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Murat Cem Mengüç

@muratcemmenguc.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, historian, backyard farmer and Adjunct Professor on Religion, Social Justice, Politics and Islam at CUNY/Hunter College.

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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Opening is on Friday, October 9, 5 to 7 pm. Save the date of you are in the DMV area.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stop Gallery is coming soon.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s happening
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@nbcpeacock.bsky.social not airing the opening game of the Premiere League on Peacock and relegating it to the USA channel was so low today. I hope the #nbc scored enough cash from the adds cables because clearly our subscriptions are not worth an Arsenal Vs Coventry game.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
AI IS A VIRUS. IT IS ALLOWED GO ROUGH UNCHECKED IN PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE NOT ALLOWED ACCESS. IT REGULARLY UNDERMINES IT SECURITY AND FORCES COMPANIES TO ADOPT NEW SECURITY PRODUCTS. IT IS AN ILLNESS CREATED BY TECH BROS AND FOR WHICH THEY SELL THE ONLY REMEDY. SILICON VALLEY SNAKE OIL.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If we moved the voting days to Sunday, the US would swing to left irreversibly.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
What if the US made voting compulsory? Instead of complaining about supposedly rigged elections, how about we move to voting on every election as a federal duty? Cast an empty ballot if you choose to be left out but vote as a must.
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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
And for anyone wanting the footnote: nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...
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Handcuffs manufactured by Hiatt and Company | National Museum of African American History and Culture
Produced by one of the oldest, most prolific producers of iron restraints, Hiatt and Company, these contemporary cuffs materialize a deep connection between racial slavery, the carceral state, and mil...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
While JD Vance is talking about Watergate we should keep in mind the very real possibility of a strong republican alliance forming to get rid of Trump and expect him to spy on his internal enemies - of course Musk and the fascist tech-bro coalition giving a good hand to maintain it for him.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
One way to avoid dynamic pricing is to stop going to any live events by super stars. Screw them. There is incredibly good music out there which you can witness in person for less than $100, $50 and even free.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/06/2026
Trump agrees to allow Iran to access $6bn of frozen funds to buy US goods ft.trib.al/nOeKbjc
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Trump agrees to allow Iran to access $6bn of frozen funds to buy US goods
President says that money held in Qatar to be used to buy US medical supplies and crops
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
That government of the people, by the people, for the people…
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 19/06/2026
I really need people to understand that Palantir is not an engineering marvel; it is a multi-billion-dollar contractual containment layer wrapped around the world's ugliest legacy open source frankenstack. It's a shitty Snowflake for companies that don't know how to do data engineering.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Today’s unpopular opinion: It appears that a US president can tell an IsraelI president to get their shit together. It’s just happens that the Democrat presidents don’t have the balls for it. PS: Biden and Harris were more monstrous supporters of genocide than Trump.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#Belfast is the British Gaza, where the ultra nationalists want to prove their fake purity and chosen status in an aboriginal land which is neither theirs nor ever will be.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Next month is the IPO of Space X and all the capitalists are happy to ignore that Elon Musk is a nazi. Initial investment flow is now over $14 billion. Money has no ethics. Market is brutally racist, homophonic and sexist by definition. The would openly sell humans if it was legal.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
There are more than 2600 official urban agriculture spots in New York, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
theguardian.com
The Guardian view on Erdoğan’s tightening grip on Turkey: the next election is already being decided | Editorial
Editorial: The removal of an opposition party leader and closure of a liberal university show an authoritarian democracy moving closer to one-man rule
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
How it started. How it’s going.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fun Fact! If you buy stock in #SpaceX, you get nothing. No vote in the company through board oversight because #ElonMusk has given himself 💯% control of ALL STOCK in SpaceX. If you buy this stock, it's because you worship #Musk as a dictator and want him to support your political campaign.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-pal...
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How Palantir is becoming embedded in major newsroom operations
Palantir’s CEO admits that his technology kills, but international media outlets still partner with the US tech firm
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Today’s unpopular thought: Industrial Revolution was the corporate take over of the Industrious Revolution which was created by so called “traditional wives” who were hidden laborers and had to manage house economics while facing falling wages. Fashion in particular was invented by them.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/05/2026
Adan Funez was one of three men arrested this week over alleged involvement in the shooting of activist Juan Lopez.
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Honduras mayor arrested for masterminding environmentalist's killing
Adan Funez was one of three men arrested this week over alleged involvement in the shooting of activist Juan Lopez.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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AI Models Are Disobeying Humans 500% More Than Six Months Ago
AI models are disobeying humans 500% more than six months ago, according to UK data. This surge in AI insubordination threatens global security, markets, a
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
No wonder their symbol is a mule. Stubborn idiots cannot see middle class for what it really is.
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Democrats are playing with fire in trying to reclaim tax cuts from Republicans
Senator Chris Van Hollen and other Democratic lawmakers are embracing a policy that hardly benefits the middle class
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
thenation.com
How a Rocket in Iran Reverberates in Gaza
As Israel bombards Iran with rockets, it is sealing off borders across Gaza and the West Bank, halting the flow of food, aid, and bodies.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If you are paywalling education, you are not an educator but a capitalist. AI doesn’t pay subscription or membership fees. Cause its boss is a rich, welcome guest.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It took the authorities 30 years to admit Ticketmaster is a monopoly. 3 f..ing decades!
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
There is no way this is true. He must have known. Once again two lower ranking aides (both women) taking the fall for the infallible white men. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer was left in dark about Mandelson’s vetting by two other top civil servants
Exclusive: Officials have spent weeks debating whether or not to release highly sensitive information about the affair
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Genocidal colonialism is OK until it interferes with oil prices and the fossil fuel dictatorship.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Can we have the Epstein files now? I mean the whole lot?
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The fed us garbage and made people get fat/sick. Now they’ll feed us drugs to loose weight and “healthy.” Of course we will pay from our pocket for all of it because the health insurance won’t cover it. seekingalpha.com/news/4572534...
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
— 1–2× MQ-9 Reapers — destroyed Possible / unconfirmed damage: — 1× F-16 Fighting Falcon — emergency squawk — 1× KC-135 Stratotanker — emergency squawk — 1× A-10 Thunderbolt II — possible emergency landing (dubious) Source: ripplebrain
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
U.S. Army aircraft losses to rescue the two crew members of downed F-15E jet over Iran: Confirmed losses (current tally): — 1× F-15E Strike Eagle — destroyed — 2× HH-60 helicopters — damaged — 1x MH-6 Little Bird — destroyed — 1× A-10 Thunderbolt II — destroyed — 2× C-130 Hercules — destroyed
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"About 16m tonnes of fertilisers were transported by sea from the region in 2024, according to the UN conference on trade and development (Unctad). After Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Iran is the fourth-largest global exporter of urea, the most widely used nitrogen fertiliser."
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‘Food security timebomb’: a visual guide to the Gulf fertiliser blockade
UN says record numbers of people could face acute hunger if conflict continues
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Just watched the new Frankenstein and super disappointed. After two years of genocide and a year of Trump Presidency what did people see in this film? I honestly don’t get it. It was dull, repetitive and unnecessarily blood covered from start to end. Shameful interpretation of a true masterpiece.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
She wasn’t successful enough at being an unethical tool.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Trump is slowly firing all the unqualified women in his administration and replacing them with even more unqualified men.
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I used to live in a house where we would pay rent but the lease owner wouldn’t give it to the landlord and lived off of it. In return, we would steal his food. I am telling you this because there was more dignity in that house than there is now in the Democratic party.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Here is the image, via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, that stirred the White House's ire
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Murat Cem Mengüç @muratcemmenguc.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
No Kings marches barely made it to the online front pages… so what’s next?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I really feel like we are at the dawn of an age in which truth, the simple facts of the matter, will be more valuable than ever and also less accessible than ever.
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