない, but it gets overused when it can really allow for character voice to shine through.

A translator I edit recently rendered it as "but that was a problem for another day," and I LOVE this!

Matthew Yglesias & @mattyglesias X.com Trump's whole approach to foreign policy feels to me like a guy who read some bad leftist takes about how western prosperity is all downstream of violent imperial exploitation and decided to use that as a playbook for growth.

Incredibly funny that this is the closest Matty Yglesias will ever get to admitting he was wrong about American empire. “Looks like that leftist was right. Like a fucking IDIOT”

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread

This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.

According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

My spouse got me a copy of Orwell's 1984 that I've been eyeing for a while.

The book that propelled me deep into journalism and history studies. The book that I guess people could say "radicalized" me.

And the book that people on the right constantly misunderstand!!!!!

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

[cherrypicking scenes to define genre the way people do with Ghibli movies] The Godfather is "cozy."

You did a great job!!! Sad to miss you on it 💖

Copy editing & proofreading (continued, 2/2):
- Liar, Liar (light novel; volume 7; coming soon in March), - Even a Replica Can Fall in Love (light novel; volume 4; coming soon in February)
- mysterious "coming soon" image! 👀

Copy editing & proofreading (continued, 1/2):
- Lady Bumpkin and Her Lord Villain (volumes 3–5)
- This Gyaru's Got a Thing for...Vampire Hunters?! (volume 1)
- The Fearsome Witch Teaches in Another World (volume 1)

Copy editing & proofreading:
- Dahlia in Bloom (Side Stories, volumes 10–11)
- Lucia and the Loom (volume 3)
- Goodbye, Overtime! (volumes 3–6),
- The Countess Is a Coward No More! (volumes 3–4)
- The Beginning After the End (volume 9)
- A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even (volume 1)

Manga main edits:
- After School Etude (volumes 2–3)
- Otonari Complex (volumes 3–5)
- Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire (volume 6)
- Throw Away the Suit Together (volume 3)
- Death's Daughter and the Ebony Blade (volumes 5–7)
- mysterious "coming soon" images! 👀

Included are:

Light novel main edits:
- The Legendary Witch Is Reborn as an Oppressed Princess (volumes 3–5)
- The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods (volumes 1–3)
- My Magical Career at Court: (volume 6)
- Buying You on the Day You Were to Die
- mysterious "coming soon" image! 👀