What Google Translate Gets Wrong

Election Disinformation in Different Languages is a Big Problem in the U.S.

And it’s driving a wedge between voters in non-English communities Mis- and disinformation about elections predate the endless scroll of modern social media services. [1] Yet easy access to online information channels and amplification tools enable false narratives to spread at a massive scale. When false narratives are combined with data voids and unique cultural […]

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

The Lexicon Interop Problem - anuj's leaflets

Competing AT platforms are using different lexicons. Should we be worried?

AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers | Stanford HAI

Don’t put faith in detectors that are “unreliable and easily gamed,” says scholar.

Mozilla now only seems to speak using creepy, gibberish lunatic language.

In nearly 30 years of using Netscape and Firefox, I've never had any problem understanding Mozilla's written communication. Sadly, that has now drastically changed. I am sad to say that, despite being an intelligent, adult native English-speaker, I now find myself in the sad position of being incapa...

EsDictionary - The EsDeeKid Translator

Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k

For fuck's sake

Is Todd Blanche’s Nomination in Trouble?

This afternoon, MSNOW’s Mychael Schnell tweeted: “Sen.

Experience Localization: What Non-English Communities Actually Need from ATProto - Nightflight

A specification request from the second-largest language community on Bluesky

Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026)

On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech.

"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism

"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.