This is exactly what you get when you put VeryDarkMan in a room and give him a platform like the NBA Conference.
This is what some lawyers don’t seem to understand. You can criticize the police, demand accountability and call out failures without making serious allegations as though they are established facts.
Look at the response from the Police Force. This is the consequence of giving reckless statements a bigger platform than they deserve.
And honestly, I’m ashamed of anyone who feels the need to justify this kind of behaviour. You can support accountability without defending everything someone says or does. At some point, professional responsibility and basic common sense have to come in.
cant b around someone thats always embarrassed! dont wanna dance at a party, dont wanna introduce themselves to ppl, dont wanna ask questions, dont wanna exist like girllll get a grip!
Yeah for today it is indeed those things in some aspects. But when it came out it was groundbreaking. That film HELPED the rights and lives of LGBTQ people.
You cannot look at something from the 70s through a 2025 lens and go “sorry it’s problematic for this time”
I feel like the younger generations have a problem putting things in their proper historical and political context. You can’t view 70s sexual awakening & LGBTQ+ movement through a 2020s lens. Everything that makes it “today’s problematic” makes it yesterday’s groundbreaking
This is actually a good thing. Public infrastructure are meant to be used by people to improve their quality of life, not as a monument that people can’t interact with.
internet activism in a nutshell
nice person: spends time with children in hospitals, goes to feminist protests, donates to LGBTQ+ charities, stands up against racial injustice
internet person: "ok but what's ur stance on Palestine?"
you guys are so fake and dgaf fr.
hair is one of the most scrutinized things in Nigeria.
it has functioned as a coded, policed marker of identity in Nigeria. & our music space, in the last sixty years, has been the one arena where hairstyles get socially legitimised before anyone else is allowed to try them.
And of all the people who has ever served time in prison, Baba Ijesha, a convicted pedophile who has clearly not shown any remorse since he got out but has been going on media rounds to whitewash himself, is the best fit to speak on that topic at an AGC? If this is really what you think, “repentant terrorists” should be brought to the AGC too. They have also earned the right just like Baba Ijesha.
It takes a high level of willful bias or dishonesty to think that there is nothing wrong with all of this. The fathers of the profession will roll in their graves at these arguments you people are making.
Why are lawyers defending a development that will lead us down a rabbit hole? Sighs!💔💔💔
I did an ideation session with Claude a couple of months ago. A lot of what it suggested was crap; it was recursive, and I picked holes in it until it gave up. I went to Gemini; it brought up suggestions I hadn't even considered, but it didn't go further as it was limited by training data.
It then occurred to me that AI is good for seeing whether others have had similar thought processes in the past and for understanding the boundaries of previous thinking before pushing further.
AI is excellent for research before creative output. Anyone who thinks it creates new things is either severely limited in their experience or very lazy. The human mind is still more powerful than the best AI. The way we make associations over time and space to create new concepts and ideas is unparalleled.
AI is a powerful helper, no doubt, but we must not give up human agency and creativity to laziness and expedience.
I wonder how Palestinians feel, it must be jarring; being reduced to a token or a litmus test that centers people’s ego in a bid to lynch people, especially women digitally, and their moral grandstanding parade.
Deeply psychotic.
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Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old.
Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000).
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