Martin Z

Bad photoshop of the flatbed and arm from a delivery boom truck haphazardly mated to a vertically stretched quadrupedal dog-style robot with wheeled feet.

What I want:

Every candidate in NDP leadership race comes in third Winnipeg, MB – The results are in: All five candidates running to be the next leader of the NDP have finished in third place.

Every candidate in NDP leadership race comes in third

As awful as Picard was I loved how it covered how the status quo had changed - Romulan refugees, political collapse of resettlement planets, ex-Borg research station, etc.

A circus bear was riding a tricycle but the front wheel seized and he fell and got road-rash all over his body. Once he recovered he was furless. He found out the trainer hadn't lubricated the trike and threw him into a pit.

Then the bare bear buried the bearer of bare bearings.

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

I now realized Donald Trump lied to me when he said he wouldn't start regime change wars in the Middle East. But we need to stick with him to fight against children identifying as cats and using litter boxes in school classrooms.

by Joe Rogan

"Americans will have to make sacrifices" says the party of tax cuts and correspondingly deep deficits to fund those tax cuts.

Because that was the business model of "The Metaverse" in Neil Stephenson's "Snow Crash" back in 1992. Somehow both companies decided that a sci fi cyberpunk book would be a good business model.

Classic lines, familiar cat poses, easy and cozy, with so many expressions.
Just looking at them makes me feel better.
Let’s do a little cat stretch too, relax and unwind🐈
#shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #cat #pet #sketch #sketchdaily

Last night I was driving my tweener home from climbing gym & she excitedly saw Realfruity was having karaoke. I said "call your friends you'll meet them there".

"It's 8pm on a school night"

"Today's the last day of False Spring. Here's $20, be back by 10."

Sadly her friends were more responsible.

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Being 4m tall would explain your interest in more housing.

The only reference I can find is a paywalled Star article but I remember them opposing any kind of free access to the island (eg building a bridge) - they enjoy living in a community whose entry is financially gated.

Either take the party names off the ballots or switch to a PR system (or both with STV). This current half measure is dumb.

As long as the candidate's name is the first thing on the ballot and not the party, floor crossing is legit.

My only feeling is that the mayhem in the USA has convinced me that every decent democracy needs some kind of recall/do-over mechanism, like petitions or something.

Does this mean McGrath is a Tyrannosaurus Rex?

Based on the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, I think it's Battleship

"You sunk my economy!"

Elected by a corrupt electorate

that was brainwashed by a corrupt news media

which was bought out by a corrupt investor class.

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.

Lutheran Church of the Cross weekly sign WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? www.lutheranvictoria.ca

Trump Is Obsessed With These $145 Shoes—and Won’t Let Anyone Leave Without a Pair Forget MAGA hats. The president is guessing shoe sizes and handing out dress shoes to friends and advisers.

Too big a size for little Mario

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Wow!!

a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers Alt: a man in a suit says let them fight in front of a group of soldiers

On the plus side I am enjoying watching Ford beef with the Toronto Island Lottery residents.

I think the point is to get Republicans to vote against relief in the gas price pain. If they put any riders on it, then if ceases to do that.

The ugly sport of courting the "moderates" continues.

Operation Epic Fail continues.

Comic panel. A girl made of jelly asks a petite brunette in a swim suit if she's okay. The girl in the swimsuit has a bad rash and is shouting about itching. Her arms look natural but each have metal rings where the prosthesis meets the meat.

Wait @ass.golf how did Liz get a rash on her prosthetic arms? #questionablecontent

She meant the collar. No, she didn't know what it means.

Somebody found a reference for the origin of the mystery Unicode character!

U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth!

ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/a...

(I know nobody cares but I needed some good news please don't ruin this for me)

Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92 Tony Hoare, the Turing Award-winning pioneer who created the Quicksort algorithm, developed Hoare logic, and advanced theories of concurrency and structured programming, has died at age 92. News of his passing was shared today in a blog post. The site I Programmer also commemorated Hoare in a post...

Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/03/10/2038225/tony-hoare-turing-award-winning-computer-scientist-behind-quicksort-dies-at-92?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed