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chatting with my friend, another international student about our experience in the UK and how cultural attitudes differ so much here.

you come from a country where life expectancy is 54 to one where it is 80 and you can just see it in how people behave, for good or ill.

The "what did you people do to your megafauna?" question can be applied to religion

Yes!

Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency.

His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank

Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?

300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR Thinktank analysis says proposed ‘earned settlement’ changes could trap families in prolonged insecurity

Impact on children - will damage child poverty progress - and draft proposals that will block many women from ever getting settlement are among dozens of issues that look like a recipe for chaos, much of it unintended+ some intentional changes that hurt cohesion
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

When the immigrants vote (misguidedly) for the Conservatives who allowed them come in, you people will start wondering why

Settlement reforms need so much work on substance to avoid chaos & new Windrushes

As politics, retrospective application to 1m+ voters already in Britain is recipe for big constituency of grievance with voters from India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh. But there is no offsetting political gain

Don't like all this attention Nigeria's birth rate is getting and all the assumptions that like locusts we're consuming the earth's resources and it's because we're getting aid from the Global North when in actuality the reverse is the case

Àfi òórùn igbó yìí sháà ni, since August.

Igbó, igbó, igbó. A ti report, report, report. Àwọn people wọ̀nyí sún mi.

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I've seen people on the internet apply this logic to people with dementia.

That their behaviour and the words they say due to the disease are their "true thoughts" that they can no longer hide

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Toor.

If they explain Nigeria to you and you understand, they did not explain it very well

Well, everybody has their own "public".

Who's to say "the public" for media and political elites does not now solely/primarily consist of conservative social media users?

And how do we ensure other publics become more visible, difficult to ignore? At least that's what I think Latour's point was

As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1:

Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed:

Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

More from the first elected official with Tourette Syndrome on BAFTA, Pt. 2:

We've heard from John Davidson, but BAFTA failed before and after the incident.

More: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

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multicultural, multiracial societies don't require work from both hosts and new arrivals.

Many people seem to think it's enough to just be "fair" and open minded when these are very subjective things.

Anyway the video if anyone is interested www.instagram.com/reel/DU8z_B3...

generally more liberal nature of society here.

This unfortunately doesn't happen. That's not how things work.

And then you stew in resentment at being overlooked and passed over for opportunities you're qualified for and the circle continues.

I think it's wishful thinking to imagine that

Unsurprisingly this sort of thing breeds resentment. In parts of the world where there's hierarchy, more liberal/experienced leaders will proactively/go out of their way to invite younger people into the conversation and you poor migrant, you expect older people "in the abroad" to do so due to the

Unfortunately this sort of behaviour is almost always inferred to mean ignorance and/or timidity.

You think you're being courteous (or just haven't learned how to engage confidently/stand your ground with older people), they think you're an idiot and/or ignoramus.

And people in the West always think this is about money, but it's also an age thing and of course a gender thing, a poor old man/woman > younger rich man/woman is a thing.

Anyway when you come from that part of the world, it's habitual to defer to older, more senior regardless of how much you know

I've just seen this funny video about Swedish culture and flat hierarchies (?) and find it so interesting how having an egalitarian culture does not necessarily lead to equitable outcomes in multicultural settings.

For instance if you come from a part of the world that is more hierarchical socially

kind of values we want to move on from or lead to resentment

Yeah I think ethics is very contextual based on how we come to develop it. It's just a very hegemonic approach I think.

I'm not even opposed to some of these values but it's a shame people don't see how these impositions or what people consider impositions could horribly backfire and entrench the

the rest of the world.

Which is why big tech companies will probably move/expand operations to other parts of the world

the world, relationships are not egalitarian. Women seek out partners who can provide for them and men too seek out women who are able to fulfil their care needs.

I really think there's such a mismatch in how some of the mainstream articulations of AI ethics envision social relationships and AI and

I was listening to a podcast about AI sex robots and one of the people on the podcasts said they were opposed to sexbots because they believed relationships should be egalitarian and I thought that was such a cultural thing.

I consider myself egalitarian but I'm well aware that in many parts of

Actually my suspicion is that many people will just not say they suspect an image or piece of writing of being AI-generated but simply grade it down or dismiss it or delve-gate it to avoid liability, even though they are 100% sure it's AI

Yeah that springer article is so interesting because I've thought for a while now that when people talk about AI harm, they don't realise how their own opposition to it is subjective and how it could cause them to make wrongful determinations of AI use that then causes real harm

this every morning at family devotion and every Sunday at church that it's hard for some of not not to stick

In Nigeria, the KJV is considered sort of king of all Bible translations... and I think it does affect the way we write and speak.

I think we have a hard time trying to convince people we're not trying to be grandiloquent or unnecessarily flowery but that when you grow reading and memorising