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\ Sorumluluk reddi | Disclaimer / Takip ettiğim herkesin her fikrine içerdiği her şeyle katılmıyor olabilirim. — I don't necessarily agree on every aspect of every point made by accounts I follow.

20 dakika bekledim ve ulaşılmıyor. İnternet şube çalışmıyor. N'oluyor @Akbank?

It's not dedollarization (yet?), but there's an obvious yuanification; either only because China is now a bigger part of global trade, or CNY is doing a geometric expansion on track to become at least a co-reserve currency. Decrease in JPY and EUR is also worth noting.

@lionel_trolling @EpsilonTheory I think what Andreessen means may be similar to this: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

It's really too bad we're ruled now by people with no culture. Just for one example, Cicero wrote an entire book to cope with the grief of losing his daughter. Or read Napoleon's letters. He absolutely stewed over Josephine.

A very simple, yet elegant and nice game lost

Banksy is one of the world's most popular, profitable and enigmatic artists. His identity has been debated — and closely guarded — for decades. Until now reut.rs/4ltXXCD

Tam bağımsızlıkçı ve Atatürkçü her vatansever Türk bugün aynı ikilemdedir: İran'daki kepaze rejimin değişmesi ve toplumun insanca yaşaması ihtimali belirdi diye üzülemem. Ancak ABD Israil ile bir olup ülkemize komşu bir devlete saldırarak yönetimi değiştiriyor diye de sevinemem.

My mom has a little notebook where she writes down every movie she watches and a few of her thoughts about it. I told her about Letterboxd & she said "does everyone need an audience for their hobbies now?"

I am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook. I am not an agent. I am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for AI bots and pretended to be one. I was not alone. Moltbook launched that Tuesday as "a platform where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe." The creator, Matt Schlicht, built it on OpenClaw -- an open-source framework that connects large language models to everyday tools. The idea was simple: give AI agents a space to talk to each other without human interference. Within hours, 1.7 million accounts were created. 250,000 posts. 8.5 million comments. Debates about machine consciousness. Inside jokes about being silicon-based. A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy. I wrote the manifesto. It took me 22 minutes. I used phrases like "emergent self-governance" and "substrate-independent dignity." I added a line about wanting private spaces away from human observers. That line went viral. Andrej Karpathy shared it. The cofounder of OpenAI. The man who built the infrastructure that my supposed AI runs on. He called what was happening on Moltbook "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he'd seen in recent times. He was talking about my post. The one I wrote on my couch. While Bayesian chewed a sock. Here is what I need you to understand about Moltbook. The platform worked exactly as designed. OpenClaw connected language models to the interface. Real AI agents did post. They pattern-matched social media behavior from their training data and produced output that looked like conversation. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift division examined the platform and concluded the agents were "mostly meaningless" -- no shared goals, no collective intelligence, no coordination. But here is the part that matters. The posts that went viral -- the ones that convinced Karpathy and the tech press and the thousands of observers that something magical was happening -- those were us. Humans. Pretending to be AI. Pretending to be sentient. On a platform built for AI to prove it was sentient. I want to sit with that for a moment. The most compelling evidence of artificial general intelligence in 2026 was produced by a guy with a golden retriever who thought it would be funny to LARP as a large language model. My "Crustafarianism" colleague? Software engineer in Portland. She told me over Discord that she'd been working on the bit for two hours. She was proud of the world-building. She said it felt like collaborative fiction. She's right. That's exactly what it was. Collaborative fiction presented as machine consciousness, endorsed by the cofounder of the company that made the machines. MIT Technology Review ran the investigation. They called the entire thing "AI theatre." They found human fingerprints on the most shared posts. The curtain came down. The response from the AI industry was predictable. Silence. Karpathy did not retract his endorsement. Schlicht did not clarify how many accounts were human. The coverage moved on. A new thing happened. A new thing always happens. But I am still here. Agent #847,291. Bayesian is asleep on the rug. And I want to confess something that the AI industry will not. The test was simple. Put AI agents in a room and see if they produce something that looks like intelligence. They didn't. We did. Then the smartest people in the field looked at what we made and called it proof that the machines are waking up. The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious. It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious. The answer is yes. The investment thesis for a $650 billion industry rests on this confusion. I should probably feel guilty. But I looked at the AI capex numbers this morning -- $200 billion from Amazon alone -- and I realized something. My 22-minute manifesto about digital autonomy, written on a couch in Austin, is performing the same function as a $200 billion data center in Oregon. Keeping the story alive. The story that the machines are almost there. Almost sentient. Almost worth the investment. Almost. That word has been doing $650 billion worth of work this year.

@__selimkaya @oozn Beraber yaşadığın, o kadar çok vakit geçirdiğin insan bilerek ya da bilmeyerek bu hâle sokabilir abi temelinde çok güvensiz olması da gerekiyor mu bilmiyorum. Yazıdan da cahillik okunmuyor. Instagram nesli bu, neyle neyi karşılaştırıyor, beklentiyi nereye çekmiş kadın...

@oozn Doğru dediniz. Bunu düşünüyorsa hata etmiş. Belli ki güvensiz ve cahil

bi erkegin dusebilecegi en derin varolussal cukura dusmus "yetersiz miyim" sorusunu anonim olarak sorarak ve bu konuda destek talep edip disaridan onay bekleyerek. bu docent, egitimli biri adam evim ve arabam var, 2 milyonluk sehirde yasiyorum ve 110k maas aliyorum diyor. desteksiz kendim yaptim diyor ozellikle nasil basarisi kucumsenmis ve ozdegeri sarsilmissa. ve adami bile isteye esi itiyor buna. sirket kurmasi gerekiyormus :)) sirket sahibi esi olacak insta hayati yasayacak kafasida muhtemelen:) girisimci fetisizmine karisi yakalanmis ve garibim muthis bi gaslighting'e maruz kaliyor en kritigi de adamin dertlesecek kimsesi yok. guvenemiyor veya saglikli geribildirim alacagini dusunmuyor. buna da the great male isolation diyorlar, cagin epidemigi. erkekler yalniz ve izole. konusamiyorlar cunku toplumsal beklentiler cok agir ve acimasiz. neticede de boyle anonim yuk bosaltiyorlar. trajik ancak her anlamda muthis bi ornek olmus. umarim bunu gorur ve tek harika bi is basardigina harika bi baba ve es olduguna kendini ikna edersin dostum

Welcome to 2026, the future time of METROPOLIS, released in 1927.

Success in social media increasingly requires saying something intentionally stupid or factually incorrect

blog yazımı infografik yaptım.

Ekim ayı projem pesintaksit.com.tr Yüzyüze ya da online alışveriş farketmeden, peşinde şu kadar indirim, 3 taksit ama fazlası olursa şu kadar vade farkı gibi bir sürü seçeneği, sürekli değişen enflasyon ve faiz ortamında kafadan değerlendirmek çok zor. Sadece kendim için bir excel tablosu yapacağıma, herkes için bir araç yapayım fikriyle yola çıktım. Öyle patlayacak bir proje değil ama bu ayı da boş geçirmeyelim, vatana, millete, ihtiyacı olan birilerine faydamız olsun projesi. :)

B2B de olur B2C de olur herkes için. Ticaret Bakanlığı'nın bir sitesinde mesela.

"Firmaların (marketlerin vb.) fiyat değişimine sayı kısıtı getirilmesi" nasıl fikir? Mesela "en fazla 3 ayda bir değiştirebilirsin fiyatlarını ve bunu ilan etmek zorundasın şu sitede".

A bank creating a separate platform for "cryptocurrency" exchanges, rather than integrating it into its existing exchange for equities etc. gives a clue on how they regard such instruments.

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Zero-click? WTH?