Fii

[Cross˚ @Elkrosmediahub]

Bruh, have they released the kids and teachers kidnapped in Oyo state, or we all just moved on??😩

[Hon Henry Shield @HonShield]

An Oil Producing Nation should not be discussing Kuli-kuli and Akara as a means of survival.

[Moe @Mochievous]

These are the plans they have for Nigerians

To subject Nigerians to poverty so Nigerians grovel for pittance to start “akara enterprise”

Funds stolen from Nigeria being spoken of as though they were an act of benevolent philanthropy

[Astral Orphan ⨺⃝ @foxtarts]

This is how you end a show when so many "Alpha men" bros don't understand that Homelander was always supposed to be a villain and satire and that you weren't supposed to identify with him. He was always meant to be a fucking joke, just as the people who like him are.

[Zoya🕊️ @Zoya_ki_batein]

“I mean, I get it. I don’t want to be alone in the woods with a man either.”

[Martha Ahumuza @MarthaAhumuza]

It must be nice being a man because no matter how mediocre, unremarkable or directionless you are, there’s comfort in knowing someone has been socialized to look at you like a leader.

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[Hauwa 🌟🌬 @Hauwa_L]

Every woman must build a solid self esteem because the world is designed to call you ugly and expect you to crumble at the mere pronunciation of that word. They place your value firmly on your beauty. You must demolish it.

[gbemisoke @Gbemisoke]

plus thinking you're only good for money is why many men don't know what to do with themselves when they don't have, or when she has more than them. It's hardworking men expressing their desire to do more for their families & it's all these other things they can do but won't😥

[Ụlọma @ulxma]

I saw this and bookmarked it because I thought they looked really great, but between the reactions to this and the Coco Gauff one, some of you have some deep-seated hatred for yourselves and for blackness that you need to unpack so you stop projecting it on strangers who don’t subscribe to your self-loathing. Fix it, Jesus.

[Name cannot be blank @hackSultan]

I’ve never been a president, but I know this isn’t how someone who loves their country should be managing the lives of its citizens.

[gst @wearegst]

Ochanya still hasn’t gotten justice.
Andrew Ogbuja and Victor Ogbuja have still not been held accountable.
Who is protecting them, and why is no one answering?

[gst @wearegst]

The richest people in Nigeria control 90% of the country's resources.

According to an Oxfam report, the wealth of Femi Otedola and four of his billionaire peers could end extreme poverty in Nigeria.

[🎶🍿TableRocket🍿🎶 #1 Kim Fan @cream_cereal]

HUGE NEWS: A visual library of black hairstyles just released! If you're sick of crawling through Pinterest like I am, try out Afro.Index! It's very new + still growing, but it's already pretty solid!

[EA has her PVC @virtuousii]

“I will not accept collective guilt” is making collective jokes about sexual assault. Aww🥺

[Vanessa @cyrillasundays]

An important pivot a woman makes in her feminist journey is deciding to stop debating feminism with men

[gst @wearegst]

Corruption is not a victimless crime. Every Naira stolen shows up as rising food prices, poor infrastructure, broken-down schools and medical failures.

[安天美 @tomiadesina_]

To preserve tradition is to evolve its core tenets to match the reality of modernity.

Being African is not synonymous with being backward.