Rocko James 🇨🇦
@rockojames.bsky.social
Canadian. Albertan. Concerned about a lot of things I’m seeing. Trying to keep perspective and find a community of good humans.
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I am a dev and I dislike AI because
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I am a dev and I dislike AI because
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
•it cannot operate without stolen data
•it does not work reliably
•it lies all the time
•it is terribly inefficient
•it pollutes
•it is/was oversold
•the biggest frauds champion it
•the people behind it are psychos
none of these are unreasonable complaints
Let’s do this!
I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us?
That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the “globally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Let’s do this!
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A year after the UCP was elected in AB, Alberta Health Services was voted best integrated health service in North America and one of the top five in the world. Since then the UCP has wrecked it beyond recognition. Provinces and territories should look to the previous success to make improvements
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
A year after the UCP was elected in AB, Alberta Health Services was voted best integrated health service in North America and one of the top five in the world. Since then the UCP has wrecked it beyond recognition. Provinces and territories should look to the previous success to make improvements
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Frikkin amazing stuff.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Frikkin amazing stuff.
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Carney has given Smith a length of rope. Let’s see if she can avoid injuring herself. 🍿
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Carney has given Smith a length of rope. Let’s see if she can avoid injuring herself. 🍿
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Hey Alberta, let's keep talking about HC in our province.
Let's get into what's really happening. No spewing of meaningless promises and ideology...
Let's talk about what is really happening in YOUR COMMUNITY.
Please Help me spread the word:
1/2
Let's get into what's really happening. No spewing of meaningless promises and ideology...
Let's talk about what is really happening in YOUR COMMUNITY.
Please Help me spread the word:
1/2
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hey Alberta, let's keep talking about HC in our province.
Let's get into what's really happening. No spewing of meaningless promises and ideology...
Let's talk about what is really happening in YOUR COMMUNITY.
Please Help me spread the word:
1/2
Let's get into what's really happening. No spewing of meaningless promises and ideology...
Let's talk about what is really happening in YOUR COMMUNITY.
Please Help me spread the word:
1/2
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Circulating on facebook. Might as well circulate here too.
Not my content.
Not my content.
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Circulating on facebook. Might as well circulate here too.
Not my content.
Not my content.
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UCP Voted Against the Ethical Governance Act
UCP Voted Against
- Stricter gift rules
- Stronger oversight
- More Disclosure, Transparency and Accountability
UCP Voted Against
- Stricter gift rules
- Stronger oversight
- More Disclosure, Transparency and Accountability
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
UCP Voted Against the Ethical Governance Act
UCP Voted Against
- Stricter gift rules
- Stronger oversight
- More Disclosure, Transparency and Accountability
UCP Voted Against
- Stricter gift rules
- Stronger oversight
- More Disclosure, Transparency and Accountability
Not just teachers, I’m AUPE and our pensions are there too. JFC
So the UCP stole teachers pensions, set up AIMCo to give jobs to retired politicians, and promptly started losing billions of pension dollars.
Now they want to legislate that they don't have to pay for their fuck up.
#abpoli #alberta #RecallThemAll
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Now they want to legislate that they don't have to pay for their fuck up.
#abpoli #alberta #RecallThemAll
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta tries to legislate ban on lawsuits about AIMCo losses | CBC News
The Alberta government is proposing new legislation to prevent public sector pensions from suing the Alberta Investment Management Corp., or AIMCo, for decisions made before November 2024.
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Not just teachers, I’m AUPE and our pensions are there too. JFC
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My first published story was in The Western Producer in 1985.
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
Alberta's Attack on the Idea of Canada
Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup
markhamhislop.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
My first published story was in The Western Producer in 1985.
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
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Note the UCP's meme 👇.
In this particular case, the government has broken commitments to preserve public healthcare.
More worrisome, they're keeping more promises than they made in their 2023 platform.
From @daveberta.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/davebert...
In this particular case, the government has broken commitments to preserve public healthcare.
More worrisome, they're keeping more promises than they made in their 2023 platform.
From @daveberta.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/davebert...
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Note the UCP's meme 👇.
In this particular case, the government has broken commitments to preserve public healthcare.
More worrisome, they're keeping more promises than they made in their 2023 platform.
From @daveberta.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/davebert...
In this particular case, the government has broken commitments to preserve public healthcare.
More worrisome, they're keeping more promises than they made in their 2023 platform.
From @daveberta.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/davebert...
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The Canadian Pacific Christmas train is back going across Canada🇨🇦 🤶
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The Canadian Pacific Christmas train is back going across Canada🇨🇦 🤶
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Follow me for more cooking tips.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Follow me for more cooking tips.
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Ran across this 1977 holiday message from Peter Lougheed in the archives, it’s a shame how different politics in Alberta are today:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjyh...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjyh...
Christmas and New Year's message from Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed (1977)
YouTube video by Provincial Archives of Alberta
m.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Ran across this 1977 holiday message from Peter Lougheed in the archives, it’s a shame how different politics in Alberta are today:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjyh...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjyh...
Here’s the newest names on the UCP recall list
And then there were... 14.
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Recall petitions have been approved against Glenn Van Dijken, Jackie Lovely, Nathan Neudorf, Jason Stephan and Searle Turton.
That's 14 of the 47 UCP MLAs now facing potential recall.
www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...
Current Recall Petitions - Elections Alberta
Recall is a process to remove a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from office between elections by collecting sufficient signatures in the Member’s electoral division. The following recall peti...
www.elections.ab.ca
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Here’s the newest names on the UCP recall list
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Universal Healthcare means one high-quality system for everyone, regardless of income.
Two-tier means two systems: faster care for people who can pay, slower (and less accessible) care for those who can't.
Danielle Smith effectively switched Alberta to Two-Tier yesterday.
NoTwoTier.ca #ableg
Two-tier means two systems: faster care for people who can pay, slower (and less accessible) care for those who can't.
Danielle Smith effectively switched Alberta to Two-Tier yesterday.
NoTwoTier.ca #ableg
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Universal Healthcare means one high-quality system for everyone, regardless of income.
Two-tier means two systems: faster care for people who can pay, slower (and less accessible) care for those who can't.
Danielle Smith effectively switched Alberta to Two-Tier yesterday.
NoTwoTier.ca #ableg
Two-tier means two systems: faster care for people who can pay, slower (and less accessible) care for those who can't.
Danielle Smith effectively switched Alberta to Two-Tier yesterday.
NoTwoTier.ca #ableg
“No structure, No plan”. Colour me shocked.
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“No structure, No plan”. Colour me shocked.
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🇨🇦 Fake CBC ads have flooded Elmo's Shitter with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source.
Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media cesspool in recent weeks.
#RussianScam
#Cdnpoli🍁
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media cesspool in recent weeks.
#RussianScam
#Cdnpoli🍁
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Fake CBC ads have flooded X with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source | CBC News
X users have been subjected to a flood of ads that feature fake CBC headlines, leading to fake CBC-style articles. In the end, it’s part of an international investment scheme.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🇨🇦 Fake CBC ads have flooded Elmo's Shitter with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source.
Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media cesspool in recent weeks.
#RussianScam
#Cdnpoli🍁
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ads featuring fake CBC articles have inundated the social media cesspool in recent weeks.
#RussianScam
#Cdnpoli🍁
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trump never had a fan base.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.
It’s as stupid as it sounds.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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STUDY: Denmark tracked over 1,000,000 children for 21 years, and found those who had aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines were linked to a SHOCKING number of cases of autism, asthma, and 48 other chronic conditions. That shocking number was zero.
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
STUDY: Denmark tracked over 1,000,000 children for 21 years, and found those who had aluminum-adjuvanted vaccines were linked to a SHOCKING number of cases of autism, asthma, and 48 other chronic conditions. That shocking number was zero.
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URGENT: Alberta, Bill 11 puts your health behind a paywall ⚠️
It lets doctors mix public and private work, giving faster access to people who pay while everyone else waits longer.
Visit NoTwoTier.ca to advocate against this and FOR Universal Public Healthcare.
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
It lets doctors mix public and private work, giving faster access to people who pay while everyone else waits longer.
Visit NoTwoTier.ca to advocate against this and FOR Universal Public Healthcare.
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
URGENT – Stop Premier Danielle Smith’s Plan to End Universal Healthcare
Alberta Premier Smith has used the Notwithstanding Clause to pass laws that erase rights and silence the courts.
NoTwoTier.ca
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
URGENT: Alberta, Bill 11 puts your health behind a paywall ⚠️
It lets doctors mix public and private work, giving faster access to people who pay while everyone else waits longer.
Visit NoTwoTier.ca to advocate against this and FOR Universal Public Healthcare.
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli
It lets doctors mix public and private work, giving faster access to people who pay while everyone else waits longer.
Visit NoTwoTier.ca to advocate against this and FOR Universal Public Healthcare.
#ableg #abpoli #canpoli