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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Henry Líu retweeted
𝐍𝐄𝐖@asiancha𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 Gabriel Corsetti on Zev Handel's 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎: "... an accessible and informative book that thoroughly debunks these and other misconceptions about the nature of Chinese writing."
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🇺🇦 The #Ukrainian @UABookInstitute plans to broaden the #Translate Ukraine programme to new markets and recruit international partners to boost #translation and global reach
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My latest review looks at this year's International Booker Prize winner, Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s 'Taiwan Travelogue' (translated by Lin King, review copy courtesy of @scribepub), a book which is not entirely as it seems :)
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AI benchmarks test models in isolation. Instead we should have a "Hybrid Intelligence Index that measures whether a human-machine collaboration leaves the human user sharper or duller over time. That means designing for friction."
@FT @neuraltheory
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Now published in open access! Your one-stop shop for the philosophy of language models. It's the spiritual descendant of our two-part preprint from 2024, fully updated. This should be particularly useful for anyone looking for an entry point into this rapidly growing field.
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🇲🇽 On #translating Manuel Becerra - a poet with interests in cross-border
affinities in poetic history
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🇲🇦 Sufi narratives in #translation: the case of the Moroccan novelist Ahmed Toufiq: a conversation with Roger Allen
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Jun 12
Before ChatGPT, more than 98 per cent of all English-language articles published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half.
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Jun 11
Australian courts 🇦🇺⚖️ are left scrambling for alternatives as major court 🏛️ #transcription vendor @VIQ_Solutions says it will wind down local operations amid a widening scandal ⚠️ over unauthorized access to court #data.
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It had to be this wild poet and artist, Katie Marya, who translated 'Animal Spiral / El gato en el remolino' #CatHistorians #CharcoPress #CaribbeanUtopias Out next week in @CharcoPress Here: charcopress.com/bookstore/an…
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🤖 La #traduction par l’IA : un réflexe risqué
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Upcoming webinar by Prof. Lynne Bowker: USING SCOPING REVIEWS AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS IN TRANSLATION STUDIES RESEARCH
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🤖 AI dictation for #translators: convenience vs. confidentiality
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Jun 9
Dear followers,
Please see this discussion on AI and future work between myself, @deanwball @emollick and @clarashih
Somehow, I was again the least optimistic person in the debate.
In the Hybrid A.I.-Human Work Force, Who Will Actually Thrive? — NYT nytimes.com/2026/06/09/magaz…
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New book: Reimagining Conference Interpreting in the Age of AI
By: Ozum Arzik-Erzurumlu
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🇹🇼 Questions sur la #traduction du hokkien taïwanais
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New publication: Affect in Translation and Interpreting. Edited by: Sofía Monzón, Lucie Spezzatti, Elisabeth Goemans
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Call for participants for International Writing Workshops in Jordan for Translation Studies
Submit application by 17:00 GMT Saturday 20 June 2026
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Jun 8
In my new book, Artificial Intimacy. I trace the effects of our lives with chatbots from childhood to parenthood, from work to love, and more. I offer both a cautionary tale and a roadmap for being human in the age of AI. Out on September 29; preorder now: hachettebookgroup.com/titles…
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"Generative AI is, by design, a machine for producing the feeling of competence without the substance of it." That's why we need to argue with it, writes Vivienne Ming in the FT.
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