Read the comments. I love how, thanks to AI, every social media photo now is like those 'Find 8 Differences' pages in Highlights Magazine.

Friendly geese feeding by the banana trees (and ignorantly blocking the bike lane like some common tourists) feels uniquely Vancouver.

My company - we do First Nations data - crunched the numbers on gender and band governance. One big takeaway, all female band governments do more than 50% better than all male band governments. Details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This is some late stage Soviet Union stuff. Back then they had these people called Sovietologists whose job was to translate BS Soviet news coverage into facts. So if Yuriy Andropov was reported to have a cold, it meant he was in a coma. If he was 'resting' it meant '...in peace'.

A weekend goal is to find animals in the wild. We saw this one seal swimming on his back, spitting in the air, but didn't get video. But I did get these - the Vancouver to Burnaby Fraser bike lane is now open where I saw this heron. Also, urban koi fish, a frog on a rock and a turtle in a tree.

I talked to a lead scientist at SETI and they said aliens are likely, but not here. Here we may see their artifacts in the form of AI - Von Neumann machines, which would most likely be quite small - and account for UFO sightings. Reminder: we sent probes on interstellar trajectories in the 70s.

I saw a post recently and it was like: just for minorities - what’s your unironic favourite thing about white people? My answer was farmers markets. This is my haul from the Dude Chilling market. All local food too - farmers looked so tired from driving in from the desert at 4am.

We just published an intelligence analysis on the new Alberta Pipeline route - looking at the state of play among First Nations along the route. Some gigantic red flags at the only part of the route they can't move: www.linkedin.com/posts/knowle...

Finally finished the video walkthrough of our app - KnowledgeKeepr.com . We provide comprehensive data, context, and contacts for all 638 First Nations in Canada. youtu.be/cJK5SdNTU78?...

Someone said that 'pickles are the pumpkin spice of summer' - judging from the likes and traffic on this post, yeah, checks out.

First attempt at making (fridge) pickles. Day one.

Just made a 'viral' Japanese curry mac and cheese dish and had the realization that I'm on the TikTok diet.

F*******ck you.

I love how Musqueam does street signs on their reserve and hate how they do signs off their reserve. On the reserve, it's in the language and then transliterated into pronounceable letters for everyone. Off rez? It's translated into English and the original word is left sans an easy pronunciation.

So an Albertan incel kills a police officer named Mohamed while trying to attack Pornhub's head office in Montreal and exactly no one in the Canadian elite - up to and including Poilievre - will take any accountability for the fear and suspicion they spent the day spreading...

Americans desperately posting stuff about how European tourists think they're cool is cultural appropriation. That's Canada's thing, that's our whole deal.

I don't know what I said or liked on Facebook, but my recommended video feed is 35% birds showering in slow-mo to R&B music.

When I see people I hate attacking people I hate more - suddenly they seem so mature, sensible, tough, serious. And it actually helps me understand how their idiot demon-spawn supporters get sucked in by their lies. Their other lies, not these lies, they're right about this new stuff I agree with.

The Iran deal gives me hope for NAFTA/CUSMA - play our cards right and we might get Hawaii.

Vancouver facts.

Vancouver attraction idea 1: "Planet Vancouver" - a museum of sets, and memorabilia from Vancouver-filmed sci-fi shows. Including things like X-Files themed escape room, Battlestar Galactica Viper Flight simulator, Last of Us Zombie experience...

The Dude Chilling garage sale has got gigantic. It now covers the whole park end to end - from one side of the farmer’s market to the other. And given the neighborhood it’s all posh and middle class. I bought the pyrex set.

Went to check out Fifa today - like the Olympics but with way more stuff to do - more dancing in the streets, and demographically, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and a little European and Aussie.

I think our upstairs neighbours rented their place to Australians. I woke up from a nap to the smell of bbq and some women shouting 'oh narrr'. Literally. If it weren't so stereotypical, I'd be mad.

Got back to Vancouver a few hours late - just in time to see a red moonrise:

Flying out of Montreal today, and never seen this kind of thing before - the second of 2 CF18s flying super low over the airport.

First time seeing that - the second of a pair of CF18 fighters flying low over the airport (here in Montreal).

Another day working here in Montreal. This is where all the AI business is, went to the epicentre for meetings. Even with AI ppl we all complain about slop. Pics: 1. Best civic improvement in Canada in a decade 2. F-ing millennials 3. You and me both, taco 4. New summer look just dropped

Meanwhile in my day job - just posted a summary of First Nations elections over the first half of this year: www.linkedin.com/posts/knowle...

Keeping in mind that there already is a law against "downplaying" the Holocaust - not just denying it, but diminishing it. So, unless these free speech champions also call for that law to be struck from the books the issue isn't really free speech, is it?

Back in Montreal for the week. Walked past 3 separate and unrelated street festivals. In summer this city is the Barcelona of Canada (vs Vancouver - which is basically Canada’s Instagram account or Toronto, which is a brutal indictment of the collective failures of all 3 levels of government).

An argument that can only be made in a flat land. In hill country, like Vancouver, eBikes are what open up biking to people who aren't elite athletes or can't afford $10k super bikes. The real issue isn't eBikes, it's the explosion of delivery bikes - and that's on the companies that employ them.

Montreal people - what are the best places for bandes dessinées on the Plateau/MileEnd central area?

There’s a thing with carbon dating that you can’t do it after the Industrial Revolution because there’s so much artificial Carbon14 in the atmosphere that it doesn’t work anymore. And I’m finding that with internet sleuthing-that it basically stops in 2021. After that you can’t tell what’s real.

Got bannock and tiny strawberries at the Olympic Village market today. That flag sure is hard to miss…as is all the kvetching.

15 minute bike ride from home. Yesterday the water was warm enough and today it was bathtub temps at low tide. During summer I try and spend half the day working from the beach. But it's June 2nd and I'm already sunned out.

Sometimes in Vancouver, if you look up, you’ll see a flock of seagulls and a murder of crows attacking an eagle. Seagulls are followers - but I don’t know what it is with crows - tall poppy syndrome? But they hate an eagle.

Evidence that Reconciliation is actually dead. We analyzed 35,000 news reports on First Nations bands (not editorials or general stories about Indigenous people) and found a massive change in the quantity and tone of coverage. www.linkedin.com/posts/knowle...

Just saw the second coming of Eagle Jesus:

Ben Gvir’s political identity is symbolized by a noose. How protesters can fumble that is a masterclass in sucking at political communication. Yes, many of the critics are full of it… but you don’t have to give them ammunition.

Up late working. Put on random music and discovered that my favourite TV theme song of all time was sung by time travelling Matt Berry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9CL...

Indigenous people protect wildlife better because we have a self interest in the continued existence of wildlife. Western conservation is based on feelings and fake, ungrounded morality. Indigenous conservation is about food and preserving the culture that comes with it. One obviously works better.

I was invited to be in the audience for one of those CBC prank shows that everyone is being so harsh about. And I almost feel for the producers, but I had a similar controversy. This one time, I wrote an obit for a very much living, "racially charged" Canadian figure, and got that same blowback...1

It's my 10th wedding anniversary today, and I just wanted to share this picture of our wedding cake. My wife and I both look at most traditions with disdain, though we did follow a lot of the Salish rites for our wedding. But we got nagged about the wedding cake by some guests. 1

Hiking in the mountains today. Walked back over the Lions Gate just in time for a Disney cruise ship to pass under. Volume up, wait for it…

Random Bible story - Jesus allowed someone to pour expensive ointment on his feet (worth ~$10k), and then mop it up with her hair. Seeing it, Judas was enraged, saying the ointment could have been sold to feed the poor. Jesus excused it, Judas decided he was a fraud, and turned him in.

Unexpected at WebSummit today. Yesterday was ‘boo Israel’ talkers - today Curtis Yarvin and Lauren Southern.

I love this decision, and everything it stands for. Also, I dread the mother-fudge load of internationally funded hate that this is going to unleash on First Nations people. This has the potential to be our 'Dreyfus Scott Scopes Monkey Wade' decision.

Saw Cenk Uygur, Hasan Piker, and Gabor Mate at the Web Summit in Vancouver today (along with a bunch of educational talks - new key words in tech: "layer", "SaaSppocalypse"). Met lots of new Indigenous AI companies doing work on culture, language, and band admin.

At the Web Summit all day today, very interested to see what the local media makes of Hasan Piker - he’s doing a talk with Gabor Mate here this afternoon.