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[Liveware @liveware_lcu]

@Kpehlivanoglu Türklerin şehirleşmeyi beceremediğinin ispatı. Bu semtler gecekondu mahallesi değil. Zengin ve eğitimli Türklerin oturduğu yerler. Sıfırdan inşa edildiler. Yine de doğru dürüst bir planlama, yol, otopark, yeşil alan yok. Binalar çirkin mi çirkin.
Şehirleşmeyi beceremiyoruz.

[Liveware @liveware_lcu]

@Zaza12thtj @Kpehlivanoglu Karşılıklı

[Liveware @liveware_lcu]

@Zaza12thtj @Kpehlivanoglu Roma dini ile Roma mitolojisi arasındaki fark ne? Bu ikisinin ayrıştırıldığına hiç rastlamadım. Siz hariç. Bunun gereksiz/sonuçsuz bir semantik yaklaşım olduğunu düşünüyorum.

[Liveware @liveware_lcu]

@Zaza12thtj @Kpehlivanoglu Mitoloji ile bir farkı yok. Örn. Diocletian Hristiyanları katletti çünkü Roma tanrılarına adak adamayı reddediyorlardı. Bu Roma'nın "İnanç, ibadet, ahlak, yaşam biçimi, toplumsal kurallar ve insanın varoluşuna ilişkin bir anlam sistemi"ni reddetmek demekti.

[Liveware @liveware_lcu]

@Kpehlivanoglu Harari, din-mitoloji-ideoloji arasında ayırım yapmıyor. Toplumların anlam bulmak, organize olmak için kullandığı kapsayıcı anlatılar ile bunlara bağlı ritüeller/ normlar. Bu bağlamda Marksizm ve Atatürkçülük de birer mitoloji türü.
https://t.co/N8NHlVFcQj

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

The truth is complicated, difficult and not always flattering: but the truth is essential. Without the truth we can never improve ourselves or our societies.

From a July 2026 event with Tom Parker, host of The Next Five, the Financial Times’ podcast on business.

Watch the whole conversation: https://t.co/pozCJOvWEp

[Liveware @liveware_lcu]

@DeryaTR_ I wonder why an adaptation of The Culture universe is still not there. @amazonprime I bet you are aware of the potential.

[Derya Unutmaz, MD @DeryaTR_]

Best graphic ever for energy and intelligence abundance! 😍

The Culture wins on both; Accelerando is a close second, not surprisingly. If you know in detail what each of these is, your geekiness score would be at the very top! (Mine is 14/14)☺️

[M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu @mserdark]

"Silo" adlı #dizi'ye tesadüfen başladım. Bir anda içine çekti. Uyarlandığı #kitap'ı merak ettim. @ithakiyayinlari Türkçeye kazandırmış. Bugün o da bitti.
Kitabını okuduğum film ve diziler genellikle yavan gelir. İlk istisnası Silo oldu. Dizinin yaratıcı ekibi hem kitabın özünü ekrana kusursuzca aktarmış hem de müthiş bir alternatif öykü akışı yaratmış.
Yeni hedefim, hepsine ilham kaynağı olan: Philip K. Dick imzalı "The Penultimate Truth" (Sondan Bir Önceki Gerçek / @alfakitap).

[Tunç Şatıroğlu @TuncSatiroglu]

Kur müdahalesi norm haline gelmiş. Altın kotasıyla piyasaya müdahale norm haline gelmiş. Süt Konseyi fiyat belirliyor, serbest piyasada sağlıklı fiyat oluşumuna engel oluyor. Simit ve ekmek zammı özel izine bağlanmış. Araç muayenesi tekeli oluşturulmuş. İlaç kuru diye kur icat edilmiş. İhracatçı dönşüm desteği adı altında farklı kur uygulamasıyla üçlü kur sistemi kurulmuş. Daha sayacak çok şey var ama daha fazla kamu müdahalesi talep ediliyor. Dehşet verici bir açıklama olduğunu düşünüyorum.

İSO başkanı Bahçıvan: "Tümüyle piyasa güçlerine emanet edilmiş, kuralsız ve plan-programsız bir modelin sınırlarını da görmüş durumdayız."

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

Young people are constantly told that democracy is dying, capitalism is exploitation, technology is dehumanizing, climate change means collapse, and the next generation will inherit a poorer and more dangerous world.

It's no wonder that so many of them are anxious about the future.

Serious problems deserve serious attention, but teaching young people to interpret every challenge as evidence of impending catastrophe doesn’t make them wiser. It teaches them helplessness.

[Serkan Hızlı @serkan_hizli]

Jules Verne’in pek bilinmeyen romanlarından İnatçı Keraban (Keraban-le-Tetu), 1883 yılında yayımlanır ve büyük ölçüde Osmanlı coğrafyasında geçer.

Romanın kahramanı, İstanbul’da yaşayan zengin ve son derece inatçı bir tütün tüccarı olan Keraban Ağa’dır. Boğaz’ın karşı yakasına geçmek isteyen Keraban, geçiş için konulan 10 paralık vergiyi ödemeyi kesinlikle reddeder.

Çözümü ise Jules Verne’e yakışır ölçüde sıra dışıdır: Birkaç dakikada geçebileceği Boğaz için vergi vermek yerine, Karadeniz’in çevresini dolaşarak karşı kıyıya ulaşmaya karar verir. Böylece İstanbul’dan başlayan yolculuk, Karadeniz kıyıları boyunca uzanan büyük bir maceraya dönüşür.

Romanın ilk baskısında Leon Benett’nin çizimlerinden

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Three thousand years ago, in the space of a single lifetime, every great power in the eastern Mediterranean collapsed at once. Almost every great city on earth was burned to the ground within a few decades, writing itself was forgotten, and no one has ever fully worked out why...

We call it the Late Bronze Age Collapse, and to understand how strange it is, you have to see how advanced the world was before it. Around 1200 BC the eastern Mediterranean was a connected web of superpowers: the Mycenaean Greeks, the world of Homer's heroes. The Hittite Empire in Anatolia. The wealthy port kingdom of Ugarit. Egypt at the height of the New Kingdom.

They traded metals and gold across thousands of miles, sent letters back and forth, married into one another's royal families, and ran vast economies that had held together for centuries.

And then, within roughly two generations, nearly all of it was gone...

The cities burned: Mycenae, Pylos, the Hittite capital of Hattusa, Ugarit, and dozens of others were destroyed by fire, many never rebuilt. The Hittite Empire vanished so completely that its capital was lost for three thousand years. In Greece the palaces fell, the population dropped, and the Greeks forgot how to write, plunging into a dark age so total that literacy did not return for roughly four hundred years.

No one has ever agreed on what caused it, only a list of overlapping catastrophes that struck at once: waves of mysterious searaiders the Egyptians called the Sea Peoples, decades of drought and famine, earthquakes, and the breakdown of the trade routes that every kingdom depended on.

What should make us reflect is that these were the most advanced civilizations of their age, and they never saw it coming. Once it began, they could not stop it. As the historian Robert Drews once wrote: "Within a period of forty to fifty years at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the twelfth century almost every significant city in the eastern Mediterranean world was destroyed, many of them never to be occupied again."

The people who lived through it did not know they were living at the end of an age. No one ever does...

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”

— Milton Friedman

[Heavy Metal @HeavyMetalInk]

Ken Kelly (1946–2022) was a legendary American fantasy artist best known for his powerful paintings of Conan, Tarzan and other iconic characters. Influenced by his uncle Frank Frazetta, Kelly also created some of rock’s most recognizable album covers, including KISS’ Destroyer and Love Gun ⚔️

[Troya Müzesi @troyamuzesi]

Müzelik Sohbetler’de Odysseus’u Konuştuk! ⚓ https://t.co/Z9kxoUkKAa

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Rita Moreno’s unforgettable performance of “Fever” on The Muppet Show originally aired in 1976, with Animal wildly backing her on drums. The performance became one of the most memorable moments of her appearance—and it ultimately earned Moreno a Primetime Emmy Award in 1977. 🎶❤️

[Handre @Handre]

Here are the most important lessons from the Austrian School of Economics in one post:

The entire edifice of modern economic policy rests on a lie: that a group of planners can manage an economy better than the people living in it.

Start with value. Nothing has value in the abstract. You value a glass of water differently when you're drowning than when you're dying of thirst in the Sahara. Value lives inside individual human minds, not in objects, not in labor hours, not in government decree. Every price control, every subsidy, every centrally administered wage floor ignores this and produces predictable wreckage.

Money didn't come from a government committee. It emerged spontaneously from markets, as traders across centuries converged on commodities like gold and silver because they held value across time and space. Governments didn't invent money; they hijacked it.

Inflation is the expansion of the money supply itself. Rising prices are the symptom. When the Federal Reserve expanded its balance sheet from roughly $4 trillion to nearly $9 trillion between 2020 and 2022, the price explosion that followed wasn't a mystery. It was the direct, mechanical consequence of that expansion. The Fed caused it.

Prices do something irreplaceable: they transmit information across millions of actors simultaneously. When lumber prices spiked in 2021, builders across North America cut waste and sought alternatives without a single bureaucrat issuing a memo. No central planner can replicate that signal, because no central planner possesses the knowledge embedded in it.

This connects directly to the knowledge problem. You know your neighborhood, your suppliers, your customers, your own tolerance for risk. Your competitor knows his. A bureaucrat in Washington knows none of it. The knowledge required to run an economy is dispersed, personal, and contextual. It cannot be extracted, aggregated, and fed into a planning model. The Soviet Union ran that experiment for seventy years and produced chronic shortages of basic goods.

Bad businesses must be allowed to fail. When they fail, they release labor, capital, and resources to producers who will use them more effectively. When Washington handed General Motors $49.5 billion in 2009 to prevent exactly that process, it kept misallocated capital locked inside a failing structure and punished every competitor who had managed their business responsibly.

Every function government performs, a voluntary market arrangement performs better: faster, cheaper, and responsive to actual human preferences rather than political incentives. Education, roads, security, dispute resolution, all of it. Government agencies face no profit and loss signal, no competition, and no mechanism to reward performance. They optimize for budget preservation and political survival, and the people using the service have no exit option.

The political class and the central banking apparatus that sustains it are the villains. Both benefit directly from the idea that expert management beats voluntary exchange. They will not surrender that idea willingly.

What would you add?

[Kayıp Rıhtım @KayipRihtim]

Bir evin çatısını delip yatak odasına düşmüştü: Hillsborough meteoritinde Dünya’da görülmeyen moleküller çıktı 👇

https://t.co/ZQq3rejQ4a

[Emre Taş @Emretas1903]

Üstünü çizemiyorsan karala.📝

Solda Levnî'nin, sağda İbrahim'in Surnâme final sahnesi. III. Ahmed kullara sikke saçıyor. Sağdaki nüshanın Damat İbrahim Pş. için hazırlandığı ve onun da Patrona eline düştüğü düşünülürse bir asinin padişahın yüzünü karaladığı düşünülebilir.