Brendan Kergin

Inside a Surrey ‘Local News’ Site Run by AI | The Tyee Surrey Speak published fake news about a mayoral candidate and an AI-generated picture of a real murder victim.

Inside a Surrey 'Local News' Site Run by AI via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

This image, viewed millions of times on Instagram, X and Telegram, purports to show an attack on a US base near Erbil International Airport.

The image is AI-generated. Google's SynthID finds watermarks in the image indicating it was made with Google AI.

'There are too many raisins in the world,'
- @courtneydickson.bsky.social

The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

WTF

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

TIL

B.C. house inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright selling for $5M Does it look Wright-like to you?

Neat!
www.vancouverisawesome.com/real-estate-...

I could see it going on TikTok or something, at least the call, if not the visuals

Watch the Inuktitut call of Mitch Marner's overtime goal vs Czechia on Day 12 of Milano Cortina 2026 YouTube video by CBC Sports

Amazing call (no, I don't speak Inuktitut):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFol...

Every late night TV show writer in the world is sharpening the knives for this one.

Gallery: Historic aerial photos show downtown Vancouver in the 1960s The photos show the city as towers began to be built.

Gallery: Historic aerial photos show downtown Vancouver in the 1960s

Vancouver museums heating up on Valentine's Day with adults-only events Guess who's breaking out the 'graphic, R-rated artifacts' they keep out of the displays?

Vancouver museums heating up on Valentine's Day with adults-only events

A google earth view of Vancouver Harbour, Digital Orca

People of Google Earth 1

#peopleofgoogleearth

They also blacked out portions of this newspaper article

It's a pretty quick crash right now, but I suppose it'll depend on whether trust in it is there. It's ballooned a lot over the last few years, but I've always been curious how it's supported that growth/if it was a bubble due to burst.

Just a few months ago #Bitcoin was clear of $173,000 Canadian.
Now it's dropped below $90,000, and it's unclear when it's stopping.

I'm guessing the 24 includes the first four casualties of the mission, who were bombed by the Americans

Which is why it might have been written that way. Trump might not get angry over boring speeches he struggles to understand

5 things you (probably) didn't know about the Vancouver neighbourhood of Killarney From a giant garbage dump to the last dairy in Vancouver

5 things you (probably) didn't know about the Vancouver neighbourhood of Killarney

#Vancouver in the fog this morning.

To be honest, as a pedestrian, I don't love the location of this portapotty. #Vancouver

Women-fronted rock festival inspired by Bikini Kill singer coming to Vancouver Girls to the Front will focus on female, non-binary and 2SLGBTQIA+ artists

Women-fronted rock festival inspired by Bikini Kill singer coming to Vancouver

This looks up @jmcelroy.bsky.social's alley:
www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

Wire news piece in 1931.

Basically, he was pitching that the government run a place where men and women could meet, because when they met in other places it ended in unhappy marriages and divorce.

A headline from a Vancouver paper in 1931

Japan is cosplaying what it’s like to be in America…

now.

Good to see this plot thread didn't go anywhere

5 more things you (probably) didn't know about plants in Vancouver It's early January in Canada so it seems like a good time to bring up plants.

Includes at least one (1) grass fact.

www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/5...

Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children The degrading pictures are being posted to X despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them

At what point is legal action taken?

UK watchdog Ofcom said it made 'urgent contact with X...to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties'

Like, if I'm robbing a bank, do police tell me to take steps to stop stealing money?

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump has normalized and popularized antisemitism to the point that 43% of his party now either welcome Jew-haters or hold such views themselves