and it’s all thanks to a complex network of sewage plants.

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What’s a Time Crystal?

To understand time crystals, imagine regular crystals like diamonds or quartz. These are beautifully structured because their atoms repeat in precise, organized patterns in space.

On the other hand, doesn’t time crystal repeat patterns in space—it ticks in a consistent rhythm over time, combining the three dimensions of space with the fourth dimension: time.

Breaking New Ground: The Time Quasicrystal

Time crystals aren’t new—they were first created in 2016. But the WashU team took things further, building a “time quasicrystal.” Unlike regular time crystals, which tick with one predictable rhythm, time quasicrystals produce multiple frequencies, like playing a chord instead of a single note.

How They Did It?

Okay, uh, I don’t know what’s going on here but no.

I actually wondered that at the time simply because whenever a new person discovers the horrors of HP printers people in the comments are always boosting Brother printers.

Like, if Canon had been accused of bricking third-party printer ink I’m not sure it would have made the feed.

Eh! Steve!

But but but . … they’ve spent Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on this!!! You HAVE to buy it!!! Noooooooooo

Everyone who cheer-led the AI garbage trucks moved up in the world. Across the board. All over ther world.

Turns out they were very, very wrong and quite stupid.

Now Apple (and everyone else) has to roll all that back and try to save face.

Exactly. I thought the article was going to be about how they’ve been shoe-horning “Apple Intelligence” into recent updates, which everyone turns off immediately. Instead it’s:

The company has officially delayed features first promised last June intended to modernize Siri and give Apple a much-needed boost in the AI race.

HA! First of all the “AI race” is an ass-grabbing competition between insane corporate overlords who can’t wait to burn another hundred billion on something that doesnt’ work.

Secondly, last June was still in the bubble of AI hype when everyone and their dog was forced to comment on it ortherwise the idiot herds would affect stock price.

Thirdly, this isn’t about Apple not getting something to work, this is about Apple understanding what an abysmal shitshow the generative AI functionality is, and trying to land the plane before anything else catches fire.

Ridiculous.

Nnnnnno?

Fair, but true nonetheless.

Well played.

Yeah, sure they exist. Much like the ENIAC. And it’s cool stuff to work with. It’s just not anywhere close to practical. And it never has been.

Sure, sure and it’s interesting stuff. But not anywhere near useful in the sense people mean when they talk about computers.

What a fucking shock. You MAGAts have seriously fucked everything up to help fucking Putin.

Goddamned idiots.

I wish it was just the SCOTUS that was corrupt and bogus. This all three branches thing is bumming me out.

Check it, yo. In the 90s all the articles and rumors around quantum computing were exactly the same. Exactly.

Whenever I hear about some new quantum computing breakthrough, I spend about five seconds wondering if it’s real and then I feel very nostalgic because no, it never is.

Fwiw, Voyager has a filters & blocks section that makes this even easier. Keywords, instances, users, etc. And just as easily reversible if you change your mind.

Simpsons, I forget the season/episode

Wait . . that’s good, right? “NHS England” is a separate entity charged with running the NHS which the government essentially does anyway?

And I agree entirely, Casper!