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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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stavvers, to random
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I would love to do a piece of research where you present Europeans with a list of other countries and ask if they're white or not, because I'd be fascinated to see the results by country.

ahmetasabanci,
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@stavvers I’m from Turkey and I always want to reply with this screenshot (but also my mom is Kurdish so it gets even worse for me).

ahmetasabanci, to random
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First real sign of intelligence from ChatGPT?

ahmetasabanci, to random
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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/

ahmetasabanci, to random
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Once again it's day. Last two weeks was pure mess and Erdoğan did his best to further oppress and silence Kılıçdaroğlu to the point authorities banned him from sending SMS to people for legal reasons while everyone else, including me, were getting Erdoğan propaganda SMS messages from politicians we have no idea how they got our numbers.

It’s going to be an interesting day. As in the saying “may you live in interesting times”.

ahmetasabanci, to random
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“If the job of a chief executive is simply to take data and regurgitate extrapolations that deliver "efficiency," I can think of no role more appropriate for AI replacement.”

We Don't Need CEOs Anymore and AI Could Easily Replace Them https://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-replace-ai-job-employees-executives-save-money-salary-2023-9

ahmetasabanci, to animals Turkish
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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

ahmetasabanci, to random
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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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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/

ahmetasabanci, to random
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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

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.

ahmetasabanci, to random
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I don’t know who needs to hear this* but a reporter finding a news story worth publishing in their outlet and rewriting in an appropriate way is not the same thing as someone building a website to rewrite anything they found automatically without even reading it for clicks and ad money is not the same thing.

*: I do actually know who needs to hear this.

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/

ahmetasabanci, to random Turkish
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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
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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,
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There are two main reasons for this. First one is the economy. Even though things were bad last year, it got even worse after the general election and AKP had to start implementing austerity policies. People were not happy about it and decided to give a message.

Second one is CHP campaign was not perfect but much smarter than the general election, plus didn’t have the baggage of the formal coalition with parties like İYİ. OTOH, AKP was a total mess. Their campaign was focused on Erdogan.

ahmetasabanci, to random Turkish
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Haftanın @newslabturkey n okuyoruz| bülteni sitede yayında.

2023 yılının son haftasına girmeden önce sizlerle yıl boyunca bültende neler konuştuğumuzu, hangi konuların öne çıktığını ve bunların medya ve gazetecilik dünyası için nasıl bir tablo çizdiğini özetledim. Yıl bitmeden önce arşivde dolanıp hafıza tazelemek bir sonraki yıla hazırlanmanın en iyi yollarından birisi.

https://www.newslabturkey.org/2023/12/25/2023te-neler-okuduk/

ahmetasabanci, to random
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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.

Richard_Littler, to ADHD
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'[He] saw a patient who'd been referred for an diagnosis. He realised 15 minutes into the consultation that the patient was autistic. “If I had no lived experience of and ADHD I would have missed it completely,” he says. “I would have diagnosed either anxiety or a personality disorder."'

Wow. This is precisely what happened to me. In the 1990s I was diagnosed with anxiety disorder/panic attacks. Then, a couple of years ago, I was referred for...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/04/audhd-what-is-behind-rocketing-rates-life-changing-diagnosis?CMP=share_btn_url

ahmetasabanci,
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@Richard_Littler it was my experience in Turkey throughout 2000-2010s. Diagnosed with anxiety disorder by multiple doctors and none of the treatments worked yet they insisted on it. Then I decided to do some extra research, figured out the ADHD potential and hunted for a doctor who knows about adult ADHD to finally get my diagnosis.

ahmetasabanci, to random Turkish
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Bu hafta @newslabturkey n okuyoruz| bültenin odağında son yıllarda yükselişe geçen dergilerin medyanın mevcut krizine ve buradan çıkmak isteyenlere verdiği mesajı anlattım. Dergilerin gelişimi uzun ömürlü bir yayın olmak için izlenmesi gereken yola dair önemli bir fikir veriyor.

“Ne Okuduk” bölümünde ise işten çıkarmalar ve medyanın krizi ana başlığımız oldu. LA Times’dan Sports Illustrated’a birçok işten çıkarmayla dolu bir haftayı geride bıraktık.

https://www.newslabturkey.org/2024/01/29/dergiler-medyanin-gelecegi-icin-ne-soyluyor/

ahmetasabanci, to random
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Two notes about the latest Threads federation news:

  • Zuck’s post got everyone excited but it seems like what they’re doing is some kind of closed/private testing. So it’ll take some time before we see anything. (Guessing it’ll happen after they open in EU.)

  • When it happens, I don’t think Bluesky and other closed platforms will stand a chance as a viable option. Which is a really good news.

ahmetasabanci,
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Why I think it’s a good news?

  • I believe more and bigger adoption of ActivityPub is a better thing if we want our social networks to become decentralized,
  • People who are not tech-savvy can become a part of the fediverse through these bigger places (I know Mastodon also improves itself in many ways),
  • Big names mean more financial resources for all things ActivityPub and let’s be honest you can’t run any of these for free.
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,
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This blog post by @glynmoody has more details about the incident if anyone is interested.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/19/italys-piracy-shield-blocks-innocent-web-sites-and-makes-it-hard-for-them-to-appeal/

tante, to random
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My wordpress install is very old so it picked up a lot of cruft and probably unnecessary plugins etc. (of course totally without my contribution ;)) and I should clean shit up and I feel so tired with software at times.

ahmetasabanci,
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@tante if it’s any consolation I’ve seen some people abuse quite recent Wordpress installations to the point the only option is to burn everything down and start over. I’m sure yours is nowhere near that.

ahmetasabanci, to random
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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.

ahmetasabanci,
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Trust me, if you knew how nonprofits work or what kinds of troubles they deal with every day you’d immediately see that no one would even consider it as a tool for the conspiracies you think about. It’s worse than the worst possible option.

pegdhcp, to random Turkish

Ya, arkadaşlar, Romalılar. Doctor Who'nun Christmas bölümü bana gayet zevksiz ve kötü geldi. Chibnall'dan sonra kim ne yazsa beğenirim diyordum, öyle olmadı. Hatta kontrol ettim "gerçekten Davies mi yazmış" diye, öyleymiş... :(

ahmetasabanci,
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@pegdhcp @lanartri bölümün Noel bölümü olması zaten negatif başlatıyor ama hem yeni karakterler tanıtma, hem sıfırdan öykü başlatma hem de üstüne sezon için hikaye parçaları ekleme işi girince çok zorlaştırmışlar işi kendileri için. Ben yine de eğlendim izlerken, Doctor’dan da Ruby’den de umutluyum :)

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