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I\u2019ve had many conversations lately<\/strong> with friends and colleagues about the long term cost of isolation that is exacerbated by the ease of online connection. But, as folks who know my complexity work will know, connections and exchanges are two different things. I can engage in all kinds of people and bits and digital entities now. But why then are we more lonely than ever before? And why are we losing the ability to be in real life conversations? Harrison Moony. catches the moment in this article from The Tyee<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But how do you commit to a discourse when you can\u2019t be sure that the person you\u2019re talking to even exists? The tech libertarians don\u2019t even want us. We\u2019re too hard to manage, too human, and that\u2019s why they\u2019ve flooded their sites with fake people, more likely to say what they want, and much easier to reconfigure, like Grok<\/a>, if they don\u2019t. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Seeking human connection online today feels like being the last one who hasn\u2019t been body-snatched<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s a good analogy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Paul McCartney is also addressing this head on<\/strong> and trying to show that it’s not just an analogy. Actual bodies of work are being snatched up by AI and he has spearheaded an initiative to protest this with an album of the sounds of creativity when the artists have disappeared. The project is called “Is This What We Want?<\/a>” and it’s a question worth asking. As usual, Ted Gioia, whose blog pointed me to the work, does a masterful job of unpacking the cultural implications of this moment. <\/a> It’s one of the things I love about live sports to be honest. You need actual people to play it, it’s a form of creativity that is very somatic and body based and the outcomes are always unknown. That’s perhaps a post for a different day, but it’s certainly an overriding concern for me these days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For what it’s worth, This blog is always hand written. If I ever use AI here I’ll let you know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A different disappearance in the Canadian cultural milieu happened this week<\/strong> in the world of sport. Valour FC, the Canadian Premier League team in Winnipeg announced that it is wrapping up operations.<\/a> They were part of probably the biggest sporting moment of my life in 2023,<\/a> when our TSS Rovers became the first semi-pro team to eliminate a professional team from the Canadian Championship.. We\u2019ve been rivals since then, playing them again in May in Winnipeg where they nicked a 1-0 win against us in the preliminary round.<\/a> Nevertheless, it absolutely sucks for supporters to lose their club. It sucks for players and other workers to lose their jobs. Like the rest of the global economy, soccer is a billion dollar thing only at the very highest levels in the 0.01%. Everywhere else it\u2019s about community and connection and hopes and dreams. People make it possible. Intangibles are essential. When it dies, a little bit more community dies with it. Support for your local clubs matters because it will keep it viable AND because you will experience connection and belonging and friendship and purpose. The billionaires want to sell those to you on their own terms. Resist and make community in spite of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Friday night professional women\u2019s hockey arrived in Vancouver.<\/strong> The Vancouver Goldeneyes kicked off their history starting with a puck drop by Christine Sinclair and then a 4-3 come from behind overtime win. It was the third game in a row that a professional Vancouver women\u2019s sports team has won from behind if you go back to the second leg of the NSL semi final and the final of the NSL. This win happened in front of a packed house at Pacific Colosseum and. Vancouver became the first PWHL team to have its own logo permanently marked at centre ice. It\u2019s a very special time in women’s sports in this city. Both the Northern Super League and the PWHL strive to be top tier leagues in the world of professional women’s sport. The PWHL already is.<\/a> NSL has made a strong start, based on the “state of the league” address that founder Diana Matheson gave prior to the Cup Final last week<\/a>. 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