Deniz Cem Önduygu

What a wonderful person Helen was. RIP

Kant softening the blow like “I wrote this easier, shorter version for you dimwits, and if you still don’t understand I’m sure you’ll do great in physics or something”

Back in the 90s I led a team of artists and researchers mapping out all the debates about AI. It was a huge project. We read over a thousand papers and organized it all into a massive set of debate maps. 1/3

İl Nüfusları 1927–2023 - Deniz Cem Önduygu Konda ile hazırladığımız Türkiye 101 projesinin ana temalarından biri kentleşme idi. Ben de bu bağlamda küçük boylarda...

I thank Eren Pultar and Konda Research for helping me with the data collection. If you want to use these visualizations, you can cite this post (in Turkish): Önduygu, D.C. (2025). “İl Nüfusları 1927–2023”. www.denizcemonduygu.com/2025/05/il-n...

Insight: While working on this, I realized that when we use dots instead of color to represent population on a political map, we’re *visualizing* both the population and the density (population / land area). (It could work better with smaller unit areas than provinces.)

And this is a static version that shows the absolute and proportional values for provinces in parallel.

This version uses the absolute numbers to show the total population growth since 1927; each dot represents 3000 people.

I visualized how the population distribution by provinces in Türkiye has changed since 1927 (not showing the total population growth in this one). Dots are distributed uniformly within province boundaries; they don’t claim to show settlement areas. Thread↓

Donna Haraway (Situated Knowledges)

just watched the whole Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists after all the hype and found out I’m a Christian because I’m not a terrible person (I think?) and haven’t committed suicide yet

We wouldn’t have to deal with this much disease if we solved this gas exchange thing more gracefully, without taking it all in every few seconds through wet sticky pipes and bags inside us. Breathing was a bad idea.

Seneca argues astrology is useless, even if its predictions are true.

YouTube video by Türk Felsefe Derneği (TUFED) Zihnin Ontolojisi ve Bilimi

Eşkurucumuz ve koordinatörümüz Yunus Şahin (@herrbokologist.bsky.social ), Türk Felsefe Derneği’nin Çağdaş Ontoloji Seminerleri kapsamında “Zihnin Ontolojisi ve Bilimi” başlıklı konuşmasıyla yer aldı. Konuşmayı dinlemek için:

youtu.be/_MyLHhwdiPQ?...

We’re out of town and he’s fallen in love with this armchair.

one of those where it’s impossible to stop highlighting

I’ll donate my body to science. But to physics, not to medical science. They can throw it around to study gravity or something.

Bilim Akademisi için tasarladığım deprem direnci ile ilgili kitap dizisi artık açık erişimde! Pdf olarak indirebilirsiniz. (Bu dizinin başka başlıklarla devamına ve benzer çabalara destek olmak isterseniz kitapları satın alabilirsiniz.)

sarkac.org/2025/05/bili...

People are making fun of the handwritten “Covid-19” but I think it’s a wise typographic choice that visually supports their claim that SARS-CoV-2 is human-made – almost like a signature. So maybe the photo layout choice that suggests Trump leaked it is also intentional...

Rorty on the relationship between social-political movements and philosophy (from “Feminism and Pragmatism”)

“SARS-CoV-2 airborne detection within different departments of a COVID-19 hospital building and evaluation of air cleaners in air viral load reduction” The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought in light the necessity for the development of novel detection methods for airborne transmitted pathogens, and the…

New hospital study: air purifiers cut airborne COVID by 98%.
Rooms with HEPA ventilation had zero virus detected.
Clean air is essential public health infrastructure — not a luxury.
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#CorsiRosenthal #CleanAir #PublicHealth

In a collaboration with KONDA Research and Consultancy, we designed a data visualization that looks at Türkiye’s history and present. Links↓
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KONDA ile Türkiye’nin geçmişine ve bugününe bakan bir veri görselleştirme hazırladık. ↓

denizcemonduygu.com/portfolio/tu...
kontent.konda.com.tr/101/

missing those times when we globally had 7 funny videos in total (office man destroying his computer, etc.) and didn’t have to keep up every day

It may be explained by a mix of a naturalistic fallacy (1 is natural, 2 is not, so 2 is bad), a desire for control (it’s easier to control whether to get the vaccine), a distrust of science/medicine, a susceptibility to misinformation, etc. but it’s still too weird for me.

“Here’s a disease that harms the cardiovascular system.”
“Here’s a vaccine that decreases its effects.”

People, after getting the disease (multiple times) and the vaccine, experiencing cardiovascular problems:
“It must be the vaccine!”

This is just too weird for me.

I’ve used this in many presentations for years (always giving credit). Thank you!

Mapping thinkers: An interactive network visualization of the history of Western philosophy After 10 years of work on a sentence-based visualization, I created a philosopher-based network using Kumu

We’re excited to share our latest In Too Deep blog post by @dencemond.bsky.social, offering an inside look at the creation of his interactive Kumu project on Western philosophy💡

Check it out here: blog.kumu.io/mapping-thin...

#philosophy #networkmap #datavisualization

Great Philosophers Are Bad Philosophers My introduction to philosophy was largely through the great philosophers of the past -- the likes of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant.

Huemer had something like this: fakenous.substack.com/p/great-phil...

So that’s how you dealt with depression, epilepsy, psychosis, and infectious disease before modern science. (After Eggers’s Nosferatu)

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