Alex J-W
@alexjw.bsky.social
Maths educator. Often confused by the world. Follow me if you are interested in maths and stats education or professional development in general.
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Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history & then Lisa Murkowski says that no one could have anticipated how threatening to conquer our NATO allies was a distraction w/ unforeseeable consequences 🤦♂️
“Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, said the issue of Greenland had “distracted in ways that I don’t think that any of us could have anticipated.”
How can you possibly fail to anticipate this? How is this a thing any adult, let alone a US Senator, can say?
How can you possibly fail to anticipate this? How is this a thing any adult, let alone a US Senator, can say?
In Munich, Lawmakers Concede Scars Remain After Trump’s Greenland Threat www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...
February 16, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history & then Lisa Murkowski says that no one could have anticipated how threatening to conquer our NATO allies was a distraction w/ unforeseeable consequences 🤦♂️
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This is what a rigged economy looks like.
February 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
GenAI is just revealing how much of our digital environment is populated by disinformation and toxicity…
February 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
GenAI is just revealing how much of our digital environment is populated by disinformation and toxicity…
It’s only taken 10 years for them to work this out?
February 15, 2026 at 12:45 PM
It’s only taken 10 years for them to work this out?
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“Get me a load of paint, a bunch of East Indiamen, a captain RN who’s feeling down and in need of some romance-money and some Boccherini sheet music.”
February 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
“Get me a load of paint, a bunch of East Indiamen, a captain RN who’s feeling down and in need of some romance-money and some Boccherini sheet music.”
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Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
February 15, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
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Deregulation in free zones is the gateway to corporate political governance.
In response to my published petition calling for transparency on UK free zones, the UK Govt stated that free zones have the same regulatory framework as regions outside the zones, they were flat out lying.
In response to my published petition calling for transparency on UK free zones, the UK Govt stated that free zones have the same regulatory framework as regions outside the zones, they were flat out lying.
February 15, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Deregulation in free zones is the gateway to corporate political governance.
In response to my published petition calling for transparency on UK free zones, the UK Govt stated that free zones have the same regulatory framework as regions outside the zones, they were flat out lying.
In response to my published petition calling for transparency on UK free zones, the UK Govt stated that free zones have the same regulatory framework as regions outside the zones, they were flat out lying.
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How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
February 15, 2026 at 3:57 AM
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
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Focus on chopping up the knowledge means we haven't got started at looking at the reality of learning. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/06/lang...
Language Teaching: Building knowledge into Skills
Where does MFL sit in the current debate about knowledge and skills? We could be the perfect subject to see this play out and explore the r...
whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Focus on chopping up the knowledge means we haven't got started at looking at the reality of learning. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/06/lang...
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But it's fundamentally wrong headed.
You don't teach pupils to make an omelette by giving them bits of chopped up cold dead omelette to reassemble.
They make an omelette from raw ingredients paying attention to how they come together.
Chopping up knowledge is not the same as building up knowledge
You don't teach pupils to make an omelette by giving them bits of chopped up cold dead omelette to reassemble.
They make an omelette from raw ingredients paying attention to how they come together.
Chopping up knowledge is not the same as building up knowledge
February 15, 2026 at 7:19 AM
But it's fundamentally wrong headed.
You don't teach pupils to make an omelette by giving them bits of chopped up cold dead omelette to reassemble.
They make an omelette from raw ingredients paying attention to how they come together.
Chopping up knowledge is not the same as building up knowledge
You don't teach pupils to make an omelette by giving them bits of chopped up cold dead omelette to reassemble.
They make an omelette from raw ingredients paying attention to how they come together.
Chopping up knowledge is not the same as building up knowledge
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Yes! Thank you for this!
Chopping up knowledge into bits and aiming to build it up into concepts that hold more knowledge is a reasonable assumption for spherical children in a vacuum.
And a lot of effort goes in to making pupils conform to this so the theory works.
Chopping up knowledge into bits and aiming to build it up into concepts that hold more knowledge is a reasonable assumption for spherical children in a vacuum.
And a lot of effort goes in to making pupils conform to this so the theory works.
February 15, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Yes! Thank you for this!
Chopping up knowledge into bits and aiming to build it up into concepts that hold more knowledge is a reasonable assumption for spherical children in a vacuum.
And a lot of effort goes in to making pupils conform to this so the theory works.
Chopping up knowledge into bits and aiming to build it up into concepts that hold more knowledge is a reasonable assumption for spherical children in a vacuum.
And a lot of effort goes in to making pupils conform to this so the theory works.
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New on Substack: New post: Why does dividing curriculum into knowledge components feel so unstable? Because we're imposing localist structure on a distributed system. The brain doesn't store knowledge in pieces. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/curriculum...
Curriculum Is a Localist Model of a Distributed Mind
The problem with dividing knowledge into pieces
profbeckyallen.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:06 PM
New on Substack: New post: Why does dividing curriculum into knowledge components feel so unstable? Because we're imposing localist structure on a distributed system. The brain doesn't store knowledge in pieces. profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/curriculum...
Labour slogan for the next election: yeah we are a bit shit but have you seen the alternatives??
February 14, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Labour slogan for the next election: yeah we are a bit shit but have you seen the alternatives??
Every now and again a friend or relative posts something in Facebook so I click the link to see what’s going on. Almost everytime there is a reply or comment or whatever that leads to the Reform rhetoric posters spewing the usual nonsense about immigration. The most ironic one I have just seen
February 14, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Every now and again a friend or relative posts something in Facebook so I click the link to see what’s going on. Almost everytime there is a reply or comment or whatever that leads to the Reform rhetoric posters spewing the usual nonsense about immigration. The most ironic one I have just seen
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Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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1/ New paper! Invisible Saboteurs: Sycophantic LLMs Mislead Novices in Problem-Solving Tasks
Sycophantic LLMs aren't merelt annoying, they actively sabotage novices trying to learn complex tasks. We ran an experiment to find out how bad it actually is.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03667
Sycophantic LLMs aren't merelt annoying, they actively sabotage novices trying to learn complex tasks. We ran an experiment to find out how bad it actually is.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03667
February 13, 2026 at 1:32 AM
1/ New paper! Invisible Saboteurs: Sycophantic LLMs Mislead Novices in Problem-Solving Tasks
Sycophantic LLMs aren't merelt annoying, they actively sabotage novices trying to learn complex tasks. We ran an experiment to find out how bad it actually is.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03667
Sycophantic LLMs aren't merelt annoying, they actively sabotage novices trying to learn complex tasks. We ran an experiment to find out how bad it actually is.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03667
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... it really is a death cult…
Analysis: Trump takes victory lap after biggest climate rollback yet
The move marks the culmination of a decade-long push by the president to tear up climate policies he argues stifle industry.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 2:44 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... it really is a death cult…
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Given Wes Streeting's links with Mandelson and Palantir, both stronger than Starmer's, the question MPs ought really to be asking themselves is, if we replace Starmer with Streeting are we hopping out of the frying pan and into the fire?
February 10, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Given Wes Streeting's links with Mandelson and Palantir, both stronger than Starmer's, the question MPs ought really to be asking themselves is, if we replace Starmer with Streeting are we hopping out of the frying pan and into the fire?
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... I hated this book as part of my GCSE and I hate how it is often seen as a genuine piece of social/psychological research - hopefully it will be presented as more of an indictment of the class system/public schooling than my experience of childhood and people
Lord of the Flies cast and creatives on bringing William Golding's book to screens -
The story of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island with no adults following a deadly plane crash is adapted for television for the first time by Jack Thorne
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 8:10 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... I hated this book as part of my GCSE and I hate how it is often seen as a genuine piece of social/psychological research - hopefully it will be presented as more of an indictment of the class system/public schooling than my experience of childhood and people
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The will of mainstream media to normalize Donald Trumps blatant racist remarks and bizarre behaviour is what’s killing the USA. Until ABC, NBC, and CBS start exposing his fabrications and insane rhetoric for what they are, you’re fucked.
February 7, 2026 at 9:55 PM
The will of mainstream media to normalize Donald Trumps blatant racist remarks and bizarre behaviour is what’s killing the USA. Until ABC, NBC, and CBS start exposing his fabrications and insane rhetoric for what they are, you’re fucked.
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If pouring one's love into a project matters, you can find pretty much all of mine in this Season 2 opener.
From Aeschylus to Blade Runner, Goethe to The Hulk, and Frankenstein to Musk, some stories are simply so cosmic they alter how we actually see the world.
From Aeschylus to Blade Runner, Goethe to The Hulk, and Frankenstein to Musk, some stories are simply so cosmic they alter how we actually see the world.
🆕 PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
One man; several contradictory myths.
Is he protector or disruptor? Genius or arsonist?
Season 2 of Podyssey kicks off with an absolute belter.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0s0L...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
One man; several contradictory myths.
Is he protector or disruptor? Genius or arsonist?
Season 2 of Podyssey kicks off with an absolute belter.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0s0L...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want to Set The World On Fire
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 08/02/2026 · 1h 28m
podcasts.apple.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:08 AM
If pouring one's love into a project matters, you can find pretty much all of mine in this Season 2 opener.
From Aeschylus to Blade Runner, Goethe to The Hulk, and Frankenstein to Musk, some stories are simply so cosmic they alter how we actually see the world.
From Aeschylus to Blade Runner, Goethe to The Hulk, and Frankenstein to Musk, some stories are simply so cosmic they alter how we actually see the world.
Were they the face, Hannibal and BA Barracus? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 8, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Were they the face, Hannibal and BA Barracus? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
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Undercover of other news this week, some horrifying information has come out about suicide rates among young trans people, along with some worrying political context. If you're not au fait with these issues, this is a great place to catch up.
I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.
Trans youth suicide - the truth we've always known. What it means to me and what I've been doing about it.
Last week Queer AF broke a story that revealed the suicide rate in trans under eighteens is around fourteen times higher than you might expect from census data.As the parent of Alice a trans woman who...
www.carolinelitman.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Undercover of other news this week, some horrifying information has come out about suicide rates among young trans people, along with some worrying political context. If you're not au fait with these issues, this is a great place to catch up.
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