Favour Borokini
@favourboroks.bsky.social
Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
Mehn I hope someone writes a piece humanising the ethnic minority Christians in Northern Nigeria whose indigenous languages are dying, who lose farmland, whose daughters are kidnapped and forcefully converted, who are subjected to pogroms, whose businesses, churches and physical bodies are razed, so
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Mehn I hope someone writes a piece humanising the ethnic minority Christians in Northern Nigeria whose indigenous languages are dying, who lose farmland, whose daughters are kidnapped and forcefully converted, who are subjected to pogroms, whose businesses, churches and physical bodies are razed, so
Trying and failing to get a Goldilocks desk, laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse chair setup
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Trying and failing to get a Goldilocks desk, laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse chair setup
If I talk now about the differences being a black British person and an African migrant... 🌚
Not that us Africans have much solidarity either sha
Not that us Africans have much solidarity either sha
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
If I talk now about the differences being a black British person and an African migrant... 🌚
Not that us Africans have much solidarity either sha
Not that us Africans have much solidarity either sha
Why are Latino parents being afraid to walk the streets being framed as a good thing???
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Why are Latino parents being afraid to walk the streets being framed as a good thing???
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So predictably, far from satisfying anyone, Mahmood’s proposals have opened up space even further to the right for people to indulge their most deranged anti-immigration obsessions. Where does she go from here? Seek to match them in a gruesome auction of cruelty she can never win?
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
So predictably, far from satisfying anyone, Mahmood’s proposals have opened up space even further to the right for people to indulge their most deranged anti-immigration obsessions. Where does she go from here? Seek to match them in a gruesome auction of cruelty she can never win?
This is why Nigerians are huge adopters of crypto currency sha.
When I first started working remotely, it was really difficult for my organisation to pay my salary because it was really difficult (at that time maybe) to open a usd-denominated bank account and my local bank would always flag
When I first started working remotely, it was really difficult for my organisation to pay my salary because it was really difficult (at that time maybe) to open a usd-denominated bank account and my local bank would always flag
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This is why Nigerians are huge adopters of crypto currency sha.
When I first started working remotely, it was really difficult for my organisation to pay my salary because it was really difficult (at that time maybe) to open a usd-denominated bank account and my local bank would always flag
When I first started working remotely, it was really difficult for my organisation to pay my salary because it was really difficult (at that time maybe) to open a usd-denominated bank account and my local bank would always flag
So weird being a Nigerian international student.
As a Nigerian, you're an undesirable, scammer and religious extremism stereotypes abound, weak passport etc. etc.
But the spectre of the rich "international student" continues to dog you still.
I'd be willing to accept that international students
As a Nigerian, you're an undesirable, scammer and religious extremism stereotypes abound, weak passport etc. etc.
But the spectre of the rich "international student" continues to dog you still.
I'd be willing to accept that international students
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
So weird being a Nigerian international student.
As a Nigerian, you're an undesirable, scammer and religious extremism stereotypes abound, weak passport etc. etc.
But the spectre of the rich "international student" continues to dog you still.
I'd be willing to accept that international students
As a Nigerian, you're an undesirable, scammer and religious extremism stereotypes abound, weak passport etc. etc.
But the spectre of the rich "international student" continues to dog you still.
I'd be willing to accept that international students
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Imo, these shortsighted attempts to limit international students fit in this too. On the one hand it may be a bit "Why are we paying for *their* people to learn skills they will use *over there* (bc we obviously don't want them to stay here)". But also, they don't see the benefits of int. students
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Imo, these shortsighted attempts to limit international students fit in this too. On the one hand it may be a bit "Why are we paying for *their* people to learn skills they will use *over there* (bc we obviously don't want them to stay here)". But also, they don't see the benefits of int. students
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Not surprised that many of the white supremacist accounts on X are in fact not white. Now we can move onto the conversation about how many of these far right accounts (especially on Tiktok) are ran by children
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Not surprised that many of the white supremacist accounts on X are in fact not white. Now we can move onto the conversation about how many of these far right accounts (especially on Tiktok) are ran by children
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.
Probably led to a certain M*k* on +234 Twitter's psychotic episode.
«ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality … It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet …» #ParanoiaMachine
For the last few months, we've been talking to current and former employees of OpenAI to understand what went wrong with ChatGPT this year and how the company is fixing it. Here's the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Probably led to a certain M*k* on +234 Twitter's psychotic episode.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria's Niger state have escaped and are now with their families.
Pope calls on kidnappers in Nigeria to free 265 students and teachers after some pupils escape
Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped and are now with their families.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in Nigeria's Niger state have escaped and are now with their families.
And it's not just xenophobia people should be worried about but online misogyny, homophobia, religious extremism etc.
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
And it's not just xenophobia people should be worried about but online misogyny, homophobia, religious extremism etc.
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If you want to see this harmful ideology set out in a single bit of pop-culture, Alec Baldwin's speech in Glengarry Glen Ross - treated as aspiration and inspiring in many online spaces - is pretty spot on: openly contemptuous of virtues (fatherhood!) that don't involve winning, ultra-competitive.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If you want to see this harmful ideology set out in a single bit of pop-culture, Alec Baldwin's speech in Glengarry Glen Ross - treated as aspiration and inspiring in many online spaces - is pretty spot on: openly contemptuous of virtues (fatherhood!) that don't involve winning, ultra-competitive.
I think feminists were able to create scripts that described how much better life could be for women that even conservative women, or women in more conservative cultures could buy into while not explicitly supporting feminism.
Probably because for some men, gender equality is a gift they have
Probably because for some men, gender equality is a gift they have
To my mind, I think the core of the problem is that greater - if still imperfect - gender equality allowed women access to more 'life scripts' as it were, but society mostly still presents men with just one script and that script poorly and incompletely.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I think feminists were able to create scripts that described how much better life could be for women that even conservative women, or women in more conservative cultures could buy into while not explicitly supporting feminism.
Probably because for some men, gender equality is a gift they have
Probably because for some men, gender equality is a gift they have
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To my mind, I think the core of the problem is that greater - if still imperfect - gender equality allowed women access to more 'life scripts' as it were, but society mostly still presents men with just one script and that script poorly and incompletely.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
To my mind, I think the core of the problem is that greater - if still imperfect - gender equality allowed women access to more 'life scripts' as it were, but society mostly still presents men with just one script and that script poorly and incompletely.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
So some men are fine and many are adrift.
I've kuku said it before, Nigerians *love* Trump. No surprises there.
One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I've kuku said it before, Nigerians *love* Trump. No surprises there.
There's also something here that's underdiscussed and unknown if you're not from a developing country, which is that many people at home, from your home country, think you're a traitor for leaving and they think the xenophobia you experience abroad is well-deserved.
This sort of rhetoric is often
This sort of rhetoric is often
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There's also something here that's underdiscussed and unknown if you're not from a developing country, which is that many people at home, from your home country, think you're a traitor for leaving and they think the xenophobia you experience abroad is well-deserved.
This sort of rhetoric is often
This sort of rhetoric is often
I think my love has reached its acme and has now began to ebb.
But it's okay. It's okay
But it's okay. It's okay
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I think my love has reached its acme and has now began to ebb.
But it's okay. It's okay
But it's okay. It's okay
Anyway re: it takes a village to raise a child, there's a reason many African feminists divest from these notions, disentangling themselves from "the village".
You look at the village, what they give you, what they ask of you, the children they have raised and say, "hm, no actually. I don't want"
You look at the village, what they give you, what they ask of you, the children they have raised and say, "hm, no actually. I don't want"
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Anyway re: it takes a village to raise a child, there's a reason many African feminists divest from these notions, disentangling themselves from "the village".
You look at the village, what they give you, what they ask of you, the children they have raised and say, "hm, no actually. I don't want"
You look at the village, what they give you, what they ask of you, the children they have raised and say, "hm, no actually. I don't want"
This is also what I was saying about western feminists feeling like women's rights are being rolled back, when it's unfortunately just conservative accounts from the Global South amplifying Conservative values online 😭
Why no such solidarity exists between western and global south leftists... 🤷🏿♀️
Why no such solidarity exists between western and global south leftists... 🤷🏿♀️
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This is also what I was saying about western feminists feeling like women's rights are being rolled back, when it's unfortunately just conservative accounts from the Global South amplifying Conservative values online 😭
Why no such solidarity exists between western and global south leftists... 🤷🏿♀️
Why no such solidarity exists between western and global south leftists... 🤷🏿♀️
Yo I've said it time and time again that the main reason many Nigerians failed to leave twitter for Bluesky was because Elon Musk started paying people
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Yo I've said it time and time again that the main reason many Nigerians failed to leave twitter for Bluesky was because Elon Musk started paying people
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Apart from the CoE, I think British culture as a whole struggles with the idea of hospitality.
One of my research participants said people now commonly say it takes a village but seem to have forgotten the African roots of the proverb (typical) and what (village) life there is like. It's people
One of my research participants said people now commonly say it takes a village but seem to have forgotten the African roots of the proverb (typical) and what (village) life there is like. It's people
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Apart from the CoE, I think British culture as a whole struggles with the idea of hospitality.
One of my research participants said people now commonly say it takes a village but seem to have forgotten the African roots of the proverb (typical) and what (village) life there is like. It's people
One of my research participants said people now commonly say it takes a village but seem to have forgotten the African roots of the proverb (typical) and what (village) life there is like. It's people