Orator, Thinker, Networker, Tech & geopolitics commentator, 13th President of International Federation of Translators FIT (2014-17), Tanguero, Opera lover.
Joined February 2015
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The latest on The Antidote, on the Aesthetics of AI, the topic of my upcoming TED Talk. Why are most things AI so ugly? What is the architectural legacy of tech titans? Data centers and bunkers. Where is our attempt at beauty?
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My excellent Conversation with Terry Tao: conversationswithtyler.com/e…, and not just about AI.
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When #AI #translation fails diplomacy: Japan's 🇯🇵 METI Minister calls out @X after @grok repeatedly hallucinates and swaps foreign officials' names in his translated posts.
#AItranslation #LanguageProcessing #GrokAI
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“We no longer see Nepali literature as something confined by geographical boundaries.”
Rishi Ram Adhikari, founder of Kitab Jatra, discusses bringing Nepali writers to international audiences through literary festivals, translation, and cultural exchange.
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It was great to speak to WIRED about the AI risks that actually concern me as a safety engineer. I'm known for my work in defense, but nuclear safety, something I worked extensively on prior, is actually at risk due to an unprecedented push to integrate faulty LLMs within them.
Since September I've been working on an in-depth feature for @WIRED on AI safety, asking experts about the very real risks and mostly overblown threats of loss-of-control AI scenarios, and what the hell we're all supposed to do about it. wired.com/story/the-ai-safet…
Nothing beats being there in person and speaking the local lingo
Cite this next someone asks you to do something remotely
RT @EleanorOlcott @zijing_wu with thanks
The FT went on the ground to unpack how a financier couple operating out of a 1920s Shanghai villa morphed into AI cloud titans, touting wife’s connection to Nvidia. The story gets stranger the deeper you look.
Alice Huang’s tangled web of connections: as.ft.com/r/ebbe04ee-b655-48…
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When checks and processes are just #tickbox and #token
RT @EleanorOlcott for her excellent reporting
This all reveals an eternal truth: a large chunk of the male population are singularly terrible at asking women questions.
There were so many glaring red flags in her background that some basic questions would have revealed.
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𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha: Seiya Tanase reviews Zhang Yueran's 𝐶𝑜𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑛 (World Editions, 2026), trans. Jeremy Tiang. "In the translator’s note that follows the novel, Tiang describes Zhang’s post-1980s generation as inhabiting an 'in-between space' that..."
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🇸🇮 Nearly 30 years of literary #translator training at risk in Slovenia
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via @ChytomoE
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Translated fiction sales in the UK have risen by 36% in three years. Andrew Dickson explores the readers, independent publishers, and literary prizes behind the growing appetite for stories from around the world.
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Police say they're assessing how to use emerging technology after report of 'risky' AI use
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Findet im StarTransit #Webinar am 19.11. heraus, was Ihre Augen für eine gesunde Sehkraft brauchen und was Sie dafür tun können! bdue-wbfv.de/w6883 #xl8 /lf
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Your Guide to International Careers | Open Positions at the UN, EU and Think-Tanks in Europe | The Ultimate Guide to Getting a Job at the UN theunbrief.substack.com/p/yo…
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Why is the Bible translatable?
From the Global Bible Translations Now at Our FingerTIPs podcast with the remarkable Dru Johnson of The Biblical Mind about Translation Insights & Perspectives
See more at youtu.be/qddJoPICzM0?si=0UfT… or at link in bio
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"Inoue’s literature almost invariably focusses on the smallest, tenderest, and perhaps most beautifully confusing of human actions": translator J. Martin Homan on the story by Yasushi Inoue in this week's issue. newyorker.com/books/this-wee…
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The @EU_Commission 🇪🇺 opens a EUR 10m funding call for #multilingual #AI 🤖 media infrastructure incorporating #translation 🌐 and multilingual content distribution, with applications due in February 2027. 📅
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2026 Translating Europe Forum (In-person + Online)
“Language professionals matter: Adding value in a changing industry”
Brussels🇧🇪🇪🇺: @EU_Commission, 11-13 November.
Free registration: translation.ec.europa.eu/new…
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Just back from the conference «Peace and Literature» in Amed/Diyarbakir. I proposed the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights as a reference for the present dialogue for a process of peace.
@institutkurde @KurdPen @PENCatala @pen_int @BerivanDosky
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Yasushi Inoue’s fiction turns its attention to lives at the margins of history.
Translator J. Martin Holman discusses the late Japanese writer’s tender portraits of ordinary people and his work bringing The Death of a Certain Woman to English.
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