The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form. And its forms differ drastically depending on how researchers set up their experiment

https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Ask yourself, does a currency-issuing government ever need to borrow its own currency from anyone? And if it chooses to offer bonds in exchange for some of its own previously-issued currency, is it really “borrowing” in any meaningful sense of the word?

https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/these-are-the-times-that-try-mens

1/21/2022 - New Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/01/1212022-new-moon.html

to make-sense -
of patterns -
of events -
and behold -

'thar be apophenia thar' -

when thresholds -
are breached -
and pattern re-cognition -
is enabled -

pattern-finding -
is inevitable
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

1/14/2022 - Third Quarter Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/01/1142022-third-quarter-moon.html

engineers discovered new way of precisely controlling single electrons in quantum dots that run logic gates. - new mechanism is less bulky & requires fewer parts, which could prove essential to making large-scale silicon quantum computers a reality

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-method-billion-qubit-quantum-chips-closer.html

that sense -
of
it's almost -
true -

true in the -
craft -
sense -
of creating a beautiful -
enactmeant -
fit for purpose -

is it -
true enough -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

debts -
are obligations-for -
and promises-of -
credit and -
redemption -
from requisite -
mutual accountings -
of relationships -

we are born into -
original debt -
we live by hunting -
for redemption -
from what -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

of course -
we are going to need -
automated statistics -
for generative self -
reflections -
of the ever-vaster -
ecosystems of histories -
of relational -
data-entangling -
environ-meants -
a multiverse -
of immemories -
for narrating -
our brands -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

how one has -
sensings -
inciting -
having more -
transformations -
metabolisms -
of meaning and media -
attractors of re-self-productions -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

1/14/2022 - Third Quarter Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/01/1142022-third-quarter-moon.html

Through our research on modern humans, we noticed that we could predict the age at which people had children from the types of DNA mutations they left to their children

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-reveals-average-age-conception-men.html

"In the end, we believe that artificial photosynthesis devices will be much more efficient than natural photosynthesis, which will provide a path toward carbon neutrality,

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-cheap-sustainable-hydrogen-catalyst-efficient.html

mhm -
why weren't studies done -
a lot sooner -
before people -
were marketed -
to buy gas stoves -
like safety testing -
other technologies -
are subject to -
then again -
i think of -
gas - tobacco -
who else -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

to understand -
from the moral-politic -
orientation of -
citizens claiming -
no taxation without representation -
today -
frame this as-
no currency without participation -
no currency making -
without participation -
in creating it -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://www.sup.org/books/title/

to understand -
from the moral-politic -
orientation of -
citizens claiming -
no taxation with representation -
today -
frame this as-
no currency without participation -
no currency making -
without participation -
in creating it -
#micropoem
https://www.sup.org/books/title/

a joy -
when conversations -
are fun -
productive trials -
of comprehend-able -
expressions of how -
we ponder-the-world -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

1/6/2022 - Full Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/01/162022-full-moon.html

listening -
to news-media -
an interview with -
@katieporteroc -

again she shines -
her brilliance -
in ways that -
enlighten us -
and touch us -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry