This summer, six months, after returning to full time after the half -time sickness for job burning out, I was interested in positive and negative ways.Ancient Chinese curse, “I hope you can live in an interesting time.”) I have already made a way for the wildfire season for our unprecedented climate change in Manitoba, but there are some other things, such as AI, VR, and ongoing trade wars with the United States.
I have been learning more about artificial intelligence, especially AI, in the last few months. I am doing this to prepare some events at our university this fall.
Well, I somehow talked about providing a 15 -minute presentation for artificial intelligence and Genai at the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science.I am a liaison to serve the faculty.). Last year, all of this was recently added to the PowerPoint slide, where students warned the students who talked about the risk of relying on a search engine on Genai tools such as CHATGPT. I was talking to members of the Agricultural Library Commission on this project in one of the face -to -face meetings. At the end of the discussion, I agreed to present a presentation to the professors’ council. (Me and my big mouth!))
But in my horror, I realized that Genai’s field is evolving too quickly. I realized that almost everything that I talked about last year is already old! So this required a lot of reading (Yes, the real book of the university collection) Many web browsing, such as taking online courses to raise the learning curve. It turns out that it is a very powerful motivation for learning new things to the audience of accessible presentations and professors (overall smart people)!
So I have spent a lot of time learning more about AI for the last few months. I have already subscribed to Chatgpt by Openai and is one of the first millions who set up an account in 2022. This has added a second subscription to a service called Claude AI, founded by some Oenai employees with ethical concern about the direction of using Genai products.
I am getting closer to this 15 -minute conversation. In addition, I agreed to replace the team with Genai’s graduate students, student advisors and lawyers this fall. The lawyer will discuss the legal and copyright issues related to Genai and focus on the technical and practical aspects of the Genai tool (greatly dependent on the same content as the dialogue with the agricultural professor). I am not only virtual reality experts, but I am becoming an in -house AI expert at Manitoba University.
In terms of virtual reality, I was no longer involved in the virtual/augmented reality research institute project in the university library system, so all VR equipment donated to the laboratory was returned to me (the people who worked on the project decided to buy new equipment).
In order to reinstate the Windows desktop PC and Vive Pro VR headset, I had to drag the second desk to the open office cubicle area, and I had to find a space to hide META Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3 wireless headset when not used! There are five or more headsets that five different headsets should be dealt with between the rectum and the home (the recent valve index must reinstall the software after a recent hard drive of a personal computer, and of course, the Apple Vision Pro), which has written multiple blog posts for the past 12 months, is not used.)
However, since you bought the Apple Vision Pro, you should confess that you have not actually used Windows VR/AR headsets. This uses a big and clear (and now Ultra WidesCreen!) With MacBook Pro (now Ultra WidesCreen!) Two hours a day. Often, I use it to tear my Apple Vision Pro house in my backpack, watch TV and movies, explore the Reddit News published in the AVP sub -zone, and use it to play and chat with people around the world in Inspaze.I think it’s still one of the killer apps.). Despite the high price tag, the device is worth all of the penny I paid, and I will first line up all the next thing that Apple appears in the spatial computing device line. I am every in.
As many people already know, I have already given up completely abandoned the algorithm -based social media platform, and most of them have become a toxic Cesspools. I left Meta’s Facebook a few years ago and stopped Twitter/X when Apa Lert Hate Clyde took over. I still have a nominal account in MASTODONI saw a Twitter garbage collector firing from afar.) And and Bluesky (To follow public health experts and AI experts recently) I know that I can go for a few weeks at a time without checking the two sites. I have found that most social media has been destroyed in essence, so I found that mental and emotional health has greatly improved, and I can recommend it high.
In addition, the Chrome web browser was also a long, difficult process of replacing YouTube Music and Apple Music*and GMAIL with a personal information -oriented proton service owned by the Firefox and Google search. In particular, the transition from GMAIL to proton email is long and in progress.
I don’t think most of them are Americans (Indifferent, as if there is a tendency to do everything that goes out of the border) I really understand how big Canadians are in the United States. When I write this, Donald Trump’s latest word is planned to impose a 35%tariff on Canadian income. Of course, we will start the TIT-For-TAT trade war in different rounds. Over the elbows!
I read the article last week McClean (Canada version hour or Newsweek) It is a long quote below because it has made it quite well.
Canadians define themselves against the United States because they were founded by those who refused the American revolution. We continued to refuse for almost three centuries.
The United States is an unpredictable and increasingly functional empire, an extended experiment that pushes everything to extremes. Canadians, on the other hand, have a long and incomplete history after peacefully. We are not tied to the essential identity, such as the shared and glorious history of language, race, religion or revolution or conquest. We become nationalism only when we need to protect ourselves from the invasion of the United States.
The negative defense defense was always enough. It is a kind of Canada.
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As Canada settled deeper in the winter of 2025, Trump strongly insisted that Canadians would be happier in his clutch.
Canadians kick the shops in the city of Montreal, even in the flag of shops, canceled travel and flags. Our palette is produced in a supermarket passage. The US border cities, which rely on the day of shopping, were generally silent. Pearson and Trudeau’s departure lounge was empty.
The Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston removed brief trade barriers to all states in a rewarding state, and after the election, Mark Carney further promised to dismantle all brief trade barriers by Canadian Day. Manitoba Premier WAB KINEW announced that it plans to conclude some electrical contracts with the United States to increase the energy economy. Quebec François Legault said that the Quebecs would consider the East -West oil pipeline that had previously opposed.
People soon speculated about guerrilla’s resistance war. Can Americans be able to take Canada, but can you catch it? How could they justify the casualties they would take? At the end of January, one of the most competent men I knew texted me in blue, and told his wife, “I will die to die at the end of the rifle.”
It became clear how deeper the feeling became on February 1 at the Ota and Canadian Tire Center where the Senate played Minnesota Wild. Ottawa is a government city, and because there are more LEFS or HABS fans as SENS supporters, watching games can be a dull place. However, there was nothing calm about booting as the “Star Sequin Banner” played. The fans were sincerely booed from the beginning to the end while drowning the unfortunate singer.
–Stephen Maher“” “”Never sell. ” Maclean ‘s, July 2025.
Honestly, I don’t know how all this will proceed for the next four years, but I slowly learned the crazy enthusiasm in the United States and the trade war with Canada (and other world). I can do it control. So I’m voting with my feet and wallets.
In particular, like many fellow Canadians, I refuse to visit the United States until Trump does not have an office. There is no meeting and no vacation. naught. He has already canceled subscriptions for Netflix and Amazon Prime, and most recently added Disney+and Hayu.Bravo Reality TV) On that list. Probably not over yet. is it so angry.
During the epidemic period, I ordered a groceries online through the Walmart website and used the habit of using the pick -up service early on Saturday morning. No more! I used my librarian technology to study Canada’s alternatives to American brands.buh-Bye, CAMPBELL ‘s chunky soup! helloTim horton’s soup!). I exchanged the Walmart website for the actual Canadian supermarket, and I still put an online order (but now produced in Canada) bright and early morning. I and I work!
Lastly, I joined the local cooperative food store and gas station Red River Co-OP, which has been active in Winnipeg since the 1930s. And I plan to support local farmers and craftsmen regularly at St. Norbert Farmers’ Market, south of Winnipeg.It is literally across the street at the Red River Co-op store I shop now!).
So, it’s my lazy, blurry, and crazy summer report! Cool and sane in this effort time.
*I know that Apple is a US company, but I associate Apple with California. I am not opposed to supporting liberal and Democratic votes California! 😜
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