To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.
It is based on a riddle to highlight incompatibility. If a bird and fish mate, where would they live? If they choose water, the bird will drown. If they choose air, the fish will die because it needs water.
the iconic full 2-part interview with whitney “the voice” houston. i remember watching this like it was yesterday and oprah KNEW to make nippy her season premiere ☝🏽🙂↕️
Michael Jackson’s autopsy revealed just how fragile his body had become by the end of his life.
He had very little natural hair left and had been wearing wigs in public for years. His scalp still showed scarring from the burns he suffered years earlier, along with signs of later procedures.
His body also showed the extent of his efforts to maintain his appearance, including permanent eyeliner, lip liner, and the visible effects of vitiligo.
His arms were covered with puncture marks, consistent with repeated injections over time.
Toxicology reports found multiple drugs in his system, along with partially dissolved pills in his stomach.
But the official cause of death was acute propofol intoxication.
In the final months of his life, Jackson was being given propofol at home to help him sleep, even though it is a powerful surgical anesthetic.
Instead of resting naturally, he was being placed under anesthesia.
His personal physician, Conrad Murray, was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter for administering the drug outside proper medical care.
Kwakhanya was on only 16 years old when he was killed by homophobic teenagers. Nobangelo was also 16 years old when he spewed homophobic insults at Dominic. If a child can die due to homophobic violence, a child can also face consequences for perpetuating homophobia.
HOW QUANTUM COMPUTERS WORK
I spent a lot of time last year researching and reading about quantum computers. I was obsessed with the idea of them eventually breaking some of the cryptographic systems that currently secure the internet 😂. It really was an obsession.
So here’s the cat analogy version(I love cats):
Imagine a normal computer as a very strict system of cats in boxes.
Each cat is either:
• inside the box (1)
• outside the box (0)
No confusion. One state at a time. That’s classical computing.
Now quantum computing (Quantum Computing) changes the rulebook.
Instead of one cat being forced to choose inside or outside, a quantum cat can exist in a “blurred state” where it is both inside and outside the box at the same time.
That weird state is called superposition.
So instead of checking one cat at a time, you’re effectively working with a room full of cats that are all in multiple states simultaneously. Not because they’re confused—because the physics allows probability states to overlap.
Now it gets stranger.
Some cats become entangled.
That means: If you check Cat A and it turns out to be “inside the box,” Cat B instantly becomes “outside the box,” even if it’s in another room. They’re linked like a single system with shared rules, not independent objects anymore.
But here’s the catch:
The moment you open the box to check what state a cat is in, the “blur” disappears. Each cat snaps into a definite state: inside or outside.
So quantum computers don’t just “try everything at once” in a brute-force way. Instead, they:
• let all possible cat-states evolve together
• reinforce the useful patterns
• cancel the useless ones
• then measure the final outcome
That’s why they’re powerful for specific problems like factoring large numbers or simulating molecules—but not magically better at everything.
So your original obsession wasn’t wrong in spirit: Yes, they could threaten some encryption systems in theory.
But practically, it’s less “breaking the internet overnight” and more “a very different kind of computation that’s still extremely hard to control and scale.”
In short:
Classical computers pick one cat per box.
Quantum computers let all the cats misbehave at once… then force them to settle into a useful answer.