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Stop waiting for the perfect tool or policy. This is what’s working now. Get yer hands dirty—or get comfortable being obsolete.

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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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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 trying to train AI to print money. Like: Who gets to decide what "intelligent" means when you live on unceded territory?

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legit took me like full week to write this, link it, pull the photos, post the videos, make the thumbnails blah blah blah and represents a ton of our collective energy tween all the peeps and projects https://kriskrug.co/2025/05/11/vancouver-ai-meetup-16-where-tech-creativity-and-community-collide/

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Vancouver AI Meetup #16: Where Tech, Creativity, and Community Collide

The Vancouver AI Community Meetup #16 vibrated with creative energy, blending indigenous wisdom with bleeding-edge tech, grassroots community-building with critical thought. As I declared at the opening: “You are the BC + AI ecosystem.” and what followed was a vivid demonstration of that ecosystem’s diversity and momentum. “Friends, we live at a time where new forms of expression are emerging…

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"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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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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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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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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There's an invisible force field between you and your creative ambitions—a digital glass ceiling that's been quietly limiting your potential while you blame your schedule, focus, or discipline. I call bullshit.

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A Creative Technologists AI Age Manifesto

Buckle up, digital voyagers. We’re surfing the bleeding edge where technology evolves faster than we can post about it, and the most valuable skill isn’t mastering every piece of software—it’s navigating change with bold authenticity. I’m standing at this electrifying intersection where innovation meets humanity, where boundaries between virtual and physical blur into beautiful chaos, and where…

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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 how humans experience data – starting with the eternal question: "Is a hot dog a sandwich?"

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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 how humans experience data – starting with the eternal question: "Is a hot dog a sandwich?"

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Data is the new land, algorithms the settlers, and we’re the unpaid labor. Every “free” tool mines our creativity for corporate empires, selling our own reflections back to us. AI isn’t neutral—it’s power-coded. Unless we rewrite the rules, we’re just passengers in someone else’s history.

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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.

The planetarium projector died halfway through Judy Illes’ neuroscience presentation. Perfect metaphor for where we stand with AI – bleeding-edge tech colliding with the mundane reality of blown bulbs. One minute we’re exploring brain-computer interfaces that might decode consciousness; the next, we’re fumbling in the dark. That’s the beautiful paradox of our Vancouver AI community –…

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Shane Gibson's AI Sales Dojo

Like mastering a fighting form, Shane's approach to AI in sales requires discipline, consistent practice, and the willingness to embrace discomfort. Discover how his custom AI coaching tools function as a digital dojo, enabling incremental improvements that compound into exponential sales results.

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 sales requires discipline, consistent practice, and the willingness to embrace discomfort. Discover how his custom AI coaching tools function as a digital dojo, enabling incremental improvements that compound…