Daniela asked a small question in a WhatsApp thread and accidentally named the whole moment: what do we call this work before the paperwork catches up? A field-guide to the new AI film titles, and why…
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AI, culture, community, and the work of making things.
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How Kris Krüg and Suzy Easton turned the AI Film Club’s one-word Retro challenge into a 53.5-second 4K film, a psychedelic WebGL airport, and a real holographic souvenir.
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The AI Doc is beautifully made and worth your two hours. It’s also a comfort machine, and the cheeriest voices in it are the people holding the biggest positions in the thing they’re cheering for. Follow…
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Morgane Oger asked the good version of the copyright and AI question: if artists learn from artists, what makes machine training different? The answer lives in consent, scale, secrecy, and substitution.
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A public proof stack for AI podcast guesting, broadcast commentary, produced interviews, panels, hosting, and media work that keeps the weird parts honest.
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How a scrappy Vancouver meetup became a grassroots BC AI movement rooted in ceremony, community, practical learning, and relationships before transactions.
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AI is a mirror, not a moral authority. The better question is not what the chatbot would do, but who is steering and what values are being amplified.
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Canada does need AI infrastructure. But without consent, climate discipline, Indigenous governance, and community benefit, bigger just means faster extraction.
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AI will not repair broken civic systems by itself. Permit reform needs better process, public accountability, and human judgment before automation can help.
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MADE ON is a World Cup protest kit collection that took double silver at the Vancouver Made hackathon. Everyone else made a souvenir. We made the receipt, with every claim cited on the hem, and a…
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I set up a booth at the Ethọ́s Lab block party and asked people for one true thing. Eleven people called my bluff. By sundown we had eleven songs. The machine is the least interesting part…
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Canada launched its AI for All strategy this week, and the applause economy switched on within the hour. Here is the difference between cheering for a strategy and actually delivering one.
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A practical operating model for routing AI work through canonical skills, explicit gates, and evidence loops instead of treating every task like a one-off prompt with a fancy hat.
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Why BC + AI built the Responsible AI Professional Certification: practical governance, real artifacts, and a community-grounded way to make better AI decisions before deployment.
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An ~80-minute STORYHIVE On Location sit-down with Jordan Dack at Haus of Owl in Victoria — territory acknowledged, facts-or-fiction warm-up, both hands full on broadcast, Vancouver AI as infrastructure, and why human rooms still matter when…
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A Web Summit Vancouver open letter asking who sovereign AI is really for; the neighbourhoods, host Nations, artists, builders, and citizens expected to carry the load.
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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 a chance to help.
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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 asking for receipts.
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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.