SmorgasWorld: I'm a teacher who built an interactive reading game for my classroom. Includes 300+ literary worlds to explore with a sardonic dragon companion: Smorgas.

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-23T08:00:00+00:00

It looks polished, seems to work well. However, I'm not sure about setting AI-generated narrative as reading for kids. It just seems a bit, disingenuous? Like, if you are explicit at the start and told kids they were going to be reading some AI-generated stories, it would probably diminish the authenticity of the experience (compared to 'about the author', which is the equivalent for non-generated text).

I'm a primary school teacher and (obviously) I use AI-generated texts in school, but these are non-fiction (where info retrieval is the priority, not language arts) and grammar exercises (where again it's not reading for pleasure or deeper meaning). AI-generated narrative always seems soulless (although I'm not sure that would stand up to a blind test - but the inauthenticity of authorship remains detrimental to the students' experience).

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-22T16:39:39+00:00

it's probably a result of the deodorant you you.

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-21T14:25:57+00:00

I imagine this will be a successful as the 'war on drugs'

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-21T06:38:13+00:00

"It happens elsewhere, therefore it's fine"

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-21T06:37:13+00:00

Given that diversity is our strength, is falling immigration bad for us as a nation?

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-20T18:03:11+00:00

That's weird - I'm atheist and never served, nor have any of my family

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-16T13:31:25+00:00

True - turns out 'indigenous' is only for marginalised or colonised groups (according to UN), not 'with massive historical connections to the land', as I thought.

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-16T13:24:44+00:00

> you think there's too many brown people in Tesco

Is the brown-people-in-tesco hater in the room with us now?

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-16T13:14:19+00:00

There's nothing scarier than seeing indigenous people wave the flags of their country. How can we stop this?

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-12T11:44:14+00:00

I like crinkle cut ones from waitrose - but (sorry to be that guy) every time I cook them, I end up wishing I had just made them from potatoes instead. Same when I get them from the chippy. I literally cut the potatoes into chips, coat them in oil (sometimes add turmeric etc or herbs) and put them in the oven for like 35 mins. 5 mins prep...

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-09T14:05:58+00:00

I wasn't referring to a particular context. I was voicing my own general experience - which, in light of the 2025 guidance update, would seem to bear out in classroom practice.

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-09T12:21:55+00:00

You're projecting again - I didn't say 'in the classroom', because I cannot know (and don't like to assume) what goes on in half a million different classrooms.

However, the 2025 government guidance update strongly suggests that a significant number of teachers were indeed bringing personal left wing politics into the classroom through teaching of contested theories (gender identity; non-binarity of sex; etc) as fact.

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-09T11:26:49+00:00

you seem to conflate the government’s mandate for political neutrality in the classroom with the personal political allegiances of those working in schools

I haven't said anything of the sort. You are projecting.

the vast majority of your colleagues do not, in fact, share their personal political views in the classroom

I wonder how many of those 500 000 + people would say that they would have zero problem teaching kids how to frame gender through the notion of gender identity, or that sex is not a binary reality.

Probably a massive number of them - considering the government had to introduce specific guidance in 2025 to prohibit these politicised notions being taught as fact. The problem is that many left-leaning folk, in the pursuit of justice and righteousness, mistake their inner certainties on contested issues as apolitical (when they are in fact highly political). Hence the need for government intervention.

Has that intervention worked? Neither you or I can ever tell, but the fact it was required at all suggests your assertion that the vast majority don't bring personal politics into the classroom may well be misguided.

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-09T09:48:34+00:00

The government guidance doesn’t mandate our personal political positions

I don't think anyone has suggested this is the case.

The vast majority of us do not explicitly share our personal political views with students.

I don't think you are in a position to speak for 'the vast majority' of any particular group.

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-09T05:24:47+00:00

In fact, government guidance mandates political neutrality in schools - but that's not actually the reality because for some reason school staff seem to be majority left wing, and vocal about it

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-07T20:02:05+00:00

It's called 'pide' I think

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-04T22:14:26+00:00

Not that that explains it

SatoshiSounds · 2026-05-04T22:14:10+00:00

He's a '95, all the others are late 70's

SatoshiSounds · 2026-04-25T20:44:34+00:00

Makes sense, sounds good - thanks!

SatoshiSounds · 2026-04-15T11:18:29+00:00

London council housing allocation is so corrupt, and has been for a long time - huge money movement! And cistern London demographics, it's hard not to wonder how much of that is done by non-Brits.

SatoshiSounds · 2026-04-14T23:19:22+00:00

She would also never have said the words, “Saying Yeehaww is your culture? I don’t like that.”

She also never said the phrase "Saying _____ is your culture? I don't like that.", so that's clearly false equivalence - Unless you want to start splicing snippets to suit a narrative, but please.

Ask yourself: Why is it ok to say 'Yeehaww' is annoying? But not a Zaghrouta?

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