Ayşe Çelikkol

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Excited to be presenting at this.

Yesterday I heard a radio presenter say that Sarkozy's sentence was the most severe sanction ever imposed on a French head of state ...

Flesh, by D. Szalay--now that is some novel. And the Guardian review by Keiran Goddard captures so well why it is amazing.

battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

family dinner out on the balcony

watching a film on tv with the dog next to me

listening to an audiobook while walking the dog

coming across a text / passage that suggests my argument's right on.

sleeping with the window open

Are curtains distinctive features of Istanbul brothels and what extent of comparative experience is required to know that?

I find it a fundamental flaw in the WH adaptation that Heathcliff is so good looking. We shouldn't be able to explain Catherine's infatuation on looks alone.

One who needs to male a living.

a radical idea for a tv series: a show where the chacters are not super wealthy.

Could stem cells be used to create life without sperm or egg? Not yet, but here’s why scientists are concerned | CNN Lab grown models of embryos, made from clusters of stem cells, are getting increasingly complex. Ethicists, regulators and legal specialists are scrambling to keep up with the pace of research.

Poor writing or anti-choice brainwashing: "Could scientists eventually replicate an actual embryo that has a heartbeat and experiences pain, or one that could grow into a fully developed human model?"

CNN rhetoric: "Gaza’s starvation crisis continues to deepen . . " Gaza's starvation crisis! Are there classes for writing like this? Quite a craft.

Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

2025. CEOs' exorbitant salaries are the tip of the iceberg in economic inequality and people know it and resent it. Society could deal with the situation by organizing politically or voting for people who'll tax the rich. Instead, we publicly shame them for infidelity.

A bit behind the curve here, aren't we, dear NYT and E Adams? Go ahead pull an Erdogan, get this guy's diploma cancelled.

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million.

If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000.

Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

Right, it happens in other countries. That's just the normal state of affairs. But when in *this* country, now that we cant tolerate.

Good reading! Not that I know as much about this as I should, but aren't good old human agency and its alternatives--ANT etc--important terms in the consideration of this topic?

“I just want to read books as a job” 🥹📚

WaPo ranked the five best ai summarizers, which, they say, give you the superpower of speed reading. They did the testing by asking the ai tools to summarize books in a few different genres. One of the genres: the novel.

www.alpsp.org/news-publica...

Reading Together A lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read. In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszyńska thinks back on various book clubs she has ...

I wrote a very short book about book clubs, a kind of memoir/essay, and it’s coming out in October!

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

i did 2 yesterday, for something short. greatly regretted it. sorry to say...

The Earth's core is leaking. I saw it in Nature. I think you should know.

ah, it's a question of whether *insurance* covers it. Crazy that insurance companies would rather deal with long covid than cover the vaccine, regardless of the official un-recommendation.

does the proposal imply you need to pay if you're younger than 65? Do they pay for any other shots or provide any treatment or any illness for people under 65? I am just thinking why people are more interested in a free covid shot than free cancer or diabetes care, etc.

I wonder why I am not a Booker judge. You may think I am not qualified, which is not incorrect. But I *am* more qualified than Sarah Jessica Parker. Every year I look forward to the shortlist, but am I really going to care what she selects?

what's there not to love!

I hadn't seen this! Thanks so much for letting me know.

technofeudalism! i've been eager to hear what people think of it. i'll read the review when it comes out.

she looks like she's ready!