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Sarah J. Jackson

@sjjphd.bsky.social

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Prof and researcher. Race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Preorder my latest: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-second-sight-sarah-j-jackson Opinions definitely my own

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Sep 11

I know there is a lot going on but this went online last night and I am very proud it’s real. If you might be excited to find out how at every turn this nation could have prevented our current political moment by listening to Black people you can even preorder it before we get to designing the cover

A Second Sight

Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second sight”—that reveals the truth about the nation t...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 3h

It’s an incredibly smart show.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 4h

I’m sorry this just did me in.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 7h

I watched it on PBS where I grew up!

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Lol. For who else does the internet in all its infamy produce generally repeated admiration and appreciation. I don’t know!

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

I might think about how great he is at some point everyday. I think I’ve posted dozens of versions of this lol

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Jun 20

Just working on my book and thinking about how LeVar Burton is probably the most beloved and unproblematic famous person alive in america today and I hope he’s doing well.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I’m in a cult with people who understand

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

(Also public media is a public good and should be funded by the state, I am just saying…given everything…)

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not trying to give @pbs.org ideas for raising money—but I am. I would buy women’s fit T-shirts of all my favorite childhood shows. Reading rainbow, 321 contact, square one, zoobiliee zoo. I feel like two generations will run to donate even more money for shirts with Levar Burton on them…

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Fun that my phone thinks license is spelled liscence, the machines are not smart

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I think about how I once got pulled over by a cop, with lights and siren, *on my bike*, because I rolled through a stop sign. And yes, he asked for my liscence. I was was riding my bike guys. Anyways.

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

Just today, here's a story from the @chicago.suntimes.com -- not only are ICE/feds masking themselves constantly (and some local cops too, I've seen it), now they're driving around without license plates. More "laws for thee, whatever I wanna do for me" in action chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

an affirmative case for trans rights as a pillar of good democratic governance

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, but George Soros pays his bills. So is he really even a skeleton? Or is he just acting like one???

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

I heard they arrested the girlfriend of Mr. Nibbles

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

lying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

on.ft.com

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d

So if I take my baby to a No Kings protest does she also get paid, or is it like an adults only deal with Soros

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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking News! MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the practices of the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/b...

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, another great example

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 2d

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

I just want to live in a world where kids learn civics and history in school and words mean things.

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