Reposted by Sam JacksonJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 9hI remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them. 561005182
Reposted by Sam JacksonJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 9hThis is great! I think a lot about whether/how to use LLMs to model language in analyzing texts (I have not done so in published work to date). This is a very clear decision tree to guide such evaluation in a purposeful way rather than a reflexive/emotional yes or no. 0175
Reposted by Sam JacksonAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 10hIt's a distinctly American irony that sovcits and militiamen frequently run into more trouble with traffic courts than with ATF agents 510219
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 10hI will take weak recommendation algorithms over giving hundreds of millions of dollars to people who are bad for democracy though. 020
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 10hThis is one of the weak points of Tidal imo. Recommendations end up being the same cast of characters with comparatively little new stuff. 120
Reposted by Sam JacksonStephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 11hIt was only a matter of time 😞🤬 0106
Reposted by Sam Jacksonjasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Absolutely horrifying. Fear of sexual violence prevents women candidates from running for office — a gendered burden that impacts representation overall. It is brave for Bernadette Greene-Placentia to share this. (NB Article contains graphic descriptions) www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...phoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 310947
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026Based on this interview, @nbedera.bsky.social’s book is jumping to the top of my reading stack 0113
Reposted by Sam JacksonHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026People ask whether these guys are true believers or just massively invested in the hype, and at the point where you are trying to lobby *the pope* to say you are creating the machine god, there is no meaningful distinction. 28815
Reposted by Sam JacksonAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026a lot of people into ai want to talk about how it works, but they either mean the stack inside the software or the things it "can do now" that "can't be explained" but ai is a rhetorical technology. the way to understand how it works is to understand how rhetoric works 414933
Reposted by Sam JacksonDan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 03/10/2026I find it depressing that we're arguing over whether or not LLMs qualify as "conscious beings" when countless non-human animals clearly qualify as such and yet we continue to inflict needless pain and cruelty upon them. 2467
Reposted by Sam JacksonGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Also, plenty of effort to launch a revolution by white men, including McVeigh bombing in Oklahoma City and the Bundy Ranch and Malheur Wildlife Refuge. Plus Charlottesville. It’s not a lack of trying. I did a whole podcast about this: longshadowpodcast.com/podcasts/ris...longshadowpodcast.comLong Shadow: Rise of the American Far RightEpisode 1, Waco: The Spark, chronicles the 1993 FBI raid on the Branch Davidian compound which solidified a far-right movement. 1017555
Reposted by Sam JacksonNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5846911399
Reposted by Sam JacksonBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026oh this is gonna be an interesting read to be clear tho, when rightwingers start screaming "a judge said you can't punish noncitizens who vote illegally?!", no, that's not what a judge said storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 616038
Reposted by Sam JacksonAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 341020309
Reposted by Sam JacksonDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 260184824883
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026What does "internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease" even fucking mean? And no, "I don’t know what that means, but I think it warrants ongoing discernment" doesn't make that sentence better. 010
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026Like, this simply isn't true! You don't find evidence of introspection, you see a machine generating output that you as a human inject meaning into. 150
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026It took me three tries to read this article. Almost everything Olah says about Anthropic's model is PR speak. And it's not even smart PR speak, it's just "wow I don't understand it so it must be human like!" 142
Reposted by Sam JacksonJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question 1302160413
Reposted by Sam JacksonColin @colin-fraser.net · 01/10/2026a large number of you seem to hold the bizarre mystical woo woo idea that neural networks are identical to brains 1015416
Reposted by Sam JacksonElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next. 571617265
Reposted by Sam JacksonJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1505366811
Reposted by Sam JacksonEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 13974417
Reposted by Sam JacksonNathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 01/10/2026I absolutely know who needs to hear this, though I won’t name names. Progressive orgs need to stop pretending that “AGI” and “x-risk” are ideas to take seriously. No one is building a computer god that could go rogue and turn us into paper clips. 821372
Reposted by Sam JacksonGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?! 2954413929
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026This novel sent me down a bunch of fun rabbit holes. Our Lady of Medjugorje was one of the funnest. 041
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026I’m part of @thecoalition.bsky.social, which probably tells you what *my* answer to that question is. 000
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026At TASM this year, I heard some presentations that had me thinking about a big question: As researchers of online harms, what should our relationship be with industry when industry isn’t a good faith partner? 121
Reposted by Sam JacksonAudrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Do you research online extremism at a university in Australia, NZ, UK, US, Canada or Ireland? Consider taking this survey which compare ethics review boards' and researcher perception and understanding of the risk of online extremism research. For more info: soton.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...soton.eu.qualtrics.comQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 1513
Reposted by Sam JacksonRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How it started/how it’s going 763801697
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026I'm gonna have to read it again so I can understand the dystopia we're living in 010
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026Then it asked if I was still there, said it would connect me to a person, and hung up on me. 120
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026When I twigged it was a chatbot, I started saying "talk to a person." It tried to talk me out of talking to a person.... 110
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026But there was silence for like 5 seconds. The computer decided to start making ambient noise, but not to start the voice. 110
Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026Trying to make a service appt for my car. Now the chatbot not only has vocal fry, they put background ambient noise in to make it more pseudo-real. Not like calming ambient noise, ambient noise like what you would hear if you were talking to someone in a busy showroom. 350
Reposted by Sam JacksonDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895444936
Reposted by Sam JacksonAlex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My department - @ucdpolitics.bsky.social - is hiring two PERMANENT posts in any area of politics, international relations, theory, or development studies. Please apply if you are on the academic job market, and if you're not, please do us a solid & spread the word! Deadline NOV 9. 34958
Reposted by Sam JacksonTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄 51268113
Reposted by Sam JacksonJ.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 27/09/2026Someday, when I am all grown up, I will remember to put tags on my posts. #booksky #fiction #thriller 031
Reposted by Sam JacksonKeith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Me, setting the blender to MAX with the lid off: "technology is truly advancing beyond our control" 36222
Reposted by Sam JacksonG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026Every day we get closer to this: 121463448
Reposted by Sam JacksonG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026I was promised robots that would tackle the dangerous and physically demanding work so that humans could be freed up to make MORE art. Where the hell is THAT future 636860
Reposted by Sam JacksonKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 632914955