Zac Trolley
@zactrolley.com
Engineer, Luddite, part time community builder.
Calgary Alberta. 🇨🇦
Calgary Alberta. 🇨🇦
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Zac Trolley
@zactrolley.com
· Dec 29
COVID really opened my eyes.
We had two paths ahead of us, and as soon as we took a single step towards THINKING about an equitable world, the rich put their full force into stopping it.
They loath humanity.
We had two paths ahead of us, and as soon as we took a single step towards THINKING about an equitable world, the rich put their full force into stopping it.
They loath humanity.
Remember when sex in the White House was enough for an impeachment trial for Bill Clinton.
Oh how the Overton window has moved
Oh how the Overton window has moved
Wait til Melania hears about this. Ahahahahah filthy bastard.
February 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Remember when sex in the White House was enough for an impeachment trial for Bill Clinton.
Oh how the Overton window has moved
Oh how the Overton window has moved
Workers have the power, and we need to flex that power to fix everything that shareholders have destroyed.
Solidarity!
Solidarity!
Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.
The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.
Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children'
The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office
www.polygon.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Workers have the power, and we need to flex that power to fix everything that shareholders have destroyed.
Solidarity!
Solidarity!
It's all out in the open now.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
It's all out in the open now.
It's clear to the world who the heroes are.
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 1:42 AM
It's clear to the world who the heroes are.
But it's normal behavior for an authoritarian government clawing at power and desperately trying to re-write history in their image.
February 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
But it's normal behavior for an authoritarian government clawing at power and desperately trying to re-write history in their image.
Disinformation is operating full throttle in the US.
The once mighty Empire is fading fast.
The once mighty Empire is fading fast.
Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
February 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Disinformation is operating full throttle in the US.
The once mighty Empire is fading fast.
The once mighty Empire is fading fast.
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Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
February 11, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
This is the exact same message that George Bush gave the people after 9/11.
Go shopping and everything will work out.
And that's not even close to a viable plan of action.
Go shopping and everything will work out.
And that's not even close to a viable plan of action.
When people are afraid to go to work, afraid to shop, or afraid to gather in their community, it hurts families, neighborhoods, and our entire economy.
If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.
If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.
February 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
This is the exact same message that George Bush gave the people after 9/11.
Go shopping and everything will work out.
And that's not even close to a viable plan of action.
Go shopping and everything will work out.
And that's not even close to a viable plan of action.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Reposted by Zac Trolley
Reposted by Zac Trolley
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
Booo.
More and more reasons to move to open source and self-hosted tools
More and more reasons to move to open source and self-hosted tools
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Booo.
More and more reasons to move to open source and self-hosted tools
More and more reasons to move to open source and self-hosted tools
If you are in Calgary on Feb 19th and want to learn about the Luddites, join me for Nerd Night!
Spoilet alert: The dictionary definition of a Luddite is capitalist propaganda.
calgary.nerdnite.com
Spoilet alert: The dictionary definition of a Luddite is capitalist propaganda.
calgary.nerdnite.com
Nerd Nite Calgary
calgary.nerdnite.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:50 PM
If you are in Calgary on Feb 19th and want to learn about the Luddites, join me for Nerd Night!
Spoilet alert: The dictionary definition of a Luddite is capitalist propaganda.
calgary.nerdnite.com
Spoilet alert: The dictionary definition of a Luddite is capitalist propaganda.
calgary.nerdnite.com
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This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social
This post was brought to you by Lockheed Martin.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
No place for politics in F-35 cockpits as Canadian fighter jet pilots get ready to train at U.S. base | CBC News
While procurement for Canada’s complete fighter jet fleet remains up in the air, advocates say politics need to be set aside as members of the Royal Canadian Air Force head to Luke Air Force Base in A...
www.cbc.ca
February 8, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This post was brought to you by Lockheed Martin.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
$700B
This money showed up pretty quickly and easily to prop up the tech oligarchy.
This money showed up pretty quickly and easily to prop up the tech oligarchy.
The domino effect from the tech industry’s $700 billion AI spending spree is diverting resources and attention from other sectors of the economy, making finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone increasingly difficult.
The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else
The hundreds of billions of dollars being spent by tech companies on AI projects are diverting resources from other parts of the economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
$700B
This money showed up pretty quickly and easily to prop up the tech oligarchy.
This money showed up pretty quickly and easily to prop up the tech oligarchy.
The Alberta workforce is so brainwashed they will support the oil patch even as they are laid off by the thousands.
edmontonjournal.com/business/ene...
edmontonjournal.com/business/ene...
Alberta's oilpatch cut 10,000 jobs last year — even as production soared
The province produced about 122 million barrels of oil in 2011. Last year, Alberta produced nearly 1.4 billion barrels of oil by November.
edmontonjournal.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM
The Alberta workforce is so brainwashed they will support the oil patch even as they are laid off by the thousands.
edmontonjournal.com/business/ene...
edmontonjournal.com/business/ene...
Companies, organizations, and leaders who understand this will succeed with LLM implementations.
Those who do not will unknowingly be making vaporware.
Those who do not will unknowingly be making vaporware.
Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.
Neat demonstration of how artificial so-called intelligence is taking us backwards.
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
"ChatGPT produced content most consistent with the 1960s and DALL-E 3 in the late 1980s and early '90s."
#AI - see @shannonvallor.bsky.social's work for important thinking on this
phys.org/news/2026-02...
February 7, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Companies, organizations, and leaders who understand this will succeed with LLM implementations.
Those who do not will unknowingly be making vaporware.
Those who do not will unknowingly be making vaporware.
The worst part of the changing tech landscape is I don't know what app is safe for nudes anymore.
I guess it's back to mailing them.
I guess it's back to mailing them.
February 7, 2026 at 3:17 AM
The worst part of the changing tech landscape is I don't know what app is safe for nudes anymore.
I guess it's back to mailing them.
I guess it's back to mailing them.
I've lived in Calgary for over 25 years. I've seen many a warm winter.
This is insane weather. We've changed the climate and are living in a new world
This is insane weather. We've changed the climate and are living in a new world
February 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
I've lived in Calgary for over 25 years. I've seen many a warm winter.
This is insane weather. We've changed the climate and are living in a new world
This is insane weather. We've changed the climate and are living in a new world
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A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images
February 6, 2026 at 11:03 PM
A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images
Have they considered getting a job and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?
In a city packed with mighty real estate titans, they are the small ones.
New York landlords say they are at their breaking point as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to implement even more aggressive tenant-friendly policies.
New York landlords say they are at their breaking point as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to implement even more aggressive tenant-friendly policies.
NYC’s small landlords say they won’t survive Mamdani plan to freeze rent
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has criticized landlords and vowed to freeze what tenants in rent-stabilized apartments pay monthly.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Have they considered getting a job and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?