Göktuğ Kayaalp
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· Sep 7
This is an academia dot edu hate account, don’t put your PDF in that
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they can pump out the headlines when elon says there will be a new car he’ll never actually deliver or a mission to mars that never comes. less so when he consistently posts the most vile nazi views imaginable.
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
they can pump out the headlines when elon says there will be a new car he’ll never actually deliver or a mission to mars that never comes. less so when he consistently posts the most vile nazi views imaginable.
RIP Google Scholar
so it begins
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
RIP Google Scholar
Spotify is also a very shit music player app and it was killing my desire to listen, after deleting it I listen to much more music now w/o a streaming app (and I used one since 2014 or most probably earlier).
Yet another reason not to tolerate their bs. Personally, I'll get an mp3 player sometime.
Yet another reason not to tolerate their bs. Personally, I'll get an mp3 player sometime.
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Spotify is also a very shit music player app and it was killing my desire to listen, after deleting it I listen to much more music now w/o a streaming app (and I used one since 2014 or most probably earlier).
Yet another reason not to tolerate their bs. Personally, I'll get an mp3 player sometime.
Yet another reason not to tolerate their bs. Personally, I'll get an mp3 player sometime.
Nobody who’s coded a line of code in whatsapp deserves to ever be happy ever again
December 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Nobody who’s coded a line of code in whatsapp deserves to ever be happy ever again
Made some notes for some conferences to attend, one abroad I wanna follow talks in, one a graduate student conference where I wanna present at, another that I wanna follow.
Feels like grad school is getting real now. Thing is, I'm a bit unfamiliar with the process, bc master's during Covid...
Feels like grad school is getting real now. Thing is, I'm a bit unfamiliar with the process, bc master's during Covid...
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Made some notes for some conferences to attend, one abroad I wanna follow talks in, one a graduate student conference where I wanna present at, another that I wanna follow.
Feels like grad school is getting real now. Thing is, I'm a bit unfamiliar with the process, bc master's during Covid...
Feels like grad school is getting real now. Thing is, I'm a bit unfamiliar with the process, bc master's during Covid...
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Join us for our 2026 #SummerSchool focusing on 'Sickness & Health' with @ihr.bsky.social! We'll have trips, #archive visits, and lectures exploring everything from medieval medicine to public health throughout #London 's #history. Sign up early for a 10% discount: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Join us for our 2026 #SummerSchool focusing on 'Sickness & Health' with @ihr.bsky.social! We'll have trips, #archive visits, and lectures exploring everything from medieval medicine to public health throughout #London 's #history. Sign up early for a 10% discount: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Join us in two weeks—online and in person in Cape Town—for the first MEMOs Conference!
More details about online registration coming soon, stay tuned 😉
More details about online registration coming soon, stay tuned 😉
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Join us in two weeks—online and in person in Cape Town—for the first MEMOs Conference!
More details about online registration coming soon, stay tuned 😉
More details about online registration coming soon, stay tuned 😉
Funny thing for me is when I glanced at that graphic I noticed none of the details but it jumped at me as AI generated, suppose we're slowly building immunity to this.
Wish we had a vaccine tho instead of this "herd immunity" approach... we should've learned by now.
Wish we had a vaccine tho instead of this "herd immunity" approach... we should've learned by now.
Medical frymblal: Nature’s latest AI-generated paper
Factor Fexcectorn on the autism bicycle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUY3... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251128-med... - podcast
time: 6 min 32 sec
Factor Fexcectorn on the autism bicycle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUY3... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251128-med... - podcast
time: 6 min 32 sec
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Funny thing for me is when I glanced at that graphic I noticed none of the details but it jumped at me as AI generated, suppose we're slowly building immunity to this.
Wish we had a vaccine tho instead of this "herd immunity" approach... we should've learned by now.
Wish we had a vaccine tho instead of this "herd immunity" approach... we should've learned by now.
Huh! Apparently you can change the base of a number in Bash, like base#number, what gives you an updated line like
auto_page_no="$( printf '%03d' $(( 10#$top_page_no + 1 )) )"
auto_page_no="$( printf '%03d' $(( 10#$top_page_no + 1 )) )"
I've a script to scan notebooks' pages (insults on a postcard lol) &in it I do some "maths"
# There probably is a better way to do this but this is how I fool bash
# maths into doing decimal maths when the number looks rather octal-ish
auto_page_no="$(printf '%03d' $(( 1$top_page_no + 1 - 1000 )))"
# There probably is a better way to do this but this is how I fool bash
# maths into doing decimal maths when the number looks rather octal-ish
auto_page_no="$(printf '%03d' $(( 1$top_page_no + 1 - 1000 )))"
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Huh! Apparently you can change the base of a number in Bash, like base#number, what gives you an updated line like
auto_page_no="$( printf '%03d' $(( 10#$top_page_no + 1 )) )"
auto_page_no="$( printf '%03d' $(( 10#$top_page_no + 1 )) )"
A lot can be said about this¹, but this is also some sovereign citizen level bullshit.
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¹ i.e. OpenAI apparently claiming its blameless in a case of self harm cos using ChatGPT for self harm is prohibited by the ToS.
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¹ i.e. OpenAI apparently claiming its blameless in a case of self harm cos using ChatGPT for self harm is prohibited by the ToS.
OpenAI really are ghouls
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
November 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A lot can be said about this¹, but this is also some sovereign citizen level bullshit.
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¹ i.e. OpenAI apparently claiming its blameless in a case of self harm cos using ChatGPT for self harm is prohibited by the ToS.
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¹ i.e. OpenAI apparently claiming its blameless in a case of self harm cos using ChatGPT for self harm is prohibited by the ToS.
“AI is the future it’s legit and ethical and everybody wants it and that’s why we need to disguise it please let us disguise it”
Epic CEO wants Steam to remove AI game disclosures
Just as Call of Duty’s AI slop causes refunds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B62... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251127-epi... - podcast
time: 6 min 58 sec
Just as Call of Duty’s AI slop causes refunds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B62... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251127-epi... - podcast
time: 6 min 58 sec
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“AI is the future it’s legit and ethical and everybody wants it and that’s why we need to disguise it please let us disguise it”
*Bill Wurtz voice* You can make a great schism out of this!
I thought I might try the same experiment with a bit more context, and - I dunno - it seems to have stumbled a bit with the basic facts…
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
*Bill Wurtz voice* You can make a great schism out of this!
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Many thanks to Michael Hickok for his review of my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina in Histoire sociale / Social History @hssh1968.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/9715...
🗃️ what's history #skystorians #Balkans #OttomanEmipre #Habsburg #menasky
muse.jhu.edu/article/9715...
🗃️ what's history #skystorians #Balkans #OttomanEmipre #Habsburg #menasky
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Many thanks to Michael Hickok for his review of my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina in Histoire sociale / Social History @hssh1968.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/9715...
🗃️ what's history #skystorians #Balkans #OttomanEmipre #Habsburg #menasky
muse.jhu.edu/article/9715...
🗃️ what's history #skystorians #Balkans #OttomanEmipre #Habsburg #menasky
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My essay on how early Republican, hygiene-focused modernization intersected with the visual and rhetorical representations of electric household appliances was published on the Trafo Blog. For more: trafo.hypotheses.org/62593
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My essay on how early Republican, hygiene-focused modernization intersected with the visual and rhetorical representations of electric household appliances was published on the Trafo Blog. For more: trafo.hypotheses.org/62593
The real poetry is in how they made it like a pretend “paper”. Much like “AI” is pretend cognition in the stolen garments of language, this document is pretend science in the disguise of a… low effort all-defaults LaTeX based preprint lmfao
“Paper” eh
“Paper” eh
Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made ‘science’
Not even poetically sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnID... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251124-don... - podcast
time: 5 min 46 sec
Not even poetically sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnID... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251124-don... - podcast
time: 5 min 46 sec
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The real poetry is in how they made it like a pretend “paper”. Much like “AI” is pretend cognition in the stolen garments of language, this document is pretend science in the disguise of a… low effort all-defaults LaTeX based preprint lmfao
“Paper” eh
“Paper” eh
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not that it matters since it's a meme, but it's for glass from breaking windows, and similar debris, not actually if the building falls on you; we had this as kids in Cyprus too
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
not that it matters since it's a meme, but it's for glass from breaking windows, and similar debris, not actually if the building falls on you; we had this as kids in Cyprus too
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
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Google surreptitiously opted many users into allowing the company access to private Gmail messages to train its AI models. If you want to see if your content is being mined and want to opt out, here are the instructions.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Google surreptitiously opted many users into allowing the company access to private Gmail messages to train its AI models. If you want to see if your content is being mined and want to opt out, here are the instructions.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
I’ve began slowly exploring archives since last summer and my fav find is some diplomat writing to Ottoman E saying, praphrasing, “ey we’ve some Swiss artisanal families looking to move, these troglodytic hillbillies couldn’t survive crossing the Atlantic, how about you have em they’re quite handy”.
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I’ve began slowly exploring archives since last summer and my fav find is some diplomat writing to Ottoman E saying, praphrasing, “ey we’ve some Swiss artisanal families looking to move, these troglodytic hillbillies couldn’t survive crossing the Atlantic, how about you have em they’re quite handy”.
OTOH it was much easier to sign up for H-Net and a bunch of its mailing lists' updates. (Quite a large bunch *panics mildly*)
It seems that when you ask for digests only, they send you a singular digest combining all the subscriptions which is Very Very Very Nice
It seems that when you ask for digests only, they send you a singular digest combining all the subscriptions which is Very Very Very Nice
@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social has a very nice and attractive newsletter access to which is alas kept behind a signup process that was definitely not prepared w lowly grad students such as I in mind. 'Spose I'll suffice with following the social media & perhaps the blog... pity 🤷
November 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
OTOH it was much easier to sign up for H-Net and a bunch of its mailing lists' updates. (Quite a large bunch *panics mildly*)
It seems that when you ask for digests only, they send you a singular digest combining all the subscriptions which is Very Very Very Nice
It seems that when you ask for digests only, they send you a singular digest combining all the subscriptions which is Very Very Very Nice
@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social has a very nice and attractive newsletter access to which is alas kept behind a signup process that was definitely not prepared w lowly grad students such as I in mind. 'Spose I'll suffice with following the social media & perhaps the blog... pity 🤷
November 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social has a very nice and attractive newsletter access to which is alas kept behind a signup process that was definitely not prepared w lowly grad students such as I in mind. 'Spose I'll suffice with following the social media & perhaps the blog... pity 🤷
So you’re telling me AI is not when billion dollar ebooks bots? I am perplexitied!
![hayden
@haydendevs
this is who you're arguing with online
[stylised diagram of neural network architecture]
hayden
@haydendevs
there's too many people with "AI/ML" in their bio asking what this image is.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2aiipqemoobrrilfx4jbm6pb/bafkreignf5kigptgnlkkrkc4mu2dtri4m5clh46oikpu5bey327yg6cncq@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
So you’re telling me AI is not when billion dollar ebooks bots? I am perplexitied!
Damn! One of the books I had got for the PhD at İstanbul Uni, there’s a typo on the spine, the one jutting out, should be Avrupa Mektupları, which it is in the cover and all.
What kind of publishing house does that? Not even bootlegs do that kind of thing…
What kind of publishing house does that? Not even bootlegs do that kind of thing…
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Damn! One of the books I had got for the PhD at İstanbul Uni, there’s a typo on the spine, the one jutting out, should be Avrupa Mektupları, which it is in the cover and all.
What kind of publishing house does that? Not even bootlegs do that kind of thing…
What kind of publishing house does that? Not even bootlegs do that kind of thing…
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Whoops! Microsoft’s new Windows AI agent platform lets in malware
and you thought Windows was supposed to run software
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAeN... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251119-who... - podcast
time: 4 min 27 sec
and you thought Windows was supposed to run software
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAeN... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251119-who... - podcast
time: 4 min 27 sec
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Whoops! Microsoft’s new Windows AI agent platform lets in malware
and you thought Windows was supposed to run software
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAeN... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251119-who... - podcast
time: 4 min 27 sec
and you thought Windows was supposed to run software
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAeN... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251119-who... - podcast
time: 4 min 27 sec