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これからおもしろくなるかなーって見つづけたドラマがそのまま最終回になったりもして

@DavidDavid @newsguyusaSteve Herman Steve's been posting daily on the Fediverse for years, covering news on every front. I don't think he'd blow that reputation on purpose for one chance to unfairly smear the Japanese nuclear power industry.

"operating systems MUST be able to verify your age!!! to protect the children!!! meanwhile here's Meta's new pervert glasses to record people without their knowledge, brought to you by the company paying money tribute to the pedophile king"

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GDC 2016: “Math for Game Programmers: Rotational Joint Limits in Quaternion Space” by Gino van den Bergen of Dtecta https://gdcvault.com/play/1023558/Math-for-Game-Programmers-Rotational

This presentation had a lot of background, whereas the actual technique was presented pretty quickly.

The technique is:

1. Reduce the 4-dimensional space of quaternions to 3D by just dropping the real component (you can always get it back because there are only 3 degrees of freedom in a rotation quaternion)

1/n

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@twobraids/116212348433066552

For anyone who missed it, the keynote in question is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s

Maybe give it a listen.

I'm writing this in English.

Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that mistranslation would fall on me. It always does.

This is the thing Eugen Rochko's post misses, despite its good intentions.

@GargronEugen Rochko argues that LLMs are no substitute for human translators, and that people who think otherwise don't actually rely on translation. He's right about some of this. A machine-translated novel is not the same as one rendered by a skilled human translator. But the argument rests on a premise that only makes sense from a certain position: that translation is primarily about quality, about the aesthetic experience of reading literature in another language.

For many of us, translation is first about access.

The professional translation market doesn't scale to cover everything. It never has. What gets translated—and into which languages—follows the logic of cultural hegemony. Works from dominant Western languages flow outward, translated into everything. Works from East Asian languages trickle in, selectively, slowly, on someone else's schedule. The asymmetry isn't incidental; it's structural.

@GargronEugen Rochko notes, fairly, that machine translation existed decades before LLMs. But this is only half the story, and which half matters depends entirely on which languages you're talking about. European language pairs were reasonably serviceable with older tools. Korean–English, Japanese–English, Chinese–English? Genuinely usable translation for these pairs arrived with the LLM era. Treating “machine translation” as a monolithic technology with a uniform history erases the experience of everyone whose language sits far from the Indo-European center.

There's also something uncomfortable in the framing of the button-press thought experiment: “I would erase LLMs even if it took machine translation with it.” For someone whose language has always been peripheral, that button looks very different. It's not an abstract philosophical position; it's a statement about whose access to information is expendable.

I want to be clear: none of this is an argument that LLMs are good, or that the harms @GargronEugen Rochko describes aren't real. They are. But a critique of AI doesn't become more universal by ignoring whose languages have always been on the margins. If anything, a serious critique of AI's political economy should be more attentive to those asymmetries, not less.

The fact that I'm writing this in English, carefully, so it won't be misread—that's not incidental to my argument. That is my argument.

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오늘은 이것저것 많이 하긴 했는데 뭔가 아쉽네

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Wir alle wissen, dass „jeden Stein umdrehen” niemals bedeuten wird „Aktionär-Ausschüsse verringern” oder „Geschäftsführer-Gehälter kürzen”. Nope. 50.000 gestrichene Stellen bis 2030. Dankesehr.

태양 만세!! \[T]/

주님이신 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님🍝께서는 악인에게나 선인에게나 당신의 해가 떠오르게 하신다.

2026-03-12T06:43:00+09:00

全画面を覆う広告、早く滅んでほしい

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おはようございます

Big Tech is at it again.

Some of you might have seen this already. Google has announced a new policy for Android app developers, which would require them to seek Google’s permission if they want to distribute their apps outside of the Google Play Store (on their own website or on alternative app stores). This would entail:

1) agreeing to their terms and conditions
2) paying a fee
3) uploading a government ID

Which is wrong on so many levels. Nobody should be forced to register with Google if they don’t want to use their services.

In doing so they would be extending their gatekeeping (tentacles) into distribution channels where they’re just not a legitimate authority.

At Vivaldi, we believe you have the right to run whatever software you want on a device you own. That’s why we’ve co-signed this open letter, together with other 53 organisations, requesting Google to back off on the proposed policy before it enters into force.

(Plus, they have have a pretty cool logo 😄)

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

おはようございます。

本人が事実を知ろうとしてないだろうし、周りも（都合の悪い内容であれば尚更）彼の耳に入れないようにしているのだろう

【分析】トランプ氏、イランで何が起こっているかさえ知らなかった？ - CNN.co.jp https://www.cnn.co.jp/usa/35244897.html

On The Need For Understanding https://lobste.rs/s/wxk0ka #education #practices #programming
https://blog.information-superhighway.net/on-the-need-for-understanding

Iran warns U.S. tech firms could become targets as war expands

Link: https://www.wired.me/story/war-on-big-tech-iran-names-israeli-linked-us-firms-as-potential-targets
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341007

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I don't know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/ai-abstraction/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

“even in 1980”

凄まじいな……さすがに中受離職はやり過ぎだと思う

「中受離職」のリアル…深夜のマル付け×フルタイムに限界？当事者「どっちかしか出来なかった」「同僚にもったいないと言われたが」慶応大教授「子どもが小さい時の時間投資効果は大きいが…」（ABEMA TIMES） - Yahoo!ニュース https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/4786b75271be4d5d959d9e177e660c29969acebb?page=1

みなさまおはようございます。
今日もみなさまにとってお健やかに素敵な1日がおとずれますように。​​​​

今日もよろしくお願いします。m( )m​​

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RE: https://misskey.io/notes/ajopgcnxn1dj05mo

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どうせ TACO るんだったら早く終わらせろよ

トランプ氏、「手負いの獣」イランに「TACOる」兆候　写真5枚　国際ニュース：AFPBB News https://www.afpbb.com/articles/-/3626046

WordPress のオートアップデートが昨日くらいから立て続けに通知が来るんやが😆

Do you think I want to do this?

Do you think I want to be this angry about where technology is going? Screaming every day about a barren future the elites want more than life itself?

I used to love computers. I loved creating with them. I want to again.

This technology steals joy. Don't let it.

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X is selling existing users' handles

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340754

今 nauzo[.]me はオランダにおる。

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i mew into the void and many people respond :3 it’s nice. thank mew for responding to me, i appreciate it

おはよ

Where do you meet the people who move the Open Social Web forward? All without traveling? At #FediForum of course!

Join us April 28-30, 2026, online, scheduled so people anywhere from central Europe and Africa to the Americas can participate without losing too much sleep.

https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

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Big Tech is at it again.

Some of you might have seen this already. Google has announced a new policy for Android app developers, which would require them to seek Google’s permission if they want to distribute their apps outside of the Google Play Store (on their own website or on alternative app stores). This would entail:

1) agreeing to their terms and conditions
2) paying a fee
3) uploading a government ID

Which is wrong on so many levels. Nobody should be forced to register with Google if they don’t want to use their services.

In doing so they would be extending their gatekeeping (tentacles) into distribution channels where they’re just not a legitimate authority.

At Vivaldi, we believe you have the right to run whatever software you want on a device you own. That’s why we’ve co-signed this open letter, together with other 53 organisations, requesting Google to back off on the proposed policy before it enters into force.

(Plus, they have have a pretty cool logo 😄)

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now

Link: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dow-anthropic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340071

For all the people saying that Grammarly should be sued over its "expert review" feature, here is the Grammarly class action lawsuit, alleging violation of the right to privacy and the right of publicity: https://prf-law.com/current-cases/class-action-alleges-that-grammarly-misappropriated-the-names-of-journalists-and-authors-through-its-expert-review

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same

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