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Don Eglinski

@eglinski.corporate.wtf
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Occasionally paid to audit brand strategies. 📍 Edmonton, Canada

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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh my lanta! It's Episode 1: Among the Separatists. separationanxietypodcast.substack.com/p/among-the-... Congrats to @daniparadis.bsky.social, and thanks to Omar Mouallem, Zach Dafoe, & Kristi Lee. Subscribe: pod.link/6811266682 Subscribe to our Substack: separationanxietypodcast.substack.com
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Among the Separatists
Oh my lanta do we have an episode for you!
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 25/06/2026
Johns Hopkins University lays off over 100 employees due to federal research losses
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Johns Hopkins University lays off over 100 employees due to federal research losses
The layoffs this week impact the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey School of Business and the university’s general administration.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This kind of analysis frustrating (ditto arguments about lack right-wing views at universities). Often, right-leaning perspective NOT SUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE! It isn't a political bias, it is a TRUTH BIAS. Yes, happens on left too. But... Are AI chatbots politically biased? wapo.st/3QEBMi3
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Are ChatGPT and other AI chatbots politically biased? We tested them.
The Post tested ChatGPT, Gemini and other chatbots with political questions, and the results show that the AI tools have different political leanings.
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
How much will the referendum on having a referendum, and on 9 questions that can’t be provincially implemented cost? $90 million tax dollars. 60,000 workers to be hired by Elections Alberta. You could build 3 schools for that. That’s your money #ableg www.elections.ab.ca/resources/me...
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Elections Alberta Launches Largest Recruitment Drive in Alberta’s History - Elections Alberta
EDMONTON – Today, Elections Alberta is launching the largest electoral event worker recruitment campaign in Alberta’s history and one of the largest referendum recruitment efforts ever undertaken in C...
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Marathon @marathonthegame.bungie.net · 02/06/2026
Do you crave endless life? Join Marathon’s Open Play Week until June 9 on PlayStation 5, Steam, and XBOX Series X|S. youtu.be/cyIEnxicey8
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Season 2 Gameplay Trailer | Marathon
YouTube video by Marathon
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Marathon @marathonthegame.bungie.net · 01/06/2026
You've been watching from the outside long enough. Slip through the door from June 2 - June 9.
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Marathon @marathonthegame.bungie.net · 26/05/2026
Darkness descends on Tau Ceti IV. Season 2 begins June 2. youtu.be/a1i801SDrJA
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Season 2 Cinematic Trailer | Marathon
YouTube video by Marathon
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 30/04/2026
“Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by what is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?” —Pierre Troubetzkoy
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Lots of lies and grievance being spread on YouTube by unknown people from unknown countries in support of Alberta's independence movement. The Dishonest Online Campaign to Support Alberta Separatism via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...
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The Dishonest Online Campaign to Support Alberta Separatism | The Tyee
A research group raises red flags about foreign interference in the province’s independence referendum.
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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
i had concerns about whether marathon would be enjoyable as someone who is unskilled at PvP. the answer is yes because what it turns into is alien isolation
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 27/02/2026
A 2-hour mix of music compiled by Thom Yorke that plays before Radiohead’s European shows. [mixcloud.com]
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2025 Walking In
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 23/02/2026
Plans to build a massive AI data centre powered by a natural gas plant are racing ahead in Olds, Alta., and residents of the town are wary. If built, the data centre would consume as much electricity as the city of Edmonton. thenarwhal.ca/olds-alberta...
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Canada’s largest AI data centre proposed in rural Alberta | The Narwhal
Proponents of the $10-billion project plan to build an AI data centre that would consume as much power as the city of Edmonton
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 19/02/2026
“God grant us the serenity to exercise our bounded rationality freely in the systems that are structured appropriately, the courage to restructure the systems that aren’t, and the wisdom to know the difference!” — Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 14/02/2026
“The core requirement of a platform-government model is that government provides access to a set of canonical databases and shared applications that other parts of government, civic society, and the private sector can leverage to solve public problems.”
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Government as a Platform: How Policy Makers Should Think about the Foundations of Digital Public Infrastructure - HKS Student Policy Review
For all the promise of digital government, it has done very little in the Western world to fundamentally alter the structure or processes of the state. Through much of its history, the primary goal of...
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 10/02/2026
Though the future is a product of every present that precedes it, tomorrow does not belong to today. — Kōbō Abe, In Search of the Present
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Scott Patrick, PhD @neimanmarxist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 05/02/2026
here’s hoping spain sets a precedent for other countries to follow. elon’s x should absolutely be banned!
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Spain’s youth minister floats countrywide ban on X
Sira Rego says current digital space is “undemocratic” and controlled by “a few digital strongmen.”
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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 04/02/2026
dude ouate de phoque
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 04/02/2026
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 04/02/2026
To play a game is to voluntarily take on unnecessary obstacles to make possible the activity of struggling to overcome them. — The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia by Bernard Suits
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 02/02/2026
Trent Reznor had Boys Noize rework the Challengers score into a standalone album, and the result is one of 2024’s most danceable electronic releases.
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Challengers [MIXED] by Boys Noize
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Very excited to say that 404 Media's zine about ICE Surveillance is here. If you ordered a print copy, I put it in the mail last week. If not, we of course think the info inside is very important so here's a free PDF. We also translated it into Spanish: www.404media.co/icezine/
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Our Zine About ICE Surveillance Is Here
Download a PDF of our first ever zine here.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Just so everyone is clear: the valve here releases pressure that would otherwise build on her leadership from within her party. She would rather lose the country than her own job.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 31/01/2026
“The political philosopher Thomas Hobbes thought what ultimately mattered in politics was power. The rightful ruler is whoever has the power to control other people’s actions. But for Hobbes, the true source of power wasn’t strength or military might.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 29/01/2026
“I think that while we can respect the right of any Canadian to express themselves to vote in a referendum, I think we need to draw the line at people seeking the assistance of foreign countries to break up this beautiful land of ours.” #Alberta #treason
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B.C. premier says Alberta separatists seeking assistance from U.S. is 'treason' | CBC News
British Columbia Premier David Eby says Alberta separatists meeting with the U.S. administration and seeking financial backing is an act of "treason," as the issue of national sovereignty loomed over ...
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 27/01/2026
Hot take: if the United States had adopted the metric system, we’d be living in a less #imperial timeline.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 20/01/2026
Never been more proud to be Canadian.
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'The old order is not coming back': PM says Canada must 'name reality' and build strength at home
YouTube video by CBC News
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 18/01/2026
Kin Burger and Long Totz at Kin, Edmonton #yegfood
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 15/01/2026
Enuf is enuf, but enough is too much.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 13/01/2026
Culture is what a group repeatedly pays attention to—and what it repeatedly rewards—until it feels like reality.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 12/01/2026
Video games are still misunderstood. Despite stereotypes, roughly half of players are women, and the average gamer is now in their forties. It’s a medium enjoyed across ages and backgrounds.
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THE HUMANS OF ARC RAIDERS - Movie
YouTube video by The Serialist
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
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The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/12/2025
Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life. “A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. A thin desire is one that doesn’t.” [joanwestenberg.com]
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Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life
The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.  We’re hungry for more, but we have more than we need.  We’re hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We’re hungry and we don’t have words to articulate why. We’re hungry, and we’re lacking and we’re wanting. We are
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Four children who inherited their wealth and a crypto entrepreneur who went to prison. That’s…a look.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 28/12/2025
I want @proton.me and @vivaldi.com to replace my current tools, but both still feel engineer-led rather than design-led. If leadership meaningfully prioritises UX, I’m ready to switch.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 23/12/2025
In 2020, humanity crossed a major milestone: the mass of human-made materials was estimated to surpass the total biomass of the planet, including humans. That mass is now doubling roughly every 20 years.
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Satanic Fragment @satanicfragment.substack.com · 18/12/2025
The is a good thread. Max is right. Politics is about making material gains, not scoring points in an imaginary game of purity.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 18/12/2025
The 2025 Academy Awards drew just shy of 20 million viewers. The 2025 Game Awards drew an estimated 171 million.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 13/12/2025
www.instagram.com/reel/DSI5gp6...
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 01/12/2025
Bernadette’s, Edmonton
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A must read from @anandwrites.bsky.social. This line — “The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy” — is spot on. How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
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Degenerate AI @tonytric.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Epstein class is from now on how we now define billionaires.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 17/11/2025
Finally have the pleasure of digging into On Nostalgia, by @pleasuremotors.bsky.social. Thank you for writing it, David. #nostalgia
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 09/11/2025
“Strategy builds systems, but it depends on them as well. “Every successful system serves a purpose. “It might not be the purpose it says it serves, and it might not seem to make sense, but if the system sticks around, that’s because the system is delivering on a promise.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 30/10/2025
Alright. Time to finally try to learn #Affinity and ween myself off of #Adobe for good.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 28/10/2025
“Religion is the means through which the order and the peace, which is created by the first murder, gradually turns into a cultural system. Humanity is the child of religion. In a way, religion is like the placenta which protects the newborn and gets discarded when he’s really born.” —René Girard
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 28/10/2025
The desire for recognition from others is a trap. It makes you dependent and undermines freedom. Being disliked becomes a sign you are living freely.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2025
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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Don Eglinski @eglinski.corporate.wtf · 15/09/2025
To explore is to walk until the edge reveals itself.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
They lied to you, then took the money you gave them and used it to pay more people to lie to you. I’m a bit suspicious of those who were on the payroll realizing only *now* that the Dems are in on the GOP con. But for the sincerely confused, an explainer: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/behold-a-p...
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Behold, A Pale Horse Race
On elections without choice and genocide without consequence
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