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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 39m

😂 😂

John M Danskin @johnmdanskin.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel looking for the antichrist is like me trying to find my glasses when I am wearing them.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 9h

these are not "AI clips of European cities changed by migration", these are constructed videos designed to propagate a certain worldview - designed by the people this subhead describes as "seizing on" them

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 9h

In an AI-generated, dystopian vision of the British capital, a video shows Big Ben smouldering above piles of rubbish and London crowds dressed in traditional Islamic garb.

Far-right leaders are seizing on such AI clips of European cities changed by migration to promote racist views
u.afp.com/Smz4

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Confessions of a Masc4masc @eljajlorbs.bsky.social · 19h

I thinks it’s because he is genuinely not religious- if you aren’t Christian and didnt grow up with it a works based theory of salvation is the only way to really understand it. faith based readings are extremely hard to comprehend without having the cultural background or personal religiosity

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William Easley @williameasley.bsky.social · 19h

It’s interesting that he has an entirely works based theory of salvation that just doesn’t consider the forgiveness of sin. Especially interesting with the flavors of Christianity that he has surrounded himself by within the admin

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway the Ugandan guy was iirc literally a game ranger and he still couldn't get a visa to attend a 21-day summer school on cognitive intelligence, something western scholars and researchers working in Africa may not struggle with to the same extent.

Absolutely incredible

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 1d

something you see organisers of annual event like this do.

They also remunerated me for the unsuccessful visa application and flight and stuff something some other people 🙄 whose names will remain unmentioned did not.

Interestingly, my current dp was from the caelidh on the final night.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah this reminds me of how me and two other Africans got accepted for @divintelligence.bsky.social back in 2022. A Nigerian, a Ghanaian and a Ugandan. All of our visas were denied.

@divintelligence.bsky.social was kind enough to let us come again in 2023 which was really great and not

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 11d

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 2d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

Also "thank you"

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 3d

One thing I mention in this essay about rom-com tropes is how the standard spontaneous cross-continental travel surprise does not work for postcolonial. Before you get a visa to travel to the US to do the surprise thing, your love would have died.
folukeafrica.com/a-few-things...

A few things that bother me about rom-coms

On a lighter note

folukeafrica.com

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway I think the kids are running because she's strange looking and that it has sort of devolved into a bit of a weird crowd hysteria thing.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

be implemented or should look like.

It's just funny. It's still western.

And ethics is not headquartered in the West. Far from it

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

knowing and thinking about whiteness and non-whiteness and westernisation has been idk cornered in this part of the world.

People here, and I mean leftists, are really inflexible. They think they know everything about what is ethical and unethical and how these things and ideas and mindsets should

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

people, and I really/this is why I prefer the term, people of African descent, have led lives constructed around being racial minorities, and how I grew up not seeing any white people.

It's difficult to talk frankly about these issues because it feels like the black/global south experience ways of

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

people look like ghosts" which, as someone who grew up in a racially homogenous environment where albinos were similarly othered and gawked at, is probably closest to the truth.

Whenever I give presentations I try to talk about how white people are not the global default and how not all black

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

There's a video making the rounds on reddit of a white lady who went to a school in Laos and all the little children are sort of like terrified and running around and the comments are ranging from "Who taught them racism" to "You too would run from the people who bombed your grandparents" to "white

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk had this vision for twitter but I don't see him achieving it.

WhatsApp/meta is where it's at I think

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

of purchase.

10 years later it will be adopted in the West.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

they're really gearing up to be a sort of omni-app like Wechat.

I honestly won't be surprised if they start providing digital id functionality.

It will of course begin and be refined in Africa (and other global south countries) where all sim cards are registered to your digital id at the moment

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

The way WhatsApp is going with all these their new features, the status-related ones that fly under the radar for Global North users who I've noticed tend not to use the status feature, the ones that allow you crosspost to Instagram and Facebook, the business catalogue ones etc. it feels like

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 2d

Need WhatsApp to give us that gif profile picture functionality expeditiously abeg

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 3d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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