Orator, Thinker, Networker, Tech & geopolitics commentator, 13th President of International Federation of Translators FIT (2014-17), Tanguero, Opera lover.
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From Enshittification
"Nearly every business, agency and family outside China's sphere of influence is totally dependent on cloud software provided by a handful of companies, within Trump's reach"
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📢 Job Opportunity – Université de Montréal (Canada)
The Department of Linguistics and Translation is recruiting a full-time Assistant Professor in Terminology.
🔗 Job details: buff.ly/wCSyaNZ
On “translation” and misinformation
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New Book: English-to-Chinese Film Translation. A Corpus-Based Comparative Study
By: Feng Cong (ed.)
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A boy prepares for his father’s return, sorting the world into good fruit and rotten things.
This #TranslationTuesday, read Francesca Mattei’s “Codling Moth,” tr. Bea Guarnieri, where a homecoming lays bare the damage that festers beneath the surface: tinyurl.com/uekzewez
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This is one of the most important pieces of social science on human and AI interaction that I’ve seen in some time. Experts follow agentic advice the vast majority of the time (causally), but only a tiny fraction credit the agent—majority think they came to decision on their own volition.
Reminds me of the classic Nisbett and Wilson study on people following outside influence without realizing it
“ But as more work is handed to AI—including AI safety research—these judgment calls are the main levers for people's own values to influence outcomes.
If people defer to AI without noticing, then "human in the loop" might provide less assurance than people expect.”
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Seid dabei, wenn sich ab dem 10.11. #Webinar alles um diskriminierungskritische Sprache dreht!
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Join us for a conversation about Three Stories of Forgetting (Macmillan Publishers 2025) alongside Portuguese author Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and translator Alison Entrekin at our 25th online event in November. For details and registration: pintbookclub.com/event-detai…
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📢 Job Opportunity – University of Geneva
The Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI) is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Translation into French.
📍 University of Geneva, Switzerland
📌 Application deadline: 30 November 2026
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New Publication: Perspectives on Translation and Censorship in 20th-Century Europe. Edited By Marian Panchón-Hidalgo
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New Publication: Beyond the Bedside
A Narrative Model of Knowledge Translation in Reproductive Health by Eivind Engebretsen & Mona Baker
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"Our ability to imagine the future has been captured by the rich and powerful. Each of these prognostications suggests that, by virtue of their ownership of advanced technology, these leaders have privileged knowledge of what may be coming for us all" ➡️
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"the AI companies, run by messianic TESCREALists with visions of the Singularity inaugurating a new epoch in cosmic history, are unilaterally and hence undemocratically imposing this technology on the rest of us, with potentially devastating consequences for everyone" @xriskology
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AI insiders think industry outsiders don’t understand the "complexities they’re facing. But commonsense morality is commonsense for a reason: It tracks intuitions that are usually right...and trains us to be appropriately skeptical of huge, counterintuitive bets to the contrary"
ALT https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/507875/anthropic-ipo-stop-ai-race-safety
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📢 ReMeTIS Course 4
The University of Geneva's Faculty of Translation and Interpreting offers an online course on corpus methods in Translation and Interpreting Studies
📅 11 November – 18 December 2026
🌐 Fully online | English | 2 ECTS
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Enrique Vila-Matas has been awarded Spain’s Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas. The lifetime prize celebrates his fiction that unsettles reality and imagination. His 1985 novel about a book-summary machine presages the slop that rots us all now...
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"I hope that English-language readers will be pulled along by the strangeness and musicality of Ronsino’s prose. The author is playing jazz, and it was a pleasure to follow his lead."
– Mallory Craig-Kuhn, Translator of Hudson, coming soon!
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