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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2h

I was long put off by them when I saw CEO all starry eyed about "AI" in multiple youtube vids of theirs, iirc even talking about adding NPUs

And, funny how they say they don't pick partners based on politics when their entire proposition is right to repair & so politics. Classic startup bs

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3h

Nice parts:

- I like the library, kinda. I mean i could be better, but it surely could be much worse

- The Letters building is a spawn of hell, but the area around it is lovely

- It's in Ankara, I 💙 Ankara

- BAM is quite nice, I liked the burger & sandwich place upstairs, & nice coffee in BAM

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3h

I mean there's nice parts of Beytepe campus but

- It is literally in the middle of nowhere like some Area 51

- It's massive with most of it empty

- The Faculty of Letters building is literally a CS GO map

- The Beytepe metro station is like, outside the bounds of civilisation

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3h

An overview of my uni campus experience

Boğaziçi Uni South Campus: trees, Bosporus, best views, nice air, old buildings

Istanbul Uni's buildings scattered across Fatih: literally in the middle of thousands of years of history

Hacettepe Uni's Beytepe Campus: literally a good setting for a Western

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3h

No I’m the tongue thief

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 5h

Therefore don’t ”correct” people unless prompted or unless they’re saying something that might get them in trouble, it’s rude and patronising at best. What are you, the tongue cop?

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 1d

Actual hot take: public transit vehicles should never be heated except the dead of winter. I already dressed up for the weather, all this achieves is sweat and th discomfort of having to strip in a bus.

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 1d

I can help you better than Pascal: just don't pick "AI", then you're golden. With the money you save you can pay me in obscure stationery and decent stout, thank you very much!

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 6d

On business faculty and the Malcolm Gladwellization of everything.

time.com/7320539/phil...

The Philosophical Bet We All Need to Make in the Age of AI

Toby Stuart argues that the French philosopher Blaise Pascal can teach us how to make rational choices in the AI era.

time.com

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

Love the butthurt dinguses writing essays on why it’s evil to poke fun at their bs-o-matic lmao. How much time do theu have to write these comments out, theyre so long

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

Isn't the whole bleeding point of fucking Ey Ay to take all the disparate web shite, smush it all together, and provide an interactive UI?

Avoiding a more disgusting simile, isn't this trying to reconstitute a burnt tree from the ashes? These nerds are verily Oceangating the depths of dimwittery

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 3d

Musk’s Grokipedia — Grok AI rewrites Wikipedia

‘maximum truth through first principles and physics’

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA-F... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251005-mus... - podcast

time: 4 min 10 sec

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

There's two kinds of professors: those who understand that their course is not the only one in the curriculum, and those who suck at teaching.

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

Professor: close readings of assigned materials pls.

Assigned materials per week: 3-5 items adding up to 100-200 pages merely for his class.

Yea sorry no I'm skimming this shit. I've four other courses. This is how you suck at teaching.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 4d

bsky.app/profile/haus...

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 4d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder how many of these “clanker is like n word” ppl are the exact same who when called a cracker by a Black person belive they’re being subjected to supposed “anti-white racism“

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 4d

No such thing as “AI art” exists, but the perversion of social justice language here is at a level that’s worthy of being displayed in a modern art museum for the ages, as an illustration of how meaningless words are without the social context around them.

Screenshot of bsky post saying:

you have not heard these because you don't do ai art, you're not the target of the bigotry thus don't get confronted with it.

It's real easy to ignore when you're not being targeted.

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 4d

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 4d

bsky.app/profile/davi...

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4d

this is Jay Graber promoting Laurelai Bailey

atproto, the Laurelai network

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

Can't code?

I'd say ask a friend, but at the rate AI is improving, maybe you won't even need to. Someone built a functional Appview with replit overnight.

bsky.app/profile/doll...

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 4d

bsky.app/profile/davi...

Looks like this thread is evolving into my potential "why I left bsky" blog's outline.. Should give a bit more chance to the possibility that leading cadres quit & things improve, but there's a gray zone b/w hope and foolishness, & one may traverse it without noticing...

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4d

countdown to the bluesky ICO

once a coiner

Kye Fox
@kyefox.com

I would be down for an ATCoin, preferably on Etherium or some other proof of stake thing.

hailey
@hailey.at

whoa now, don't say that too loudly.
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 4d

bsky.app/profile/davi...

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4d

Jay Graber believes LLMs are the Basilisk

Meme Monger
@deadmemescroll...

Al is literally stealing electricity to be wrong. You're worship a lie machine that accelerates climate death

Jay
@jay.bsky.team

I definitely don't worship it, but I am a pragmatist about learning how to use technologies that can't be uninvented before they use us.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 4d

"But they are following similar patterns."

...I need you to understand that the problem with racial slurs is not how they are categorical pejoratives, it's not how they are grammatically leveraged, and it's not how they are reductive. It's that racial slurs malign *inherent qualities* of *people*.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 4d

People... are allowed to come up with mean names for inanimate objects. If you compare this practice to racial slurs, I'm going to think you believe people of other races hold the same concrete significance and value as inanimate objects. This is one of those slips that does not look good on anyone.

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tante @tante.cc · 4d

"Ultimately, I think Graber is trying to drive queer users off the platform not as part of some 6D chess plan to push decentralization, but simply out of bigoted animus."

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals | Azhdarchid

As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

azhdarchid.com

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 5d

There’s a kind of person who is the reason that blocks and bans exist. They’re also the ones who argue loudest that blocking is evil, and you’ll be stuck in a filter bubble or an echo chamber if you deprive yourself of their sparkling wit. You should block these guys faster than anyone.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 5d

And mentions Northsky

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 5d

The piece talks a decent bit about Blacksky.

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