William Henderson Forrest Bell

Silence on horrendously traumatic events to protect future generations flips intent. Monstrous men rely on it in fact.

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

Ok away we go. Just need $500 to get this Dim-Wit to Tunica for a launch pad to Vegas!
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[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The cat is totally unfazed

[The Astronomy Guy @astrooalert]

It's amazing how well Jupiter protects the inner solar system.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”

~ Nikola Tesla

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

NASA once brought cats on a plane to test their skills in zero gravity

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

@FlattedDuckFoot https://t.co/ANSvx13Zl6

[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

@WHFBell If we cash in anything we go to Vegas.
https://t.co/P3f96pvQTi

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

This dim-WIT thinks he can play cards. I have been in this head before.
Do NOT BET ON HIM.

Anyway, I am starting a GoFUndme (HIM) to stake him for poker tournament series in Las Vegas, NV.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYTHING BUT A 60/40 cut your favor!
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[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

Oh?
-->He appeared before a federal judge in Charlotte on Tuesday and reportedly shouted that he had “material in his body.” He also demanded that charges be filed against the FBI.
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[Puspa @mutyapuspa]

This woman was recording a vocal performance when her cat interrupted, stepped in front of the camera, and started singing in the exact same tone like, 'Don't forget who's the real star here.'

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

@NightSkyToday This is not a good idea.

[Benjamin Luk @benjaminluk]

This is Zach Cregger’s approach to first drafts as a screenwriter. It’s called “elfing”. He’s right. ✍🏼

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31.

It is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars, thousands of star clusters in a section of the galaxy’s disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years.

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

I remember.
"In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra."

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history.

His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought.

Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian.

Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain.

He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway.

In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra.

Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language.

Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules.

Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it.

For 83 years, the book sat there.

Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't.

He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before.

An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches.

That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made.

After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago.

The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end.

He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly.

He died a few days later. He was 49.

He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules.

His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying.

The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

Gawd.
Wut have I done exactly?
Was this thing broken before it started?

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Research has shown that the feeling of gratitude physically reshapes the brain.

It has revealed that it makes a person more positive and resilient.

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

@FlattedDuckFoot https://t.co/pr8WDddCEo

[Army Counterintelligence Command (ACIC) @Real_ArmyCI]

On June 5, 1776, a five-person Committee on Spies was created by the Continental Congress to address the definition of treason and the punishment for those found guilty of espionage. The committee’s work influenced the first espionage act passed by Congress in August 1776.

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

Correct.
Absolutely.
Positively.
Whether it's 1771, 1871, 1971 or 2071.
All of them are evil parasites.
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[Steven N Bell @FlattedDuckFoot]

All the godless beasts will do is eat each other to the end. And the end is near.

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

@FlattedDuckFoot HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

I love and hate this about you.
I really do.

[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

@FlattedDuckFoot Um...
ACSHULLY!!

We and many others TRIED TELLIN YOU BUT U DO NOT LISTEN STEVEN NOEL BELL!!!!
Yea.
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[William Henderson Forrest Bell @WHFBell]

@FlattedDuckFoot Correct.
But there was a time when I slaughtered them with impunity.
That WILL happen again.
Not everyone is as patient as I am NOW ya know.