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A timely reminder that I'm also on Bluesky as handeguven.bsky.social & looking to be more active on there Ben de Bluesky'dayım, gelin takipleşelim: handeguven.bsky.social

371 security/ privacy academics, including a Turing Award winner, just issued a letter saying age verification laws are building global surveillance infrastructure. Every search, message, and article read would require ID verification. reclaimthenet.org/pause-social-m…

🎉 Alums @handeguven and Jessica Wang will present on building AI use guidance for cities at @rightscon in Zambia!

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Akbank Sanat felsefe seminerleri, geçen yıl katılmaktan en mutluluk duyduğum, kaliteli ve eğlenceli bilim toplantısıydı. Herkese, özellikle teknoloji, toplum ve davranış çalışan öğrencilere, bu seminerleri şiddetle tavsiye ederim.

Lina Khan hive rise up Let's bring this back for this special day scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_schola…

Istanbuls Oberbürgermeister İmamoğlu sitzt seit März wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in Haft. Dem Ansehen des Erdoğan-Rivalen hat das bisher kaum geschadet. Kritiker vermuten, dass deshalb nun neue Anschuldigungen gegen ihn laut werden. #ref=rss" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">spiegel.de/ausland/tuerke…

I do not accept that democracy, justice, and liberty are no longer part of our common future. The world is once again trying to convince us that these values no longer matter, but I refuse to believe it. From my twelve-square-meter cell in Istanbul, I wrote for Le Monde about one of my Kafkaesque trials, the so-called diploma case. I am accused of forgery, yet no document has ever been proven false. This is what a broken system looks like. It is not justice. It is a political act that turns law into a weapon and truth into a threat. A century after Kafka described a man condemned without knowing his crime, we are still living in a world ruled by arbitrary accusations and political fear. But Türkiye deserves better. Our people have fought for democracy and freedom for generations, and they will not give up what they earned through courage and sacrifice. Justice will return. Democracy will prevail. lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

@doctorow Relatedly, if @doctorow is coming to your town for his book tour, go see him talk! I recently had a chance to hear him on enshittification and it was well worth the trip to Roosevelt Island.

As @doctorow said a couple of weeks ago in NYC: the central fantasy at the core of billionaire preppers is a doomsday that will uniquely require their skills and supplies.

Online platforms such as X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey following the police blockade of the main opposition party CHP's İstanbul headquarters.

@ThatchEffendi happy birthday!

It's my birthday today.

Honored to be part of this cohort at @AspenPolicyAcad and so excited to spend the month in San Francisco focusing on tech policy!

Access to jailed Istanbul mayor @ekrem_imamoglu's account on X has been blocked in Turkey - the latest move against President Erdogan's key rival. Imamoglu was arrested in March on corruption charges, and nominated as his opposition CHP's presidential candidate while in custody.

EXCLUSIVE: Bellingcat, in partnership with @TjekDet , @politiken and @CBCNews, can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. bellingcat.com/news/2025/05/0…

BREAKING: Spyware maker NSO Group must pay $167 million to WhatsApp for a hacking campaign in 2019 that targeted more than 1,400 chat app users. This is a huge win for WhatsApp. NSO says it will consider appealing. techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/nso…

Florida’s new anti-encryption bill is both dumb and dangerous. Florida lawmakers must say no. eff.org/deeplinks/2025…

Demonstrations right now in Kadıköy calling for the release of students and young people detained after attending protests in Istanbul.

Here’s my piece from last week comparing Le Pen’s political ban and İmamoğlu’s case: Both sides are using each other to justify their actions—Le Pen calls her conviction politically motivated, drawing parallels to Erdoğan’s tactics, while Turkish officials cite her case to argue that prosecuting opposition figures happens in Western democracies too. I argue that both cases have upended the electoral prospects of major political figures, but the similarity ends there. Le Pen’s disqualification followed the law; İmamoğlu’s was engineered through politics. Equating the two cases hands autocrats like Erdoğan exactly what they want: a talking point to legitimize their crackdowns. 👇@MiddleEastInst

Amid anti-government boycotts in TR, Muse becomes the third act (after Trevor Noah and Ane Brun) to cancel an upcoming show in Istanbul due organizers' criticism of protests and ties to Erdogan.