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HistoPol

@HistoPol@mastodon.social

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unearth, to history

In Germany, teaching the Holocaust is mandatory.

It includes visits to concentration camp, museums, etc. They don't shy away from their own ugly history. Yet the kids aren't damaged; they're strengthened, matured, humbled. The U.S. needs to do same with slavery.

Not that complicated.

HistoPol,
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(1/7)

Are the on a road to a or to a resolution of ?

Truthful history education in the would be quintessential, yes, but very hard, because the US are built as a right from the start, as film maker brilliantly argues in the episode "Slaver Nation" of his , :

' s been an integral part since its founding, woven into the very fabric of all nation-building for centuries, not just the, say..

si_irini, to random German
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Thank you all from the bottom of my heart that you liked my post from last night and you have shared and favorited.
Also all those who still follow I thank you from the bottom of my heartโค๏ธ
I asked myself if we people that we hope can bring a change and yes we can.
We just must not give up believing in a better and kinder world and create it for us and those we love.

si_irini

HistoPol,
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@si_irini

Make the world better for all--a friendly reminder:

HistoPol,
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@si_irini

Here are some helpful hints on :

https://earthstream.social/@LittleSteps2B/109823731856251321

wihtlore, to science
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Can a science person (I think theyโ€™re called ) help me with a serious question please? Why donโ€™t we hear about anymore? It was huge when I was a teen and now, nothing. Did we solve it? It seems like we did and maybe forgot to tell people?

HistoPol,
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@wihtlore

I am not a natural scientist, but the answer can probably be (partially) found in this article:

The solution was the mass installation of flue gas in the of and .

https://www.igb-berlin.de/news/saurer-regen-war-gestern

The article reports about a scientific article that despite all this, concentrations are still rising:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001282522030492X?via%3Dihub

What is worse, I recently heard that the rate of dying forests in some...

HistoPol,
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@wihtlore

...regions in had significantly accelerated in recent years.

Based on a article I've just found, 80% of e.g. 's forests R sick.

Apparently not due to , but :

Extended periods of warm/hot weather (), , + .

(You can easily read the article in English, just copy & paste it into Word and select Translate Document. Also nice: Listen to Document).

https://www.nationalgeographic.de/umwelt/2022/04/waldsterben-in-deutschland-so-retten-wir-unsere-baeume

Jake_Vig, to random

It should be obvious by now that the point of purchasing Twitter was to destroy any possibility that you could determine a credible news source. Thatโ€™s what the whole verification issue is about. The goal was to shift credibility to random, right wing and white supremacist nutjobs who pay.

HistoPol,
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@Jake_Vig

Yes, a hostile takeover of by ultra-right opinion was plan A:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110079043525873237

Plan B might still come to fruition, however, if Plan A failes due to and/or further mass exoduses from the : .

missladyartemis, to random

@HistoPol @RickiTarr @Strandjunker

Look at that voter turn out percentage. More than 80% of Germans were making the effort to fullfill their civic duty to vote.

I keep hearing, there are more of us than them. Our side must really suck at civic duty.

HistoPol, (edited )
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1930's Revisited?

(1/n)

How 's party grabbed power

Ah, there is a lot that could be said, and this is no lecture. I will try to be brief:

First of all, comparing participation rates between different political systems is problematic. For instance: literacy rates, do you need to buy a voter ID, etc. Then, and this is relevant for all elections, did voters really have a choice?

This said, here are the voter turn-out rates...

Perowinger94, to random German
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Auf welche Produkte Spanien 0% Steuern erhebt:

  • Brot
  • Mehl
  • Obst
  • Gemรผse.

Auf welche Produkte Deutschland 0% Steuern erhebt:

  • Kerosin
  • Internationale Flugtickets
  • E-Autos

HistoPol,
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@Perowinger94

(1/3)

Es wird Zeit, das unsรคgliche internationale zur Bewรคltigung der unverzรผglich abzuschaffen.

Am besten in 2 Schritten:

  1. 2023:
    Anwendung der auch auf Fugbenzin (AvGas) sowie (Jet A-1) u.รค. fรผr und nicht staatliche (hier lieรŸe sich z.B. an etwas wie...ab einer Abgabevon....1000 Litern zunรคchst noch steuerfrei...denken)...
atrupar, to random
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look at how references to race and racism have been removed from these Florida classroom materials prepared by Studies Weekly in an attempt to comply with a DeSantis policy restricting discussion of race https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/us/florida-textbook-race-rosa-parks-reaj/index.html

HistoPol,
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@atrupar

-- next chapter.

"In 1978, with the womenโ€™s movement in full swing, Robert Claiborne, the well-known scholar of the English language, optimistically declared โ€œbarefoot and pregnantโ€ a โ€œsemi-proverbial recipe for marital happiness โ€ฆ [an example of] male callousness to womenโ€”now, happily, all but extinct.โ€

Who could have guessed how wrong heโ€™d be?"

https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/10/barefoot-and-pregnant-history-origin-of-saying.html

lispi314, to random
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@lauren @SocialistStan @Shachihoko @HistoPol @eff @team Are people really stupid enough to still buy that line?

They're stereotypes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse) for a reason.

HistoPol,
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@lispi314 @lauren @SocialistStan @Shachihoko @eff @team

If you listen to the new podcast , you will see that people will not see it coming for them until it's too late. Some will protest and quickly be dealt w/. Problem solved.

In particular w/ the integration of into the machine (Episode 4, I think). Their only limitations seemingly are: manpower and global reach

DemocracyMattersALot, to random
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@marleybits39 @HistoPol @Pineywoozle @john_g_willis @twitterreject

"All I know is I'm glad I'm 65 instead of 25."

Amen.
Sad, and ditto!

HistoPol,
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@twitterreject @DemocracyMattersALot

...investments of 125 of the worldโ€™s richest shows that on average they are emitting 3 million tonnes a year, more than a million times the average for someone in the bottom 90% of humanity."

https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-billionaires-the-
investment-emissions-of-the-worlds-richest-people-621446/

/END

HistoPol, (edited ) to internet
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(1/n)

I know a lot of people don't want to hear about the or anymore.

However, until is either broke or , or in jail, or at least not able to control the anymore, the following is very important to know about โ€™s :

One central key to understanding is this insightful article by @davetroy :

"๐Ÿ‘‰โ€™s Twitter Buy Makes No Sense โ€” Unless Itโ€™s Part of Something Bigger๐Ÿ‘ˆ"

I had this...

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/07/musks-twitter-buy-makes-no-sense-unless-its-part-of-something-bigger/

HistoPol,
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@volkris @davetroy

You are absolutely right. And maybe this discussion got too focused on the bigger implications.

From a psychological profiling perspective, the which has become the was EXCACTLY one of the best toys that billionaire narcissist could buy for himself.

It might not even have been his idea originally, but that of some of the investors or one of his old .

Sorry, I should have made this point clear in the beginning.

jasonkint, to random

For those watching the TikTok hearing - a thread of something most of the public missed two months ago as it was unsealed in a federal court late on a Friday night. Facebook tried to keep it secret for years - a Sep 2018 "Status and Re-scoped Approach" from the unprecedented audit Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress during its Cambridge Analytica scandal. /1

HistoPol,
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@jasonkint
@shashj

(1/n)

Serious question: due to the long delay and the apparent lack of remedy:

Should not be considered a due to the , and not only a potential one, like ?

Slide from 's :

Goals & Approach - Revised
Risk-based prioritization of other pre-2014-platform-changes apps for review (cont.)

High-Risk Countries
Goal:
Review of located in certain "high-risk".."

HistoPol,
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@jasonkint @shashj

(2/n)

"...#jurisdictions because those jurisdictions may be governed by potentially risky #DataStorage and #DisclosureRules or be more likely to house malicious
actors

Status:
Under development
We ran preliminary queries on a test set of 9 suggested countries to understand the number of #developers in those jurisdictions and review any..."

HistoPol,
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@jasonkint @shashj

(3/n)

"...facially interesting results - see next slide for numbers of developers.

E.g., some countries have a relatively small number of developers that created pre-2014 apps; had a significant number of seemingly .

Based on a review of lists prepared by government agencies (e.g., , , ) and watchdog organizations (e.g.,
), ..."

HistoPol,
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@jasonkint @shashj

(4/n)

"...we have now identified 28 countries for our review, and elaborated the rationale for including those countries.

E.g., states known to collect data for #IntelligenceTargeting and #CyberEspionage.

We will separately review #China and #Russia, given the risk associated with those countries.
For other #jurisdictions, we have identified them as tier 1 ..."

jackcole, to random
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Be afraid. Be very afraid.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/autonomous-systems-group-robotics/articles/chatgpt-for-robotics/

HistoPol,
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@jackcole

"Progress" into the abyss on a bi-monthly basis:

"
Autonomous Systems and Robotics Group

February 20, 2023

We extended the capabilities of to , and controlled multiple platforms such as robot arms, , and home assistant robots intuitively with language."

https://mstdn.social/@jackcole/109937799581977323

annaleen, to random
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"Itโ€™s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that weโ€™ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

HistoPol, (edited )
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@annaleen

@simon

So at least 10% of engineers DO know!

"...over 700 top academics and researchers behind the leading companies were asked in a survey about future A.I. risk. Half of those surveyed stated that there was a 10% or greater chance of human extinction (or similarly permanent and severe disempowerment) from future A.I. systems."

Every major convention should start with Philip K. 's and Isaac 's .
Seriously.

https://nyti.ms/3lJ1NNJ

HistoPol,
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@annaleen
@simon

"... companies cannot sell people new medicines without first subjecting their products to rigorous safety checks. labs cannot release new into the public sphere in order to impress shareholders with their wizardry. Likewise, A.I. systems with the power of GPT-4 and beyond should not be entangled with the lives of billions of people at a pace faster than cultures can safely absorb them."


HistoPol,
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@annaleen
@simon

"...In the beginning was the word. is the operating system of human . From language emerges myth and law, gods and money, art and science, friendships and nations and computer code. โ€™s new mastery of language means it can now hack and manipulate the operating system of civilization. By gaining mastery of language, A.I. is seizing the master key to civilization, from bank vaults to holy sepulchers."

HistoPol,
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@annaleen
@simon

"... could rapidly eat the whole of human โ€” everything we have produced over thousands of years โ€” digest it and begin to gush out a flood of new cultural artifacts. Not just school essays but also political speeches, ideological manifestos, holy books for new cults. By 2028, the U.S. presidential race might no longer be run by humans...
That cultural cocoon has hitherto been woven by other humans. What will it be like to..."

HistoPol,
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@annaleen
@simon

"...experience reality through a prism produced by intelligence?...

"...depicted running in the streets and shooting people. assumed that to gain total control of human society, A.I. would have to first gain physical control of our brains and hook them directly to a computer network.

However, simply by gaining mastery of language, A.I. would have all it needs to contain us in a Matrix-like world of illusions, without shooting..."

HistoPol,
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@annaleen
@simon

"...anyone or implanting any chips in our brains...

The specter of being trapped in a world of has haunted humankind much longer than the specter of Soon we will finally come face to face with โ€™s demon, with โ€™s cave, with the . A curtain of illusions could descend over the whole of humanity..."

The takeover has already begun:

" was the first contact between..."

HistoPol,
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@annaleen
@simon

"... and , and humanity lost. First contact has given us the bitter taste of things to come. In , primitive A.I. was used not to create content but to curate user-generated content. The A.I. behind our news feeds the [] is still choosing...[our virtually reality for us]..."

kittywifclaws, to Pubtips

Captain's Log: Repost

Hi I'm a , nerd, and former teacher. I eat movies and shows like cookies, play and , and do some with . I usually just post for laughs but thereโ€™s also some music rock and .

HistoPol,
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@kittywifclaws

I love this part:

" I eat movies and shows like cookies" :)

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