Sean M. Foster

Visual Thinker. Poet. w³Irdö.

Poems: @TheArgyleLitMag and @Blood_Honey_Lit

Upcoming: @michigancityrev

Design and art

[Sean M. Foster @foster_ious]

Humanity's greatest error is not believing in the fullness of its own experience. Nor its real potential.

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Some people watch war movies for Veteran's Day. I'll be watching The Abyss.

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@RepJeffries I hope you take Don Leonard seriously, sir. His views represent the people that just flipped the country for your party.

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@ryangrim This is insane.

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I had never heard of Eva before, but the world seems to have lost a wit it cannot regain again. Thank you for sharing.

29 is too soon, Eva.

When the great machine recycles her soul, I hope she comes back a poet once again.

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@_whitneywebb I hope the DOJ becomes a real place where law is practiced once again. And you can be a lead investigator there. This is insane.

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@MarioNawfal Or maybe did what you told their audiences you would do instead.

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@iBringBalance @mcuban Agreed. They fought for 100 years here to have a central bank. And another 100 to protect the bank as a human being with the same rights as a citizen.

The nation's history isn't what the books say.

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@theallinpod @chamath You sensed this last year. You hinted at it. A few of us tried to let you know. But algorithms don't always let us reach you any longer. This is well said, as usual.

So what's next?

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Wait til we see what it reveals about economics and other complex systems. See @HeatherEHeying and @BretWeinstein 's work...

[anand iyer @ai]

1/ People are reading the Aaronson-Ambainis proof as "quantum is dead." It actually says something much narrower, and more useful.

2/ The claim: if a problem has no structure, a quantum computer can't beat a classical one by more than a polynomial factor. Most theorists already believed this. Now there's a proof.

3/ But every quantum use case that matters runs on structure.
Shor exploits periodicity.
Simulating molecules exploits the fact that nature follows local physical laws.
Neither is a black box.

4/ What it hurts: "exponential quantum speedup for generic optimization"

5/ Quantum's real job was always simulating nature: catalysts, batteries, enzymes, new materials. That's untouched. If anything, the landscape just got clearer.

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Our communications systems seem to be escalating certain individuals' insanity.

It is as if crazies are being presented with choices that would be objectively bad for the world. And they take the bait.

Maybe the phenomenon presents not only as UAP or ghosts or orbs, but also as bad thoughts.

When I look at how religious texts speak about temptation, and see our modern world filled with hot takes, psyops, and megalithic bureaucracies, I'm not surprised by their presentations.

I am surprised we haven't learned our lesson yet. We still make bad choices. Structures built on bad or exploitive choices are doing what they were built to do. But they also reflect how they were built. And by whom.

The population sees this. But seems unable to name its source.

If UAP appear in physical space as tricksters for our eyes, what if our intelligence agencies also have knowledge that consciousness itself is infected by a similar phenomena.

Social media seems to have made this high strangeness more visible. Something is strapping onto our thoughts and playing with the way we vibrate.

Thinking a lot about conversations @digijordan and @chrisramsay52 have had today...

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@NASA @NASAaero @NASAArmstrong Have you spoken with @boomsupersonic ?

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@calleymeans @exxfive @StephenM @POTUS Will you and the team be attempting to fix the incentive structures?

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@CaballeroAnaMa Amazing!

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I think it's a revelation. I believe he was sincere. But I also believe that very few really understand a bureaucracy until they are in one.

Especially the snakepit of HHS.

From the outside, we see fails. But what is happening in that lobbyist box? We might feel betrayed, but I have no idea what in the world goes on in there.

So I don't know how to feel except confused.

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@calleymeans We need to separate state and market.

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We don't want billionaire's money. We want our elected officials to be ours. Not beholden to money or its interests.

We want a solid place at the table. Not a handout.

We want a currency that is well managed at the top. With or without a central bank. Not used to create a feudal state where we are drones for the government or for the corporations that run its officials.

We do not want wars despite our love of our armed services.

We want our government to balance its budget and pay off its debts. Before adding more social welfare.

We understand it is a challenge. We deal with the consequences of your mistakes daily. Own them. And move forward with Republicans to correct them. Or we won't have a nation much longer.

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Honesty. The best policy.

[V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams]

Tabling at an admissions event, a mom asked me what my guilty pleasure reads are. And I heard myself say, “I feel no guilt about my pleasures.”

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@mbthegr81 @Todd_Spence Agreed. It was a child's love letter to their father.

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We love all the films in our house. But even my 8 year-old sees only one as an outlier. People just want good films.

The criticism was I think a reaction to the inversion of many folks' nostalgia into what seemed like an agenda.

Why try that with something people loved already?