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Zac Trolley

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Engineer, Luddite, part time community builder. Calgary Alberta. 🇨🇦

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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 5h
Mail those ballots back asap. No later than Oct 9th. #abpoli
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 5h
“What is most important, however, is to affirm that AI is different. … It is another form of intelligence with a mindset all its own, and there is zero evidence that it views humanity’s well-being and survival as a priority.” wtf is left media doing echoing this cultist doomerism?
thenation.com
How AI Could Kill Us All
Mapping the pathways to human extinction.
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 6h
Anyone in Calgary looking for a laptop? I've got one for sale! #YYC www.kijiji.ca/v-laptops/ca...
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17" Asus Gaming Laptop | Laptops | Calgary | Free local classifieds - Kijiji
Have you seen computer prices?? Worry no more because this beauty comes with everything you need. It can run games on
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“faster care for one patient isn’t a system-wide reduction in waiting if someone else simply waits longer. Choice is not the same as capacity. And activity is not the same as progress.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Will Alberta's dual-practice model cut surgery wait times — or only for the rich?
When my time matters most, will my place in line be determined by how urgently I need care — or by how much I can afford to pay for it?
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 22h
Your car is spying on you.
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... ‘The study…found that since Ontario has started outsourcing more key procedures, wait times for these medical imaging services and surgeries are actually going up.’ @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
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Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Images are circulating online of a rally of some 30 disguised men—allegedly part of the alt-right group 'Sons of Canada' at Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc in B.C. just days before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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APTN News Brief: 'Got bones?' White supremacists stage rally at Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc ahead of Reconciliation day
Our lead story: concerning images circulate online of a rally of some 30 disguised men—allegedly part of alt-right group, "Sons of Canada"—at Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc in B.C.'s Interior, just ...
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 29/09/2026
Private equity wants to drain value from every single interaction. They will take a valuable community asset and squeeze it until it dies. This is their playbook. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
canadiandimension.com
When private equity buys the home team
As Owen Sound lost factories, jobs, and other gathering places, the Attack became one of the few institutions left that still brings the community together. The team’s economic value comes partly from...
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 29/09/2026
The people want socialism.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The two places where adult men experience the highest rates of sexual assault are in the military and while incarcerated. That fact alone proves that sexual assault is about power, domination and humiliation. It's about making someone "your bitch" - proving the inherent misogyny involved.
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 29/09/2026
Does anyone know if the RCMP training is public? Do they teach their own history, or do they celebrate their oppressive nature?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 29/09/2026
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This grim, gripping report on Canada’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak from the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute should be required reading for all Albertans - and all Canadians. Especially those who’ve decided to forget how deadly and terrifying the early months of Covid truly were.
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Parkland Institute
Parkland Institute is an Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Keep the data centers away from our Great Lakes.
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 28/09/2026
Big Tech is pro rape.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026
This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.
nationalobserver.com
Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.
Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 28/09/2026
The Alberta separatists want to send Ottawa a message. What is that message? I can only assume it's how hurt their feelings are that the rest if the country isn't partaking in their victim fantasy.
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Múmer @mumermao.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 28/09/2026
Pro tip: never, ever give an AI control of your life. These products are controlled by mega corporations and are designed to extract value from you. Some of y'all don't read cyberpunk and it shows.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
lol let's talk about how tradwives were a scam to begin with, since they performed financial dependence even though they were financially independent. 🙃
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
California company accused of shipping pesticide laden berries to Canada. We can't trust American product we should be able to trust that our government has adequate numbers of inspectors in place to protect us. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 27/09/2026
We need to confront the lie to take away its power. Alberta is being treated fairly within Canada. We are extremely prosperous, and there is no conspiracy against us. thewalrus.ca/alberta-sepa...
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Alberta Separatism Is Built on a Big Lie | The Walrus
Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
„The Silicon Valley narrative is that the technology these companies are building is shiny, clean, divorced from any of the material difficulties that you might see in the rest of the world. Looking at supply chains, whether supply chain of data or raw materials, that picture quickly falls apart.“
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Jack Hill @jackhill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cost for referendum $134 Million (Elections Alberta) Support remaining in Canada 70% (Janet Brown) 22% binding referendum on independence.(Janet Brown) $26.50 for every Albertan (Alberta Fact Check) Instead $134M could buy 430 teachers positions for three years.(Alberta.ca) #ableg #yyc #abed
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Government of Alberta
Find Alberta government services and information.
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 26/09/2026
We know. This is typical authoritarian playbook. We keep going over this because our politicians, business leaders, and media are too scarred to tackle this head on outside of the option pages.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I been telling y’all this
This is how I can tell that we were being conditioned: instead of taking accountability for the fact that she might be leading her party towards a political buzzsaw with this referendum vote, she decided to double down by attacking immigrants. She tweeted: "Temporary residents contribute about $150-million to our tax base
annually, yet the cost to provide services for them is over $1-billion. It's simply not fair to Alberta taxpayers." She provides zero sources for these numbers, yet we are supposed to take them as facts. Blaming immigrants or minorities of some kind are where the conservatives naturally turn when things are going wrong for them. This displacement of blame allows Smith to refocus attention in an attempt to obscure the fact that she has been privatizing Alberta health care and education throughout her premiership, thereby defunding public services for private interests.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 26/09/2026
Concerns over privacy have led to calls to ban smartglasses in public spaces in Canada. According to the CBC, these products are being used against women, with reports of attempts to extort money from victims to remove humiliating videos from social media platforms.
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Privacy concerns prompt calls to ban smartglasses in Canada
Concerns over privacy have led to calls to ban smartglasses in Canada to prevent covertly recorded videos from being shared on social media.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 26/09/2026
... Corporate loyalty There is it. The billionaire class is demanding we bow down at their feet and give them our loyalty.
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Stevenof1 @stevenof1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a Reminder...
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A meme for my heroes. #abpoli #NoToTheNine
A young girl dressed as a superhero stands against a bright yellow background, wearing a pink mask and cape and extending one fist toward the viewer. Bold black text reads, “NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES.” Below it, the text reads, “SOME JUST VOTE NO TO THE NINE,” with “NO” and “NINE” highlighted in red.
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 26/09/2026
This is why politicians are pushing AI. So they can play make-believe.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 26/09/2026
"Similarities between the far right in Canada and the United States suggest a certain amount of contagion across the border, but Alberta separatism is a home-grown movement." An excerpt from a new book on polarization by UBC political scientist Max Cameron. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
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The Uncomfortable Roots of Alberta Separatism | The Tyee
It’s a home-grown movement sparked by the Freedom Convoy protests. An excerpt from ‘Divided We Fall.’
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 25/09/2026
We should not be trusting these men and their technology to improve our society.
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 25/09/2026
well this is some bullshit
aptnnews.ca
Federal agency postpones release of report on B.C. RCMP until after election
The RCMP watchdog called the CRCC is postponing the release of its report on the Community-Industry Response Group in B.C.
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Zac Trolley @zactrolley.com · 25/09/2026
Power corrupts. The billionaire class has had humanity stripped from them. They fundamentally do not understand the human condition.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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