“They saw the internet coming. Literally.”

At Vancouver AI #16, Gabriel George Sr. stood in a room shaped like a Coast Salish woven hat and shared prophecy, history, and deep ancestral code. His ancestors saw longhouses rising into the sky. A web covering the world. A spirit returning when “the eagle has landed.” Watch the full invocation — part ceremony, part instruction set for the future.

🎥 https://youtu.be/mVVmf0_zfEc

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Lionel “UCODIA” Ringenbach ditched 15 years of tidy enterprise code, swapped the keyboard for forest fungi, and built an AI that sketches from whatever prop lands in front of its lenses.

We unpack his process—and what that means for the rest of us—in the latest Vancouver AI community spotlight:

📺 https://youtu.be/4RB_YT26dOM

Grab a seat online, then come tinker in person → https://lu.ma/vancouver-ai
—kk

#VanAI #UCODIA #CreativeCoding #BC_AI