Perfect #randomness realized for the first time

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-randomness.html

#cryptography #cybersecurity

Nonfiction that I thought was uneven, but worthwhile (YMMV):

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
by Brian Klaas

Exploration of the idea that small, essentially random details are what determine our lives and history itself.

Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud
by Joe Pepitone

Memoir of a baseball player's childhood abuse, promising but never-quite-great career, and more sex and booze per page than the Mötley Crüe book. Very flawed man. Celebrity cameos.

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
by Héctor Tobar

Essays, with some truly challenging ideas here and there. I can't decide if the memoir aspects make the book better or worse.

🧵 2/4

#latino #socialscience #randomness #baseball #1960s #nyyankees

Is there anything #ffmpeg cant do? I think with enough switches it could bake a loaf of bread.

#randomness
#nerdiness

Its good to know that at work we have an emergency can of pinto beans under the counter.. now we need an emergency can opener..

#WorkLife
#randomness

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Under counter randomness with a pkastic container of meds and first aid and beside it a can of pinto beans

A coin flip by any other name (2023)

https://cgad.ski/blog/a-coin-flip-by-any-other-name.html

#HackerNews #coinflip #randomness #decisionmaking #2023 #blogpost

So Im watching a food show and theyre making a burger. They toast the buns..mmk.. and then put mayo on the bottom bun.

Is it just me or is that like right out on condiment order? Makes me a little eye twitchy..

#randomness
#food
#eccentricities