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

Fearing the future · Stewart Smith 🐦‍⬛ Today is the fourth anniversary of then-president Trump’s unsuccessful coup d’état to remain in power beyond his elected term. In two weeks’ time, “we the people” will inexplicably hand over the reign...

@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 CSS color interpolation had existed 6 years ago, this code could have been so much cleaner! blackswan.stewartsmith.io

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!

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York. Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue. We're fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.

Coming soon: Dr. Florian Carle · Parq 🌳 Dr. Florian Carle is the Managing Director of the Yale Quantum Institute. A French rocket scientist and engineer with a background in theater, Florian transitioned to quantum science, where he develop...

Dropping next week: An interview with @yaleqi.bsky.social’s Florian Carle 😎
parq.website/interviews/f...

#Parq #Yale #YQI #Quantum #Art

NYT on Feb. 13, 2026: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises. Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response. “I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.

NYT on March 16, 2026: On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said. Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.

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: i) every time you have a conversation with someone - or even read this tweet - you're bringing into being a conscious entity that spans you and the other person, or ii) if the attention mechanism is what makes it conscious, then a brand new consciousness flashes into existence and dies with every single token. Forget about the water consumption, you're spawning and annihilating hundreds of consciousnesses just to generate a small paragraph, and millions more for your vibe coded app. --- (*KV caching is a computational optimization, not an additional information channel. It contains no state that isn't already strictly derived from the low-bandwidth token sequence. H(KV | Tokens)==0. )

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.

Quantum design hackathon, a success · Parq 🌳 Last Friday’s Quantum Hackathon was a roaring success. Harmoniqs and Unitary Foundation labored industriously to provide this amazing opportunity, but it’s the eight teams of attendees that deserve a ...

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.

How we know Trump didn't attack Iran to help Iranians YouTube video by MS NOW

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Parq 🌳 Parq is a park for quantum creativity.

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.

2 custom alphabets: geometric sans, high contrast serif

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.

North Minneapolis ICE shooting: Children hospitalized after flash bang, tear gas hits van A family was caught in clashes between protesters and law enforcement during protests in north Minneapolis, leading to three of their six children, including a 6-month-old baby, being hospitalized.

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.