Henry Líu

#JFSALON To understand Taiwan, look beyond the headlines to its indigenous peoples. Kyle Shernuk, @kshernuk, translator of Eyes of the Sky and assistant professor at Georgetown, introduces Syaman Rapongan: a Tao writer from Orchid Island whose work chronicles his community's oceanic culture and their survival under Han-Taiwanese colonialism. Eyes of the Sky is available at jfbooks.org

“I would try hard to find jobs that ensured I’d have people around me who spoke te reo and encouraged it. I’ve been very deliberate and intentional about that.” — Hone Hurihanganui, teacher and composer of waiata and haka. e-tangata.co.nz/korero/hone-hu…

A few thoughts on an important moment for me. A debt repaid to two Angeleno poets. api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…

but if you stay quiet, they set the agenda, the framework, and the public discourse is gradually conquered by more nonsense (a mix of marketing and collective delusions). Much of it is just terrible philosophy disguised as science. 3/

#Reskilling won't save us from AI. Here's what to do instead. @FastCompany excerpts the new book #RobotProof: When Machines Have all the Answers, Build Better People by neuroscientist and AI expert Vivienne Ming from @WileyGlobal @neuraltheory fastcompany.com/91484887/the-r…

"We must remember that AI systems are designed. They do not come into the world as objective reflections of reality or culture or even training data." lareviewofbooks.org/article/artifi…

From auto-dubbed YouTube videos to real-time browser translations, multilingual access is being built directly into our digital infrastructure. In our latest issue, Claudio Fantinuoli discusses the overview of this "invisible" translation. Explore here: buff.ly/GzTLZ3W #TranslatingTech #AI #MachineTranslation #Localization #TechEthics #UserExperience #MultiLingualMedia

📢 CFP: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology Special Section: Open Science in Multicultural Psychology Empirical & conceptual work welcome across quant, qual & mixed methods 📅 LOI due May 15, 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/CDEMP-OpenScie… #OpenScience #MulticulturalPsychology

The dominance of English-language data not only affects the answers chatbots give—it also shapes how they work. Fortunately, there are ways to improve the tech’s performance economist.com/science-and-te…

Even as they claim the right to train their models on work belonging to other people, the AI companies have rejected a similar premise when it comes to their own products, Alex Reisner reports: theatlantic.com/technology/202…

"If A.I. is capable of producing gripping fiction, and readers and editors are unable to discern its origins..." Then this article wouldn't exist? Bizarre to keep predicting this 'inevitability.' Once it happens, no one will care. But it hasn't happened! nytimes.com/2026/03/19/boo…

CfP: Journal of Non-professional Interpreting and Translation special issue on “Non-Professional Translation and Interpreting in Conflict and War: Power, Ideology, and Political Agency”. Abstract submission by June 15 2026 jonpit.unibo.it/announcement/v…

Great read! Confirms my hunch: Andreessen found a philosophy that validates his own shallowness and at the same time makes his AI investments look smarter. Adding a dash of neuro science to his business model. theverge.com/tldr/897566/ma…

The paper I’ve been most obsessed with lately is finally out: nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…! Check out this beautiful plot: it shows how much LLMs distort human writing when making edits, compared to how humans would revise the same content. We take a dataset of human-written essays from 2021, before the release of ChatGPT. We compare how people revise draft v1 -> v2 given expert feedback, with how an LLM revises the same v1 given the same feedback. This enables a counterfactual comparison: how much does the LLM alter the essay compared to what the human was originally intending to write? We find LLMs consistently induce massive distortions, even changing the actual meaning and conclusions argued for.

New publication: 6th Edition Introducing Translation Studies Theories and Applications By Jeremy Munday, Sara Ramos Pinto, Jacob Blakesley routledge.com/Introducing-Tr…

'Sometimes I think about us ... as planets moving in certain directions, pulled by each other’s gravity.' Translator Sasha Dugdale on her collaboration with Maria Stepanova for our latest #BookClub pick, and the importance of holding onto our humanity: tinyurl.com/d5tbepy7

Join us next week for our next Thursday Seminar! 📣 Sofia Navarro Beck (Aarhus University) will be presenting: 'Behind the Screen: ‘A Case Study of a Danish Online Grooming Case’' 26th March 16:00-17:00 GMT Online only For more information visit: eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the-s…

Read an interview with Mathias Énard and me at @TheBookerPrizes : thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

“Literary translation is one of humanity’s most crucial tasks — one that should never be left to the machines.” Passionately argued piece on what we lose when we use AI to translate books. japantimes.co.jp/commentary/202…

⛑ #Bilingual consent forms significantly improve cancer treatment understanding among people with limited English, with understanding rising from 35% to 60%, a new study finds eurekalert.org/news-releases/…