For lots of reasons, I don’t like LLMs and I don’t use them, but I know there are serious people working on ways to meaningfully incorporate them into education and I don’t doubt there are ways to do that productively. It’s probably obvious that “Have the LLM tell you the answer” isn’t one of them.

If you want to see this harmful ideology set out in a single bit of pop-culture, Alec Baldwin's speech in Glengarry Glen Ross - treated as aspiration and inspiring in many online spaces - is pretty spot on: openly contemptuous of virtues (fatherhood!) that don't involve winning, ultra-competitive.

granted women, men haven't really constructed new, diverse scripts in which they exist as full humans who are fulfilled, happy and content when they do not dominate and provide for women and children

To my mind, I think the core of the problem is that greater - if still imperfect - gender equality allowed women access to more 'life scripts' as it were, but society mostly still presents men with just one script and that script poorly and incompletely.

So some men are fine and many are adrift.

So yeah another reason people don't want to return home is to face gloating from your own countrymen that you apparently aren't really good enough to be allowed to stay and that you've received your comeuppance.

Really sometimes it feels you're only appreciated for sending money home

"If we all leave, who is going to develop Nigeria?"

"Why do you want to reap where you did not sow?"

"Their ancestors worked to make those countries you're running to great, why can't you do the same for Nigeria?"

Leave me alone abeg. 😩

dressed up as nationalism or patriotism which immigrants are accused of lacking

thinking it's about decentring men, when it's the farthest thing from that.

Sigh

But these things find purchase in highly individualised societies who aren't privy to what makes a village a village and don't realise that village actually means unpaid female labour 😭

It's like that crazy article where the author clearly misunderstood the origins of soft/hard launching a man

The Global South internet is a wild, wild place. I don't know what else to say and now it seems everyone is feeling the heat

And I don't mean the rage baiters, but regular people too of all income levels, who are just like, "well if I could make money posting regularly why not?"

It's part of what makes Twitter sticky

will teach you, if nothing else, is self sufficiency and that too is a valuable lesson to learn

showing up at your house unexpectedly, demanding your time and attention, "pokenosing" into your business, making uncomfortable demands of you.

That's what makes a village a village. It's more than a ready source of help. It's navigating the demands of people as well.

🤷🏿‍♀️

Anyway what this country