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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Field notes for the age of generative everything.
Essays on AI, culture, community, creative practice, consent, taste, and what stays human when the tools get loud.
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You Can’t Drink Data
Kris Krug marches in Vancouver’s first anti-AI, anti-data-centre protest, and argues that ‘shut it all down’ and ‘more compute, trust us’ are the same dead end. A West…
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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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Calling Us All In
I started day three with my neck out, published “Sovereign AI for Whom?”, a critical piece on the federal data centre announcement, my name and face on it,…
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Web Summit Vancouver 2026
Vancouver’s AI community is showing up this week. So should the public metrics.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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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