Mastodawn

@wiert @janeishly @inthehands I used to be a professional translator with two university degrees in the field. I quit my 15-year translation career a few years ago because idiots think "AI" translations are good enough and just need a low-cost pass by a "translator".

I saw quality drop considerably across the board, and can guarantee you: this is going to get people hurt and killed. A bad translation in a TV manual is annoying. A bad translation in medicine (my speciality at the time) or complex machinery docs can be deadly.

People are going to find out the hard way.

Rodolfo Canet May 7

Veo la reacción de un comentarista musical en youtube a su primera audición de “Stairway to Heaven”. Le falta caerse de culo pero, pienso yo, ¿cómo se pone un tío a hablar de música en las redes sin haber escuchado nunca “Stairway to Heaven”? No me extraña que la primera parte le suene a “western”…

Rodolfo Canet May 7

Terry Godier May 5

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn’t dying.

A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

Terry Godier

Rodolfo Canet Mar 30

cobalt Mar 30

Something for friends in Scotland! I’ve followed so many this last year—Glasgow,architecture,history, geology, landscape photography, and more. I hope you like this screenshot from Reddit and a link if you want to read the story from OP, credited. #Scotland #Scottish, #Geology #RockHound #Art #Map
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/gzzjLRNZe9

Rodolfo Canet Mar 13

Hannah Grace Mar 13

#EU institutions and bodies that are on #Mastodon:

🏦 European Commission @EUCommission
📚 European Court of Justice @Curia
📑 European Court of Auditors @EUauditors
💾European Data Protection Supervisor @EDPS

Rodolfo Canet Mar 3

Desde que tengo uso de razón he tenido fobia a romper cosas y a hacer daño a la gente incluso cuando tendría alguna razón para ello; noto una sensación de disgusto íntimo. Quizás sea esa una razón más por la cual las imágenes de las guerras me afectan tanto. ¿Qué nos pasa a los humanos que tenemos esta afición a la violencia sin límite, a la destrucción como herramienta de poder? Incluso en sociedades supuestamente avanzadas no me parece que evolucionemos a mejor suficientemente rápido.

Rodolfo Canet Mar 1

Dwight Silverman Mar 1

Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.

I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.

Pls boost.

Rodolfo Canet Feb 24

CarveHerName Feb 24

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Rodolfo Canet Feb 15

Lariza Elliot Feb 15

No todo debe volverse complejo. Ir más lejos no siempre es pensar mejor. A veces insistir es diluir la idea. La precisión tiene más peso que la abundancia. La palabra justa es suficiente.

Rodolfo Canet Feb 15

Redes Libres Feb 14

#presentación Redes Libres es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro cuyo propósito es impulsar las redes libres, garantizar su sostenibilidad a largo plazo y facilitar la colaboración entre los diferentes proveedores de redes libres.

Integrada inicialmente por https://neopaquita.es, https://fotolibre.social y https://masto.es.

Aprende más sobre nuestra iniciativa en la página y blog de Redes Libres https://redeslibres.net/2026-02-14-presentacion