AI
What soup slurping taught me about the grindset
October 11, 2026Brick Daniels, local soup connoisseur Title: Former sales technician at Crimblus AI Solutions Location: Yaletown, Vancouver Bio: I love two things in this world: a piping hot bowl of soup and selling AI solutions to shipping companies. 1 week ago. If you aren’t slurping soup down during your lunch break, you’re wasting your investors’ money. Let me explain: Most corporate workplaces give employees an hour lunch break every day. Most employees will take that time to go to a restaurant, head home for lunch with their family, or sit in the lunch room and gossip with coworkers. A full hour…
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Dopamine detox gone too far
October 11, 2026Most doomscrollers have heard of the dopamine detox — a total abandonment of easy dopamine hits by purging all social media. For most, this challenge is temporary — like a failed New Year’s resolution. In the tragic case of poor…
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AI is not a magic trick
January 27, 2026Content warning: brief mentions of death, suicide, torture, and sexual assault. Recently, Billie Eilish shared a post on Instagram about artificial intelligence that has haunted me ever since: “AI consumed more water this year than the global bottled water industry.”…
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The Clausgate Scandal: How Big Beverage tried to cancel Christmas
December 20, 2025By the time the headline “Santa Claus Hates Everyone” ricocheted across the internet and news outlets, the world had already begun cancelling Christmas. Children sobbed into their half-eaten gingerbread men. Christmas influencers rebranded as “seasonally ambivalent creators.” One particular parenting…
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AI has changed the job market and its rules
July 15, 2025I recently graduated from a master’s program at SFU. I’ve been casually swiping through positions on LinkedIn for a while now, not really looking for a serious commitment. This wasn’t my first time entering the job market. When I finished…
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The crisis in education isn’t AI — it’s meaning
June 15, 2025In the age of AI, effort has become optional. As students, we no longer need to flip through textbooks or reread chapters. As one homework app asks, “Why scroll through 100 pages when AI can summarize the most important things…
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Relying on GenAI to write is a shortcut that sacrifices authenticity
May 22, 2025As a university student, the past few years have been odd. When I began my university career, the concept of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) felt like a futuristic thing that someone like me, who doesn’t like using technology much, wouldn’t…
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2024 News Rewind
January 9, 2025Editor’s note: The ranking of these stories is roughly based on the number of articles written on each topic, whether these stories appeared on the cover of our weekly issues, and readership statistics from issuu.com. Multiple links under a single…
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Student advocacy coordinator discusses AI and academic integrity at SFU
November 21, 2024The Peak recently spoke with Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) student advocacy coordinator Trish Everett on how SFU has approached the issue of inappropriate artificial intelligence (AI) usage in classes. As advocacy coordinator, Everett helps students maneuver withdrawals from extenuating…
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“G” is for Genocide: Google and Amazon’s Project Nimbus
September 20, 2024Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a sci-fi pipe dream anymore. For nearly 75 years, computer scientists have researched and developed programs that can mimic and predict human thinking — we currently stand witness to this new technological frontier. AI technology has…
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