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One of the larger Canada-based Hong Konger YouTubers CanMen is promoting their video on their socials, the audacity to promote it with no regard for the anti-Indian racism.

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Top of the video shows a cross, this location may be Christian

This shot shows a cross at the top of the video frame, makes me wonder if Christians are associated with these folks.

Mimicking Indian speech mannerisms

This is a euphemism for Indians

The anti-Indian content in question by this video

Yes it's deserving of sympathy but this is not okay

Hong Kongers not realizing that they are in a humanitarian scheme, Canada has no obligation to approve you in particular when things in the country are bad for everyone else too. The entitlement here.

YouTube video by C TSE C.TSE 【問侯IRCC】IRCC, Where's PR? Official Music Video

What the hell is with this anti-Indian racism, this is why new Hong Kong immigrants are part of the problem
youtu.be/SnE0eKJWztY

YouTube video by Gresham College China and Chineseness: Lessons from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan - Steve Tsang

Steve Tsang gave this talk a couple of months ago.

Mostly knew what he was talking about, learned a thing or two as well.

Chineseness being a construct... It's not something I think about a lot but an important talk nonetheless.

youtu.be/ix4juVNytYg

First bad sleep day in 2026. Anxious about career prospects related to social service sector in Toronto, among other things.

Haven't been posting on socials much but the world seems to be struggling along. Feeling a bit burned out to end 2025.

Realized that you come from a relatively bougie background a while back, but you are using your privilege for good to be making a positive contribution imo...

We actively institutionalize the disabled to a significant extent

I didn't engage with the events this time around, I had that privilege and also didn't have the capacity this time around. Really appreciate your perspective.

Carmen Lansdowne, PhD If you’re a scholarly theology type… my book launch event with my publisher was a ton of fun and is now available online. Thanks to everyone who showed up for the livestream and sorry it didn’t...

This is a more academic talk by the former United Church of Canada moderator Carmen Lansdowne, on the launch of the book "Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission"
www.facebook.com/CarmenLansdo...

Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canadian delegation of Catholic bishops | CBC News A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities long held in Vatican Museums vaults, will return to C...

www.cbc.ca/news/vatican...

After the Scripture reading, the reverend who went to the stage immediately complemented the person who created the video and said, "that was a great song... "that was a great video."

This is just a case of Evangelicals using technology, but I really have second thoughts about this case.

YouTube video by Crosspoint Church 25th Anniversary Service and Pastor Ordinations

When I was watching the video its original intended speed, I didn't notice so the distortions much. The video is intentionally sped up at points. At the end of the video the congregation is heard to be clapping. The video is followed by Scripture reading.

Original video of service here.

4:57 mark showing the AI-generated image depicting children in an in between frame. The text on the video says "intergeneration".

Another in between animation which goes from a photo of young children to older children, where the transition is of distorted the bodies of children being contorted and flying across the floor. You don't notice this at high speed so much but this is where the technology is right now.

3:53 mark of video showing congregants entering a worship service generated by AI-video generation, with visible distortions in the frame

These are in between frames between actual photos taken, but this is some dystopian looking stuff happening here when you can use AI-generation to drop "congregants" into a worship setting.

The video stars an AI actress, but why this specific portrayal of a human being fitting for this? An able-bodied and physically fit woman dressed in jeans and knit sweater?

The underlying song and lyrics are supposedly 100% human according to the description, but when there's so much here that's AI generated, it's really difficult to trust what exactly that 100% means. The degree to which this is theft and a misuse of environmental resources what I'm wondering about.

YouTube video by Crosspoint Church All We Say Is Thanks 唯有感謝

Probably the most use of AI-based tools in a worship service that I have ever seen, and in ways that I really have reservations. Happened in a Chinese megachurch in California. This was an AI-assisted video with music.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Zh...

"Wishes and prayers will surely be fulfilled", the poster says. Photo taken just outside of the Greater Toronto Area.

Part of what was so troubling was seeing blatant promotions for "fee for merit" posters.

I have respect for Buddhist philosophies, but this is not the kind of stuff I endorse.

I was at a Chinese Buddhist temple in the Greater Toronto Area, it brought up mixed sentiments about it. It makes me wonder about the extent to which identifying Chinese is inherently potentially prone to settler colonialism.

The thing is, for those who embrace hyphenated identities, there's no judgement for those who don't. This doesn't really have anything to do with being on the political left or right in particular, but there are those on the political right who have made that distinction.

I recently realized that some on the political right in Canada attempt to delegitimize or silence hyphenated identities — a tendency not mirrored by those outside the right. If you identify as ___-Canadian, you’re often accused of engaging in “identity politics.”

YouTube video by Billboard News HUNTR/X Vocalists From ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Get Real Over Authentic Korean Food | Takes Us Out

How some of the KPOP Demon Hunters cast identify as Korean American
youtu.be/s1uIi7zPwD0

James Dobson, Bringing Up Boys in Simplified Chinese

Dobson book in simplified Chinese at a seminary library in Toronto

YouTube video by Life, take two! Former White Supremacist Responds to Steven Miller

Educational commentary on Steven Miller at Kirk's funeral
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Charlie Kirk funeral: Full list of performers at today's ... Several prominent musicians have taken the stage in the build up to the start of today's memorial for Charlie Kirk in Arizona

I pretty much grew up on Chris Tomlin music, so it's strange to see how politically affiliated his music is now
www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

I mean on one hand it's to be expected, but on another it's something else...