A comedian once suggested that chaos could be putting Boris Johnson and an Aardvark whilst both on magic mushrooms into a sack. The result could be chaotic but it would be a controlled and contained chaos. If you added some crystal meth and Katie Price things could get more interesting. I give away my UK nationality from time to time at the supermarket when I cajole “Boris” the supermarket trolley to go in the direction I seek. At the moment “leadership” in the USA is chaotic and whim based. The markets are volatile and Nero might have fun watching them burn were he able to play a violin.
The thing about the internet is that it too is volatile. Things can flood like a desert wadi after a sudden rain shower. One can rocket into viral public visibility and then disappear overnight. The story about yesterday’s news being tomorrow’s wrappers for fish and chips holds truck. All it might take to be famous for a nanosecond would be for some celeb influencer to name drop. There are journos who follow what they “like” on the internet. A single like or follow could result in a chaotic uncontrollable event. Were Princess Diana to like one of my dream posts…
It is difficult if not impossible to control what happens on the internet.
The internet is a kind of alternate reality which nevertheless impinges on day to day reality.
Yesterday following a thread I searched for Quantum Venture Capital. Quantum is a groovy word. Did you know that dishwasher tablets are quantum objects?? There are some under the sink in the kitchen. I wonder what is the dishwasher tablet Hamiltonian operator?
There are lot of people using this groovy word to name their businesses.
It is like when bellends use the phrase “laser focussed” when they mean “laser collimated” or “non-divergent”. Things get appropriated.
On my desk behind me is an arXiv paper written by a VC from “Quantonation” in which he discusses funding for quantum start-ups. I am kind of resisting reading it because it pertains to an alternate reality, one where people wear suits and go to important meetings. There is a weird familiarity.
I am unlikely to be star struck were I to drift across a wormhole into that universe. Most likely I would be ignored as being non-U, not welcome at the dinner table.
It is kind of funny to watch. When I look at the “teams” presented on many Venture Capital web sites I think yuck.. Really… I do not like the look of some of them and the blurb which accompanies is non-attractive veering towards some kind of AI based same-same authorship. They look cloned. I don’t see USPs.
It does not really matter what an old git like me thinks. It is off putting. You think, maybe. You take one look and think, nah. It is not a game of soldiers which looks attractive. It is an alternate dimension.
There is always a small yet finite possibility that some chaos could manifest into our bucolic little world…
You never know what might happen, what spanners the universe may yet have in its bag for chucking…
Far out…
Dreamyoga 