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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı
@ahmetasabanci.com
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Critical futurist, writer, technologist, generalist, philosopher of Weird and Deadly Interesting. Also runs @tuhaf.studio

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Ahmet Alphan Sabancı @ahmetasabanci.com · Apr 3
I'm taking the work I started 10 years ago with Tuhaf Gelecek to the next level. Say hello to @tuhaf.studio, my independent futures and foresight studio.

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Tuhaf Studio is Here
I’m taking a major step in my career and starting Tuhaf Studio, my independent futures studio.
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Starting this week with some notes about culture and elitism, late arrival of the winter, and giving you the usual updates about what I'm up to.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/notes-on-culture-and-elitism-weekstarter-51-2025/
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December 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Geçen cuma günü @medyascope.tv'de, Göksel Göksu'nun sunduğu "Açık Oturum" programında sosyal medya ve dijital mecraların çocukları ve gençleri nasıl etkilediği ve yasakların onları durdurup durduramayacağını tartıştık.

@sevketuy.bsky.social @ahmetasabanci.com

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Sosyal medya yasağı çocukları durdurur mu? | Açık Oturum
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December 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Keyifli bir sohbet oldu. Ben de çocuklara bir kez bile fikirlerini sormadan, onlara dair düzenlemelerde onları hiçe sayarak hareket etmenin neden daima zarar vereceğini anlatmaya çalıştım.

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Sosyal medya yasağı çocukları durdurur mu? | Açık Oturum
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December 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I want to apologize from everyone who I criticized for their support for Disney against AI companies. They really killed AI and popped the bubble for good.

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December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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📬 n okuyoruz| Kasım sayısı yayında!

🗓️ Bu ayın odağı: Belirsizlik çağında medya için iki kritik yetenek: uyum sağlamak ve ileriyi görmek.

@ahmetasabanci.com, geçtiğimiz ayın gündemini 5 ana başlıkta derledi:
December 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Starting the week back from home again. This week starts with a talk about my habit of reading forecast and trend reports for the year ahead but also revisiting the ones for this year. Plus all the usual updates and my top 100…

https://ahmetasabanci.com/season-of-forecasts-weekstarter-50-2025/
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December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I want more neurodiversity and so too do my enemies

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December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone which has your energy but isn’t a selfie.
An image of a crab-like undersea creature under water. Subtitle says: “This creature has adapted to the crushing pressure and oppressive darkness.”
December 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Yeni yazı: @evrensel.net için günümüzde bilginin nasıl bir güç aracı olarak kullanıldığını, bu amaçla uygulanan taktikleri ve gelecekte bu dinamik üzerine strateji geliştirmenin önemini yazdım.

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Bilgiden gelen gücü yönetmek - Evrensel
Sağ siyasetin her zaman bilgiyi ve onun nasıl yayıldığını kontrol etmek istediğini tarihten biliyoruz. Ülke olarak da sansür yabancı olduğumuz bir konu değil.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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This is why I recently described Bluesky to couple of Turkish people as “the Halk TV of the Americans.”

It’s a very popular opposition TV channel in Turkey which makes everyone more hysterical, prone to opposition conspiracies and practically unbearable. Bluesky does the same to the Americans.
ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 16d
This is honestly a pretty Bluesky-specific problem. It is deathly serious in here at all times and I'll be honest, looking at Bluesky regularly is making me a worse, more hysterical writer, causing my non-Bluesky readers to tune out, and it's just making me an unhappier person.
kleinman.bsky.social Simply Loving To Permanently Be Online @kleinman.bsky.social · 16d
And it may not just be limited to Bluesky, it seems like this is taking over much of online. Feels like @maxread.info or @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social could go long on the problem.
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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This week's Weekstarter comes from İzmir, where I'm in my second and final week for some work. It has all your usual updates, one of my favorite Soundgarden song, and more.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/caring-too-much-weekstarter-49-2025/
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December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I’m not the kind of person who likes having big takes about small things but the fact that only store left in the SAW where you can get books/mags/newspaper being at the international departure side definitely says something about Turkish people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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teachers are junkies. "teacher" is an oppressive class, like Albanian people or Millennial people.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Kaç zamandır Türkiye’de medya adına katıldığım en verimli ve keyifli etkinliklerden birisiydi. Panelist olarak bunun bir parçası olmak da ayrıca güzeldi. Devamı nasıl gelecek merakla bekliyorum.
fayn.press Fayn @fayn.press · Nov 18
Umutsuzluğa karşı bir aradalık, kasvete karşı neşe, zorluklara rağmen dayanışma…

Bağımsız medyaya her zamankinden daha çok ihtiyacımız var, bu platformların da okurlarına.

Problemlerden çözüm yollarına her ayrıntısıyla, AltMedya buluşmasından notlar…
Umutsuzluğa karşı neşe: Alternatif medyanın dayanışma günü
Umutsuzluğa karşı bir aradalık, kasvete karşı neşe, zorluklara rağmen dayanışma… Bağımsız medyaya her zamankinden daha çok ihtiyacımız var, bu platformların da okurlarına. Problemlerden çözüm yolların...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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After the last week's unexpected break Weekstarter is back again with the usual updates, recommendations and why we should be careful about focusing too much on hype and letting doom get away.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/dont-take-the-black-mirror-pill-weekstarter-47-2025/
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November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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After the last week's unexpected break Weekstarter is back again with the usual updates, recommendations and why we should be careful about focusing too much on hype and letting doom get away.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/dont-take-the-black-mirror-pill-weekstarter-47-2025/
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November 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Yani ülkedeki barınma ve konut sorunu öyle bir noktaya geldi ki sırf makul fiyatlı olduğu için en büyüğü 80 metrekare olan evlere bile bu seviyede bir talep var.
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Radyonuzu açın!

30. yaşımızı, 11-14 Kasım tarihleri arasında müstesna konuklar, dostlarımız ve dinleyicilerimizle 4 gün, 4 sabah, 4 saat sürecek özel bir yayınla kutluyoruz.

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November 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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This week started busier than expected so Weekstarter comes a little late with me talking about the balance between travel mode and hermit mode, giving you the latest updates from my side and more.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/balance-between-travel-and-hermit-modes-weekstarter-45-2025/
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November 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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The new Dirty Knobs album SCORCHER is out now: zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/scorcher

You can watch the video playlists in both horizontal and vertical formats on Youtube:

H: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbuF...

V: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4q...

Please leave a comment if you like what you hear. 1/4
SCORCHER, by Dirty Knobs
8 track album
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October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I don’t know how to feel about this.
Duolingo pop-up promoting the new update which allows you to show your language scores on LinkedIn.
October 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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‘Most scammers have themselves been scammed. The tens of thousands of Chinese, Ethiopians, Ugandans, Filipinos, Pakistanis and others who carry out the grunt work have been tricked, kidnapped and enslaved.’

@alexclapp.bsky.social on the vast cybercrime economy.

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Alexander Clapp · Pig Butchering: Scam Gangs
If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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“The gap between the eager-beaver simpering of the pitches and the spiky prose of his newsletter is laughable. There’s so much space between “these guys rock” and “these chunderfucks” that I think Meta just built a data center there.”

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Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI | WIRED
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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This week starts with a conversation about how doing something so long can make you feel stuck, usual updates, links, and a Alfa Mist song.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/afraid-of-getting-stuck-weekstarter-44-2025/
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October 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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📬 Ekim 2018’de başlayan ve 352 sayıyı bulan @newslabturkey.bsky.social n okuyoruz| bülteninin bildiğiniz formattaki son sayısıyla karşınızdayım. Haftalık formattaki son sayıda da geride bıraktığımız yedi yıl ve değişimin arka planı üzerine biraz konuştum.

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October 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM