Bibliographic record
Abstract
Having considered the event horizon in the United States, Chapter 3 considers how settler colonialism intersects with ongoing imperial dimensions in Canada through the Nevsun event. In Nevsun , three Eritrean claimants sued Nevsun Resources Ltd for alleged breaches of customary international law for slavery, forced labor, and cruel and unusual punishment. The Canadian Supreme Court held the claimants could allege that Nevsun had breached customary international law. In its opinion, the courts drew borders around these claimants and interlinked them to the jurisdictional authority of the Canadian political body to contemplate events in Eritrea. Comments reveal the gravity and importance of legality, as well as its event horizon. Nevsun appears to protect human rights and those suffering from modern slavery. However, a legal-historical analysis shows that the British Crown has continuously assumed patriarchal authority over others by claiming to protect them from miners. This aggrandizes its legal system by concealing the abuses it perpetuates. The Canadian legal system has combined settler-colonialism and imperialism in a way that looks legally beneficent.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
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".