Feryaz Ocakli

Associate Professor, Skidmore College. Comparative politics, Middle East, local party organizations.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

I gotta a great plan, folks, they call it the Five Year Plan but I think we can do it in Four, maybe Three. A big guy came up to me, a steal worker straight out of central casting, muscles like you've never seen, handsome. He had tears in his eyes, "Sir, we're all eager to work 16 hours a day to meet the plan."

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

@aytugs @PoPpublicsphere Awesome! Congratulations!

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

@basyazar New Jersey'de Hamawy, Philadelphia'da Chris Raab da bu gruptan. Michigan senato on secimlerinde Abdul El Sayed alacak gibi. Sadece New York degil hocam.

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

@BrammerAyse Gebze boyle bir yer hocam, hosgeldiniz :D

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

The Pope has weighed in on the food security debate, and he has the right approach as expected.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

@cuizhiyuan What a legend

[Evrim Binbaş @EvrimBinbas]

I guess there is a reason why Albanians ran the Ottoman Empire for centuries. 💪🏼✌️🏼

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

@kworthington @unusual_whales As they say, he's not wrong, just early.

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

@tonyannett Same in Turkey, and we are still living through the consequences

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

A truly bold move by Bernie. He's the only major national figure in American politics who takes the future of AI and what it means for the public interest seriously. This could be a winning message for progressives, and good policy to boot.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.

This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

[Mike Duncan @mikeduncan]

Yes

[ANKA Haber Ajansı @ankahabera]

CHP Grup Başkanı Özgür Özel'le birlikte yürüyen on binlerce kişi Anıtkabir avlusunu ve Tandoğan girişini doldurdu

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

"Prisoners have been subjected to beatings and deprived of medical treatment and visits by lawyers and the Red Cross. At least 98 Palestinian prisoners died in the first two years of the Gaza war. Released detainees are visibly emaciated.

The worsening conditions have been well documented, not least by Ben-Gvir himself... there has been little official pushback. Since October 2023 just a handful of investigations have been launched into inmates' deaths. Only one resulted in charges." https://t.co/RfKLkNivhZ

[Rosemary Kelanic @RKelanic]

This is a must-read piece on how Congress is planning to fuse the U.S. and Israeli defense industries, joining the U.S. even more tightly at the hip with Israel and in a manner hidden from public view.
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https://t.co/GFEOyWnZ5a

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

I'm not an AI doomer overall, but the Pope is right. The distance between biological and synthetic reasoning is still too large to take some of the hyperbolic accounts of AI seriously

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans realizing they're starting the Cuba war to distract from the Iran war disaster which was a distraction from the Epstein files disaster

[Feryaz Ocakli @Feryaz]

Muhalefet bu olacaksa, seçime gerek de yok

[Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu @kilicdarogluk]

Sevgili Kardeşlerim, Değerli Yol Arkadaşlarım,

Bir Kurban Bayramı’na daha hazırlanırken; içimizde geçmişin muhasebesini, yüreğimizde ise geleceğin umudunu taşıyoruz.

Bayramlar; hakikate sımsıkı sarılmanın, kardeşliğin yıkılmaz köprüsünden yürüyerek birbirimize yeniden ulaşmanın günleridir.

Bizler; tohumları aynı toprağa savrulmuş, yorulanların gölgesinde dinlendiği, her esen rüzgârı birlikte göğüsleyen ve kökleri birbirine sımsıkı bağlı büyük bir çınarız.

Ne yalanlar ve iftiralar ne de aramıza örülmek istenen duvarlar, bu kardeşliği bozabilecektir.

Bizim en büyük gücümüz; dürüstlüğümüz, birbirimizin gözünün içine bakarken saklamadığımız o saf hakikat ve aynı yola duyduğumuz sarsılmaz inançtır.

Bu Kurban Bayramı; eksilmeyecek kardeşliğimizin, büyüyecek umudumuzun ve ortak mücadelemizin en güçlü işareti olsun.

Hepinize sağlık, huzur ve umut dolu bayramlar diliyorum.