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Melek Ortabasi

@mortabasi.bsky.social

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Mother, scholar, voter. Unsinkable. Expertise in World lit, Japanese lit, children’s lit, translation studies, and general saltiness. Contributor to @roganslist.bsky.social

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · Aug 7

Self-promotion incoming: happy to announce my latest article has been published in @jjs-jrnl.bsky.social! #kidlit #translation

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 30m

Those Sexy Russians will send you to your grave 😂

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 1h

An obscure version of “Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten,”courtesy of my children

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 2h

No, internet algorithms, I do not wish to meet sexy female singles online for crying out loud. Nor do I simultaneously need adult diapers. Christ

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 2h

I think, for once, I'll be able to attend. And Boy 3 is coming with me whether he likes it or not LOL 🍄Yay!🍄

Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 4h

Thanksgiving dinner was requested by Boy 1 so of course I couldn’t say no 🥰

Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 12h

Boo 👻

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Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 12h

In fact, let me officially offer my notes as research data to #AcademicSky.

I have documented my study from the begining. I have the AI and MCR versions of every single one of these summaries.

@aeraedresearch.bsky.social?

Michael Ralph @michaelcralph.bsky.social · 12h

I have studied this for... 3 years now? Maybe more. Every month I ask AI to summarize two research papers, then I deep read those papers myself.

They do a bad job. Their summary always misses something... Pretty often something big. Some include false information, too.

It's not a summary.

Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 2d

I have endless circular arguments about this.

Them: “It’s written a summary.”

Me: “No, it’s written something tuned to look like a summary.”

Them: “But it looks like a summary.”

Me: <sigh>

We’re not used to computers lying to us.

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah I noticed that. Absolutely bonkers

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 13h

On brand

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 13h

Oh my god this is real?

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Bessie the Normie @bessiefromsgv.bsky.social · 1d

My UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) absentee ballot abroad was counted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @demsabroad.bsky.social

Let's win this!!

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 1d

Some lovely #fungifriends from this afternoon

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 1d

Oh excuse me ニャるほど

Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 1d

ニャルほど

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 1d

I can see clearly now
Buntzen Lake, BC

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 1d

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 1d

There are few more chilling phrases than “Children’s Detention Center.”

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 1d

It’s my fake electric fire 🔥 I love it!

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 2d

What’s up?

Paws 🐾 up

Nite nite 😘

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 2d

lol fuck off

Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 2d

Ok never fucking mind I don’t want to hear about her

Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 2d

Right-winger Maria Corina Machado, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is an enthusiastic trump supporter, describes trump as a “visionary," and says that trump was right to bomb the Venezuelan boat, and he's Venezuela’s best chance for regime change.
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Nobel Peace Prize winner hailed Trump as ‘visionary’ just days before her victory

Maria Corina Machado was given the award for promoting democracy in Venezuela and says that the US president is the country’s best chance for regime change

www.independent.co.uk

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 2d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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