@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-01-06 17:09:06
"Book publisher #HarperCollins said it will start translating romance novels under its famous Harlequin label in France using AI, reducing or eliminating the pay for the team of human contract translators who previously did this work."
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@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-01-06 15:06:50
HarperCollins Will Use AI to Translate Harlequin Romance Novels https://www.404media.co/harpercollins-will-use-ai-to-translate-harlequin-romance-novels/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-03-07 07:00:09
dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-03-06 20:14:03
So there is an upcoming novel about #asteroid #2024YR4 which has just sold its movie rights: #TheLastOrbit eventually figure out that it's not only no risk for Earth anymore (as has been known for a year now, of course) but also not for the Moon. Talk about bad timing ... ;-)
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-03-07 15:25:40
This is about women who read steamy "romance novels".
Why they can't effectively get off while reading from the "she/her" 3rd person vs. the "I/me" 1st person isn't rocket science.
That it's dragging the entire romance book industry however is... new.
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-02-06 12:25:58
Just finished "Bunt!" written by Ngozi Ukazu, illustrated by Mad Rupert, with colors by K. Czap. A really fun and well-written graphic novel about crappy college financial aid and a ridiculous softball team of misfits. It's light-hearted but also touching, and has a wonderful cast with lore that's introduced deftly: a great balance of just enough exposition supported by a whole lot of implication and background art details to flesh out 8 supporting characters in a single book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@gray17@mastodon.social2026-03-06 17:36:11
just now realized I was standing on my toes when peeing, and felt weird about it. have I always been doing that? it didn't feel habitual, but it didn't feel novel either. I'm wondering if this is some misdirected biological urge to mark that tree as high as I can, to advertise how big my business is. we're an authorized reseller of Pen Island art markers, for all your bathroom-stall scribbling needs
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2026-03-06 22:54:02
I've accepted two new editing commisions, a translation into Bulgarian and a Bulgarian novel. It's hard to say no when people don't seem to think you are not up to it.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-07 13:00:03
lesmis: Les Misérables coappearances
The network of scene coappearances of characters in Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables". Edge weights denote the number of such occurrences.
This network has 77 nodes and 254 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/lesmis
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-06 19:00:08
dbtropes_feature: Artistic works and their tropes
A bipartite network of artistic works (movies, novels, etc.) and their tropes (stylistic conventions or devices), as extracted from tvtropes.org. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 152093 nodes and 3232134 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
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