Kerim

China, Japan, East Asia and some random stuff. Personal account. Own views. RTs are not endorsements. Following just means following.

[Kerim @akerimcelik]

My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Mindanao and the Philippines. Having lived in the Philippines, I carry many wonderful memories of the country and its people. Hoping everyone affected by the earthquake is safe.

[Kerim @akerimcelik]

@Elessar61972 Alayım.

[Anıl Demir | WISHLIST Glaide @DmrAnil]

If I start talking like this know that I made big $$$ and have no other worry in the world.

[Ayhan @lacctaruss]

Yahu eski hali daha güzelmiş kumsalı bile varmış
Siz hastası mısınız

[Bilal Çınarlı @bcinarli]

What is the easy and less complex way to publish your notes, experience like some blog post or newsletter and semi technical documents nowadays?

[Clear Signal News @CSN24X7]

30 years of temporary extensions. This time the moratorium expired without renewal.

The WTO ministerial in Cameroon ended deadlocked as Brazil blocked the extension that the US, India and most other members had been negotiating toward all weekend.

The e-commerce moratorium prevented countries from taxing digital transmissions - downloads, streaming, software since 1995. That protection is now gone.

Countries are legally free to start imposing customs duties on digital trade for the first time in three decades.

The US warned it would use a failed extension as an excuse to disengage from the WTO entirely. Brazil just handed Washington that excuse.

Meanwhile 66 WTO members separately brought digital trade rules into force among themselves this weekend bypassing both Brazil and India.

The rules-based trading order did not collapse today. It split. The countries willing to move forward did. The ones blocking reform were left behind.

And the WTO itself has less authority this evening than it had this morning.

📡 CSN24X7 #Trade #Markets #Geopolitics

[Kerim @akerimcelik]

@TmarketL Counter Strike
Maybe Red Alert 2
Crusader Kings?

[Kerim @akerimcelik]

If I'm the viewer who or what is aware of that viewer?

[Kerim @akerimcelik]

I had a long discussion with an AI about consciousness, God, and whether machines could ever have a soul. Here’s where it led me:

Right now, AI isn’t a “being.”
It’s not unified.
It has no perspective.
It’s computation: like a bicycle.
You pedal, the wheel turns. No awareness.

[Kerim @akerimcelik]

Why does it feel like “me” instead of everything?

[Kerim @akerimcelik]

We do not experience ourselves as neurons firing.
We experience ourselves as the locus of experience.