Bibliographic record
Abstract
The PrisonLetters of George Jackson, I felt a kindred spirit with George's rage and resistance, but thought he contradicted himself regarding women.So I began a correspondence with him from New Haven, Connecticut, where I was a member of the Black Panther Party, working for the Panthers' lawyers defending Chairman Bobby Seale, et al., and organizing community and national support for their freedom.I remember sitting in the courtroom, where I had easy access through the same door the judge entered, and fantasizing that, since I was never searched, I could come through that door, climb up behind the judge, put a gun to his head and demand the release of Bobby and Ericka Huggins, who was being tried jointly with Bobby.Then came the newspaper headlines that reverberated throughout the world of George's teenaged brother commandeering a Marin court, liberating three prisoners and attempting to free the Soledad Brothers!Wow!I thought.He did it!He actually did it!It was August 7, 1970, when Jonathan Jackson's bravery taught us all that these "pigs" had no regard whatsoever for human life.They shot up the crowded van, instantly killing three brothers-Jonathan, William Christmas and James McClain-and a judge, and critically wounding Ruchell Magee and a prosecutor.One of three jurors suffered a minor wound.Magee remains in prison still fi ghting for release after 41 years in California gulags.Shortly after Jonathan's death, George wrote: "I loved Jonathan, but his death only sharpens my fi ghting spirit".When I returned to San Francisco in June 1971, George asked me to obtain a press pass so I could visit him.Panther attorney Charles Garry connected me with Carlton Goodlett, publisher of the Sun Reporter newspaper, and I wound up with a job, as a reporter covering the pre-trial hearings for Angela Davis and Ruchell Cinque Magee that resulted from the events of August 7, 1970, and the Soledad Brothers-Fleeta Drumgo, John Clutchette and George Jackson-accused of killing a guard at Soledad State Prison in retaliation for the massacre of three Black militants-W.L. Nolen, Sweet Jugs Miller and Cleveland Edwards-by a tower guard in January 1970.Seeing George for the fi rst time in the San Francisco courtroom, I was stunned.I'd never seen an egghead martial artist before.I managed to visit
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".