The iTunes algorithm for shuffling a playlist is total shit. I have a 10 hour “90s on 9” playlist, where I’ve heard some songs every single time I shuffle while others have never come up.

— “Bad” Billy Pratt (@KillToParty) February 12, 2020

It likely uses a naïve shuffling algorithm which tends to do things like that, instead of a Fisher-Yates algorithm. Too many shuffle functions are bad for just this reason.

Why Does Anyone Think Michael Bloomberg Would Beat Donald Trump?

No one really thinks that. But they do think Bloomberg might take away lots of votes from Bernie when Bloomberg runs as third-party candidate in the general. The DNC has plans to do what Perot did for Bill Clinton in 1992, except the beneficiary will be Donald Trump.

If you think about it, this is the only reason Bloomberg’s candidacy makes sense. He’s a guided missile aimed at Bernie possibly winning the nomination. The DNC would much rather lose the presidency than have Sanders win the general. Much rather.

strongly, strongly believe that there is a Changing Places style bet that has been made at some Davos sex party that the poor can be talked into eating bug https://t.co/LQ3hqjrsIb

— pronoun user (@AliceAvizandum) January 23, 2020

Nah, this is (probably) not literally about eating bugs, though the plutes would be happy enough if you did that. It’s to force the choice to eating mostly plants and worse garbage foods (seed oils, etc.) so the rich can keep the resources they want — access to meat, cheese, eggs, the like, as climate change worsens.

So much of what passes for progressivism now seems to be about forcing people to put up with infantile temper tantrums and to pretend that they’re actually exquisitely crafted logical arguments.

Over time, this will destroy women’s sports. But that’s modern feminism for you — hurting most people to help a few. In most cases these days, it’s harming everyone to help a few rich white women. In the trans ideology case it’s a little different but still no better at all.