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In a shocking twist, someone decided that non-English #speakers deserve to use #SumatraPDF, the crowned jewel of Windows applications 🏆💾. Behold the harrowing tale of wrangling #C++ code to say "hello" in 72 languages—because nothing screams 'best use of time' like translating a comic book viewer 📚😂.
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/a-vn0v/implementing-ui-translation-in-sumatrapdf-a-c-windows-application.html #NonEnglish #Translation #ComicBookViewer #WindowsApplications #HackerNews #ngated

PeerJ: New study reveals bias in AI text detection tools impacts academic publishing fairness. “A study published in PeerJ Computer Science reveals significant accuracy-bias trade-offs in artificial intelligence text detection tools that could disproportionately impact non-native English speakers and certain academic disciplines in scholarly publishing.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/26/peerj-new-study-reveals-bias-in-ai-text-detection-tools-impacts-academic-publishing-fairness/

Poynter: Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages. “Meta’s automated filters and content moderators often fall short when dealing with non-English content. This isn’t just a technical limitation — it’s a dangerous oversight. In communities where English isn’t the dominant language, this gap leaves space for disinformation to flourish […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/10/poynter-meta-is-failing-to-stop-dangerous-disinformation-in-the-worlds-most-spoken-languages/

#Meta #cancelling #fact #checking and reintroducing #political #content poses #risk- for #sub-Saharan #africa Especially #problem because #nonenglish #language versions do not have #Community #Notes

https://endalk.blog/2025/01/09/the-impact-of-metas-decision-to-cancel-fact-checking-in-sub-saharan-africa/

"Colonialism in Content Moderation Research: The Struggles of Scholars in the Majority World" by Farhana Shahid (PhD student at Cornell and CDT summer intern).
https://cdt.org/insights/colonialism-in-content-moderation-research-the-struggles-of-scholars-in-the-majority-world/

#contentmoderation #nonenglish #MajorityWorld #research

CRAZY BURP

https://spook.tube/videos/watch/0f67bff6-b31c-4014-ab7f-d93d38160dd3

#Consulting the best available #evidence is key to successful #conservation #DecisionMaking . While much #scientific evidence on conservation continues to be published in #NonEnglish #languages , a #PoorUnderstanding of how non-English-language #science #contributes to conservation decision-making is causing #global #assessments & #studies to practically #ignore non-English-language literature.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01087-8

#BIPOC #POC #nature #decolonize

#CarbonPirates seek countries abundant in #ecological #biodiversity , #exploiting #NonEnglish speaking #communities to sign rights over to them. This #phenomenon was #observed especially in countries such as #Papua NewGuinea , #Africa & #Indonesia. Carbon pirates came into these nations to set up REDD+ #CarbonOffsetting & communities were #coerced into signing agreements that did not fit their best interests.

Great points from my colleague Gabe Nicholas at @CenDemTech
"‘Non-English language moderation has been a particular challenge for American social media companies, which often do not have enough staff in those areas and rely on imperfect machine translations...
“If Twitter is making mistakes in Chinese-language Twitter, then it’s very possible that they’re making mistakes in other languages,” he said.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/technology/twitter-china-elon-musk.html

#twitter #contentmoderation #nonenglish #largelanguagemodels