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ahmetasabanci

@ahmetasabanci@mastodon.social

Critical futurist, writer, technologist, #generalist, philosopher of #WeirdAndDeadlyInteresting. | Head of Strategy & Newsletter Editor at https://mastodon.social/@newslabturkey .

Posts are in #English and #Türkçe.

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Önce YZ cevapların kötü tavsiyeleri, sonra da mühendislik belgelerinin sızması Google için bu haftanın çok kötü geçmesine neden oldu. Ben de bu hafta @newslabturkey n okuyoruz| bülteninin odağı olarak googlelamak eskiden nasıl algılanırdı, şimdi nasıl algılanıyor sorusunu ele aldım.

“Ne Okuduk” bölümünde ise WaPo’nun yeni abonelik modeli, BuzzFeed’deki hissedar draması ve daha fazlası var.

https://www.newslabturkey.org/2024/06/03/googlelamak-neydi-ne-oldu/

ahmetasabanci, to random Turkish
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Benim için sosyal medya platformları için en kritik dönüm noktalarından birisi platformdan tanıştığım kişilerle yüz yüze tanışmaya ve görüşmeye başladığım zamandır. @ahmetkkeles sayesinde geçtiğimiz Cumartesi günü bunu ilk kez Mastodon için yaşadım. O yüzden artık burası da olmaya başladı diyebilirim rahatlıkla. :)

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https://mastodon.social/@carlysagan/112448150797509408

ahmetasabanci, to random
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I’m curious about the decision OpenAI made about making most of the paid stuff free (with usage limits). Unless someone uses it dozens of times a day, it’s not worth $20.

I have two theories about this change. Either they’ve found a better income model because not many people were paying for it already and decided to slowly kill it, or they’re having trouble training GPT-5 and need more data from users and this is the way they’re trying to solve it.

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Tonight I gave an online workshop to a group of people who were accepted to one of our media incubator programs to develop their projects. And there were five AI meeting assistants on the call instead of those five applicants.

On the one hand I’m really pissed off about their laziness and disrespect. But on the other hand, I’m kinda happy because the assistant doesn’t understand a single word of Turkish and they ended up with bunch of garbage text.

ahmetasabanci, to random
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Not sure whether to take this AI description of me as a compliment or an insult. https://search.arc.net/iFhlmAiQqVNgcJ9x76g1

ahmetasabanci, to random Turkish
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ABD’de TikTok’un engellenmesine sebep olabilecek yasanın yürürlüğe girmesiyle birlikte TikTok için önemli bir geri sayım başladı. Bu hafta @newslabturkey n okuyoruz| bülteninin odağında ABD’nin TikTok takıntısının arkasında yatan motivasyonları ve bunun doğurabileceği sonuçları yazdım.

“Ne Okuduk” bölümünde ise Ghost’un ActivityPub desteği, Google aramalarını kullanılmaz kılan ismin hikâyesi ve daha fazlası var.

https://www.newslabturkey.org/2024/04/28/abd-tiktoktan-ne-istiyor/

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I’m doing my best to avoid latest because people trying to make it a thing have no idea how nonprofits work and as someone who spends most of his working time in or around nonprofits I really don’t have time to explain things to people who clearly have no interest in understanding it.

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https://mastodon.social/@Miniver/112295102413727310

ahmetasabanci, to random
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Good morning. This morning’s mood is Audioslave. https://music.apple.com/tr/album/show-me-how-to-live/208294748?i=208294773

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Today I played basketball for the first time after a century. Sure, every part of my body hurts right now but I didn’t know that I missed playing this much.

ahmetasabanci, to random Turkish
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Eğer benim gibi NBA fanı biriyseniz Kaan Kural’ın bu serisini kaçırmayın derim. 1980’lerden başlayıp tarihin en önemli anlarını çok güzel bir şekilde derleyip anlatmışlar. Her bölüm su gibi akıyor. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoVoFW70X9kgDK19hffgDKv2w-oSZmV1P&si=Kh-9vIz3NKyrIeoV

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This post tells me two things about Sam Altman.

  1. His taste in movies only consist of blockbusters.
  2. He’s REALLY bad at video games. https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/112216869375145226
ahmetasabanci, to random Turkish
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@ivory hi folks! I’ve noticed that when I tried to save something to Readwise Reader with the in-app option, it doesn’t work. Nothing seems to be sent to Readwise. I checked the API key and it looks good so I wanted to let you know about it.

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Well, the local elections in Turkey turned out to be an historic for several reasons. I was expecting most of it but not at this level.

First of all, CHP for the first time got the most votes in general, meaning AKP is the second. Plus, CHP has won not only the biggest cities in Turkey but also took many new ones from AKP, some was seen impossible. There are cities CHP won for the first time ever or decades later.

ahmetasabanci, to random Turkish
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Bu seçimde kimin kazanacağından daha çok partilerin durumlarını daha çok merak ediyorum. Refah’ın ne kadar oy çalacağı, İyi’nin ve Zafer’in ne kadar dibe vuracağı gibi veriler seçimin bana göre asıl eğlenceli kısmı olacak. Yoksa az çok nasıl gideceğini tahmin ediyorum sonuçların.

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A post I just saw made me realize one of the reasons I want to use social media less and less is that people are primed to be angry and looking for a fight. I’m here to learn, discover new stuff, share things I enjoy or care but I always feel like doing that will bring toxic people out of the woods to attack me.

I already have enough things to be angry about thanks to where I live, I’m not looking for more.

ahmetasabanci, to random
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LinkedIn emailed to tell me I haven’t gotten any messages last week in a really creative way.

ahmetasabanci, to random
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Getting temporarily blocked by Italian government for piracy reasons is an interesting achievement to add to my list.

ahmetasabanci, to random
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I had the term “anarcho-futurism” randomly pop into my head and couple minutes later I found this mad manifesto from 1919. Surprised I didn’t know about it before.

“Long live the international intellectual revolution!

An open road for the Anarcho-Futurists, Anarcho-Hyperboreans, and Neo-Nihilists!

Death to World Civilization!”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/russian-anarcho-futurism

ahmetasabanci, to random
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Kadıköy walls have a very clear political position.

A photo showing lots of random tags and drawings on a wall. A caricature person with a speech bubble says “Be gay” in Turkish. Another tag nearby says “Be gay, do crime”.
A graffiti on a wall says “Free Gaza”. Below that there’s a drawing of a Palestinian flag.
Multiple graffiti on a wall. One is a graffiti says Palestine, next to it a small graffiti says Free Gaza. Next to that a drawing of a Palestinian person.

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"You remember how the New Atheists spent so long looking into the abyss of religious unreason and dogmatism that the abyss finally looked back and welcomed its newest denizens? That’s where we’re at with the tech people now."

https://ift.tt/cHY6vNP

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Watching highlights was really hard for me. Zero competition and effort in the main game (almost 400 points in total, WTF), near zero creativity in the slam dunk contest and more. If they announce that they’re going to cancel the All-Stars to protect the memory of the 2000s, they can get my full support.

ahmetasabanci, to random Turkish
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Bu haftanın @newslabturkey n okuyoruz| bülteninin odak konusu biraz ilginç: Alan adı uzantıları ve onların siyasetle olan ilişkisi. Bu alan adı uzantılarının nereden geldiklerini, nasıl yönetildiklerini ve ne gibi riskler taşıdıklarını sizlere anlatmak istedim.

“Ne Okuduk” bölümünde ise Çin’den yönetilen yerel haber siteleri, BBC’nin Mastodon deneyi ve daha fazlası var.

https://www.newslabturkey.org/2024/02/19/alan-adlarinin-politikasi/

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One of the advantages of blogging is that you don’t have to repeat yourself every time a discourse returns. Like right now we have a new “RSS is dead” discourse and I can simply share my post from December 2020 and call it a day.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/rss-is-not-dead/

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