Schrodinger's immigrant: taking all the jobs, while also not doing anything and leeching off the state. "where did you learn to speak English so well?" but also "we can't understand their accents" 🤷🏿‍♀️

Tech Policy Press Fellow Jake Laperruque opens a three-part series on AI in policing by asking an underexamined question: if AI systems are trained to tell users what they want to hear, what happens when those users are cops and prosecutors?

Will AI Sycophancy Contaminate Law Enforcement?

AI sycophancy in high risk domains like law enforcement are under-analyzed, argues Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque.

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Saw a video yesterday of a Nigerian-British lady lamenting the fact that Nigeria doesn't grow as much coffee as Ethiopia! Two completely different climates. Ethiopia is literally the homeland of coffee too. Nigeria is one of the largest producers of cocoa which Ethiopia doesn't really produce

Theses so much projection in these videos. Everything here is literally the other way round. It's Chinese business owners who treat their African employees terribly and who abandon their children when their construction jobs are over

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

Palm oil is apparently to the UK what "seed oils" are to Americans. Tbf, palm oil does come from the palm fruit

Hm. Grammarly has suggested I replace fabricated with fabulously 😩 From where to where abeg?

This video says everything I want to say about the material and immaterial culture in postcolonial contexts. There's so much of us that is good and has prevailed: our agency, our world-building, the resilience of our cultures, even in the things we say are colonial in origin

Hm Scrubs is showing its age in myriad ways

I put on The Last Stand for some reason and all I can think of is the greatest tumblr post of all time

People that like people who make them feel comfortable in their guilt 🌚

I think about this a lot and for me the *extremely* simplified answer to this is that some people approach art to think and some approach it to feel, and if you're mostly in the latter category there's a lot about the text that will go right by you (or you'll just ignore) as you bathe in the vibe

Keira Perkins@thatkeira.bsky.social · 2d ago

It is wild to me how many people will love a book, a show, a song - anything creative really - and fundamentally misunderstand the thing they adore. What I’m saying is that I would like to give Suzanne Collins a hug.

"You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place"

Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · 3d ago

Andy Burnham correctly points out in an interview that small boat crossings are massively down this year compared with last. The comments in the post are filled with people suggesting he is lying about this very clear, data-evidenced fact. It’s almost as though they don’t want it to he true…

One would think Nigerian Americans being the most educated immigrant group in the US would mean it wasn't so difficult to travel on a Nigerian passport but nope, we've been banned from applying for US visas. They've even implemented a bond sef of $15k sef.

Christians don't even use "Jesus" like that. Like I wouldn't say, "Now let's thank Jesus." At least in all the churches I've been to, you're more likely to hear "Let's thank God/the Lord." That's how you know someone is not a serious person

Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 3d ago

Man who shagged his girlfriend behind his wife's back lectures the Archbishop of Canterbury on Christianity.

I'm supposed to move to a new place in a week and in the most cartoonishly evil, African relative way, my guarantor, after agreeing to be my guarantor, refused to complete the guarantor checks, after claiming to have filled the form. So now my guarantor check has failed. 🤗

Sigh. All these not a fire you can warm yourself by relationships sha

Why is Dr Cox soo Dr Cox? I've not seen this sort of I refuse to learn, self-sabotage since Fitz

Today on a critique of West African institutions and our useless elite. Don't know if I quite agree with the framing that within the West African context, the aspiration is whiteness or proximity to whiteness, rather than the West as a whole though www.instagram.com/reel/DbgXXFZ...?

Interesting article that validates my thoughts about the UK heatwave (I've been hotter in Lagos, Benin, Ado and Abuja) and annoyance at claims that the UK was hotter than countries in literal tropical rainforest regions. 🤷🏿‍♀️ guardian.ng/nigerian/wha...

What is the Average Temperature in Nigeria?

Nigeria's average temperature is 27°C (80.6°F), but varies dramatically by region. Learn about heat patterns, climate change.

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JD walked so Fleabag could run

This is very interesting because in late 2024 Nigerian Twitter had a huge row about whether or not, we as Africans should be expected to know or care about Odysseus and Greek myths. There were concerns about the elevation of Greek myths above Nigerian cosmologies, as the result of colonisation and

Patrick Iber@patrickiber.bsky.social · 4d ago

I have one Odyssey take (tm) that I haven't seen anywhere else and that has to do with the place of The Odyssey in the canon wars, and it is part of why I think Nolan's Odyssey is quite good and you can enjoy it if it's the sort of thing you enjoy

Maybe the craziest trend on the Nigerian trend is the replacing of lynching with humiliation content for punishing thieves. Out with the burnt to ashes with tire and petrol on neck, in with dance for 3 hours non-stop

I think there is also a migrant worker and potentially also a Global South gig worker intersection here. There's a similar issue in Nigeria where various labour unions have either become state assets/entangled in party politics or become little more than a platform for launching into politics

Nathan@nwylabour.bsky.social · 6d ago

Meanwhile the emergent class of underpaid service workers - a group sympathetic to left-wing politics - is left non-unionised and institutionally unbound. The result is that their policy priorities and cultural attitudes rarely figure in Labour's internal debates. No wonder they flock to the Greens.

As a Christian raised in a deeply Evangelical area, I feel comfortable saying that the purpose of this is not to convert but to try to confirm their persecution complex. I’ve seen Christians do things like this for my whole life and what they want more than anything isn’t a theological discussion…

Ẹlẹ́ẹ̀dá mi, mo dì ọ́ mú, mi ò gbọdọ̀ jábọ́-ing

I genuinely don't know what to do about this. In our diseased information environment, one MAGA-adjacent "influencer" can do more to shape public opinion than mountains of studies or facts. Where are the pro-clean-energy influencers to counter this shit?

The influencer teaching millions to fear solar

Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. How much of her rhetoric is actually true?

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All these steak is too juicy and my lobster is too buttery posts on skincare subreddits kill me sha

Not unfair to ask re: employability- yeah, interdisciplinarity can make things harder. You have to be "multilingual", entrepreneurial and persuasive. Everyone likes your talks, no one publishes your papers. (I'm already slow, and it made me slower.) BUT- you do get to do really cool sh*t

Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · last wk.

I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

The Nigerian elite eliting

It's depressing that this moved me so much, but did. First time I've heard a politician praise a group of immigrants, without caveat, for a long while.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · last wk.

Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer