Robert Way

3 on 3 to decide a gold medal game is garbage

Pretty amazing that the UK managed to miss 4 doubles in a row in one end

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ChatGPT conversations from the Tumbler Ridge teenager who carried out a horrific school shooting were flagged by employees at OpenAI.

They raised their concerns but the company ultimately did nothing, according to the reporting. archive.is/GUweE#select...

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Yeah. They're a tough team to cheer for. As a sens fan I'm still pretty bitter about them getting Stone from us...

As a Sens fan I do enjoy this.

GOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLL

CANADA 🇨🇦 WINS IT IN OVERTIME

MOVING ON AT THE OLYMPICS

EXHALE CANADA

Peak athleticism! 🐶 A dog got loose on the cross-country ski course.

#MilanoCortina2026

Four months after Quebec schools ban cellphones, impact 'is major' Four months after Quebec banned cellphones in primary and secondary schools, many school administrators report positive effects on social life, physical activity, and academic performance. At École Mo...

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Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I do remember him taking a few hard hits though as well. His vision was great but I suspect he was always going to need to be a bit sheltered. Could've been a great PP2 guy.

Also that 9.5 million/year is looking pretty good right now.

Truly the stupidest move in Ottawa Senators history.

Memorial University cuts programs – here’s what’s gone and why | CBC News Memorial University has ended or paused more than a dozen academic programs, blaming poor enrolment as a factor in many of the cuts.

Can we assume the elimination of the diploma in Newfoundland and Labrador studies is the elimination of the only such program in the world? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Been a bit underwhelmed by Theodore and Parayko so far.

Stephane Da Costa could've been a good NHLer AFAIC. His hockey sense was really good. Type of player they should've thrown a big AHL contract because he might've eventually panned out.

Graphic showing changes in CO₂, global temperatures and global sea levels over the last 2025 years. Steep increases are visible after the industrial revolution.

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025

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1/ If I understand yesterday's Ontario budget announcement correctly, here's what provincial transfers to institutions will look like for the coming few years. Scale is millions of $2025.

Crosby to McDavid to MacKinnon. Come on, man. That shit's unfair. 4-0 Canada.

Our pup is certainly enjoying all the snow and ice this year along Lake Ontario

Support Ptarmigan Squadron for ACLU and NARF This rebel design, representing the Alaska state bird: the willow ptarmigan, along with the Big Dipper and the North Star, was created to stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota and with ever...

Beautiful design by Tsmishian (Alaska Native) artist to support those in MN via the ACLU NARF fund

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There is a long history of over interpretation of satellite data in the climate world. Most satellite data are also models.

Scott Hudson's business sometimes does dog sledding. Science wise, we are in town (heading to Postville tmr) for sea ice work. Eric Oliver (oceanographer from Dal) is also in town for a similar reason. We have six remote weather stations (www.smartatlantic.ca) in Labrador if the data is useful. /2

Haha. Well. Try to get a chance to get out on snowmobile if you can. The bay is froze over well this year so getting out on the ice is always interesting. The Town of North West River is also very pretty on a sunny day - nice view from Sunday hill. Birch Brook for cross country skiing. /1

You're heading to my hometown Goose bay then I assume!

Despite perfect flying weather this evening, we are stuck in Halifax for the next 2 days because Air Canada cancelled our flight to Goose Bay because of 'weather' (i.e. no compensation). The real reason we are cancelled is cause they didn't want a plane 'stuck' in Labrador tomorrow.

Especially when you already know and like the individual. The "character" comments you often see from GMs don't explain it either.

Even if one accepts the Gustavsson trade as justifiable (which we shouldn't). No excuse also letting Daccord pass through on waivers without claiming as well.

Also not sure how this first part of the sentence got past the reviewers. The refs also do not support the claim.

Physical activity and the reduction of all-cause mortality, from 2 very large prospective cohorts
1. The relationship is non-linear, suggesting a threshold effect for many types of exercise as seen below