Ahmet Alphan Sabancı

“I love when NBA gets stupid for no reason.”

You and me both Kofie.

I still need convincing that they ever talked to any real-life people at all.

Post Image

Starting a little late to this week with the usual updates, things I found interesting and a short note about how we end up in a global mess like this because some people insist on denying the reality.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/we-live-in-a-system-weekstarter-11-2026/

Gazetecilik ölüyor mu, yoksa hayatta kalmak için kabuk mu değiştiriyor? 📰 Yeni "Ne Okuyoruz" bültenimizde @ahmetasabanci.com , romantizmi bir kenara bırakıp medyanın stratejik dönüşümünü ve "Gazeteciliğin Ölümü ve Yeniden Doğuşu"nu yazdı. 👇 www.newslabturkey.org/2026/03/02/g...

Turkey announces downing of second Iranian missile by NATO defenses

Turkey announces downing of second Iranian missile by NATO defenses bianet.org/haber/turkey...

Personal best: I have used four different kinds of rail transportation in a single day.

This is the kind of alignment work we need.

And not one but two new trends are ready to replace it, thanks to Turkish culinary innovators.

Iranians flee to Turkey. ‘I am in constant fear,’ says one.

“Iranians trickling across the border into Turkey this week painted a picture of destruction and fear hanging over their cities under U.S.-Israeli bombardment.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Afaik it’s coming from anti-imperialist left circles, because calling Americans is not fair to the rest of the continent — especially the south.

idk man I just don’t think it’s great to hang out inside the large context collider and I would like to have better options

*I wonder if there is a "Tao of Polycrisis" where no crisis is ever confronted and resolved. Rather, the ever-renewing crises gently compost the older crises, which fade from awareness, because their victims are mostly dead

Sosyal ağ sağlayıcılarına getirilmesi teklif edilen yeni yükümlülükler ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/s...

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

There are many Muslims who thinks so and I experienced the results of it when I was a kid.

This might be the reason why it’s my favorite one.

Post Image

Let's talk about why the Citrini "scenario" falls short on being a proper and useful scenario and why you shouldn't try to market your predictions as scenarios — especially in times like these.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/notes-on-that-2028-prediction/

Takip Et – Tuhaf Gelecek Bülten Aboneliği İsterseniz sitede yayınlanan içerikleri RSS üzerinden de takip edebilirsiniz. Podcast Aboneliği Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Podcast RSS akışı Diğer podcast dinleme uygulamaların…

Tuhaf Gelecek bundan sonra daha aktif bir şekilde üretmeye ve çeşitliliğini artırmaya devam edecek. Tuhaf Gelecek'i takip edebileceğiniz bütün yolları bu sayfada bulabilirsiniz: tuhafgelecek.com/takip-et/

Post Image

Weekstarter is here with the usual updates from the studio and my notes about the "Cyberpunk Condition" concept I've been using for a while.

https://ahmetasabanci.com/cyberpunk-condition-weekstarter-10-2026/

I'm emerging from a chrysalis. Six months since I finished 301, and closed the loop on the biggest creative project of my life.

More yep.

🧟 Gazeteciliğin Ölümü ve Yeniden Doğuşu Bu sayının anahtar kelimeleri: Next Gen News, Washington Post, Jimmy Lai, Apple kilit modu.

Bu sayının ana başlığı gazeteciliğin acilen ihtiyacı olan dönüşümünün önündeki engeller. Bu engelleri aşmak için gazeteciliğin bazı kısımlarının ölmesine izin vermemiz şart.

Her ay olduğu gibi gündemde öne çıkan ve önemli bulduğum başlıklar da bültende.

open.substack.com/pub/newslabt...

Work-life balance goals.

Iranians in Turkey flee repression and bear witness to the bloodshed in their country The brutal response of the Iranian regime against protesters has led many Iranians to seek refuge in neighboring Turkey. Their stories attest to the cruelty that the authorities have shown since the beginning of the protest movement.

Turkey was already receiving refugees because of the Iran’s response to the protests so these will definitely cause more people to escape over here.

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Trackpad > mouse. Not taking any further questions.

Oyun Sektörünün Bugünü ve Yakın Geleceği | TGP s02e02 Tuhaf Gelecek Podcast yeni bölümünde oyun sektörünü ele alıyor ve büyük oyunu görmenize yardımcı oluyor.

👾 Tuhaf Gelecek Podcast yeni bölümünde büyük oyunu görmenize yardımcı oluyor.

🎮 @agunzagun.com ile birlikte oyun sektörünün 2026’da geldiği noktayı, bu yıl gündemini meşgul edecek başlıkları ve karşısındaki risklerin sektörü nasıl dönüştürebileceğini anlatıyoruz.

tuhafgelecek.com/podcast/oyun...

We all know that it’s technically impossible for FT Alphaville to fail so there’s nothing to worry about.

World Literacy Why the audience arrives already knowing how the world works.

Audiences now arrive at a media franchise already knowing how worlds work. Not that world, specially, but worlds in general. Audiences have a new fluency that they didn’t consciously acquire

Yeni Bülent Somay gelmiş, en kısa zamanda alıp okumak lazım.