admin“The Rise and Fall of MSN Messenger” chronicles the journey of Microsoft’s iconic chat application from its launch in 1999 to its eventual demise. The video explores how Microsoft leveraged its massive Hotmail user base and Windows XP integration to overtake early pioneers like ICQ and AOL’s AIM, making MSN Messenger a cultural cornerstone for … Read more
Reporting checked on 20 October 2026. A classroom without enough teachers, a rental contract about to expire, a household budget stretched beyond its limits: these are everyday problems with increasingly visible political consequences. Across several European countries, demonstrations are bringing questions about public services and affordable living back into the streets. The Guardian’s European protests … Read more
This is an update to my 8 October 2026 post. I feel a bit pessimistic. This scale of protests mostly brings in a more conservative/reactionary government. Let’s see how this will go. via French Student Protests After 8 October 2026 Since 8 October, the lycée movement has not simply continued at the same level: school … Read more
MSCI is responding to concerns about the same underlying problem: funds closely connected to listed companies may hold and trade their shares in ways that obscure who really controls them and how much stock is genuinely available to independent investors. However, MSCI’s announcement does not name Tera or Pusula or make a criminal finding against … Read more
This video chronicles the dramatic rise and devastating fall of the internet pioneer Yahoo. Starting as a simple web directory created by Stanford students in 1994, Yahoo soared to a $125 billion valuation during the dot-com bubble. However, a crippling identity crisis—failing to decide whether it was a search engine, a media company, or an … Read more
I was at a luxurious hotel for a marketing summit, and I only realized what had happened across İstanbul when I left the hotel and started driving. Thanks to Chery, I was over the water most of the time, and I was not really anxious, and it only took me hours to arrive home while … Read more
Dear readers, I have, from time to time, reported on sham trials against opposition municipalities. I’ve reported on so many cases that I stopped reporting altogether recently. There may be real corruption cases, of course, but no one can convince ordinary citizens that these are essentially politically motivated. Here is what happened in one of … Read more
The efficiency question Three episodes into the affirmative turn, the argument has a shape. In Episode 10 I defended slow time. In Episode 11, the encounter with what has not yet been written down. In Episode 12, the campus as the infrastructure that physically underwrites both. Each of these is something the university does that … Read more
I finally began receiving new boxes from my father’s storage. Expect more personal content soon! For this post, I wanted to share my magazine/ journal collection, not as ambitious as the newspaper one! I just cataloged the 1230th one there. I used the same trick with the magazine collection, using ChatGPT and Google Drive sheets. … Read more
A beautiful moment. I wanted to share it with you. Around 280 volunteers formed a human chain to relocate books, says co-owner. When Ottawa bookstore The Spaniel’s Tale decided to move to a larger space a block away, co-owner Cole Davidson said they had no plans to host a “book brigade.” “[The idea] actually came … Read more
İsmail Saymaz and Murat Ağırel are wearing electronic ankle monitors because a court placed them under house arrest in an investigation into their reporting and comments about investment-fund and capital-market transactions. Prosecutors allege that their statements misled the public; both journalists dispute that allegation. This is a judicial-control measure during an investigation, not … Read more
The video details the history and remarkable resilience of The Pirate Bay, a torrent indexing site launched in 2003 by three Swedish founders. Despite facing intense political lobbying from the entertainment industry, multiple server raids, massive lawsuits, and the eventual international manhunt and imprisonment of its creators, the site survived. Ultimately, the video argues that … Read more
Why the fck did they invest? As if they need this. Besides Norway’s Fund, Citibank seems like another foreign loser. The foreign names emerging in the current Tera/Pusula investment-fund scandal are Norway’s sovereign wealth fund and, more tentatively, Citibank. But the key distinction is exposure: reporting identifies investments in shares linked to the investigation, not … Read more
What began in late September as a localized high school walkout in the eastern suburbs of Paris has rapidly snowballed into one of the largest and most volatile youth protest movements in France in decades. Over the past three weeks, hundreds of thousands of high school pupils (lycéens), university students, teachers, and trade unionists have … Read more
This video explores the complete, complex history of 4chan, tracing its origins back to 1995 within the Japanese underground internet. What started as anonymous text bulletin boards (like Ayashii World and 2channel) evolved into image boards that heavily influenced global internet culture. The video outlines how 4chan, launched by 15-year-old Christopher “Moot” Poole in 2003, … Read more