The landing technique of Swans 🦢

*Did anybody ever write sci-fi about "mifepristone," yeah, way back in, like, 1992 medium.com/@bruces/are-...

🎤 In that case I’ll have a rum and Coca-Cola 🎵

@techconnectify.bsky.social Hi Alec. I enjoyed what you had to say after the “end” of your video: youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?... Seems in harmony with my essay from January 2025: stewartsmith.io/essays/feari... If you’re ever in NYC, and interested in quantum computing, would love to invite you for ☕️.

If only there was a website with all the info parents need to find child care in New York City, including a map with every licensed provider in each neighborhood… Oh wait! Now there is: nyc.gov/childcare

Those are the words of a "potential" war criminal (pushed and encouraged by his "potentially" war criminal president)

Thrilled to have Florian as our first interview!

Dropping next week: An interview with @yaleqi.bsky.social’s Florian Carle 😎 parq.website/interviews/f... #Parq #Yale #YQI #Quantum #Art

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Jared Kushner holds no government position at all. He is not a Senate-confirmed political appointee & his "special peace envoy" job is completely fake. This is wildly illegal & unconstitutional nepotistic corruption. Stop normalizing it in the papers.

It’s almost as if @parq-talk.bsky.social is foreshadowing #QuantumFourierTransforms 🤔🎵 #Quantum #QuantumComputing #QFT #Factorization

The transformer architecture is feed-forward. The only feedback loop in an LLM is via autoregressive inference, and that's a single, discrete, low-bandwidth bottleneck*. If you believe that's enough for an LLM to be 'conscious', then you must also believe either:

The parq is open 🌳

So Iran now has, perhaps for the first time, information about the location of our most sensitive covert sites in the region. A completely foreseeable, unnecessary consequence of unnecessary war with Iran.

The other week @stewartsmith.bsky.social attended a #Quantum #Design #Hackathon put on by Harmoniqs and Unitary Foundation as a mentor / panel judge 🥳 Here’s the Parq writeup—with links to attendee projects! 👇 parq.website/news/2026/02...

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

The Parq is open: parq.website #Quantum #QuantumComputing #Creativity #CreativeTechnology

Some of the most joyous hours I’ve ever spent in this city.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

finished a chunky sans alphabet to go with the high contrast serif. both are all caps just for personal use. the world has more than enough simple geometric sans, but I had something specific in mind to bend, distort, and chop up.

*Your "agent" is a snitch for Big AI, and it's ratting both of us out

Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Stay warm, stay safe New York.

Local Fox News reporting on the tear-gassing of a baby. www.fox9.com/news/childre...

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

Been thinking quite a lot this week about one of the very first cases I tracked of ICE detaining a U.S. citizen A year ago, ICE agents detained a 20 YO they said swerved his car at them But local Utah police checked security footage. And it wasn’t true ksltv.com/local-news/u...

#Figma: For when your team wants to play pretend at designing websites.

I'm excited to share the first version of the Needle Inspector for three.js! We're looking forward to your feedback, ideas and of course bugreports. Let us know what you think, what you're missing and what you use it for! 🔬 Launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSFq... @threejs.org

It was genuinely an honor to meet Mr. Chavarria at Tuesday's hearing. His story is incredible; grew up in a refugee camp in Honduras, graduated as a valedictorian at 15, got scholarships in the US, met his husband here, became a US citizen, and is now a school superintendent in Vermont.

chickens get a taste of your meat

Trump holding meetings in the literal Situation Room treating the potential release of the Epstein files like a national security emergency speaks volumes about the administration’s panic level right now

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

This is what the Democrats have been raising hell about.

Republicans would rather protect Donald Trump from the Epstein files than pay our troops and reduce your health care costs. Republicans should get back to work.

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Donald Trump: Stop trying to incite Illinoisans into violence. Pack up and go home.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.