Notices by David Njoku (davidnjoku@mastodon.world), page 2

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. 😀

At the time I got married, 13 years ago, I lived in a flat. I liked it cos it was a short walk from the train station. Good for getting home after late nights out.

My wife moved in. One day she said, "The only problem with this flat is that it's a long walk from the station."

Long?

Turns out it's short if you go thru the woods & by the dark underpass, a route a woman would never think of taking.

And that was my 1st lesson in how we inhabit the same space but live in different worlds.

@mekkaokereke Isn't Hair Love the one about the little girl whose mum had cancer and so her dad has to learn to do her hair? Why would they ban that?

The city of Timbuktu in Ancient Mali was legendary - its wealth, its culture, its architecture. Its university attracted scholars from as far as Spain, and from all over the Islamic world.

Whispers of its greatness spread as far as England - but it sounded so fantastic that the English assumed it must be mythical, like Atlantis or El Dorado.

It blows my mind that even today, 800 years later, many British people think Timbuktu is a distant made-up place.

I follow @mekkaokereke to learn things I wish I didn't need to know. 😞

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113249551553331194

I hate the idea of the excellent minority.

"Look at the excellent Black woman. She wiped the floor with the white (or orange) man. In your face, racists!" we crow.

But if a woman or minority needs to be twice as good as a white man to be just as successful, I've got bad news for you. It means your society is racist and misogynistic. You should be ashamed, not proud.

I was listening to this interview with Jenna Ortega (if you don't know who that is, congratulations you're old 👴🏿¹) and the interviewer asked her what she thinks about AI.

"I hate it," she replies.

My first instinct was to dismiss her. Who cares what an actor thinks? Ask a computer scientist instead.

"Every day for the past 10 years, I've received AI-generated pornographic images of me via social media," she continues.

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¹ Jenna Ortega is 21.

https://pca.st/episode/5571fd11-4dcf-4310-8da2-7f36e973a901

@dansup I hope it's not friend.com

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/10/maybe-friend-wasnt-crazy-for-spending-1-8m-on-a-domain-after-all/