Notices by David Njoku (davidnjoku@mastodon.world)

@wiredfire I'd love the honesty if people said, "I want an LLM that has the same biases as me." Instead we pretend that ours are good and theirs is bad.

A couple of years ago, Dall-E and Bard refused to generate images of Black doctors. They seemed to think that doctors had to be white. There were barely any complaints - until Google overcorrected and started generating images of Black founding fathers. And that made all the front pages. Hmm, strange.

I'm a little tired of people complaining that DeepSeek won't answer questions about Tiananmen Square. Where was this energy when OpenAI refused to answer questions about US politics? Try asking Gemini about Donald Trump's felonies and see what it says.

(I am not equating Chinese bad things with Western bad things. But I am tired of the intentional blindness that we all sometimes have.)

#DeepSeek #OpenAI #Gemini

All of us non-Americans should make cryptic posts about this super-amazing thing going viral on TikTok right now. Y'know, just to give them FOMO.

This is a long article so I'll give you some crib notes:

* The majority of people do not think we live in a racist society.

* (PS: The majority of people in this society are white.)

* Only half of white America thinks racism against Black people is widespread.

* (PS: half of white America thinks racism against white people is an issue.)

#blackMastodon #racism

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/18/keon-west-science-of-racism-book-extract?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Mastodon does not have an algori-

@mekkaokereke I used to volunteer with a homeless charity over here in Britain. One thing I learned from the experience is that we're all little more than 2 strokes of bad luck away from homelessness.

Yes, some homeless people are addicts. For some, the addiction led to the homelessness; for others, the homelessness led to the addiction. But you're right, they're us - people with homes are not superior to people without them.

@mountdiscovery I missed it? Shit. I thought the first race was in January.

Another problem I have is that I listen to races on the radio rather than watch them and I haven't found the station that broadcasts Formula E.

Was it a good race?

Every time I happen to glance at my phone and the time is 12:34 I feel a stab of excitement; I want to grab a stranger and tell them, or take a screenshot for prosperity.

I am 52 years old.

@mekkaokereke My pancake game is weak. But my kids don't know any better and so they demand pancakes every weekend. I don't know if that's a win - or just a fail masquerading as a win.

I almost never wish death on anyone, but I wouldn't shed any tears if I hear that Assad has been compromised to a permanent end.

#Syria

Assad's British-born wife, Asma, still retains her British citizenship despite helping to head a regime that has spent the last decade murdering its own people with chemical weapons.

Tell me again why Shemima Begum had to lose *her* citizenship.

(I know I should stop going on about what happened to that girl, but I don't think I ever will. I don't even like her, but what Britain did to her was wrong.)

@dansup Give me a Soulja Boy song to check out. I honestly only thought he did that one song.

@dansup I don't take any of the accusations seriously; I never do with rap beefs. I just mean that Not Like Us was a brilliant song that Drake didn't have a response to.

@dansup So much to unpack here:
1. I don't think the Kanye v 50 thing was real beef. That was just a marketing ploy to sell CDs.

Not beef, but still a battle for the soul of hip-hop. And I agree that Ye won that (he also won the sales one too.)

2. I'm not a big k.dot or Drake fan, but I disagree that Drake won.

Yes, he sells more records - and always will - but k.dot won the beef.

@dansup You can't just mention rap politics and then move on 😃 Tell me your best hot take.

@mekkaokereke Starter packs make things easy, and Eazy is how we got NWA.

I took my kids to school this morning - and somehow managed to lose my car keys.

I drive a Renault and so I was both delighted and appalled that even without the keys I was able to get in the car and drive it home.

Dear reader, they were in my pocket all along.

I repeat: my car keys were in my pocket.

And there I was searching through piles of soggy leaves, reaching into bins, feeling among the bags of dog shit, attracting weird looks from passersby.

All the while, the keys were in my pocket.

If anyone's looking for me, I'll be over in the corner dying of shame.

On Mastodon, as everyone likes to remind everyone, you are your own algorithm.

I try to balance out the people I follow:

Whenever I feel that I'm following too many earnest, political types, I try to seek out some funny shitposters to follow. And then I toss in a handful of techie types, and a couple of accounts that post pretty photos. (I wish there were more accounts that post about what's good on TV.)

Do you do the same, or do you just follow whoever catches your attention?

@mekkaokereke I feel like you've just challenged me to a fight. Meet me at the town square at dawn and we'll find out who is stronger. 😀