Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular

‼️ Note the power of #laborunion #unions 👀

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Videoda solda görünen kısım aslına uygun restorasyonu yapılmış ve tamamlanmış kubbe detaylarını göstermektedir. Sağdaki detayları ise kubbe tamamen kazındıktan sonra uygulamak istenen projeye ait yeni tasarımları göstermektedir.
#edirne #selimiye #unesco
#mimarsinan #türkiye
#turkey #sanat #tarih

Videoda solda görünen kısım aslına uygun restorasyonu yapılmış ve tamamlanmış kubbe detaylarını göstermektedir. Sağdaki detayları ise kubbe tamamen kazındıktan sonra uygulamak istenen projeye ait yeni tasarımları göstermektedir.
#edirne #selimiye #unesco
#mimarsinan #türkiye
#turkey #sanat #tarih

Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Mimar Sinanin Selimiyesi kendini devletin üstünde sanan bir gurubun tehdidiyle yüz yüze. Solda Orjinaline sadık kalınarak restorasyonu bitmiş hali ve sağda defalarca devlet birimleri tarafından reddedilmiş yapılmaya diretilen projesi. #unesco #turkey #arthistory

Mimar Sinanin Selimiyesi kendini devletin üstünde sanan bir gurubun tehdidiyle yüz yüze. Solda Orjinaline sadık kalınarak restorasyonu bitmiş hali ve sağda defalarca devlet birimleri tarafından reddedilmiş yapılmaya diretilen projesi. #unesco #turkey #selimiyecami #arthistory #cumhurbaskanligi

Clean link to report (in Turkish): drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...

drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...

A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status.
Full report: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...
#Turkey 🗃️ what’s history #ottoman #arthistory

Current restored dome and a proposed restitution.

Current restored calligraphic panels and proposed restitution erasing them

Current restored dome and ceiling and proposed restitution

A group wants to paint white over a newly finished restoration of mimar Sinan’s masterpiece, Selimiye mosque in Edirne, to erase its historic calligraphy and illumination at the risk of losing UNESCO status.
Full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1BJQ3...
#Turkey #menasky 🗃️ #ottoman

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved

A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe | Stanford University Press The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Prominen...

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#bosnia #habsburg #ottomanempire #menasky #balkansky #whatishistory 🗃️

A very bad map of the Ottoman Empire in 1735, drawn by ChatGPT. The map includes Iran (which is labeled as Arabia) but not Bosnia, Moldavia and Wallachia, the Cuban, Crimea, Southern Ukraine. For some reason the map adheres to the modern-day borders of some countries, including Eritrea, Yemen, Oman, and the UAE. But Egypt includes part of Cyrenaica. The map labels Libya as Egypt and Sudan as Arabia, while also calling Yemen "Amabia." Turkmenistan is labeled as "Persia."

Um, ok. Thanks, GPT-5.

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.

“We” is more important here.

Ah evet. En kötülerden biri Eminönü. Sonra Üsküdar’daki meydan.

@istanbulbuyuksehir.bsky.social‘den de aynısını bekliyoruz 😍 #istanbul #beton #concretejungle

Teachable Readings - AGAINST AI (persuasion is a good classroom tool; below are several - not all - important problems with the alleged promise of AI and short pieces from news media,

Some great material here in time for the start of new semester. Check out this site by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social against-a-i.com/short-readin...

Istanbul, the capital of Austria-Switzerland, is located right on the border with Slovenia-Hungary...

The gist of the #Serbia issue in a thread.

Popular Palestinian Restaurant Opening Near Columbia Campus A Palestinian restaurant called Ayat has announced it will be opening on the Upper West Side, right near Columbia University.

Some good news. #UWS @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

www.ilovetheupperwestside.com/popular-pale...

AI integration initiatives are spearheaded by administrations with little input from faculty members and other campus community members, including staff and students. High levels of concern arose around AI and technology procurement, deployment, and use; dehumanized relations; and poor working and learning conditions. Seventy-one percent of respondents said decision-making and AI initiatives are overwhelmingly led by college or university administrations, and many respondents described administrators exerting great effort to introduce AI into research, teaching, policy, and professional development with little meaning­ful input from faculty members, staff, or students. Examples include the development of institutional AI tools, workshops on teaching and detecting plagia­rism, and subscribing to AI tools for students (such as Grammarly, marketed as an “AI writing partner”) without involving faculty members or students in the decision-making process. One respondent noted that “admin doesn’t seem to care about or value faculty input on this or any other topic” and hoped for “more faculty involvement in determining how AI and tech generally are used.”

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation.

shorturl.at/InI5Q

Unionize, unionize, unionize. Even if they pay you well. Even if they are elite. Unionize.

Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular. The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina. Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular’s new book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina, begins with a simple premise: The end of the Ott

Many thanks to Jared Manasek for reviewing The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe in the American Historical Review @historians.org
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🗃️ menasky balkan bosnia bosna

Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage. In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...

“We abandon the body and what it learns by being in the world - the physical world - at our peril.”

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BS: How was that? How long were you in jail? MM: One night. They let you make one phone call, and I called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, DC, talked to him, and he said, “What are you doing interfering in the affairs of a foreign country?” I said, “What? We just got our independence! This is the same struggle. Have you forgotten?” Anyway, he got me out. Two or three weeks later, I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

rare W for COINTELPRO from a legendary conversation between Bhakti Shringarpure and Mahmood Mamdani (h/t Silke-Marie Weineck)

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

There is nothing emancipatory about nationalism. Nothing promising, nor hopeful. Nationalism is a guarantee of destruction both internally and externally.