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translation is impossoble you cant do it

#this is true i (almost) have a degree in translation trust me #languages #EDIT i am now in possession of a degree in translation and i can say that translation is in fact impossoble

first time driving in like four years i sweated amounts of sweats i didn't know were in me

#personal

classicalcanvas

Skull (1887) by Vincent van Gogh

#/art

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AIRPLANE! (1980) dir. David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker

#films

notahorseindisguise

everytime i wear an outfit like this i think about this tweet

desolationlesbian

farcille isn't "toxic yuri." nothing remotely toxic about them, they both treat each other with a great deal of care and affection and respect. just because marcille is willing to do forbidden necromancy and arguably cannibalism for her wife doesn't make her toxic that's just what you do for a woman with broad shoulders

#nods sagely #dungeon meshi

darkandstormyranger

finally some relatable content on ig

tsscat

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

tsscat

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.

#/ref #/link

redstonedust

learning languages is fun because in some areas youll be like "oh wow theres one word for this thing thats covered by 20 different words in english? thats so easy and convinient!" and then in other areas you'll be like "what the fuck do you mean you use different numbers depending on what kind of object youre counting. im going to kill myself."

#korean....