Infrastructure Exposé: Colonialism, Protests, and Logging at Fairy Creek on What is Now Vancouver Island
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The goal of this assignment was to select a specific infrastructure project in North America and expose its colonial roots. For my assignment, I chose the Fairy Creek Blockade, an ongoing protest being conducted to stop the logging of old-growth forests on Vancouver Island, BC, on the unceded land of the Pacheedaht and Ditidaht First Nations. These protests are now the largest act of civil disobedience in the history of the settler-colonial state of what is currently Canada, and the growth of these protests has been largely due to the influence of social media. Throughout the research I conducted for this assignment, I found that in many ways, it has been the opinions of everyone other than the First Nations whose land this is. These topics have been and continue to be amplified in the media contributing to the ongoing erasure of the Pacheedaht and Ditidaht First Nations communities as well as that of many other Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. There are several colonial roots to this specific infrastructure resource extraction project which I explore throughout my assignment.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
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".