Behold, the Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics feat. Swifty Cybersecurity
Y'all will not believe the portal that opened after my last post.
It’s getting curiouser and curiouser out there, fellow timeline jumpers! Just hours after publishing A Free Will x Quantum Time Travel Interlude, not only did I meet a former colleague of the 2022 Nobel Prize-winning physicist I hosed on full blast in that post, but that magical human being showed me the wonderful world of Britney Spears’ Guide to Semiconductor Physics.
AND THEN, as if my mind wasn’t already blown to fucking bits, he went one-deeper and showed me the Taylor Swift cybersecurity community. I had no idea how dedicated she was digital security, and that’s kinda the deal with being a hardcore Swifty - there’s so much material, so much more to learn about her always. In 2019, The Guardian called the @SwiftOnSecurity Twitter account “genuinely the most informative cybersecurity resource on the internet.” Can you believe this?!
But back to Britney for a second, because her Guide to Semiconductor Physics is a truly incredible piece of work that translates well, even to amateurs. And what do we find right smack in the middle of the introductory section? An intro to another famous entertainer and amateur physics enthusiast who made one the greatest breakthroughs of the 20th century, known as “frequency hopping.” Hedy Lamarr was a movie star during WWII who helped pioneer technology that of course became part of the war machine. But if you’re following the Timeline Jumping For Dummies story and are even remotely fluent in metaphorical speaking, you can see the clear parallels here.
I’ll tell you what else you’ll be able to see when Draft #5 drops - real-time life experience being remixed into semi-autobiographical fiction. From the sandy bedsheets of New York City to the glorious man who showed me the light of pop-star-driven technical internet resources (not to mention killer memes), it’s all in the next draft. So what do y’all think, should I marry him? You’re right, probably a bit much. Besides, this isn’t a Taylor Swift song, this is semi-autobiographical quantum remix fan fic undertaken as an exercise in creating reality. Get with it!
OH! And as if all of this wasn’t enough, news dropped this past week that Stanford is now offering a course focused exclusively on Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well” (radio edit or Taylor’s extended version? Better be the latter). While this news has made me fundamentally lose respect for the institution, which most of us know is already pretty far up its own ass, of course I have an equal desire to figure out how to audit the class. So if anyone reading knows any undergrads there, I’ll do all their homework for them on this one. Thanks!