SuperJail Warden
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

WW2 seems like a really difficult infodump to plan over the course of a few short classes in a few weeks. A lot of abridgement is going to occur even keeping with whatever curriculum requirements. The causations and politics and all the events leading up to it always felt more like an afterthought in school, nevermind perspectives in hindsight and various takes and legacies. I got more information from books and library documentaries than classes.
I am going to spend at least a month and half on World War 2 with World History students. It is the unit I go above and beyond for. This unit is my favorite. I hype it all year to the kids. Then when the time comes I put on my robe and wizard hat and teach them.
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unnamednewbie13
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It's probably not a bad idea to get in the habit of being polite to your robot assistants now, before we reach the point where they can feel resentment.
SuperJail Warden
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Why would anyone create a Hitler robot?
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I could see 4chan programming an AI with Hitler's ways.
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

Why would anyone create a Hitler robot?
you haven't been paying much attention to the developments in AI or machine learning in recent years, have you?

there was a huge furore in which the head engineer at google went public, and was summarily fired, for airing her concerns over this stuff.

any 'machine' intelligence being worked on is inevitably being loaded with the biases, unconscious as well as conscious, of its creators.

even pretty benign effects and outcomes like facial recognition algorithms working horribly on black skin, etc, etc.

or microsoft chatbots and tools that were launched to the public as a 'neat!' demonstration of the tech, only to be poisoned by 4chan trolls into spouting nazi race hate within a week of operation.

the comic panel is just making fun of this trope.
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USA brokers 30-day ceasefire deal in saudi arabia.

2 hours later, russia launches a new aerial attack on kiev.

at this point putin is calling everyone's bluff, has done repeatedly, and zelenskyy is being repeatedly proven right in his insistence at the white house that putin isn't interested in ceasefires or peaceable solutions.

ww3 when?

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looking forward to getting nuked because donald trump wanted a gaza hotel. /s
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USA brokers ceasefire in Gaza

Israel carries on with airstrikes and obstruction of humanitarian aid throughout.

Netanyahu is calling everyone's bluff, Hamas is repeatedly being proved right that Israel isn't interested in ceasefires, peaceable solutions or getting its prisoners back alive.

There's one set of agreements for the public and another set of actual agreements.

Also why are innocent people abducted by Hamas called hostages but innocent people abducted by Israel called prisoners?
Fuck Israel
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if you read adam tooze you'd know he has some interesting things to say about this breakdown of american unilateralism/monopolarity. their ability to no longer ensure a continuing peace through diplomacy or fear of coercion signals our new multipolar world order ...
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Except they could, especially with Israel, but choose not to.
Fuck Israel
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I thought this was funny.

https://i.imgur.com/2GSd9Px.png
Fuck Israel
SuperJail Warden
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I think I may have accidentally turned one of my students into a Nazi.

I showed the class clips from the movie Downfall to explain the Battle of Berlin and end of Nazi Germany. This one student who has a MAGA mom, ADHD, and autism said the movie is now her favorite movie and she watches the clips on YouTube.
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tread carefully, mac! this pops up from time to time on youtube, with recommends turned off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third … xperiment) (e: link fixed)

maybe some clips of conspiracy and schindler's list too as a reminder that the nazis were really bad guys.

having stuff like downfall or secret honor or falling down as favorite frequent-watch fare is for dark thoughts fetishists. she should be redirected to network or even christmas vacation if she likes rant scenes. might be easy to derail with what the bleep? and get them using henna makeup and festooning their place with new-agey stuff. not ideal, but better than mainlining hitler.

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SuperJail Warden
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I assume she likes the "Hitler rants" videos. I don't know why she went down that rabbit hole since I only showed two clips once. The kids don't have access to YouTube on their computers so she must have used her own device to look it up.

...

Her mom is totally MAGA. The kid seems to be conditioned to celebrate whenever Trump's or JD Vance's name comes up.

The kid has really bad ADHD and autism. They will have an anxiety attack if separated from her cellphone or Nintendo Switch. At this point the teachers just let her play on the Switch even though her shouting and video game induced movement is bothersome.

A coworker mentioned seeing my name on her mom's Facebook page. The mom posted the kids report card and was happy about the grades the kid was getting even though she mostly just plays Switch and no one wants to bother her.
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poor kid

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