Speak It Into Existence: Voice-First AI Workflows
Voice-first AI is not just faster typing. It carries cadence, urgency, slang, uncertainty, worldview, and the human mess your fingers often filter out before the machine ever gets…
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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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I Won’t Fake the People Who Showed Up
AI can help around documentary work: archive search, caption drafts, transcript maps, proof packs, and media operations. But it does not get to replace the human beings who…
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Canada’s AI for All Strategy: A Skeptical Guide to the Hype, the Money, and the Missing Guardrails
A refreshed skeptical guide to Canada’s June 4, 2026 AI for All strategy: what Carney and Solomon promised, what later coverage added, and where the public should keep…
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AI Keynote Slides Need Taste Before Prompts
My creative operating system for turning raw talk notes into prompts, graphics, slides, websites, posts, guides, and other artifacts without letting AI flatten the work into generic slop.
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Agent Orchestrators, Creative Insurgents & The New Stack
A field guide for film, animation, and creative workers learning to orchestrate AI systems without surrendering taste, judgment, or authorship.
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The Long Road to Futureproof
Futureproof has been rattling around in my head for years. The difference now is that Vancouver has the people, the trust, and the room to make it real.
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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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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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