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Göktuğ Kayaalp

@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden
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PhD student @ Boğaziçi History.
MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Aug 05, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Now I am your average landlubber but I hear there are these things called waves at sea, which means spinning disks are out of question, all cables need to be specially made or picked to allow for bolting down, you need to make sure ram sticks or graphics cards don't come flying off the servers when they may do so even while transporting a PC on the highway, and the only reliable way to bring in a sysadmin or engineer quickly is via some rope dangling from an helicopter Definitely an idea only some coder who has never seen a server room could come up with I bet LNG based generators also best work while being hit by tall waves, that's probably the optimal operating environment! https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117044807754764530 @davidgerard@circumstances.run
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Jun 20, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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*Tinfoil hat on* I doubt it's a coincidence that the last 10, 15 years things like cryptocurrencies, "metaverse", "AI" are becoming popular, just as "lines" in the computing industry flatten: as the computer has been perfected, an _economy of waste_ is created to sustain appetite for growth. Computers (phones, tablets &c are computers) have become longer term investments; even if you have abundant money, the latest devices aren't necessarily upgrades that bring anything new to the table. We've _done_ computing, we finished it back in 2010s mostly. That's a plateau in demand for new devices, or it would be, w/o the saviour of computing wastage industry. Cryptocurrency wastes storage and processors, "AI" wastes memory and processors, "metaverse", ads, cloud etc waste networking bandwidth. So we use much more computing resources than we need. Computing wastage also inflates the income of fossil fuel industry. Its useless activities and the infrastructure to support all that is powered--where it's not pure speculation and is actually built out--frequently by dirty electricity. I think that explains a lot about govt & corpo interest esp in "AI" right now. It's a growth driver. It's a line mover upper. It's a conduit of money to an otherwise stagnating tech and dirty energy sector. *Tinfoil hat off*
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Jun 06, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Replying to @robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz
@robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz Huh, usually I can't reproduce these finds but now I get this as well. Interestingly enough, I get the same formula but a different initial constant, 3.6-something. And it is consistent between refreshes and new tabs and even different browsers, i.e. I get that same number. Weird.
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · May 26, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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2000-2009 -- Noughties
2010-2019 -- Naughties
2020-2029 -- Ouchies

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · May 23, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Everyone: fake it till you make it

Google, lately: make it till you fake it

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · May 20, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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«Aro/Ace Online Talk Series»

«The Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network is excited to announce its Aro/Ace Talk Series running throughout the summer. Every week on Friday at 3 pm (UK time, exception noted in schedule), we will be joined by researchers, activists and academics who will give us insight into their projects and current topics in aro/ace research from asexual geographies to aromantic belonging, online fandoms, activism, disability and the erotics of editing.»

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20151826/aroace-online-talk-series

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · May 14, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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⏰ When I see lists like this,

🤔 I think to myself

💩 Wow, this must be "AI" generated...

🚭 ...I won't read it

🖔 🖔 Just FYI

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · May 14, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Bring back background filling for icon labels I CAN'T READ THIS SHITE IDIOT COMPUTER SHAGGERS YOU DIMWITS

YOU DESERVE THE FUCKING GUILLOTINES

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · May 11, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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If I was more of a bitter nerd I'd be insisting on calling my phone a PDA or pocket computer instead.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · May 10, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

sunny.garden

Damn, this is a first, Brill won't let me have the book I want if I try to get it from its page with institutional login, but if I get to it with Ebsco of my uni then I can get the PDF? Whaaat??

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · May 10, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

sunny.garden
Replying to @mapto@masto.bg
@mapto@masto.bg @olivia@scholar.social @CyberneticForests@assemblag.es damn, an "illogical fallacy" is so 2026
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · May 05, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

sunny.garden

Any recommendations for an introductory textbook on social theory?

I am preparing a syllabus for myself to catch up on social theory, chiefly from Marx up to post-colonial/structuralist stuff, as relates to history in particular and humanities an social sciences in general, as it's an area I'm sorely lacking in.

I've some particular interests like Marxism, feminism, and Bourdieu, but I am thinking perhaps following a textbook would be more productive and would be less likely to lead to blind spots.

If you know of a good "introduction to social theory" syllabus that's very welcome recommendation too.

:boost_ok: :boost_requested:

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Apr 29, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Replying to @moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org
@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org @davidgerard@circumstances.run I was excited when it first came out cos it looked nicer to me visually. Then I saw the new right click menu. It then went downhill from there...
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Apr 27, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

sunny.garden
Replying to @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden
@jnsgruk E.g. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-AI-Features-2026
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Apr 27, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Replying to @jnsgruk@hachyderm.io
@jnsgruk I first encountered reports about this that put the LLM stuff forward and I reacted with revulsion, then read this link and my reaction was considerably more moderate. We really need some terminological clarity in this field that separates what I sometimes think of as "heuristic computing" (NNs, DL, NLP, expert systems &c; so TTS, speech/image recognition, &c) and stuff that's termed "generative AI" ("skeumorphic" models of various nature what get touted as having cognition and creativity somehow, ChatGPT, stable diffusion, Sora, Claude, &c). I am all for the former. Don't use them much myself but people do have valid use cases for it. I dislike the latter but I can live with it so long as it's some normally unobtrusive developer tool you can install/enable if you want. So long as it doesn't Microsoft Copilot its way into my life I'll hold my nose about it lol Lastly, and I mean this most constructively: I think your dichotomy of explicit/implicit AI is basically what I say above but those terms are confusing. Mine aren't better either. "AI" is polarising and tainted. I think it would be opportune to workshop the communication of this as a lot of people who aren't informed about these nuances are trying out or using Linux because they're fed up of "AI" in Windows in particular and this might generate unnecessary and avoidable confusion. In fact it seems to be doing that already.
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Apr 18, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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We should get building web directories again. Curated, collaborative, intentional.

The age of the search engine is gone by.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Mar 29, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

sunny.garden

https://discuss.kde.org/t/framework-becomes-a-kde-patron/45701/10

This is incredible. Basically KDE is telling us some 150 dorks decide everything and "community" doesn't matter, ofc because "community" is a fiction

Well, I'm done with KDE forever

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Jan 28, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Replying to @soviut@hachyderm.io
@soviut@hachyderm.io @heliographe_studio@mastodon.social Interesting then that everywhere I read hear and see people complaining they can't distinguish icons and notice interactive elements and failing to interact with them properly, all from very computer literate to those who only know how to operate facebook and the caller app on their phones (of which, many in my family). If they're in rectangles, especially in the way they are nowadays in Android and iOS, they _are_ rectangles, when the colour etc of those rectangles are used as distinctive features. I also have some mild accessibility needs as my sight issues while nothing near blindness still render current design trends detrimental to my experience. And rarely if ever do I hear any praise from actual disabled people on that front. Icons are one aspect, as these "squircle" icons require me to focus my sight more acutely than normal, and strain my eyes. Along with how light themes have become dark grey on bright white it means screens frequently give me splitting headaches. As for clickability, it's contextual. A grid of icons on a phone screen or a line of icons on a dock perfectly signal clickability. People don't have much of an issue with file icons on desktop either, especially non techies I frequently observe or help out in family or at uni. Nor do they seem to think a tabular listing in Finder is inert. (I am arguing based not on the rightmost icon in the OP but the two preceding it btw. But even the rightmost is better than left ones.)
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Jan 28, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Replying to @soviut@hachyderm.io
@soviut@hachyderm.io @heliographe_studio@mastodon.social So icons can be skeumorphic/ornamented and pretty so long as they have distinctive outlines, got it. That'd also explain why I frequently find myself finding it difficult to say pick apps in most UIs these days because the icons are all the same shape, stupid rounded rectangles.
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Jan 14, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

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Replying to @soviut@hachyderm.io
@soviut@hachyderm.io @heliographe_studio@mastodon.social “Illustration and skeuomorphism don't usually lend themselves well to this.” Saying this based on? I can recognise and differentiate between old Apple skeumorphic icons on any display and context, and I didn't even use an Apple product before 2024.
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Göktuğ Kayaalp @librarysquirrel@sunny.garden · Jan 14, 2026
Göktuğ Kayaalp
@librarysquirrel@sunny.garden

PhD student @ Boğaziçi History. MA in Linguistics (Hacettepe), BA in Italianistics (İstanbul).

sunny.garden
Replying to @soviut@hachyderm.io
@soviut@hachyderm.io @heliographe_studio@mastodon.social app icons aren't warning signs
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