#actual written instructions!!!!!

[overelegantstranger]

video tutorial this video tutorial that. i am begging you to understand that written instructions are also an accessibility need.

[tiffanyachings]

it would have been very beautiful. camilla would have had to cook (horrible bone soup)

[radjerda]

Some portraits of some fancy elves from Gondolin

Ecthelion and Glorfindel deserved some more elaborate designs than my usual, and how can I draw one without the other?

[mildmayfoxe]

i did my little 25 min stretch & exercise routine TWO days in a row everybody clap

[melatien]

tiny yoichi (unwillingly) lures out soldiers by being his helplessness little self so his brother can strike

[kirby-the-gorb]

if you eventually want to see the crochet lace work I struggled all day on fixing I am now sporadically posting my crafts on @sleepy-princess-craftery

[epicdogymoment]

kitty crochet..

[awkward-teabag]

I have to wonder how many people celebrating AI translation also complain about "broken English" and how obvious it is something was Google translated from another language without a fluent English speaker involved to properly clean up the translation/grammar.

Because I bet it's a lot.

I know why execs are all for it—AI is the new buzzword and it lets them cut jobs thus "save" money and not have to worry about pesky labour laws when one employs humans—but everyone else?

There was some outcry when Crunchyroll fired many of their translators in favour of AI translation (with some people to "clean up the AI's work") but I can't help but think that was in part because it was Japanese-to-English and personally affected them. Same when Duolingo fired many of their translators in favour of LLM translation. Meanwhile companies are firing staff when it's English to another language and there's this idea that that's fine or not as big a deal because English is "easy" to translate and/or because people don't think of how it will impact people in non-English countries.

Also it doesn't affect native English speakers so it doesn't get much headway in the news cycle or online anyway because so much of the dominant media is from English-speaking countries and English-speakers dominate social media.

But different languages have different grammar structures that LLMs don't do, and I grew up on "jokes" about people speaking in "broken English" and mocking people who use the wrong word when it was clearly a literal translation but the meaning was obvious long before LLMs were a thing, too. In fact, the specific way a character spoke broken English has been a way to denote their native tongue for decades, usually in a racist way.

Then Google translate came out and "Google-translated English" became an insult for people and criticism of companies because it was clearly wonky to native speakers. Even now, LLMs—which are heavily trained on English compared to other languages—don't have a natural output so native English speakers can clock LLM-generated text if it's longer than a sentence or two.

But, for whatever reason, it's not seen as a problem when it goes the other way because fuck non-English readers or people who want to read in their native tongue I guess.

[heartual]

had such a good experience with surgery today i can’t even fully explain

[tam--lin]

im having :) such :) a neurotypical :) day :)

[isfjmel-phleg]

😐

[mikeylivesattheend]

It's so weird knowing a game. Like it can't know you back.

[lesbiancocksucker]

WHY AM I CORRECTING AN AI ABOUT A REFERENCE IT GAVE ME I HATE THIS ASSIGNMENT

[fab-wolf-in-the-gloom]

Learn to cook your friend's favorite food. Do a close reading of the book your friend wrote their thesis on then read it again. Learn your friend's heritage language with them. Offer to be a live in aunt for your friend's kids. Drive 14 hours both ways to keep your friend company for a few days when they don't want to be alone. Pick where you wanna start your career based on where your friend is going to grad school. Drive out of state to see a friend's drag show on a school night. Build your schedule around movie nights. Have a day bed instead of a couch. Learn to sew by reverse engineering a purse your friend was sad to realize that they wouldn't be able to buy for themself, but this one in their favorite colors. Hand deliver Valentines (and get frustrated when people insist all expressions of platonic love on February 14th are insincere). Find ways to care for people that make you feel good. Devote yourself in ways that make you feel alive.

[the-n3w3st-g1rl-g1rl]

there are multiple things in Undertale that the narration describes as "illegible" and I just wonder if maybe Frisk or the narrator are really bad at reading handwritten messages

[lillybean730]

just had the restart this part like 4 times i hate crochet