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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 14h

I bet that's how you get to what happened today: a bulk release of significant results. Released to avoid that internal conflict. Results that tbqh probably deserve better than to be mass-dumped. But these aren't proofs to prove them. They're the exhaust fumes of the math eval factory.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13h

Sigh. I can never tell if afropessimism refers to feelings of pessimism felt by black people about themselves and their futures or if it's feelings of pessimism felt by non-black people towards black people. Or both

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not the African continental x diaspora wars on Twitter 😩

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nigeria gearing up to follow in the footsteps of Brazil

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Is there anything about my policies that is likely to put women fleeing persecution into the hands of men who are going to rape them?” is the question that doubtless never occurs to her. And from those concerned about the safety of women and girls, crickets.

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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 04/10/2026

Most of the people promoting the current, comparative discourse would've been my age at the time, maybe a bit older. The point is, you'd have been quite young, and an early-adopter of a tech that your parents' generation was statistically likely to be very skeptical of.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can’t stop laughing

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fitting too that today is independence day in Nigeria. 66 years on where is the independence, where is the freedom, where is the humanity

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also find all these AI critiques that centre how AI is troubling the idea of "the human" very funny. Like that's ever been settled. When did the life of a Global South asylum seeker or migrant become equal to that of a Global North citizen? Whose "humanity" is being troubled here? Mtchew

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why I think a lot of African AI ethics is wasting time on the Yoruba word for care or intelligence or all that. These things don't reflect the need felt by the majority. Just extraverted cultural vanity projects

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And also there's no point trying to make any laws stopping/banning AI use without coming to terms with Global South inequality. Global South countries will just become safe havens, the way setting your VPN to certain countries prevents you from getting ads

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Actually quite pleased to see this and generally agree with the spoiled assessment. It's of course part of why people in the Global South are super receptive towards AI - we don't have functional public services. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Its possible to make a transactional self-interested case for temporary churn migration: they can do something useful for us + go back home to keep numbers down This transactional case lacks bridging appeal that "how do people become us" integration can have for liberals, balancers + conservatives

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nigerians on reparations and fuel subsidy cuts

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Latest on usaid I haven't seen anyone talk about here (but may just have missed it) is that the US is going around various African countries offering USAID for extractive agreements to African health (and other) data. Apparently Kenya, and the giant of Africa iykyk, has signed.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You're welcome! There's also this report on general trends in Africa showing the majority of funded startups to be fintechs by Disrupt Africa disruptafrica.gumroad.com/l/kjrnr

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh also and this is part of why Nigeria is/was a huge crypto currency market

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So Nigerians were very upset when PayPal finally let Nigerians in, by partnering with a local startup only this year, after all the hard work had been done Think the contrasts/parallels with European countries also divesting from US companies are quite interesting techpoint.africa/insight/nige...

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Nigerians are still mad at PayPal but their startups need dollars

Nigerians may resent PayPal, but with the naira under pressure, startups like Paga are prioritising global reach and dollar inflows.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From the Nigerian/African angle, there's an interesting thing where, because there's a huge Nigerian diaspora, gig economy and Nigerians were banned from using services like PayPal there was huge demand for alternatives, which is now being filled with very successful local apps.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And bring down the visa and health surcharge fee too! £4000 for a 3-year graduate visa is rubbish

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!

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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The AfD and CDU in Heidenau want to place the town's Holocaust memorial at the cemetery. Many cities have BOTH, i.e., a memorial at the Jewish cemetery and Stolpersteine. By choosing only a memorial at a cemetery, it literally removes the memory of the Holocaust from the urban landscape.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂. Gah. My eyes skipped past that one

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And his postphenomenology and technoscience. I would recommend Karen Barad too maybe but maybe an ug would find that too challenging

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don Ihde's Technology and the life world

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Because one is a legal identity and the other is more... 🌚 "blood and soil" and we're not here to drag indigeneity with anybody

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mehn it's very hard to square the progressivism I see on this app with my own lived experience in this country. Because among me and the migrants I know (who moved to this country as adults especially) our working assumption is that we will never be English but can become British

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know what this post is trying to say but as someone who is super interested in AI and Global South perspectives on it, but whose country (Nigeria) along with many other Global South ones has been barred from applying for visas to the US, I'm reading this very differently.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Isn't he? Imo, the real (better) question is "why can't a woman play God?" not "why can't a woman play a talking lion?" because this is a *religious* misogyny issue. Think people will keep talking past each other if they don't understand how different groups are reading/making sense of things.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"what if my God-like creature was a lion?" I think we should prod at why people have issues with a woman playing God - I really found Octavia Spencer's performance as God the Father very compelling for instance, but/and I think that's a much more nuanced line of argument that goes to the root of

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wonder how much of this comes from people not realising that Jesus is literally described as the lion of the tribe of Judah in the Bible 🤷🏿‍♀️ Like that's part of why Aslan is obviously (and accepted as) Jesus to people familiar with the... mythology and not just a creative reimagining of

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Saying that labor-saving technology doesn't really save labor is an argument that you can only make when you're living in a world driven by technology that you don't even notice any of it anymore

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

More people need to talk about this limits of social constructivist critique of technology sha because there's a weird way it simply becomes tech (and cultural) determinism again

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Postphenomenology and OOO too! I think a lot of the most prominent/leading voices on AI critique (computer scientists (!), lawyers, activists, writers, artists etc.) are not at all familiar with this literature

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And as a self professed professional Lagos hater, I'm so happy that their tours take people to other parts of the SW and Nigeria!

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sigh. Not this American guy (almost) single-handedly carrying Nigerian tourism on his back 😭 Props to him abeg because... before now my own is not more than to discourage non-Nigerians from travelling to Nigeria especially *alone* www.instagram.com/reel/DdO2quf...

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Phew 😩 I was feeling for the actress

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

feel out of our control. Unfortunately, this feeling is an illusion, literal wasted energy. But it makes us feel better 😕

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mehn I actually do feel a lot of sympathy for catastrophisers as someone who has been catastrophising about my own life. I actually listened to a podcast a few hours ago where the hosts talked about how it helps us feel in control because we believe we're making sense of things of things that

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"The calls for participatory democracy which are oblivious to the substance of politics and merely recommend new forms of transaction are pointless and will remain inconsequential. One may as well call for participation in pocket calculators”

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

separately i think those organizations are clearly not up to this, but one of the reasons they are not up to this is that their belief in AI alignment risks are essentially theological beliefs that are conveyed to them via strong social bonds and emotionally compelling writing

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This bears unpacking, as the Cold War doesn't really end until the end of apartheid, and the way apartheid ended (peacefully w/ transitional justice mechanisms) arguably did more to shape the liberal international order and the golden age of "happy" globalization than the postcommunist transition.

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