Mikayla B.

I am preaching to the choir on bluesky but we shouldn't have to be uninstalling things or blocking things in the registry ourselves. the lack of autonomy for the average user in tech is seriously concerning

these sneaky "AI" updates to W11 are troubling because people who work under strict NDAs are at serious risk without even being notified. and who is going to be held accountable if something goes wrong? certainly not microsoft, which feels comfortable putting its users at risk over and over again

Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests Gaming Copilot, rolling out now to Windows 11, adds a new attack surface to Windows.

If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on

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Examining Twilight Princess’ Biggest Mistranslation The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is one of my favourite entries in the franchise, not least for its charming English translation. Unfortunately, it’s ill-famed amongst the series’…

This month, I looked at one of the most infamous mistranslations in Zelda history. In comparing the English translation with the original Japanese script, I hoped to uncover what may have led to this unfortunate error and how it might have been avoided.

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Magic, warmth, good cheer, love? Holiday hijinks, the spookiness of the longest night, the mysticism of the solstice? Whether it's a story that uses a winter holiday (including New Year's Eve) or a winter-themed tale, join this bundle of trans-centered holiday stories. ELIGIBILITY Who: Trans and nonbinary writers 🏳️‍⚧️ Existing and New Stories:: Already have a wintery story with a trans or nonbinary character or will write a story that is published on Itchio by November 24th to join this bundle? 📖 Themes: A winter holiday or winter setting. Stories may be any genre from retelling winter fables with trans and nonbinary characters to romances to the spookier, fantastic, or more mystical side of the winter (cryptids, anyone?) As long as your story contains a winter setting of some kind and trans and nonbinary characters, please apply! ⚧️ Length: Minimum 5,000 words to full-length novels ⌨️ Price: To be determined by number of stories included 🌲 ❄️❄️❄️ New Stories Must be Published on Itch.io by 11:59 PM Central US Monday November 24 ❄️❄️❄️ Bundle Will Run: December 1 - 21 Let's make this season merry and trans! Hosted by Em Haeger (Moth from Galaxy Moth Press)

Who wants to cozy up this winter to spicy, spooky, or fantastic winter tales with #trans and #nonbinary characters?

Well, me for one.

Calling trans and nonbinary #writers. Submit now to join my Itchio bundle of Trans Holiday Magic! Existing or new stories welcome.

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we've entered a dark era where hidive's janky-ass selection of like six very ungood fonts and small handful of colors now makes for the best anime-watching experience on the market, for all of ~3 new shows they pick up each season

Here’s the final part of our four part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how there’s not enough money in the world to pay for OpenAI’s $1 trillion 4-year burn, and how retail investors are at risk as a result.

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We make this announcement with saddened hearts, and we thank you for supporting Manga Planet all these years.

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Closure of Manga Planet’s Digital Platform on March 31st, 2026

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Four frames comic about two types of Isekai I found and read lately. The first frame shows a young man with a sword. He says: "My name is Josh Itcantbehelped and I used to be a loser before a car crash brought me to a world where I am a god and half the population is made of SLAVE CATGIRLS". The second frame shows him crying and clenching his fist, with many a cat behind him, wearing bikinis. He says "To make it here I guess I have no choice but to own as many catgirls as I can...how tragic...". The third frame shows another character from another type of Isekai. She's a woman with a fluffy dress. She says "My name is Elise Robespierre and after being hit by a truck of terminal cancer I am now in my favorite 900 pages novel. With many a hot man.". The fourth frame shows her giving a board presentation to citizens, with graphs and pictures of plants on it. She says: "Hello citizens. This is my plan to modernize the agricultural system and prevent any further plague by creating medicine [...] taxes which ..." the text becomes unreadable as she keeps talking to her captive audience.

Been trying to read some isekai lately.

The response to this piece has been incredible. Huge thanks to all the translators and localizers who shared their stories.

I'm now planning the next two editions: First, if you're a healthcare worker—a nurse, therapist, tech, admin, doctor—and AI has impacted your job, I'd love to hear from you.

Went down a small rabbit hole because I was curious where 尻餅 comes from... to think it actually came from a practice involving mochi this whole time? and here I was thinking the Japanese people of old thought butts were soft like mochi lol 😭

I translated the Demon Slayer and TO BE HERO X articles for this year's issue of Crunchyroll x Newtype 🥰 If you're around at AX or ANYC, you can pick up a copy for free!

I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it:

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Seeing a lot of racist pinkwashing bullshit about Muslims and homosexuality and it’s a good time to share how I was on the gay marriage beat for a decade and racist gays never believed me when I shared how US Muslims favored equal LGBT rights (52%) over Christian evangelicals (34%)!

Japanese Slang Review – June 2025 And it’s time for the sixth Japanese slang review of 2025 (see all prior posts here)! In these posts I deep dive into the world of Japanese terms you probably won’t see in a textbook, l…

It's time for the June #Japanese slang review! Click the link below to learn about

好きな惣菜発表ドラゴン
エッホエッホ
まずは、ありがとう
きょコ
羽ばたいてるね
ケチャ
マジマジマジンガー
ぽれ・ぽまえら
私信
バチギレ案件

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China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica At least 30 writers have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer tells the BBC.

'Every word has come back to haunt me': China cracks down on women who write gay erotica

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sometimes I think "damn I've spent too much time on the internet" but then it comes in handy for random things like this

釣り動画に興味ない
..............bait used to be believable
#amtranslating

A screenshot of Twitter's (sorry) What's Happening feed, showing three trending names, in descending order: Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Char.

didn't even realise he was running

Woohoo!

Screenshot of the description of You Can't Bluff the Sharp-Eyed Sister in the K MANGA app

K MANGA is finally available in Europe, which means I can finally check with my own eyes that I'm credited in the digital release of You Can't Bluff the Sharp-Eyed Sister 😭🙏 A win for me and manga accessibility!

This reminds me of how early in my career I had to make a conscious effort to phase out the "X, but Y, so Z" sentence pattern in my English writing, which showed up a lot thanks to how often I saw it happen in Japanese. It's clunky and unwieldy, but if I wasn't paying attention I'd still be doing it

Game Localization for Devs Are you a game developer interested in learning more about how localization works? Check out these articles on game localization for devs.

Indie devs and curious nerds!

I've written a few articles for IGDA on localization for games, including scheduling, how to ensure good quality localization, and a guide on LQA.
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As a side note, I feel like "translation is magic" is severely underselling this book--that is, a fantastically crafted dark academia tragedy with a lot to say about privilege, wealth, and colonialism. Translation simply facilitates the movements of these things more easily in the world of Babel

Languages are kaleidoscopes of lived experiences. How can you claim to be a good translator if you don't at least try to have an open mind and understand the lived experiences of the writers whose ideas you are taking and reinterpreting into another language

Finished reading Babel the other day and while there's a LOT that can be said about it, one thing I liked is that the main character loves easily and loves hard. A translation will never 100% capture its source, but without love for the source you won't be able to respect and convey its ideas either

Huge win for the #TranslatorsInTheCredits movement - the PC version of Stellar Blade's credit roll now includes all contributors! After Days Gone Remastered, this is the second time SIE properly credits everyone. @locincredits.bsky.social

I know my games industry mutuals are already well aware of this (and suitably annoyed about the importance of it), but a game receiving an "overwhelmingly positive" reception on Steam (95% positive reviews) gives it a major, major buff to visibility. The Hundred Line is currently sitting at 88%.