Sam Jackson

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Thinks about RW extremism too much. Conspiracy theories and social media, too. #BlackLivesMatter he/him
AffiliationsUniversity at Albany; VOX-Pol; Accelerationism Research Consortium
Book on Oath Keepershttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/oath-keepers/9780231550314
Websitehttps://sjacksonphd.wordpress.com
No racism like colorblind racism.

Journalism Engineer at @themarkup – this looks like a wonderful role for the right person:

https://boards.greenhouse.io/themarkup/jobs/6803731002

Journalism Engineer

Remote

Some professional news: I'm thrilled to join CTEC at Middlebury as a senior research fellow. Kinda can't believe the awesome team I get to be part of!

I'll be working out of DC, so DC friends hmu!

The arms race between #bats and #moths. #nature #wildlife #evolution

“What’s to follow is a battle featuring echolocation, chemical defense, sonar jamming, stealth pursuit, and acoustic illusions…”

https://atmos.earth/exploring-evolution-of-bats-and-moths/?utm_source=pocket_reader

In the Dead of Night, a Deafening War

The first piece in our new series on species interconnectedness traverses through the 60-million-year-old evolution of bats and moths.

Atmos

A study (not yet peer-reviewed) done by a team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology concludes that between 33% and 46% of workers on platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk had used AI models to automate work typically done by humans needed to train AI systems.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/22/1075405/the-people-paid-to-train-ai-are-outsourcing-their-work-to-ai/

#ai #ChatGPT #MachineLearning #tech #news #study

The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI

It’s a practice that could introduce further errors into already error-prone models.

MIT Technology Review
Dear #AOIR2023 attendees, please apply for our preconf workshop on conspiracy and alternative epistemologies! We are esp interested in those investigating conspiracy in non-Western contexts, amongst women/NB/queer folx, and populations of color. Deets: https://aoir.org/aoir2023/preconfworkshops/#future
#AoIR2023 Preconference Workshops

I'm holding an everywhere-but-Twitter promotion:

Optimal, my dystopian novel about a world run by algorithms, is free to download on Kindle through Friday.

Feel free to share this link anywhere that isn't Twitter!

https://amzn.to/45L2KY8

Y'all, my memory is letting me down yet again.
Does anybody remember a recent survey that showed some paradoxical findings about veterans (or maybe military members or first responders, can't remember) and attitudes towards political violence? I think it was something like answers to one question suggested low support for political violence but answers to another question suggested a belief that a violent revolution might be necessary. Or something.
Made my first All Things Considered piece! It's about my experience as a federal witness in the Stewart Rhodes / Jessica Watkins Oath Keepers case, and my complicated feelings about seeing my journalism help lock people up. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/26/1178507801/one-journalist-s-experience-of-being-drawn-into-one-of-the-largest-jan-6-trials

We’re looking for a #data #journalist to join our award-winning, #investigative newsroom.

Please share widely! https://boards.greenhouse.io/themarkup/jobs/6768437002

Data Journalist

Remote