Andy Smart
@andysmart.bsky.social
Getting educated about education, some publishing about publishing, a lot of reading about reading, co-founder of NISSEM.org, vice-president of IARTEM.org ... https://nissem.org/blog/adjusting-the-flag-and-baring-the-soul/2841/
NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop employers covering up abuse
Hey! Do you remember the Harvey Weinstein case? Non Disclosure Agreements silenced victims of abuse - and it's not just happening in Hollywood. They're used in the UK to cover up all kinds of miscondu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
May 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains.
This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.
This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.
The Trump-El Salvador Scandal Deepens
As President Trump prepares to fête brutal far-right El Salvadoran dictator Nayib Bukele in DC on April 14, the scandal involving a vile new international slave trade between the two men is growing.
sethabramson.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains.
This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.
This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.
"Building an automated tool to profile people as violent criminals is deeply wrong, and using such sensitive data on mental health, addiction and disability is highly intrusive and alarming.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
www.theguardian.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"Building an automated tool to profile people as violent criminals is deeply wrong, and using such sensitive data on mental health, addiction and disability is highly intrusive and alarming.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen. If you're in the UK please sign the open letter... 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
you.38degrees.org.uk
April 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen. If you're in the UK please sign the open letter... 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Please sign the open letter! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
you.38degrees.org.uk
April 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Please sign the open letter! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
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This is outrageous. 'Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.' I am sickened to read this.
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is outrageous. 'Paul Parker, recording clerk for Quakers in Britain, said: “No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory.' I am sickened to read this.
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Don't listen before bed to this @newyorker.com interview with Gil Duran on "right-wing Silicon Valley technologists who want to use A.I. and cryptocurrency to unmake the federal government".
But listen.
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
But listen.
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
March 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Don't listen before bed to this @newyorker.com interview with Gil Duran on "right-wing Silicon Valley technologists who want to use A.I. and cryptocurrency to unmake the federal government".
But listen.
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
But listen.
www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...
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Hello new followers, so sorry I nearly caught up& now I’m losing it again. I’m busy getting my final draft of the sequel to On Time finished alongside other projects; really proud of this one with @aaronearlyyears.bsky.social & @ruthswailes.bsky.social. It’ll be free to access online from 18 March
March 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Hello new followers, so sorry I nearly caught up& now I’m losing it again. I’m busy getting my final draft of the sequel to On Time finished alongside other projects; really proud of this one with @aaronearlyyears.bsky.social & @ruthswailes.bsky.social. It’ll be free to access online from 18 March
50 years on ... youtu.be/zD745mgWMcM?...
Murder in Cairo (Pt 1) - The Death Of Our Star Reporter | The Story
YouTube video by Times Radio
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March 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
50 years on ... youtu.be/zD745mgWMcM?...
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Disinformation/information operations? Definitely --- [DECODED] How online supporters made a victim of Duterte after ICC arrest www.rappler.com/technology/d... via @rapplerdotcom
[DECODED] How online supporters made a victim of Duterte after ICC arrest
Through boosted content and entertainment networks, supporters of the former president try to manipulate opinion about his detention at The Hague
www.rappler.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Disinformation/information operations? Definitely --- [DECODED] How online supporters made a victim of Duterte after ICC arrest www.rappler.com/technology/d... via @rapplerdotcom
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
www.ft.com/content/a801...
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‘When we bask in the comfort and camaraderie of old friends, we’re feeling the product of 6 million years of evolution.’ Personal autonomy is abundant in the modern world. As a result, many of us get what we want but not what we need.
For a happier life, we must balance two old psychological needs | Psyche Ideas
Personal autonomy is abundant in the modern world. As a result, many of us get what we want but not what we need
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
‘When we bask in the comfort and camaraderie of old friends, we’re feeling the product of 6 million years of evolution.’ Personal autonomy is abundant in the modern world. As a result, many of us get what we want but not what we need.
"And yet. And yet. Behaviorism and behavioral engineering are still everywhere, particularly in computing – and even, for all the talk about its modeling of "the mind," in artificial intelligence." @audreywatters.bsky.social 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/agents-versu...
Agents versus Agency
There's an argument I make in Teaching Machines that I'd like to repeat here – a setup to this first of many essays in which I work through some ideas about AI, agents, and agency:
In 1971 the psycho...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"And yet. And yet. Behaviorism and behavioral engineering are still everywhere, particularly in computing – and even, for all the talk about its modeling of "the mind," in artificial intelligence." @audreywatters.bsky.social 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/agents-versu...
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"Literacy and numeracy are essential, but so too is the ability to process trauma, build relationships, and develop resilience." world-education-blog.org/2025/03/03/e...
Education as a lifeline: How foundational learning and SEL empower children in crisis - World Education Blog
When nine-year-old Nahom and his family finally arrived in Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, they were physically and emotionally exhausted. They had fled their home amid violent confl...
world-education-blog.org
March 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"Literacy and numeracy are essential, but so too is the ability to process trauma, build relationships, and develop resilience." world-education-blog.org/2025/03/03/e...
Williams says she wants all pupils to be able to make choices, to ask questions and have an opinion, and the oracy project empowers them to do that. “The statistics about the literacy levels of young offenders are real.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Inside the London reception class where kids are taught to talk to help them stay out of gangs
A new initiative aims to improve communication, as as pupils lacking speech and language skills more likely to be excluded and caught up in violence
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Williams says she wants all pupils to be able to make choices, to ask questions and have an opinion, and the oracy project empowers them to do that. “The statistics about the literacy levels of young offenders are real.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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AI in education is a failure of the imagination 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-war-on-t...
The War on the Imagination
There were numerous news items last week about surveillance and algorithmic decision-making in the workplace. These kinds of stories aren’t new, of course. But as Elon Musk has infiltrated the White H...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
March 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
AI in education is a failure of the imagination 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-war-on-t...
Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts
Sir Keir Starmer is pushing plans we defeated under the Conservative Government - to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error.
It will force banks to fla...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
"The problem we seem to be facing is not a whole generation of autocratic young people but a complex question answered quickly in online polls and hugely overinterpreted in subsequent reporting." theconversation.com/only-6-of-ge...
Only 6% of gen Z actually favour dictatorship – not half, as some reports would have you believe
Gen Z don’t hate democracy, they have a problem with the way it is being delivered.
theconversation.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
"The problem we seem to be facing is not a whole generation of autocratic young people but a complex question answered quickly in online polls and hugely overinterpreted in subsequent reporting." theconversation.com/only-6-of-ge...
What a wonderful conversation about curriculum, compassion, curiosity and creativity. soundcloud.com/rethinking-e...
Debra Kidd, Tina Farr and Clare Whyles on how to cultivate hope, joy and belonging
In this episode - our first rodeo as co-hosts - we are joined by Dr Debra Kidd, the author of A Curriculum of Hope, and by Tina Farr and Clare Whyles, the headteacher and deputy head of St. Ebbe’s Pri
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February 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
What a wonderful conversation about curriculum, compassion, curiosity and creativity. soundcloud.com/rethinking-e...
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
"this is a government of the radicalised online right, for the radicalised online right, by the radicalised online right"
Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us.
This may have been the biggest moment for European security since 1991.
open.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"this is a government of the radicalised online right, for the radicalised online right, by the radicalised online right"
"I haven’t encountered a single application that hasn’t requested psychometric testing”
EXC: How UK's biggest companies lock autistic people out of jobs with personality tests
➡️Morrison's, John Lewis, McDonald's, Co-op +more using tests
➡️"I just don't stand a chance" say autistic jobseekers, as charities tell @bigissue.com tests may be discriminatory
www.bigissue.com/news/employm...
➡️Morrison's, John Lewis, McDonald's, Co-op +more using tests
➡️"I just don't stand a chance" say autistic jobseekers, as charities tell @bigissue.com tests may be discriminatory
www.bigissue.com/news/employm...
UK's biggest companies locking autistic people out of jobs with personality tests
Just three in 10 working age autistic people are in work, and charities say the use of personality tests for roles could be discriminatory.
www.bigissue.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"I haven’t encountered a single application that hasn’t requested psychometric testing”
I am not a legal specialist at all but this seems a powerfully argued article with concrete suggestions for systemic improvements theconversation.com/lucy-letby-c...
Lucy Letby case: the problems with expert evidence
As an expert in both criminal and medical law, I am concerned with how prosecution teams gather expert evidence in these cases.
theconversation.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I am not a legal specialist at all but this seems a powerfully argued article with concrete suggestions for systemic improvements theconversation.com/lucy-letby-c...