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Against the Sentence
I had to make a decision against what was being written. No matter what he wrote, this time it would be different. After all, I would be the one who felt it. Again. “Look” the writer said. “Don’t drag it out. Move forward and do your job” “What do you mean by moving forward?” I…
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Disruptive Technologies-5: The Ethics of Data-Driven Decisions
Türkçe için: https://bahadirhancicek.com/2024/10/12/yikici-teknolojiler-5-veri-temelli-kararlar/ When I first held a gun, it sprayed water. It was fun to spray someone else, but when it was sprayed at me, it didn’t feel that entertaining. Later I got a toy dart gun. We’d shoot it around and stick the plastic dart onto things. Once, by accident, it stuck right…
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Kettle
Another ordinary morning. My body is still not convinced by the world. Muscles drawn inward as if they will never open, bones that seem to have forgotten how to work, as though they are on strike against the brain. I could pour oil between my joints and it would make sense. My body creaks like…
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Why I Bought Apple Products Despite Dislike
For years, my ongoing dislike of Apple ended because of two discounts. I first bought an iPhone 11 in 2020 or 2021. This year, I bought a MacBook Air for the first time. The reason was a discount offer so shamelessly good that I couldn’t refuse it — and iOS. My opinions about Apple haven’t…
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Disruptive Technologies-4: Military Technologies
No healthy person wants to kill. At their core, people are not inclined to kill or to engage in violent conflict. When you look at diaries and notes from the world’s bloodiest wars, you see the same thing. No matter how motivated they were, in the end they say that war is not a good…
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Disruptive Technologies-3: Otism, Down syndrome and Some Ethical Topics
I saw a discussion on the internet. “Having an abortion because the baby has Down syndrome.” The comments underneath were, in many ways, ordinary — and yet deeply disturbing.While deciding over a human life seems frighteningly easy, taking real responsibility and thinking things through when deciding to have a child appears to be much harder.…
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