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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee@hollo.social
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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isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said.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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Neil Brown @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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*Edit*: here at least, I am clearly not isolated!

Perhaps I am increasingly isolated in holding this position, but I have no interest in reading "AI"-generated slop.

I love reading.

I read people's blogs and toots and whatever *because people wrote them* and I want to read their own thoughts and opinions.

I buy books, and read numerous different authors. I like finding new authors, bringing new ideas, styles etc.

Same with "AI" images. I'd prefer no image at all.

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Phil Stooke @PhilStooke@mastodon.social
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Here is a bit more detail on the ESAS lunar exploration sites. Today the emphasis is on the south pole, but ESAS suggested a series of landings in other places. We call missions like that 'sorties'. Apollo was all sorties, but they did, early on, consider a fixed base instead, though not at the pole. Vision planning was a mix of sorties and a south polar base or outpost. Here are 6 sortie sites. No. 4, Bode, has been suggested for a Chinese crewed landing.

Six of the ESAS lunar exploration sites.They are in order, the south pole, the middle of the south pole-Aitken basin, the Aristarchus plateau, Rima Bode, Mare Tranquillitatis and the north pole.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze@federate.social
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Also, it's simply too late to make any major changes to election systems this year. Primaries have already started, and the general election is in eight months.

I think it's reasonable to suspect that the play here is simply to set the stage for casting doubt on election outcomes that they regard as unfavorable.

Matt Blaze @mattblaze@federate.social
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Shared by Joe McLaughlin

Once again:

- There are security weaknesses in parts of US election systems, particularly those that use paperless touchscreen voting machines, and we should absolutely address them.

- Fortunately, there is no evidence to date that these technical weaknesses have ever been exploited to alter a US election outcome.

- We know how to secure elections! Paper ballots, optical scanners, post-election risk-limiting audits.

- There's been a great deal of progress, but there's still work to do.

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(っㆆᴗㆆ)っ(ΦωΦ) @gev@fedibird.com
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烏克蘭總統澤倫斯基對日本提供防衛裝備寄予厚望，還計畫未來簽訂與保密等有關的《防衛裝備品和技術轉移協定》。

獨家：日政府擬引進烏克蘭制無人機強化防禦體系 tchina.kyodonews.net/articles/

獨家：日政府擬引進烏克蘭制無人機強化防禦體系

　　【共同社3月15日電】據多名相關人士14日透露，日本政府已開始探討在自衛隊引進烏克蘭製造的攻擊型無人機。烏克蘭在對抗俄羅斯進攻的過程中，重視實戰經驗，提高了小型無人機等無人機的研發與製造技術。日本希望引進該國無人機能有助於強化防禦體系，將在與其他國家產品的性能進行比較後作出最終判斷。烏克蘭總統澤倫斯基對日本提供防衛裝備寄予厚望，還計畫未來簽訂與保密等有關的《防衛裝備品和技術轉移協定》。

tchina.kyodonews.net · 共同網

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:rss: DevelopersIO @dev_classmethod@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com
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ECS FargateでPostfixコンテナを動作させてAmazon SESのSMTPインターフェイスへSMTPリレーをしてみた
dev.classmethod.jp/articles/ec

ECS FargateでPostfixコンテナを動作させてAmazon SESのSMTPインターフェイスへSMTPリレーをしてみた | DevelopersIO

ECS FargateとPostfixで高信頼なSMTPサーバーを動作させる場合は工夫が必要

dev.classmethod.jp · クラスメソッド発「やってみた」系技術メディア | DevelopersIO

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange
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American education on geography is woefully terrible on everywhere outside North America, but I think Singapore was one of the places done the worst disservice by my learning. Literally all I learned about an amazing, old cultural place was you’d get beaten for chewing gum.

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라쿤 덱스터 @raccoondaxter.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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전쟁이 진행 중인 곳에 군을 보낸다는건 그냥 해외로 워킹홀리데이 다녀오는 그런게 아닙니다. 참전한다는 것이고, 그건 어떤 식으로든 손에 피를 묻히는 행위에 동조한다는 뜻입니다. 민간인들이 수만킬로미터 밖에서 전쟁에 대해서 가십처럼 소비하는 것과는 그 무게가 다릅니다. 물론, 싸워야 할 때도 있습니다. 당연히 있죠. 그래서 전쟁은 대의와 명분이 중요합니다. 그런데 이번 이란 전쟁은 그런게 있나요? 이번 전쟁은 과거 이라크전만큼의 명분도 없습니다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:de27rm6eyuf5ez6gmvjdmilq/post/3mh3a3ehnfk2k

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Hacker News 50 @hn50@social.lansky.name
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Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories

Link: terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/03
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories

Mathematical research traditionally involves a small number of professional mathematicians working closely on difficult problems. However, I have long believed that there is a complementary way to …

terrytao.wordpress.com · What's new

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tante @tante@tldr.nettime.org
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RE: social.coop/@cwebber/116217477

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

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habby입니다 @habby@serafuku.moe
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사실개강주 이미지나서 상관없겠지만
그리고대학신입생 탐라에 없는거같지만...

미대는 시디는 lg그램 또는 맥추천합니다
3d는 레노버나 게이밍노트북. 데스크탑

절대 한성과 삼성을 사지마
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혦 @hirmeyrabbit.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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inti-fada.github.io/campaign-bac... 왜 굳이 사람 쫓아내고 과일재배를 하는지…. 아니면 원래 팔레스타인 사람이 재배하던 땅을 쓰는지는 모르겠지만….. 그리고 농축액이 가격적인 이점이 있는걸까… 굳이…. 저 먼데서?

🧐 이스라엘산 들어갔나요?

🧐 이스라엘산 들어갔나요?

설마 아까 마신 음료수에도 이스라엘산 과즙이?

inti-fada.github.io

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instantiatethis @instantiatethis@keyboards.social
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3/5 had purry pet/cuddle times. Other two also got pets but Annushka had some zoomies and then went for bed over the heater and Katherine rarely purrs. I stayed up late to give them ample time for individual attentions. All but Annushka claimed to be starving even though I had photo evidence from my mom that they were fed.

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