Is Leftist Media "Armchair Activism?" (Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club ep6)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This month, Tamsyn and Paniz are joined by Cheryl Rivera from Lux Magazine and Daniel Sarah Karasik from Midnight Sun Magazine to talk about why we need more socialist media. They discuss the relationship between writing and organizing, how their magazines try to reach existing and potential comrades, and making media that focuses on representing possibilities instead of changing minds.Links:Feminism and War: Confronting US Imperialism, edited by Robin L. Riley, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, including an essay by Berta Joubert-Cecihttps://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/feminism-and-war-confronting-us-imperialism/introduction-feminism-and-us-wars-mapping-the-groundEveryone's Place: Organizing, Gendered Labor, and Leadership by William C Andersonhttps://offshootjournal.org/everyones-place-organizing-gendered-labor-and-leadership/We do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kabahttps://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-usAnd interview about abolition and writing: https://forgeorganizing.org/article/practicing-imaginationRacial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition by Ruth Wilson Gilmorehttps://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1597-change-everythingParty as Articulator, Salar Mohandesi in Viewpoint Magazinehttps://viewpointmag.com/2020/09/04/party-as-articulator/Fascism is as Canadian as the the Maple Leaf by Todd Gordon in Midnight Sunhttps://www.midnightsunmag.ca/fascism-is-as-canadian-as-the-maple-leaf/Graeme Lamb, Storytelling for Powerhttps://www.midnightsunmag.ca/storytelling-for-power/Jennifer Wilson interview with Raven Leilanihttps://lux-magazine.com/article/raven-leilani-needs-to-know-how-her-characters-pay-rent/Ursula LeGuin The Dispossessedhttps://www.ursulakleguin.com/dispossessedDesmond Cole talking about Replay podcast and copaganda:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8xpaEfC2WI&t=2s&ab_channel=CommunicationSpeaksReplay podcast: https://www.pedagogyandpraxis.com/replaypodcastLeftist Media recommended in this episode:Briarpatch Magazine: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/The Breach: https://breachmedia.ca/The Hoser: https://www.thehoser.ca/Partisan Magazine: https://partisanmag.com/Tempest Magazine: https://www.tempestmag.org/about/
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.802 | 0.011 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".