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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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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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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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…
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A Creative Technologists AI Age Manifesto
How will you connect worlds that have never spoken to each other? Which voices will you amplify? What values will guide your choices? The future isn’t written in…
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“Is A Hotdog A Sandwich?”: Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon w/ Andrew Reid
Forget boring data decks. I just sat down with Rival Technologies CEO Andrew Reid to plan Vancouver’s most ambitious AI hackathon yet. We’re challenging 40+ teams to reinvent…
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Transcending Tech’s Darker Impulses
Data is the new land, algorithms are the settlers, and we’re all just unpaid labor feeding the machine. Every prompt, every input, every “free” tool is a fresh…
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Data Storytelling Hackathon: Where AI Meets Art, And Data Sings Its Truth
Forget Silicon Valley playbooks—we’re writing new rules where data speaks truth and machines amplify humanity. This is AI with soul, purpose, and swagger. #DataStorytelling #VancouverAI
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Vancouver AI: The Community Building BC’s AI Future – February Meetup Recap
Where the real work gets done. No gatekeepers, no hand-holding—just a crew of builders, thinkers, and misfits shaping BC’s AI future. Watch what we’re making.
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Shane Gibson’s AI Sales Dojo
Sales sensei Shane Gibson reveals how combining AI tools with a martial artist’s mindset creates unstoppable sales professionals. Like mastering a fighting form, Shane’s approach to AI in…
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BC’s AI Ecosystem: A Mycelial Network of Creation
For 15 months, I’ve been mapping a network of creators and builders creating AI on their own terms. From basement studios in East Van to Indigenous tech labs…
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Vancouver AI January 2025 Recap: One Year of Creative Rebellion & Open-Source Disruption
From hackers to poets, legal minds to artists, our community-driven AI revolution is rewriting the rules. Dive into our one-year anniversary celebration and see how we’re making AI…
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Human Biography Podcast w/ Sharad Kharé
The question now isn’t whether we’ll use these ew AI tools. It’s how we’ll use them—and who we’ll become in the process.
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AI’s Next Chapter: Notes from BC’s AI Ecosystem
This is our moment to decide what we want this technology to be. Do we let it become another tool of digital feudalism, or do we grab the…
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