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  One thing that completely sucks about being a translator right now is that agencies offer me jobs "editing" machine translations (MTs) for well below half the rate I would have charged to just do the translation from scratch, even though the MT is terrible, needs major formatting changes throughout, and would require well more than half the work it would have taken to just translate the whole thing from scratch myself. In fact, doing it myself would probably be easier and produce bette...

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  I really can't even think of anything to say about this. Fucking hell... https://www.kcur.org/news/2026-07-28/missouri-couple-shot-dead-in-guatemala-after-local-ice-stop-led-to-deportations #FuckICE #fascism #deportation #racism #Guatemala #murder

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  New details on a very active neo-nazi in Northern California. There's a lot of detail here, but this is how it starts: Arron Jacob Cambridge, aka “Scipio”, is a neo-nazi from Elk Grove who has been active with multiple white supremacist groups in the Sacramento and San Francisco Bay areas. Cambridge is a member of “White Lives Matter” California, and NorCal Active Club, a nazi fight club connected to Robert Rundo’s W2R/RAM network. Cambridge has also participated in joint actions with t...

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  From the article: Vice President JD Vance’s ties to the far-right have been well-reported—from writing a promotional blurb in a book from Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec (who has mocked the Holocaust and repeatedly used the neo-Nazi “1488” dogwhistle) to his reported friendship with neo-monarchist Curtis Yarvin (who has written that there’s “nothing wrong with a military coup" and “jokingly” advocated converting the poor of San Francisco into biodiesel). Vance’s far-right c...

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  Another border regime enforcer has been charged as a sexual predator. Not a lot of details available, and obviously being charged is not the same thing as being guilty. Still, if anyone is going to get the benefit of the doubt in the US, it's a cis white dude who works for fucking Customs and Border Patrol. https://bsky.app/profile/pacantifa.is/post/3mjif52zpxc27 News report here: https://www.kgns.tv/2026/04/12/laredo-border-patrol-agent-arrested-indecent-assault/ #ICE #FuckICE #CBP...

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  From the article: President Trump’s budget request to Congress contains the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years — and buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists. The new center and funding boost represent the implementation of Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), the sweeping federal order I’ve been covering since it was signed last September. Though p...

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  “A high-end hotel in the liberal Texan enclave of Austin is playing host to a conference whose theme is boosting global birth rates, but which will in fact feature racist and eugenicist internet personalities and far-right media figures. “The Natal conference – whose website warns that “by the end of the century, nearly every country on earth will have a shrinking population, and economic systems dependent on reliable growth will collapse” – is scheduled to be held on 1 December at the Line Hot...

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  When a person is afraid to get medical care because immigration enforcement has pushed its way into healthcare facilities, and then that person dies of a treatable illness, then it's fair to say that immigration enforcement at the very least gets a significant portion of the responsibility for that person's death. The autopsy for Jesús Juárez Cruz isn't done, and what specifically killed him remains unknown for the time being. But it's pretty likely that his shou...

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  An interesting, relatively short discussion about using AI chatbots as tools for revitalizing endangered languages. The upshot is that, if it's going to be done at all, it needs to be done very, very carefully and only by or in close collaboration with the community that actually uses a given language. But there are an awful lot of details to work through, and this discussion is really tip-of-the-iceberg level. (Personally, I'm deeply skeptical of the value of "AI&qu...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@LiamOMaraIV/116284628184330948 Today is the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, and I'd really like to encourage people to read up on Operation Condor generally and the Argentine junta in particular. The coup ushered in a seven-year dictatorship under which, in particular, left-wing dissidents were abducted, tortured, and murdered in huge numbers. But if you need a link with the present to make that a bit more salient (particularly in the US...

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  Customs and Border Patrol chief Michael Banks has been accused by six different current and former CBP agents of sex tourism in Colombia and Thailand. How did they know he did it? Because he couldn't stop bragging about it. CBP started its own internal investigation, but it was stopped under Kristi Noem (though the article stops short of explicitly accusing her of quashing it). https://www.rawstory.com/michael-banks-border-patrol/ #CBP #MichaelBanks #KristiNoem #BorderPatrol #ICE #Fuc...

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  SPLC has uncovered the legal names of various pseudonymous authors for the right-wing "satirical" news website The Babylon Bee and the closely related site Not the Bee, as well as info about former owner Seth Dillon's other business ventures, all uniformly shady. One of those authors is an English professor at Master's University, a Christian school in Santa Clarita, CA. Another is a high school teacher in Greentown, IN. Yet another is a fitness instructor in A...

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/116270265171372033 Trump has unwittingly stumbled into the power that undermines itself. Graeber would be so proud!