Sanches with two esses

PANDORA by Ana Paula Pacheco, tr. Julia Sanches (@transitbooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by kay kemp. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/pand...

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We're launching our second Blanket Friday today. All funds go to the Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign.

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Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election

"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig (trans. Julia Sanches) — Xiao Yue Shan Alienation was big in the twentieth century. Marx had a lot to do with it, but the despair went beyond the growing distance between labour and product—which was only the first measure in a devastat…

"The most devastating of ruling powers have always counted on superficial leniencies to prevent overwhelming dissent, manufacturing a complicity that comes in the shape of complacency..."

on The Time of Cherries
— Xiao Yue Shan

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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.

NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

AI Killed My Job: Translators Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators.

If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: AIkilledmyjob@pm.me

Image reads: "The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! Where: Zoom, When: Wednesday, August 13, 7:30-8:45pm ET, Email us to reserve your spot! tocsolidarity@gmail.com" To the right of the text is a diamond-shaped image of four hands holding each other at the wrists.

Image reads: "We're doing this because... We believe our power is stronger as a collective than it is as individuals. You don't have to join NWU to attend the drop-ins, but we hope you will, and are happy to talk to you about why we think the union is the future. The more of us who join, alongside other writers, editors, and media creatives, the greater our chances of winning the working conditions we want and deserve!"

The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session!
📍 Where: Zoom
🕢 When: Wednesday, August 13 7:30-8:45pm ET
📨 Email us to reserve your spot! tocsolidarity@gmail.com

Workshops — Workshops 4 Gaza

Donate to the Sameer Project, which continues to do crucial mutual aid work in Gaza: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

And join and support upcoming workshops that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social runs to benefit the Sameer Project. Writers, artists, and educators can also submit a proposal to teach a workshop:

Melody Makeda Ledwon Awarded Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders Melody Makeda Ledwon is recognized for her translation of a multilingual novel recovering the history of a Cape Coloured family

Melody Makeda Ledwon will receive the 2025 Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators, Words Without Borders announced today. The grant recognizes Ledwon’s translation from German of the novel Knives, Tongues by Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner. Learn more here:

So another one of these came today and I took a closer look. Some of its claims seem pretty wild. But they include citations in tiny print at the bottom, after an invitation to "check the facts."

So I did.

You may need to sit down for this: Andrew Cuomo is not being entirely honest!

The New Words Without Borders The Whiting Award-winning digital literary magazine Words Without Borders is the premier publication for international literature in English. Featuring Olga Tokarczuk, Fernanda Melchor, Jokha Alharthi...

ChatGPT may be down, but you know what's not down? Over 4,000 pieces of literature from 147 countries and translated from 141 languages by actual people and not LLMs—and every single piece is free to read.

Just saying!

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Donate to Support the Olympic Forest Defenders!, organized by Henry Richards NEW PHOTOS AND UPDATES! May 9th Port Angeles, WA — Blockade Against Mature Fores… Henry Richards needs your support for Support the Olympic Forest Defenders!

Hey let's support these forest defenders! Every warrior is part of a web of money, care, strategy & time. People who can't be warriors for whatever reason can be part of the rest of the web www.gofundme.com/f/accsvm-oly...

Duolingo CEO says he's getting rid of contract employees and replacing them with AI Duolingo employees can also expect their AI use to be graded in their performance reviews.

I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI.

I urge everyone to delete their app.

BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi Released From ICE Detention 'To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,' Mahdawi said after he was freed on bail.

NEW: Mohsen Mahdawi has been freed from detention. “We are pro-peace and anti-war,” Mohsen told a huge crowd outside court after his release.

“To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”

Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway

Whose Corner Is It Anyway has been organizing for YEARS with street-based, low-income & survival sex workers who use stimulant & opioid drugs, including safer use & Narcan trainings. Donate to them to spite RFK Jr & strengthen their movement! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...

Project Weber/RENEW We provide harm reduction services to empower people who engage in drug use and/or sex work & those at risk for HIV & Hep C. Join us today!

Maybe you have a harm reduction center in your state or region? Project Weber/RENEW is one of ours. Donate or volunteer to spite RFK Jr & save people's lives & dignity. weberrenew.org

Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

Anywhere you can create relief, room to breathe & move, slack in the line, for someone whose ropes are tightened by a violent government or the forces that brought it to power, you are doing something useful.

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

There's simply no ethical way to support Harry Potter in 2025. It's not possible. $0.20 from every dollar you give JK Rowling goes directly to physically harming a trans person and that's not a joke or an exaggeration.

Graphic with a purple background. It reads: "We are really shocked by today's Supreme Court decision- which reverses twenty years of understanding on how the law recognises trans men and women with Gender Recognition Certificates. The judgement seems to have totally missed what matters to trans people- - that we are able to live our lives, and be recognised, in line with who we truly are. We will continue working for a world in which trans people can get on with our lives with privacy, dignity and safety. That is something that we all deserve.". The Scottish Trans and Equality Network logos are in the bottom right.

Along with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social, we've published our reaction to the judgement in the UK Supreme Court today.

There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath.

www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

Excellent analysis of the Trumpian Right’s assault on empathy: a vital precursor for the dehumanising still to come.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 shortlist.

Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

S-0295 - Ban ICE Contracts with Prisons in RI Español Show up to give testimony! Ban ICE Detention in RI #ShutDownWyatt #FreeThemAll SENATE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY NOTICE OF MEETING DATE: Thursday, April 3, 2025 TIME: Rise of the Senate PLACE:...

#PVDlocal / #RIlocal: Let’s shut down ICE detention in RI once and for all. Send written testimony by 3pm TODAY 4/3 to SenateJudiciary@rilegislature.gov. Even better if you can come to the hearing, 4pm @ the State House Room 313. Testimony toolkit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is what the opposition did in the Hungary Parliament when they passed the Pride ban.

May we have congresspeople with an ounce of the courage.

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