Favour Borokini
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.
- Hm, maybe this is one of those cultural variations, like white people using "soft launch" in a positive way, when in the spaces the term was created, it referred to hinting to male-centred acts of digital performance specifically, hinting to one's followers the existence of a man in one's life.
- Reposted by Favour Borokini"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
- Reposted by Favour BorokiniContext: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Favour Borokinione of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
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- Are lukumades puffpuff? Stay tuned
- This is me too wrt growing vaccine hesitancy in Nigeria and conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and depopulation
- Reposted by Favour Borokinias someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies
- Reposted by Favour BorokiniI'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded
- All the world's Call of Duty or Death Note or wherever it is they're getting inspiration
- Reposted by Favour BorokiniThere are plenty of *real* divisions between the U.S. and EU in speech laws for hate, disinformation, etc. But *not* about this. It takes a very talented huckster to convince the world that purveying literal child sexual abuse material makes Elon an American speech hero fighting French oppression.
- Oh my God. Ron Kenoly has passed away. Core Nigerian childhood icon laid to rest
- Sigh do I have to lug my laptop around today again? 😩
- Like reading a Gene Wolfe novel
- Reposted by Favour BorokiniOfcom has just confirmed that xAI (and therefore the standalone Grok app) is not in scope for their investigation of X. They need to urgently rethink this: Grok produces sexualised images of people without their consent that can be easily shared and used for public humiliation.
- New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...
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- Right. West Africa. So Nigeria? 😩
- Is it so strange? People everywhere, including and excluding marginalised groups, are constantly performing acts of historical revisionism, constructive grand narratives about murky, less than stellar pasts. Wilfully redefining that which they desire in terms of qualities they possess.
- Reposted by Favour BorokiniDuring my PG days, the uni security guys came to break up a dinner we were having. It was mostly Nigerians at the dinner. We were about 15 people all speaking at once. So the security fellows thought there was a fight going on. For Nigerians it was more of a quiet evening chat. Very seriously.
- Reposted by Favour BorokiniLag. The federal judiciary is catching up — this is a remarkable order, it's only three pages. I recommend reading it. I have, in all of my time practicing law, never seen a judge do anything like this:
- Yes, there is an incorrect date ("February" at the bottom of the order.) Here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- I see this and raise you Nigerian legislator, Patrick Obahiagbon: youtu.be/khcgcpcUMjE?... Many such examples of his grandiloquence abound all over YouTube
- I imagine this kind of institutional distrust can be applied to all sorts of areas, vaccine hesitancy, savings and investment etc.
- Big discourse over PayPal now being available in Nigeria decades after Nigeria now has pretty decent fintech options for international payments. No apology, no acknowledgement of the monies randomly confiscated by Nigerian gigworkers by PayPal. Just swooping in to reap benefits.
- Coupists like other authoritarians have zero new ideas
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- Reposted by Favour Borokinipart of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
- Reposted by Favour BorokiniSadiq Khan says integration matters. But making refugee status temporary "will leave people in a precarious state, suspended in limbo for years, their lives overshadowed with uncertainty” Doubling how long it takes people to settle "doesn't give people a stake in society, it takes that stake away"
- Reposted by Favour BorokiniImmigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
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- Reposted by Favour BorokiniWe have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
- What's up ke?
- Reposted by Favour BorokiniThis is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
- Reposted by Favour Borokini#OtD 24 Jan 1979 a 35-year-old teacher from India arrived in London to marry her British fiancé. The immigration officer ordered that she be given a "virginity test" – state sanctioned sexual assault. Public outcry then led to the practice being ended stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9654...
- Ugh. I'm Yoruba and I have always cited that Bakare-Yusuf's article as critique of Oyewumi's work. I feel quite pleased to see someone else articulate what I can really only refer to as image-washing amongst certain types of Global South scholars/elite.
- Sigh not people using "there's more than one Nigerian accent" to import all sorts of most un-Nigerian accents into Nigerian accent-hood. You're doing a wakanda-inspired accent and you're saying it's Nigerian. Is Nigeria in East Africa? 🤷🏿♀️
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- I've just listened to Mark Carney's speech and well, at least someone that prominent is willing to say what has been often unsaid. I wonder what countries he considers middle powers though. I wonder where Africa features, if at all, in this speech and Canada's own culpability in global instability
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- Some people don't even believe migrants can be conservative, that these are values we bring with us from our home countries. They're convinced it, like everything, is internalised white supremacy or that we're just ladder pullers. So they're left without arguments against racists when some of
