Richard A. Davis

Well, how else would we get our daily orders from the King?

Launching ‘AI for University Ops’: Supporting administrative innovation across the University ai@cam is launching a new initiative to support administrative staff across the University to use AI to enhance University operations. The “AI for University Ops” programme will provide funding, techn...

It was a pleasure to meet you and hear you speak about AI in the week I get emailed about this
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Register now for our #peace #conference

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Last day to get your abstract in for the peace conference..

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What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More Each Public Domain Day seems to bring us a richer crop of copyright-liberated books, plays, films, musical compositions, sound recordings, works of art, and other pieces of intellectual property. This...

What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s "A Farewell to Arms," Faulkner’s "The Sound and the Fury," Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More

Literally not cool

Jimmy Carter, ‘Born-Again’ President, Humanitarian, Dead at 100 Carter, who died Sunday, made his Baptist faith central whether teaching Sunday School, building homes for the poor, or sitting in the Oval Office.

“Jimmy Carter’s importance to faith and public life was reintroducing into the public square the principles that animated nineteenth-century evangelicals: concern for the poor, racial equality, peacemaking, human rights and equality for women.”

Watch good films?

Associate Professor / Professor - Indigenous Histories of Environmental Justice in Scarborough, ON for University of Toronto Scarborough Exciting opportunity in Scarborough, ON for University of Toronto Scarborough as a Associate Prof...

Job Opportunity!

The Dept. of Historical and Cultural Studies and the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Sustainability Transitions at the Univ. of Toronto Scarborough seek expert in Indigenous Histories of Environmental Justice, @ Associate or Professor.

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Wasn't there once a proposal to bring all shipping through Dunedin so all nasty bugs woukd of the cold before they land?

#peacetheology #conference coming in 2025 bit.ly/peace2025

Yes it is.

Taylor Swift?

Reading up on Canadian theology for research on #decolonialsettlertheology

A solid find for £3. Published 1912.

Peace conference In Cambridge UK next year. #peacetheology

Cambridge for religious anarchism

#decolonialsettlertheology at #aarsbl24

Blue labour or red tory?

Call for Papers are Now Open for the Race & Resistance 2025 Conference

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#shutupandwrite panel

The Christian ministry of reconciliation and settler decolonization in In this chapter, Richard A. Davis, a Pakeha New Zealander, navigates the terrain of decolonization and reconciliation in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand's

my latest book chapter out now: 'The Christian Ministry of Reconciliation and Settler Decolonisation in Aotearoa New Zealand'
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#ToitūTeTiriti

An anarchist solution?

Nice one!

Excellent advice I will pass on

Barbarians at the Gates How the Internet Archive is putting publishers to shameAnyone interested in developing a deep understanding of Botticelli’s great mythological works simply must read Charles Dempsey’s 1992 classic,…

"The amount of economic harm that the publishers are presently suffering as a result of the IA has not only never been quantified, it has not even been roughly attempted to be quantified."

🔗 "Barbarians at the Gates” by Howard Burton for @ideasroadshow.bsky.social: ideasroadshow.com/barbarians-a...

And some political theory - which complicates notions of singular absolute sovereignty