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(after Allen Ginsberg, for the DIKW ladder—noise, data, information, knowledge, wisdom)
I
I saw the best minds of my generation lit by LED back-planes,
jacked into thunderous server-racks, starving for certainty,
dragging their mouse-cords through the neon dunes of probability,
angel-headed coders burning for the ancient marriage
of Shannon and Boltzmann, twin serpents hissing in the silicon Eden—
who sampled sky-wide waveforms at 44 kHz,
quantizing chaos into tidy columns of integers,
batteries draining, pre-amps warming,
heat blooming like crimson orchids in the data-center night LF Yadda – A Blog About Life—
who flattened noise into data, data into information,
information into knowledge, knowledge into a hard-won bud of wisdom,
step by electrolytic step up the humming ladder LF Yadda – A Blog About LifeLF Yadda – A Blog About Life,
each rung a prayer and a kilowatt-hour,
each epiphany a spike of ATP in the glucose furnace of the brain,
each “Aha!” a tiny Boltzmann sacrament paid in joules to the indifferent air LF Yadda – A Blog About Life.
II
Moloch! whose copper coils devour the rivers that feed our dams!
Moloch! whose GPU fans howl Landauer’s gospel—
k T ln 2! k T ln 2!—while waste-heat pours into Arctic swirl!
Moloch of spinning platters and SSD gates,
press DELETE and feel the warming pocket,
see gigawatt cooling towers blossom over desert silicon orchards,
entropy exchanged for the brittle flower of insight LF Yadda – A Blog About Life.
Moloch of decision entropy,
who dangles us between brake-pedal and swerve,
between chocolate and vanilla,
between quit-your-job and cling-to-paycheck,
until prefrontal glucose runs dry and the limbic drums take over LF Yadda – A Blog About Life!
III
Holy the microphones tasting thunder!
Holy the CCDs swallowing photons!
Holy the Geiger click collapsing uranium dreams into binary fate LF Yadda – A Blog About Life!
Holy the quantum gamble that every observer resolves with a question—
basis choice a secret vote, decoherence the ballot box on fire LF Yadda – A Blog About Life!
Holy the diodes that sculpt the cosmos into spreadsheets,
the camel-through-needle’s-eye of labeling, ASCII 01000001 transfigured to A,
grandma deciding on scones at 72 °F and 7 a.m.—
a kitchen lit by the low hum of second-law accounting LF Yadda – A Blog About Life.
Footnote (a barbaric yawp after the credits)
O witnesses of waveform and word, remember:
every certainty you cradle cost a shake of the world,
every byte you purge lights a match in the troposphere.
Yet sculpt on! sculpt on!—
for in each fleeting fracture of ordered thought
the universe sees itself,
and smiles a little wider through the steam.
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