Category: In English
Monthly Log: August 2019
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mono.kultur #44 & #47
Recently decided working on to change and add more diverse stuff to my information diet. This also includes thinking about where I’m spending money on and make sure it goes to people and ideas will feed my brain more and actually needs and deserves support. So I started with mono.kultur and these two arrived yesterday…
IFLA WLIC 2019: 20 Years of the IFLA Intellectual Freedom Statement: Constancy and Change
This year I was invited to speak at IFLA’s World Library and Information Congress, as a part of a session focusing on intellectual freedom and freedom of information. As a part of the session, I talked about the current situation in Turkey and how it effects the librarians and freedom of information in general. Although…
‘Ralphing’ and Compass Memes
Last week I talked a bit about compass memes on my newsletter. It was something came out of nowhere but the more I think about it, I feel like there is more to think and talk about it. Jay, who introduced me to the compasses, also recently wrote about it on his blog. Including a…
Common ground: Holly Herndon in conversation with James Bridle
Our desire for control is precisely the problem. We are never going to understand the world more broadly. We’re not going to be able to talk to trees in the way that we talk to one another. But we need to be able to live meaningfully, equitably with them and with all other natural systems.…
Over at the Blog: Revisiting “Manfred Macx Media Diet”
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Monthly Log: July 2019
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Turkey’s Online Censorship Just Leveled Up
(This is the first piece I wrote for Patreon after the reboot. This piece is locked to “First to Read” tier and above for the first 24 hours and then it’ll become public. Hope you’ll enjoy it. —Ahmet) You all probably know that one of the things I’ve been writing about a lot is the…