still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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"Turkey’s war on the media is best understood as a systemic siege, documented through years of IPI monitoring, where legal threats overlap with physical violence, verbal intimidation, and a culture of impunity." - @globalfreemedia.bsky.social ipi.media/the-relay-ra...

Yaşasın 1 Mayıs - a brief(ish) look at Workers' Day in art and culture in Turkey in my latest newsletter: istanbuletcetera.substack.com/p/yasasn-1-m... #MayDay #1Mayıs #1MayısİsçiBayramı

Never been happier to have just renewed mine 😅

FMA joins #pressfreedom groups and other journalist organizations in condemning the intensifying use of Turkey's "disinformation law" to arrest, detain, and prosecute journalists. A free and independent press is itself the most durable safeguard against the spread of false information.

Random extra fact: supposedly Zonguldak got its weird name because French surveyors wanted to name it 'the zone of lakes & mountains' & then mangled the Turkish for lake (göl) & mountain (dağ). I have no idea how true this is. 🤷

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Brilliant read on the 'tyranny of the quantifiable' vs 'the arduous, the uncomfortable, the slow and wandering, the unpredictable, the vulnerable or risky, the intimate, the embodied.' Which side are you on?

FMA joins other media and #pressfreedom organizations in calling on the EU to reform visa policies that contribute to the professional isolation of Turkish journalists and hinder cross-border reporting on issues of shared importance. ipi.media/turkey-joint...

FMA stands with press freedom and freedom of speech organizations in calling for the release of journalist İsmail Arı. www.mlsaturkey.com/en/press-fre...

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Press freedom in #Turkey continued to deteriorate in 2025. New report by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social and partner orgs documenting rising political pressure, judicial harassment and censorship: turkiye.ipi.media/ipi-turkey-2...

Press freedom in #Turkey continued to deteriorate in 2025. New report by @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social and partner orgs documenting rising political pressure, judicial harassment and censorship: turkiye.ipi.media/ipi-turkey-2...

Since September, there's been a magical and at times menacing garden growing inside a magnificent mansion in Istanbul. Ahead of its final weekend, I wrote about the "Folia" exhibition for the new MENA edition of T: The New York Times Style Magazine: www.arabianbusiness.com/t-magazine/a...

Money saved by taking public transportation from Istanbul airport instead of the airport bus: 340 TL Not have the first thing you encounter in the city being a barrage of "taksi taksi taksi taksi" at the bus stop: Priceless

"I am not a dangerous criminal. I don't even have parking tickets," says 65-year-old British tourist handcuffed, shackled and detained by ICE for a total of six weeks on US visit despite traveling with a valid visa. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pressure on foreign media, too, is increasing in Turkey. Today, seasoned Deutsche Welle reporter Alican Uludağ was detained for "insulting" president Erdogan. He should be released immediately. #DW #JournalismIsNotACrime

#Turkey: We join our affiliates TGS, TGC, DİSK Basın-İş and GCD in demanding the immediate release of @news.dw.com journalist @alicanuludag.bsky.social. Uludağ's arrest relates to an X post where he criticised the Turkish government. Read more ⤵️

FMA joins other journalism and #pressfreedom organizations in calling for the release of award-winning Turkish journalist @alicanuludag.bsky.social and an end to judicial harassment of journalists reporting on matters of public interest. #GazetecilikSuçDeğildir turkiye.ipi.media/turkey-media...

While statistics show the number of workers returned to pre-quake levels in impacted areas, they mask a shift in job quality. “There are many people who are well educated and are working in construction right now in Hatay,” DISK's Mehmet Emin Doğruel said. @nimetkirac.bsky.social reports:

In a cabinet reshuffle, Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Akın Gürlek, who has headed up controversial investigations into Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu as well as previous prosecutions of CHP official Canan Kaftancıoğlu and former HDP co-chair Demirtaş, has been appointed Turkey's Minister of Justice.

Working on a new piece about dissident Russian-language writers living outside Russia and looking to discover new voices. Who are the contemporary authors in exile or diaspora that you’re reading right now? Recommendations very welcome.

Istanbul concerts by two metal bands, one from Russia and one from Poland, banned by Beşiktaş District Governorship as "incompatible with societal values" and ALL events at the venue, Zorlu PSM, banned for the two days this week that the shows would have occurred.

Post a banger that's not in English - Uçkun, Mabel Matiz feat Hello Pshycaleppo) (Türkçe) youtu.be/siSlPpH9m-4?...

Post a banger that’s not in English: m.youtube.com/watch?v=cpp6... (Türkçe)

Passionate about art (and its intersections)? Hyperallergic is hiring for several roles on our Editorial and Publishing teams. If you want to work in independent media, we’d love to meet you. buff.ly/kPh13gC

Challenge accepted 😅

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Trump's attacks on universities & media, capture of the judiciary, and inflammatory rhetoric against "others" looks very familiar from the Turkish perspective - @kayagenc.bsky.social writes for @thedialmag.bsky.social on how the two countries now mirror each other www.thedial.world/articles/new...

“Hundreds of women are recorded every year as having taken their lives by ‘throwing themselves from a high place’. Their grieving families say these figures conceal cases where women did not jump but were pushed.” Important report by @ruthmichaelson.com @berileski.bsky.social on femicides in Turkey

Run to see Jafar Panahi's latest film "It was just an accident" or Simple Accident. Secretly filmed in Iran. Such poignant themes today about the human desire for revenge and reconciliation, the complexity of human emotions, the reverberations of torture/PTSD, and the resilience of ordinary people.

The MAGA movement moved from "we shouldn't fight Russia's imperial aggression" to "we should mimic Russia's imperial aggression" with startling alacrity.

Congrats @meganeaves.com this looks like a great read!

"The state or state-backed perpetrators of violence blame victims for their own deaths... to collateralize & dehumanize political opponents... [with] special rage directed at those committed to documenting the violence." @borzou.bsky.social on ICE, the IDF & Iran borzou.substack.com/p/why-ice-th...

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael. On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition. ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

The article shows how “hypernormalization” describes a society that knows its systems are failing yet carries on as if everything is normal, producing deep dissonance and paralysis.

Protesters opposing government actions, journalists reporting news that the powers that be would rather not have exposed — “terrorists” one and all. Anyone with experience with authoritarian regimes has seen this before.

My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow. If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Huge thanks to everyone who has supported @globalvoices.org! You have helped to keep us going during this extremely difficult time for media organizations, human rights, & non-profits of any kind! We are still trying to get back up to full capacity, so please help if you can.

One thing that strikes me is how, in contrast to all the alpha male posturing of Trump and his coterie, or the ICE agents in their combat gear, real courage in the face of real danger is being demonstrated by a bunch of old ladies, nurses, and other assorted citizens on the streets of Minneapolis.

NEW: Within minutes of Alex Pretti being shot and killed, the Trump administration began rewriting the narrative, labelling the victim as a "lunatic" and a "terrorist" contradicting all available evidence www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Journalists covering pro-Kurdish protests detained in Turkey cpj.org?p=555884

Many people on both sides of the Turkey-PKK conflict remain unconvinced by the peace process. They often have contradictory ideas of what has happened and the way forward—regardless of the outcome of ongoing clashes in Syria. @daniel-b-thorpe.bsky.social reports from Diyarbakır: