Indigenous Ways Of Graphics Processing

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1. Please be advised that AI will henceforth be known in Canada as MethoataskeOnangwatgoOjigkwanongOdesrundiyre.

   Or just Mooo!

2. Perhaps all funding requests will be vetted for the mandatory inclusion of indigenous knowledge, something only people with remnant proportions of slight DNA differences and intergenerational inherent mystical attributes possess but can never be shared or documented.

3. “includes the word ‘indigenous’ ”

   indigenous, Pffft!, sounds like a social disease associated with picking your nose.
   AI, American Indian.

4. Fun fact: AI can also mean artificially indigenous.

5. Circus Carney’s focus on First Nations is misplaced. If you want to get a sense of the context of frontier life in the North West Territories, below are links to 2 Sessional Papers of the Third Session of the Fourth Parliament (1880-81 Volumes 3 & 8).

   Volume 3 has a few references to the inter-tribal warfare between Indian tribes manifested via horse stealing.

   1880-81 Sessional Papers Volume 3 Third Session of the Fourth Parliament
   https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2021/parl/x12-3/X12-3-3-1881-eng.pdf

   Page 129/735
   Offences such as “Horse Stealing ” Committed along Frontier might with Advantage be made Extraditable.

   Page 145/735
   HORSE STEALING

   Page 147/735
   HORSE STEALING

   Page 149/735
   SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT L. N. F. CROZIER.

   Volume 8 presents reports about the condition of Indian Reserves across Canada. You can read report comments about the uptake of various education programs, agricultural innovation, etc.

   1880-81 Sessional Papers Volume 8 Third Session of the Fourth Parliament
   https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2021/parl/x12-3/X12-3-8-1881-eng.pdf

   Page 116/651
   comments about horse stealing

   Page 117/651
   BUFFALO

   comments about prairie fires set near the US border to herd buffalo away

   If you rummage through this stuff, you quickly see the real worldview back then was completely different that the neo-worldview presented by Circus Carney. Back in the day, the Indians could not deal with the changing real world without significant help. The Indians wanted residential schools as they valued education for their kids. They also knew their lifestyle did not support kids going to school day in, day out, all day.

   Fast forward to today, data centres are not a case where “If you build it, they will come”. Nobody wants to rely on a critical piece of infrastructure that will have legal jurisdictional problems and banishment problems.

6. The various Canadian governments made learning French mandatory in the early 1960s. I had two years of high school French followed by a year of University French and can safely claim to be 99.9% illiterate in the language. I just didn’t care, even when I worked in Ontario and heard colleagues speaking Québécois every day.

   I won’t be around in 50 years, but I bet AI for the Indigenous will never gain a significant following. They just won’t care.

7. Somehow I failed to anticipate how essential birch bark and sharpened sticks would be in achieving Canada’s full AI potential.

8. When it comes to Marx Carnage’s statements, gotta read between the lines.
   He’s strongly suggesting that AI centres be built on injun lands.
   Guess what costs are avoided?
   Municipal development charge. Municipal demands for parkland and street improvements beyond necessary, along with paying for ug utility upgrades.
   Provincial taxes and other provincial laws and fees.
   Building standards are also not as rigid.
   Now, where’s the power coming from? Hmmmm.
   For the water, they can just pump it straight out of lakes and rivers within injun lands. No environmental standards required to be followed. What about the fish? The injuns own them, they’re just inconvenient things.
   Yup, this is the Carnage plan, using government to avoid other governments. Cynical Bastard.

9. The only strategy the Canadian government has is how to stay in power.
   Forever.
   The Indians just want the wampum to keep flowing.
   Forever.

10. Ummm… Isn’t that cultural appropriation? The kind of thing whitey always gets accused of?

    1. Oh, he’s not white. It says so on his card. Let him appropriate as he may manage.
       I myself have no time for cultural appropriation. I am committed to Thunderfish through personal conversion. He is the expression of the most ancient of my people, going back beyond memory. These were people who knew how to qualify a statement.
       Soon, in their honour, I dance the Thunderfish ritual. I bathe now in perfume, to perform the musky lunges…