Stopped by yesterday to support Thrive: The Indigenous Entrepreneurs Growth Lab and Forward Summit and catch up with Friends and colleagues and explore and learn. Great to see Melodie Creegan Bobbie Racette Geena Jackson Jorge O. Avilés Dean Montgomery Amber Hall Ruhee Ismail-Teja, MPP Wade L. Kerr
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Stopped by yesterday to support Thrive: The Indigenous Entrepreneurs Growth Lab and Forward Summit and catch up with Friends and colleagues and explore and learn. to see Melodie Creegan Bobbie Racette Geena Jackson Jorge O. Avilés Dean Montgomery Amber Hall Ruhee Ismail-Teja, MPP Wade L. Kerr
Steven Vaivada James McInnes #thrivegrowthlab #forwardsummit #indigenousbusinessyyc
Date MAY THE FOURTH
Time A LONG TIME AGO
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU ON MAY THE FOURTH
AND ALSO EVERY DAY;
MAY YOU RISE LIKE A SKYWALKER WITH A NEW HOPE
AND LET NO EMPIRE STAND IN YOUR WAY.
ON MAY THE FIFTH DON'T BE DARTH OR A SITH,
FOR EVERY DARKSIDE SEE A REY OF LIGHT;
HAPPY STAR WARS DAY
TO EVERY HUMAN, ALIEN, WOOKIE, DROID AND EWOK,
MAY EVERY REBEL HAVE A GREAT JEDI KNIGHT.
P.S. - IN ALL SIDIOUSNESS IF YOU'RE MANDALORIAN
AND YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THE TRAINS...
'THIS IS THE WAY'.
ERSO, PLEASE SEE A MEMBER OF STAFF
IF YOU'VE LOST YOUR LIGHTSABER
OR YOU HAVE AN ATTACK OF THE CLONES.
Resident Alien Field Report 77B: The Planet of Loud Opinions and Short Memories
Your species is wildly capable and wildly unserious at the same time. You can build machines that leave the planet, map genomes, and stream a live video of someone unboxing a toaster to millions of strangers. Then you sit in bright rooms with microphones and argue, with sincere confidence, that feeding children will make them morally weak, that healthcare should be reserved for people who can afford the premium package, and that accurate history is somehow a personal insult. That isn’t a lack of intelligence. That’s intelligence being used as private security for the ego.
The main software bug is status addiction. A lot of humans don’t just want stability, they want to feel above somebody while they get it. When reality stops flattering them, they don’t update their beliefs. They hunt a scapegoat, rename the problem “common sense,” and call discomfort “oppression.” Then they act shocked when the same hierarchy that comforts them also eats them alive.
The funniest part is the obsession with repeating failed policies like they’re sacred tradition. They defund education, then panic about ignorance. They cut social supports, then moralize poverty. They privatize care, then pretend it’s a mystery why people can’t afford to stay alive. They rerun the same experiment, get the same results, and announce the solution is to rerun it harder. The confidence stays undefeated. The outcomes do not.
Now add the favorite distraction tactic. When the math stops mathing and the cover-ups start piling up, humans conveniently discover a new emergency that requires everyone to stop asking questions. A war spectacle. A “security crisis.” A moral panic. Anything loud enough to blur the ledger. It’s amazing how quickly budgets appear for missiles, surveillance, and contracts, right when there’s “no money” for clinics, schools, housing, or clean water. It’s also amazing how many people get trained to treat scrutiny as betrayal while criminality gets laundered into “patriotism.”
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Tech Thursday: Panic at the Library
Every time a new creative technology shows up, someone announces the end of art like it’s breaking news. It rarely is. Photography didn’t kill painting, recording didn’t kill musicianship, video didn’t kill film, and streaming didn’t kill storytelling.
What changed was access, distribution, and who got to profit, and the rules eventually caught up once the outrage cooled.
AI and automation sit in that same lineage, and they’re not new. Creative work has been shaped for years by automated systems, from recommendation algorithms deciding what gets seen, to “smart” editing, auto-captioning, enhancement tools, and workflows designed to make output faster and cheaper.
What’s new is the visibility and scale, not the idea. Institutions were already automating parts of creation and distribution, and they’ll keep doing it because they don’t abandon tools that reduce time and cost.
Film is a good reality check. CGI didn’t “ruin” film, it changed film, and not always for the good. Used well, it supports craft and expands what’s possible. Used poorly, it becomes a crutch where spectacle replaces story and everything starts feeling like a software demo.
When tech replaces human development, writing, performance, directing, taste, then the problem isn’t the tool. It’s choosing tools over talent and calling it progress.
Same warning for AI: it can extend the pipeline, but it can’t substitute the human work that makes culture worth engaging.
Yes, there’s real democratization here. Lower barriers mean more people can create, publish, and experiment. That matters. The shadow side is real too: when output explodes, attention becomes scarce, markets saturate, and creative labor gets treated like interchangeable content while profits concentrate with the people who control distribution.
So the serious issue isn’t whether a machine can make something “art-like.” It’s governance. Who consented to the data. Who got credited. Who got paid. Where IP infringement gets waved off as “innovation.” What contracts push risk onto creators while platforms keep the upside. If the conversation stays stuck on “is it real art,” the cheapest practices
When Timothée Chalamet starts talking like some self-appointed cultural anthropologist explaining why opera, ballet, and classical music are basically useless pursuits, I do not hear insight. I hear prestige cosplay with a side of ignorance.
These are art forms that take blood, sweat, tears, and years of brutal commitment. Not vibes. Not casual interest. Not one moody interview and a faraway stare. People train their whole lives for this. Their whole lives. And he is out here talking like centuries of discipline can be waved off because it does not fit modern celebrity attention spans.
Also, these forms have been here for roughly 400 years and in some cases longer. They have survived empires, wars, collapse, reinvention, and generation after generation of confident men declaring what matters and what does not. They are not trembling because one movie star decided to sound thoughtful in public.
What is actually hurting these arts is not irrelevance. It is cost, access, and gatekeeping. Lessons are expensive.
Training takes time most working people do not have. Public funding gets slashed. Disability access is treated like an afterthought. And institutions still act like “classical” belongs to a tiny approved club. Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and other marginalized communities were shut out by design, then blamed for not showing up. That is the real story. Not some celebrity deciding these forms are a pointless luxury.
And the irony is rich, because he benefits from the exact prestige machine he is performing for. Film culture loves this stuff.
Put a famous man in soft lighting, let him mumble about “timeless art,” and suddenly we are supposed to confuse aesthetic sadness with actual analysis.
Also, let’s relax with the authority. Being a movie star is a job, not a cultural coronation.
In fifty years, people will still be performing Swan Lake and La Traviata. People will still be studying, training, sweating, bleeding, and dedicating themselves to these forms. The only thing less permanent is the celebrity cycle that keeps producing famous men who mistake attention for wisdom. #timontheechalamet #opera #ballet @tchalamet
Get your Mind Groove on and join me at Brainstorm Beyond - Neurodiversity in the Workplace on March 19th from 4 PM to 7 PM at InceptionU Ltd, located on the 3rd Floor of the Calgary Public Library, Big Yellow Door.
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Join us at the 2nd Annual Brainstorm Beyond Neurodiversity in the Workplace Summit
March 19th - 4pm to 7pm - 800 3st SE - 3rd Floor - Inception U - Big Yellow Door.
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