Kate J. O’Neil

Dear manga publishers, we don’t want your AI translations VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did and want none of it.

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did.

Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form.

We don't want your AI translations!

Massachusetts lesbian Gov. Maura Healey signs new shield law for abortion & trans health care - LGBTQ Nation "No one is going to prevent the people of Massachusetts from getting the health care they need," she said.

howling at this headline which is basically "Area Lesbian Did a Thing"

And @sonicbug.bsky.social doubles down on a double-episode review of this incredibly detailed series.

signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued. This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount.

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

help.aol.com/articles/dia...

ht @mat.tl

here's an ICT article on this for more info btw, this is why the US is always trying to remove power from native ppl, because we will fight back even if nobody fights for us or the land, thank you Miccosukee 💕

ictnews.org/news/advocat...

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Promise Mascot Agency has gotten its major free Prepare to Grind Update on all platforms bringing in new difficulty modes, a new truck upgrade for grinding, indie game hero collaborations, time trial races, and more: www.rpgsite.net/news/18105-p...

so uh yeah, everything after the "to raise and support armies" line is gone from section 8

sorry, navy, guess congress will no longer be providing for or maintaining you

Sette is disgusting, give her your money or she'll come touch your house and you'll have to buy a new one.

Unsounded Kickstarter live now!
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A reminder not to let the National Center On Sexual Exploitation's official-sounding name fool you: they're the rebranded busybody group "Morality In Media", whom you might remember from such hits as "Trying to have Life Of Brian pulled from theatres" and "trying to connect queerness to mass murder"

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

We did it! Fully funded in less than two hours! Thank you everyone ;_; Unsounded wouldn't be ANYTHING without your eyeballs and your generosity. I'm so excited for you guys to get these books, and to see this shit in stores! Madness! Stay frosty, there are stretch goals coming!

Unsounded: Books One and Two Iron Circus is bringing the celebrated, long-running webcomic Unsounded to print!

AAAAA I MISSED THE SCREENSHOT!

But Ashley Cope's Unsounded, Volumes 1 and 2, are 100% FUNDED on Kickstarter in 💥SEVENTY-FIVE MINUTES. 💥

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

And @sonicbug.bsky.social delivers our noontime anime review today!

Coming soon: Unsounded Book 1 and 2 Iron Circus is bring the long running webcomic Unsounded to stores!

Pssst.

Hey.

Follow the Unsounded preview page on Kickstarter.

it launches... soon.

Sooner than you might think.

And Early Bird tiers are only live for ONE HOUR after launch.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Last chance. :)

Monchhichi.

That is all.

The last Millennial.

Dropped the book. No regrets. So yeah, never been a fan and am extremely happy that I get to be one of those “I never liked that person\thing!” assholes on this one thing. So much disappoint averted.

So, fun story. Back in the day my friend got way into HP and handed me the first book. [cerca 2001] I made it about halfway through when my bad vibes went off. Straight from the jump the fact the wizards had a slur for normal people that was just widely accepted set off alarm bells.

Straczynski expressed the highest regard for Trias and ABC, but he said that he believes "network paranoia" has led them to use Q5. "It is a truly insidious organization, I make no bones about it at all. A lot of their research and theories are strictly from voodoo, Straczynski continued. "I think they reinforce stereotypes--sexist and racist. I think they are not helping television, they are diminishing it."

In addition to Janine's new look, described in notes on one DIC character drawing as "generally less harsh & "slutty," she will have a warmer, more nurturing relationship with Slimer, a childlike comic character who sometimes dissolves into slime.

The show also will contain less satire and less subtle, sophisticated verbal humor. "I've written a few shows for this season, and they weren't as much fun as last season," lamented "Real Ghostbusters" writer Michael Reaves. As one of numerous examples of this change, the Q5 report notes that some jokes that writers had included about college days and "no intelligent life in New Jersey" would go over the heads of young children. A phrase such as "create the proper ambiance," the report suggests, could be phrased more simply: "Make this room look like a little boy's.

A remarkable 1987 article about “Q5”, a consultancy that, i’ve now learned, seems singularly responsible for the mass bland-izing of cartoons when i was a kid. I remember the sudden and mysterious Jeanine swap-out in The Real Ghostbusters! this explains so much.

www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

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I see headwings are back on the menu.

No.

The farmers have announced they are putting the wolves in charge of watching over the herd of sheep.

That goes way too fucking hard. I can’t help but think the artist wants to be drawing anything but a sports manga.