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We take randomness for granted.


Early PRNGs were BAD.

Thousands of scientific papers used to rely on RANDU, created by IBM in the 1960s.

In 1D space, it looks ok!

Map in 3D…you start to see the issues. Now, there *was* a better solution...but it would cost you.

We just drop into the terrain like our collision detection was abruptly turned off.

The app of a thousand heartbreaks.

It is a problem, and the solution is that you have to call them 'shitheads' or worse, something they can't easily reverse embrace, but if they still insist to embrace will be hilarious. Even 'Garbage People' isn't strong enough.

dig if you will this picture

My wish for Trump to throw an audible poop-party in his pantaloons on live television has finally been fulfilled - but at this late date, the price was too high, just too too high.

His tuxedo might as well be that hot-dog outfit.

Pen drawing of William Marshall wearing vampire attire and looking to the right drawn on a torn notebook page.

Pen drawing of William Marshall as a vampire beneath an overhead light looking up and to the left drawn on a black background.

Pen drawing of William Marshall as a vampire looking to the right drawn on a crystal Post-It note.

Pen drawing of William Marshall as a vampire looking to the left drawn on a pink Post-It note.

On February 1, 1986, Blacula was screened on WVTV Channel 18’s Movie 18. Here’s some William Marshall pop art!

Manos Restored New 4K restoration from 35mm blow-up internegative. Unlike the 16mm workprint, 100% accurate to original release. Audio from optical track negative, also restored. Ready in time for 60th anniversary, theatrical exclusive for a while, no fundraising needed.

Apparently they found a better print of Manos and it’s getting a 4k restoration I’m so happy. That movie still sucks.

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

stop making robots more human shaped spend that money making me robot shaped I'm tired of legs gimme tank treads also I would like a tall antenna so I get good signal everywhere are you writing this down good yes also my little grippy claws I'd like it so if I bang my elbow it won't hurt for 9 weeks

Adorable!

Old art, apologies in advance!

Donald Trump animatronic in the Hall of Presidents at Disneyland claims he is in peak condition, stronger than Mechagodzilla, everyone is saying so.

Concerns about Trump's mental and physical condition continue to grow as the administration denies such claims. Imagineers state that he is in perfect working order, even moreso than Lincoln.

Donald Trump’s Twin Cities onslaught feels a lot like the British tyranny in colonial Boston Centuries-old dispatches show how his administration has betrayed our founding principles.

So, @radleybalko.bsky.social went back and read news dispatches from pre-Revolution Boston and it turns out what Colonists experienced under British occupation was a lot like Minneapolis under Trump. Also, if you want lots of wild photos and video all in one place, Radley provides.

'Based on the works of Shirley Jackson'

“You stole a fucking flower from a dead woman. Like, are any of you human anymore?”👇

Exactly right.

Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.

Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.

Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.

Every possible angle.

Digital illustration of five anthropomorphic flowers (poppy, sunflower, pansy, daisy, coneflower) holding leaves and trailing along happily on their rooty feet. The center of each flower is a grinning skull. Five individual but connected speech bubbles from each flower read ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Each time all typos are successfully edited from a book, the entire universe is immediately replaced with a new universe containing a version of the book that has at least one typo.

This would definitely explain a lot for me!

Digital illustration. In the background we see Sesame Street’s Big Bird with a kiffiyeh scarf around his neck running to the left of frame holding a pole from which waves a black flag with a white antifascist symbol on it. In the foreground is a furry blue muppet with a bulbous pink nose who is otherwise unidentifiable because he has a black bandana around his mouth (it’s Grover) who is preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail. In the flames flowing from the rag in the neck of the bottle can be read the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A digital illustration of The Master from the MST3K classic Manos: The Hands of Fate. He’s a guy with short, black, greasy looking hair plastered down on his head. He has a black mustache somewhat reminiscent of Freddie Mercury and he’s doing a kind of wide-eyed big frowny face. His arms are stretched out horizontally to display the full width of the black sheet-like garment he’s wearing so you can clearly see the large red handprints that stretch across it. Black lettering with red inlines above him that follows the contours of his arms and head reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

A black and white ink style illustration of a falling anvil with a downward-pointing arrow shape behind it. Above the anvil in the back of the arrow shape are the words ‘MAYBE IT’LL’. Across the side of the anvil is the word ‘HAPPEN’ and in the point of the arrow below the anvil is the word ‘TODAY’

IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST WINTER STORM, REMEMBER FOUR TIPS: 1. FILL UP YOUR TUB AND/OR POTS WITH WATER FOR YOUR TOILET. 2. DO NOT USE PROPANE HEATERS INDOORS. THE FUMES KILL. 3. EVERYONE STAYING IN ONE ROOM CONSOLIDATES WARMTH. 4. THE NORWEGIAN CAMP DIDN'T DESTROY ITSELF. ONE OF YOU IS THE THING.

Some safety tips for the big storm! Be safe, everybody.

Work Eight Hours - Sleep Eight Hours - Play Eight Hours
The aliens didn't come up with crunch-time, they weren't trying to stir things up.

Mood in minneapolis right now

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"