Violence Prevention and Monitoring Centers in Türkiye reduced intimate partner homicides and physical intimate partner violence by 20 percent, mainly by improving access to coordinated protection services, from Asik, Erten, Tekin, Tumen, and Ulucan www.nber.org/papers/w34886

Getting into poetry lately, so I made a new thing: apoemperday.com A new poem is published every day, curated by me and some friends. Nothing more. Started off with a cheeky one at a friend’s request. Tomorrow’s is a doozy.

Oh, fuck off.

I am embracing my obsession, instead of denying it.

Good on China for giving them a taste of their own medicine. www.anthropic.com/news/detecti...

Got to test Sakae’s Iroful today. Hard to capture it in a photo, but it does show sheen as great as people say they do.

My first set of Iroshizuku and aren’t they just gorgeous. Now I have to think about which pens to pair them with.

“Someday this war’s gonna end.”

Goodbye to a filmmaker who taught me so, so much. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

"...fascism became objectionable to Europeans only when it unleashed in Europe the brutality they had inflicted on the “inferior” peoples of Asia & Africa." Similarly now: Europeans are upset, and paralysed, that Trump is treating him like those 'others' www.equator.org/articles/aft...

Wu’s not an idiot. She knows what her words mean, but she spews them out anyway because she can. This is who she chooses to be. She belongs to a certain social and cultural class and it should be on her community, whatever is left of it, to make her realize the bottomless pit that is her soul.

My questions about the interpretation of the data aside, I agree with @draliceevans.bsky.social‘s conclusion. Women in Turkey are culturally leapfrogging men. I suspect this is true in most countries though, particularly those with a prevalent internet culture. www.ggd.world/p/cultural-l...

My Pilot VP is out of ink and I am wondering if I can use this as an excuse to get my first Iroshizuku. Feels like it’s meant to be.

My first eyedropper and, naturally, an Opus 88! Had some doubts about the nib (M) but it writes as good as my gold nib pens. Filled it up with KWZ Gummiberry. This has got to be my most fun pen, in terms of its looks. Normally I go for plain colors or demonstrators, but I thought I’d make a change.

Please enjoy our research paper on how Bluesky is the preferred home of academics of all stripes, including professors of rare moths. (Yes, we actually have lots of entomologists here). academic.oup.com/icb/article-... 🧪

Time to do some swatching.

Bought too many inks again. It’s a disease.

I rely on AI a lot for my personal coding projects, which are always whimsical, and while it’s undeniably capable, I won’t consider it truly successful until AI companies themselves stop shipping Electron apps and commit to native ones.

“…the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality. It also scraps a section on the government-led genocide of Native Americans.”

Bought this today. It’s probably the greatest invention in history.

King

I’d say welcome to the club but even Erdoğan didn’t threaten to prosecute the governor of the CBRT. It’s easy to look at any headline these days and say “that’s insane”, but this actually is insane.

Fuck, I just found out Robert Jay Lifton passed away a few months ago. Shame on me. What a terrible loss. An exemplary scholar with a moral compass, deeply committed to Verstehen, willing to engage directly with difficult realities to reach genuine and meaningful understanding. May he rest in peace.

I could go on invoking any number of theories or ideas from symbolic interactionism to Marianne Weber’s social person, from sexual division of labor to field theory and each of them could help explain this multifaceted reality, some more than others. But the one thing I would’ve done…

In 2026, I wish more people to read Bourdieu, evil people to die painful deaths, and decent people to take their place.

Apple should have known that Alan Dye lacked taste when it first promoted him, but it’s good that he’s now someone else’s problem. Even better, that someone is Mark Zuckerberg.

Some good news. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Always love it when a Pope visits Turkey. Conspiracy theorists can be so creative.

Anxiety about their kids falling behind may be driving parents' decisions to adopt AI technology, despite personal support for restrictions, from Leonardo Bursztyn, Alex Imas, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard, and Christopher Roth www.nber.org/papers/w34488

Better late than never? Now bring back PWA support the same way Chromium does please. @mozilla.org www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox...

Google’s lead in LLMs is not because they know how to design or innovate on a product, but mostly because they’re an aggregator. Using their APIs makes that patently obvious.

Big and Little Spoons xkcd.com/3166/

How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Studying how Elon Musk’s partisan actions have impacted Tesla vehicle sales in the United States, from Kenneth T. Gillingham, Matthew Kotchen, James A. Levinsohn, and Barry J. Nalebuff www.nber.org/papers/w34413

Every single time I happen to see some clips of Obama doing a speech somewhere for some milquetoast Democrat, I feel like going on a rant for a few hours but then I remember I'm getting old.

When inflation surged, Türkiye cut rates and used foreign exchange-protected deposits to stabilize markets. Showing this approach created a destabilizing policy sequence and ultimately backfired, from A. Hakan Kara and Alp Simsek https://www.nber.org/papers/w34287

“If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

The comparison of Israel to Sparta is literally what Hannah Arendt predicted would happen back in 1947.

The storied institution that employs arguably the most important living social scientist of our time is ratting them out to the government along with their colleagues just to placate a genocidal regime. Unbelievable shit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

She was, in a sense, my boss for a few years. At least she signed my checks—often earlier than necessary. So I wish her well! www.wired.com/story/eff-ci...

Cleaning the new CON-70 was so awful that I ended up throwing it into the trash. How the hell did this design get past Pilot?

Mehdi Hasan is a gifted debater, but debates, and not just those against self-proclaimed fascists, are such a useless exercise.

Tukey xkcd.com/3104/

These kinds of things don't happen overnight. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

See also: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

What's mind-boggling is how an otherwise smart person can think that both situations are the same. The French judiciary is not under Macron's complete control.