Author: Krüg
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The AI Mindset: Adapting to the New Creative Paradigm
A field note on the AI mindset: thinking with machines without surrendering taste, agency, or the human weirdness that makes the work worth doing.
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Make Culture, Not Content
Generative engines now spill out adequate everything. Your value is shifting from production to selection, orchestration, and meaning-making — a field manual.
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Why Judgment Beats “Creativity” in the AI Era
Generation has been commoditized. Selection hasn’t. The DJs figured this out in the ’80s — taste is the moat.
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Punk Rock AI
Most AI conversations force a binary. Boosters say embrace it. Doomers say resist it. Both feel lazy. I hold the critique in one hand. I hold the capability in the other. That is the only honest place to stand right now.
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Applied Ethical AI: Responsible AI Professional Certification (RAP)
4 weeks. Built with Martin Lopatka and Sarah Downey. First cohort starts May 22. Wrote up the whole story… the gap, the collaborators, what’s actually in it, and the honest notes about the pilot.
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Spa at the End of Time
Kate Armstrong turned the planetarium into a séance. Flux LoRA trained on her hot tub paintings. Not AI wallpaper… an oracle of leisure, plumbing, and the post-body future.
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Name the Bias
Stop calling it “AI bias.” It’s misogyny when image generators strip authority from women. It’s racism when facial recognition fails Black women at 40x the rate it fails white men. It’s sexism when resume algorithms favor men. Name what you’re seeing. Make discrimination visible.
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Both Hands Full
This piece is for creatives who feel two things at once: anger about the non-consensual training mess, and curiosity about what these tools can do inside a real practice. I’m not selling “embrace” or “resist.” I’m arguing for both hands full: left hand holds critique (consent, labor, dependency), right hand holds agency (workflows that actually…
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Vancouver Tech Journal Isn’t Journalism
Vancouver Tech Journal is hosting “#VTJTalks: Grading Vancouver’s Innovation Economy in 2025” on December 10th. Here’s what you need to know: The company running this show is led by a former BC Premier who had the RCMP raid his house on live TV. Their playbook involves firing journalists who refuse to promote sponsors. And they
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AI Training for Media, PR, and Creative Professionals
Registration for all tracks is open now. Bring your team, or come solo. Just bring your curiosity and your edge. If you’re skeptical? Even better—every alumni in these quotes started right there.
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What Journalists Need to Know About AI—Right Now
Stop waiting for the perfect tool or policy. This is what’s working now. Get your hands dirty—or get comfortable being obsolete.
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AI Ate the Future
You thought you were safe in “knowledge work?” The machines ate that script. The future is ordinary life now. Want to survive? Build community, get weird, stay human. #AIcommunity #NowNotNext
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BC + AI Ecosystem Industry Association Is Live
We just launched Canada’s first grassroots AI industry organization. Not because we love meetings, but because someone has to ask the hard questions while everyone else is busy printing money on artificial intelligence. Like: Who gets to decide what “intelligent” means when you live on unceded territory?
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Vancouver AI Meetup #16: Where Tech, Creativity, and Community Collide
A monthly open-source mixtape of BC AI knowledge, culture & collective intelligence from the bleeding edge of the Pacific Cascadian AI underground.
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DIY AI in Vancouver: Building a Grassroots BC AI Industry Association
“Industry associations” claim to represent AI in BC. Meanwhile, our grassroots community built something they couldn’t: an ecosystem where humans matter more than profit. They’re selling AI. We’re living it.
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Web Summit Vancouver 2025 Survival Guide
Behind the press kits and panels, Vancouver’s tech underground is staging a protocol shift—one rooted in justice, joy, and gentle refusal.
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How Indigenomics AI is Flipping The Script On Economic Power in Canada
Reimagine what economics can be when we measure what truly matters—community well-being, environmental stewardship, cultural wealth, and intergenerational sustainability.
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We Don’t Do Panels. We Do Portals.
AI don’t need hype. It needs healing. We opened the night with ceremony, not code. Spirit first. Systems second. That’s how you realign the future.
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How to Build an AI Second Brain That Actually Works for You
Most digital systems are designed for neurotypical productivity zombies. What if you built one optimized for your actual thought patterns instead? Inside: how I transformed fleeting ideas into completed projects by embracing digital chaos instead of fighting it.