Even if you didn’t binge-watch 'Love Island USA' Season 7 last summer, you’ve probably seen Olandria Carthen pop up on social media.
Though she didn’t win the season, Carthen was the breakout star of the franchise, immediately becoming a fan favorite not just for her style, sparkle, and storyline, but also because of how open and vulnerable she was about representing dark-skinned Black women on reality TV.
When playing TIME’s game of telephone on at Thursday night's TIME100 Creators Party with Julian Shapiro-Barnum, she put it simply, “I broke the standard." See more from the celebration here: https://t.co/q3rbUG5E71
Now pay very close attention to how some of the women who were thirsting over him change their tune (rightly so), while a lot men who never cared for him become his biggest fans and defenders.
Accountant General Thief
Attorney General Thief
Minister for Aviation Thief
SGF Thief
CBN Gov Thief.
These are BUHARI’s Legacy.
BUHARI was a calamity that should never had happened to this country.
In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.
"You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot."
My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9
- Nigerians will still play South African songs during raves.
- Nigerians were arguing against boycotting a media centering them.
- Nigerians will still travel to Cape town for vacation.
Look at how they massacred your fellow Nigerian, look the thousands fleeing.
idk i’ve been reading fics for like 10 years and have definitely seen writing styles like this. like pls keep in mind ai is trained off what Real People have written
The memefication of outrage is what will ensure that no matter how egregious the actions of politicians, Nigerians will, instead of reacting in any useful way, turn to memes and skits, giggling as their home burns down.
Reminds me of the timeless words of satirist Peter Cook who, at the height of the satire boom of the 60's in Britain and worried that political comedy was turning into a facetious distraction, said that Britain is "in danger of sinking, giggling into the sea".
Trigger warning ⚠️
Here is the picture of the most notorious Kito man in Nigeria and his family, who is responsible for for extorting millions of naira from innocent Nigerians on the basis of perceived sexuality and hacking some of his victims to death in the process. The law has never caught up with him and he has a full functioning gang all over Nigeria.