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Just released my most researched video essay to date. I spent weeks doing nothing but reading cause the subject is both so urgent and so misunderstood. Check it out and lemme know what you think.
youtu.be/cbxC7Acnmck
youtu.be/cbxC7Acnmck
How Liberalism Creates Fascism
YouTube video by Politically Depressed
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Just released my most researched video essay to date. I spent weeks doing nothing but reading cause the subject is both so urgent and so misunderstood. Check it out and lemme know what you think.
youtu.be/cbxC7Acnmck
youtu.be/cbxC7Acnmck
"Bu nasıl bir hasettir ki kendi öznesini, kendi olmayı yok sayacak ve "hayali cemaatin" ad verme töreniyle çağrılmış, ona kim olduğu buyrulmuş olmayı kabul edecektir."
"Kendinin ötekisini kabul eden, onunla yüzleşen "ben" olmadan dışardaki öteki nasıl kabul edilecek[?]"
çok, çok güzel bir analiz
"Kendinin ötekisini kabul eden, onunla yüzleşen "ben" olmadan dışardaki öteki nasıl kabul edilecek[?]"
çok, çok güzel bir analiz
Bir muhatap arıyorum: Yüzleşmenin imkân ve ihtimalinin dili
Devlet neden aynalara ateş eder? Kendi yüzünü görmeye tahammülü olmadığı için mi, yoksa yüzleşmek zorunda olduğu ötekinin yüzünü silmek için mi?
bianet.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Bu nasıl bir hasettir ki kendi öznesini, kendi olmayı yok sayacak ve "hayali cemaatin" ad verme töreniyle çağrılmış, ona kim olduğu buyrulmuş olmayı kabul edecektir."
"Kendinin ötekisini kabul eden, onunla yüzleşen "ben" olmadan dışardaki öteki nasıl kabul edilecek[?]"
çok, çok güzel bir analiz
"Kendinin ötekisini kabul eden, onunla yüzleşen "ben" olmadan dışardaki öteki nasıl kabul edilecek[?]"
çok, çok güzel bir analiz
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"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
From Interactive to Interpassive
Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading
There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Interpassivity is so dominant that doing+making are referred to as obstacles to pleasure. You don't read a book because reading is work, LLMs can summarize. You don't learn an instrument because practice is work. Skillsets distract from the time we might set aside for passive consumption."
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On the third anniversary of ChatGPT, I aimed to pull back from “AI” as a flowing current of new models, new data centers, new initiatives, “new new new” — and look at it as a product of a specific and unique moment in history. What *was* ChatGPT? A few points in the thread ⬇️
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
On the third anniversary of ChatGPT, I aimed to pull back from “AI” as a flowing current of new models, new data centers, new initiatives, “new new new” — and look at it as a product of a specific and unique moment in history. What *was* ChatGPT? A few points in the thread ⬇️
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Makine Çağı serisinin 4. yazısında Marx’ın makine analizini işbölümü, denetim ve “genel zekâ” kavrayışları üzerinden okuyup 20. yüzyılın üretim tekniklerine uzanan bir çerçeve kurmaya çalışıyoruz:
“Patronun Gözü”nden Genel Zekâya: Marx’ın Makine Analizi
bianet.org/yazi/isbolum...
“Patronun Gözü”nden Genel Zekâya: Marx’ın Makine Analizi
bianet.org/yazi/isbolum...
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Makine Çağı serisinin 4. yazısında Marx’ın makine analizini işbölümü, denetim ve “genel zekâ” kavrayışları üzerinden okuyup 20. yüzyılın üretim tekniklerine uzanan bir çerçeve kurmaya çalışıyoruz:
“Patronun Gözü”nden Genel Zekâya: Marx’ın Makine Analizi
bianet.org/yazi/isbolum...
“Patronun Gözü”nden Genel Zekâya: Marx’ın Makine Analizi
bianet.org/yazi/isbolum...
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
"Bu sistemin [4+4+4] kesmesi ile çocukların örgün eğitimden koparılması, MESEM’lere yönlendirilmesi ve dört gün iş, bir gün okul uygulaması ile sanayi ve inşaat sektörlerine çekilmesi hız kazandı. Bu süreç devlet tarafından resmi olarak destekleniyor ve patronlar için ucuz işgücü sağlıyor."
“Çocukluğun işçileştirilmesi, muhtaç, borçlu, isyan etmeyecek işçi havuzunu birleştiriyor”
20 Kasım 2025, Perşembe 20 Kasım Dünya Çocuk Hakları Günü’nde İSİG Meclisi’nden Aslı Odman ile Türkiye’de çocuk emeğinin mevcut durumu ve MESEM programlarının etkilerini konuştuk. Yusuf Çelik’in ha…
muzir.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"Bu sistemin [4+4+4] kesmesi ile çocukların örgün eğitimden koparılması, MESEM’lere yönlendirilmesi ve dört gün iş, bir gün okul uygulaması ile sanayi ve inşaat sektörlerine çekilmesi hız kazandı. Bu süreç devlet tarafından resmi olarak destekleniyor ve patronlar için ucuz işgücü sağlıyor."
"... son 1,5 yılda madenlere verilen ruhsat alanlarının toplamı 468 bin 784 hektarı geçiyor. Bu alan Yalova’nın beş buçuk katı demek... toplam 698 ihalenin 202’si [bin hektarın üzerindeki] mega maden."
Mega madenlere karşı, verilerle doğa mücadelesi: Zamanla yarışıyoruz
Doğayı yok sayan yasalar, yönetmelikler ve teşviklerle büyütülen madencilik, on binlerce hektarlık mega madenlerle ekokırıma yol açıyor. Polen Ekoloji’nin MAPEG verilerine dayalı haritalama ve ÇED tak...
bianet.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"... son 1,5 yılda madenlere verilen ruhsat alanlarının toplamı 468 bin 784 hektarı geçiyor. Bu alan Yalova’nın beş buçuk katı demek... toplam 698 ihalenin 202’si [bin hektarın üzerindeki] mega maden."
"Dinlediğimiz pek çok mahalle sakinine, katledilen işçilerin akrabalarına göre de, denetimler bilerek yapılmıyor, önlemler bilerek alınmıyor. Sık sık duyduğumuz bir cümle, "Dilovası'nın yüzde 80'i kaçak.""
Elif Bayburt yazdı | Dilovası'nda sessiz bir öfke kol geziyor
<p><strong>Çok öfkeliler. "Ne götürecekler" diye soruyor bir kadın, "Öldüklerinde mezara ne götürecekler? Rabbim elbet hesabını sorar, ama biz burada da görmek istiyoruz."</strong></p>
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November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Dinlediğimiz pek çok mahalle sakinine, katledilen işçilerin akrabalarına göre de, denetimler bilerek yapılmıyor, önlemler bilerek alınmıyor. Sık sık duyduğumuz bir cümle, "Dilovası'nın yüzde 80'i kaçak.""
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I talked a bit with Jason about Grokipedia and it is, without exaggeration, like if you trained an LLM solely on white supremacist blogs and had it try to write Wikipedia entries. Some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen on the internet
Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I talked a bit with Jason about Grokipedia and it is, without exaggeration, like if you trained an LLM solely on white supremacist blogs and had it try to write Wikipedia entries. Some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen on the internet
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In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.
"Örneğin Hamdi Bey’in 2 Şubat 1926 tarihli raporu, “Dersim gittikçe Kürtleşiyor, mefkûreleşiyor, tehlike büyüyor. Dersim, hükümeti Cumhuriyet için bir çıbandır. Bu çıban üzerinde kati bir ameliye ihtimalatı elimeyi önlemek, selameti memleket namına farzı ayindir” tespitiyle başlıyordu."
Dersim Katliamı ve umumi manzara
Tunçeli Tenkil Harekâtı 4 Mayıs 1937 tarihli Bakanlar Kurulu Kararı ile başladı. 1940’lı yılların sonuna kadar da bölüm bölüm katliamlar
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November 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"Örneğin Hamdi Bey’in 2 Şubat 1926 tarihli raporu, “Dersim gittikçe Kürtleşiyor, mefkûreleşiyor, tehlike büyüyor. Dersim, hükümeti Cumhuriyet için bir çıbandır. Bu çıban üzerinde kati bir ameliye ihtimalatı elimeyi önlemek, selameti memleket namına farzı ayindir” tespitiyle başlıyordu."
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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Epstein was convicted in 2008.
This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power.
There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.
This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power.
There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.
The thing about elon going to epstein island in 2014 is that Epstein very publicly became a registered convicted sex offender in 2008, 6 years earlier.
Note: Epstein set up Elon's brother Kimbal with a girlfriend in 2011, 3 years after Epstein became a registered convicted sex offender.
Note: Epstein set up Elon's brother Kimbal with a girlfriend in 2011, 3 years after Epstein became a registered convicted sex offender.
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Epstein was convicted in 2008.
This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power.
There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.
This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power.
There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.
"... many of the gases used in semiconductor factories have far greater climate consequences, or climate forcing, than carbon dioxide. For example, sulfur hexaflouride, which can escape factories and settle in the atmosphere, has a heating effect 23,500 times that of CO2."
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"... many of the gases used in semiconductor factories have far greater climate consequences, or climate forcing, than carbon dioxide. For example, sulfur hexaflouride, which can escape factories and settle in the atmosphere, has a heating effect 23,500 times that of CO2."
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in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
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after reading how all these rich folks write i think i understand why they believe everyone else needs a chatbot to write everything from emails and text message to novels
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
after reading how all these rich folks write i think i understand why they believe everyone else needs a chatbot to write everything from emails and text message to novels
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One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*.
They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.
They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 AM
One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*.
They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.
They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.
"Herkesin sigorta istediğini ancak yapılmadığını aktaran Emine Bulut, "Sigorta yapacağız diye aylarca insanları kandırmışlar. Ablam '20 milyon borcum var. Bu ayını kapattım' dedi. Kızı hamile; 'Ona beşik, künye, üst-baş alırım' dedi. Bu ay çalıştığıyla onları alıp çıkacaktı" diye belirtti."
Ölen işçinin kardeşi: Denetime gelen zabıtalar bir koli parfüm alıp gidiyordu
Dilovası'ndaki iş cinayetinde hayatını kaybeden Şengül Yılmaz'ın kardeşi Emine Bulut, fabrikayı denetime gelen zabıtalara bir koli parfüm, bir koli deodorant verilip gönderildiklerini söyledi.
mezopotamyaajansi43.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Herkesin sigorta istediğini ancak yapılmadığını aktaran Emine Bulut, "Sigorta yapacağız diye aylarca insanları kandırmışlar. Ablam '20 milyon borcum var. Bu ayını kapattım' dedi. Kızı hamile; 'Ona beşik, künye, üst-baş alırım' dedi. Bu ay çalıştığıyla onları alıp çıkacaktı" diye belirtti."
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Bianet için hazırladığımız, yazı, söyleşi ve çevirilerden oluşan iki seride teknolojinin hem direnişin hem de tahakkümün aracı olarak nasıl şekillendiğini inceliyoruz.
Filistin İçin Teknoloji: bianet.org/dosya/filist...
Yapay Zekânın Politik İnşası: bianet.org/dosya/yapay-...
Filistin İçin Teknoloji: bianet.org/dosya/filist...
Yapay Zekânın Politik İnşası: bianet.org/dosya/yapay-...
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Bianet için hazırladığımız, yazı, söyleşi ve çevirilerden oluşan iki seride teknolojinin hem direnişin hem de tahakkümün aracı olarak nasıl şekillendiğini inceliyoruz.
Filistin İçin Teknoloji: bianet.org/dosya/filist...
Yapay Zekânın Politik İnşası: bianet.org/dosya/yapay-...
Filistin İçin Teknoloji: bianet.org/dosya/filist...
Yapay Zekânın Politik İnşası: bianet.org/dosya/yapay-...
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“What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead.”
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Is a Warning
The centibillionaire’s Wikipedia clone is ridiculous. It’s also a glimpse of the future.
nymag.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead.”
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
"Ebubekir Ratib Efendi’ye göre on sekizinci yüzyılda Müslüman Osmanlılar %5 gümrük vergisi öderlerken gayrimüslimler için bu oran %10, ... ticaret yapma izni olan yabancı tüccarlar için ise %3 idi... [b]u ayrıcalıktan yararlanmak için bazı gayrimüslimler de elçiliklerin himayesine giriyorlardı."
Varlık Vergisi’ni tartışırken | Agos
“Biz savaşırken onlar zengin oldu” söyleminde hiç dile getirilmeyip göz ardı edilen gerçek, Osmanlı çoğulculuğunun eşitsizliğe dayalı bir sistem üzerine inşa edildiğidir.
www.agos.com.tr
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"Ebubekir Ratib Efendi’ye göre on sekizinci yüzyılda Müslüman Osmanlılar %5 gümrük vergisi öderlerken gayrimüslimler için bu oran %10, ... ticaret yapma izni olan yabancı tüccarlar için ise %3 idi... [b]u ayrıcalıktan yararlanmak için bazı gayrimüslimler de elçiliklerin himayesine giriyorlardı."
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What a fantastic obit of Watson. Unfortunately, his life story is a common trope: guy who thinks he's hot shit experiences failure for the first time, and instead of learning from that, goes full bigot and gets really into The Bell Curve.
![One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25. His next act flopped. Although “Watson’s [Harvard] lab was clearly the most exciting place in the world in molecular biology,” geneticist Richard Burgess, one of Watson’s graduate students, told the oral history, he discovered nothing afterward, even as colleagues were cracking the genetic code or deciphering how DNA is translated into the molecules that make cells (and life) work.
‘I really don’t know what happened to Jim’: Friends ask where James Watson’s odious attitudes about race came from
“He fell flat on his nose on all these problems,” Harvard’s Ernst Mayr (1904-2005), the eminent evolutionary biologist, told the oral history. “So except for this luck he had with the double helix, he was a total failure!” (Mayr acknowledged the exaggeration.) By the 1990s, even Watson’s accomplishments at Harvard and CSHL were ancient history.
Watson nevertheless viewed himself “as the greatest scientist since Newton or Darwin,” a longtime colleague at CSHL told STAT in 2018.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltfn4ycf2afx23cmmlfynfwn/bafkreigcwyxfsyzsmjgh2hvl2ke44gi77bsmwwqrqdfo3uiarchkbet6s4@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
What a fantastic obit of Watson. Unfortunately, his life story is a common trope: guy who thinks he's hot shit experiences failure for the first time, and instead of learning from that, goes full bigot and gets really into The Bell Curve.
"Su yönetimi gelecek yıl için öngörü yaparak su temin programı hazırlar. Ancak sosyo-politik nedenlerle gerekli kısıntılar çoğu zaman erteleniyor. Yağışlar gelmeyince de tedbirler için geç kalınıyor ve barajlar boşalıyor."
Doluluk kritik seviyede: Barajları kuraklık mı, plansızlık mı kuruttu?
Hilal Acar Türkiye’de büyükşehirlerin barajları kritik seviyelere indi. Ankara, İstanbul ve İzmir başta olmak üzere birçok il, yeni su yılına düşük doluluk oranlarıyla giriyor. Artan sıcaklıklar, azal...
9koy.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Su yönetimi gelecek yıl için öngörü yaparak su temin programı hazırlar. Ancak sosyo-politik nedenlerle gerekli kısıntılar çoğu zaman erteleniyor. Yağışlar gelmeyince de tedbirler için geç kalınıyor ve barajlar boşalıyor."