Syllabi are coming out, and damn, the required course I was the least excited about (*) turns out to be the most interesting. ___ * Not bc bad but felt like not matching my interests.

ottoman excel-based solarpunk when

Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right is 30% of Microsoft’s press coverage vibe-marketed www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9X5... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260204-mic... - podcast time: 6 min 57 sec

if you've been dealing with Jake Archibald, the Firefox "developer relations" guy trying to appease anti-AI-in-Firefox sentiment on Mastodon and Bluesky, this thread documents Jake's style of corporate DARVO in detail he is here *only* to waste your time mas.to/@zzt/1160086...

Replying for uni - WhatsApp groups - Zoom (meetings, hybrid/online conferences) - Weird ass student info system every uni made ad hoc in early 2000s and still uses - The 2015 replacement of the former that never replaced the whole thing - Weird ass library interfaces - Word - Computers, in general

bsky is the most censored social media app I've ever seen it's an assault on human ability for language, idk how their shit works but I look at hidden comments and they're usually 100% benign with similar replies in same 🧵 not hidden but actual heinous stuff allowed to be visible.

oh been on the humanoid robot trail for a while! pivot-to-ai.com/category/hum...

@davidgerard.co.uk Have you began preparing for "Pivot to Robot", given the Tesla news?

Google Maps has just suggested that I walk across the fucking Bosporus!?

sounds like that ceo should be paid a trillion dollars

Prompt fondlers when you call them names: "Oh no we're racismed anti-AI racism is so bad" Prompt fondlers when 👇: "It's only racism if it comes from Racismtown, Ohio; otherwise it's just sparkling slop"

I sincerely wish Mozilla would crash and burn. I can't bear to hear its name anymore. stateof.mozilla.org nb: link is cognitohazard

If you're organising and international event in *that country*, the you-know-what, the üç harfli, no you're not. infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

> and an enterprise version of Firefox that treats the browser as critical infrastructure for modern work, not a data collection surface. this implies the regular version *is* a data collection surface AI is mentioned only in passing blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla-n...

Never buy a OnePlus phone ever again. They now have a hardware anti-rollback fuse that blows if you revert to an earlier version or install a custom ROM. consumerrights.wiki/w/Oneplus_ph...

Eyaaay people discovering the Scunthorpe problem a few decades too late. Ppl ask for protection against automated sexual abuse and all we get is fucking TV Guardian AI edition.

Your brain on gainful futility... If we hadn't had a managerial class and instead worker/customer owned businesses we wouldn't have this bullshit maybe.

Spotify is a shit music player app that steals money from musicians and the joy of listening to music from listeners and turns it into Murican military propaganda. It's a better deal for everyone to quit.

iPod update: going nice! Enjoy listening on it. Built a little seedling of a music library, slowly adding to it occasionally. Also made me realise my Samsung phone doesn't have a music player app built in. Now imagine that in 2010 lol. Also Play store is devoid of anything worthwhile on that front.

I've done it. bsky.app/profile/igok... So far, it's rekindled the joy of listening to music for me to go without streaming. Gonna slowly be rebuilding my personal music library again.

University of Vienna Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026 — Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies Call for Applications: at least 40 Doctoral Positions in the Social Sciences, Humanities & Cultural Studies Application deadline: 2 March 2026, 14:00 CET careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

Bsky was down earlier, i suppose to add this second "new post" pseudo-button?

The first felt very Alice in Wonderland-ey (which I've never read somehow not even as a kid) and after a quick duck duck googling I learn why: Tenniel is the original illustrator of Carrol's books.

I have a fantastic student who wrote a great paper on knitting patterns from a book/media history/history of documents point of view recently and wants to do more research... this is a bit outside my wheelhouse — friends, do any of you have readings you'd suggest?

No, Dell is still pushing AI in PCs Don’t believe the PCGamer hype www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtFZ... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260112-no-... - podcast time: 6 min 07 sec

Every single grad student and scholar in social sciences and humanities should read an up to date Linguistics 101 textbook in my IMO.

Battery: replaced! only minor injuries to the iPod

harsh but fair 🥲 thx for feedback

Thinkpads are nice laptops but whoever thought those were the right places for PageUp/Down and PrtSc keys needs to fucking walk the plank i tells ya

… it turns out that if you don’t have any time for ethics, you also don’t have any time for understanding complex systems, so neither case matters to them

The ethical case against using LLMs for work is straightforward and unambiguous The productivity case against using LLMs for work is complex and requires an understanding of volatility, variability, biases, security issues, lock-in, and more But…

I'm so in love with this thing. New battery & appropriate earphones en route. I'll be the most 2006 mfer out there. If banks offer you easy mortgage do say no.

My review of A. Wick (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Yıllık 7 (2025), 279-281. dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/yilli...

i'd like to thank Joe Biden for his indispensable role in getting us to where we are today. his dedication to himself, his unshakable delusion that "this is not who we are," his squeamish aversion to jailing Trump, his delegitimation of the ICC, and so much more — we remember you Joe 🥰

I used Fastmail for a year or two some time ago, would recommend if it hasn't got worse. One of the less obvious perks was you can back up your email filters because it's just a Sieve script. Save it somewhere and done.

'Tis on it's way's

So for 3yr in primary&middle school I was at a very posh private school, "gifted kid" scholarship. Kids there would all have these, "Shuffle" more often, we're talking like 2006-ish. Was so jelly, we ofc couldn't afford. For the last year-ish been thinking, perhaps it's finally time to catch up hehe

Prompt shaggers are a small but vocal minority of labour thieves, sex pests, plagiarists, billionaires, and politicians, the world over. A lot of pseudo-representative regimes are in legitimacy crises, the world over. It's all pregnant for interesting times, hopefully in a good way...

We are delighted to announce the 6th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, hosted by Rutgers University, Newark on April 10–11, 2026. Call for Papers Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) by January 21, 2026 to: [email protected] #menasky #skystorians🗃️ #ottoman

Ooh nice, i was interested in something like this for a sci comm podcast project for the future

Just arrived - and a moving dedication. Congratulations to Nilab Saeedi!

Görsel yapay zeka uygulamasıyla düzenlenmişmiş. Marifet gibi yazıyor bir de. Aranızda yok mu bi tane fotoşop bilen? bianet.org/haber/maduro...

Canada, Shouldada Mexico, Takes-ico

wonderful; boomers rising up is indeed not on the radar for even actual boomer-watchers let lone actual dunderhead goblins like zuck

I don't know what you think they said about butter. But maybe you need to get some good books on your favourite topics by knowledgeable people. I bet there's literally wonderful "a history of butter" books you'd love out there.

Users can't quit Office if there's Office no more 😏👈

this is a member of the Codeberg board btw this is what we like to see

@vivaldi.com Hiya a feature request: can you add an option for disabling wrap around when cycling tabs? So if I Ctrl+Tab in the last tab it doesn't cycle back to the first?

Currently trying to read a paper written by two economists and honestly, this field is bullshit thru and thru. It's not a social science, it's not any humanities. It befits the fate of phrenology, from which it is not *that* distant in rigour and honesty.