Author: Ahmet A. Sabancı
The hypersane are among us
Found this article thanks to Arikia: Many ‘normal’ people suffer from not being hypersane: they have a restricted worldview, confused priorities, and are wracked by stress, anxiety and self-deception. As a result, they sometimes do dangerous things, and become fanatics or fascists or otherwise destructive (or not constructive) people. In contrast, hypersane people are calm,…
Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
Tim Maughan’s Infinite Detail was published in March and since then it was sitting on my Kindle for reasons. Finally got my hand around it and finished the book today. And I have to say that this book is amazing. The smile grows into a self-deprecating chuckle; and she’s strangely embarrassed that part of her…
Start Select Reset Zine #001: Your Attention is Sovereign
Jay (previously) has a new digital zine out, which includes his writings and podcast transcriptions about the internet, social media and attention economy. He talks about many things such as multitasking, how we’re using our devices, productivity and how he changed his social media use and more. I’ve finished it in one sitting and already…
#CoveringClimateNow Week is Here
From the project website: Our initiative includes more than 250 outlets worldwide, and dozens of institutional and independent partners, with a combined audience of more than 1 billion people. From September 15-23, our partners have committed to emphasizing climate stories. The goal is to maximize coverage of the climate crisis and its impacts in the…
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…
#Olay ve #Susamam
Bir günde iki şimdiden klasik olacak rap şarkısının gelişini blogda paylaşmamak olmazdı. Hem Ezhel hem de Şanıser ve çetesinin (daha iyi nasıl tanımlayabilirim bilemedim) aynı anda böyle şarkıları ortama salması kesinlikle bir şeylere işaret. Şarkıları dinlediğimden bu yana kafamda dönen birkaç şeyi de buraya not almak istedim. Eğer internette daimi olarak saçmalayanları bir kenara bırakacak…
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…