Graham Mitchell

Engineer for ZenBusiness, former teacher, author of 'Learn Java the Hard Way'. Trying to figure my shit out while loving myself, others, and god.

Flown to bsky

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@DoktorKazz Happened to me as well 😭
I'm pretty certain these are someone else's recently-used emojis; they're not random.

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@fasteronfire525 @TychoBrahe I use voice-to-text a fair bit to compose text messages on my phone. For the past couple of months, when I say the word 'so', it inserts 'joe' (with a lowercase-J) about 50% of the time. Drives me nuts

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@flyinprogrammer @googlefiber @Ask_Spectrum Yeah I had a Google Fiber outage earlier in the week, too. They blamed it on a power outage "in my neighborhood", gave several missed ETAs. Took them about 30 hours to resolve with fairly poor communication.

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@Fastmail Okay! https://t.co/qPPTq1JmPm

Looks like https://t.co/Snt3qPddYs still works, which is good news. Good luck figuring everything out!

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

Hey @Fastmail , getting 502s for https://t.co/B4hspjjWoN so I can't open a ticket the usual way. Connectivity issues to the web client here. Hopefully you're already aware and working on it! 🤞

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

[kafka, just reanimated]: i heard someone use the term kafka-esque today

[friend]: yeah

[kafka]: i hope they were talking about something cool

[friend]: yeah probably

[kafka]: whats a DMV

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

Saw Caedmon's Call play Bus Driver for the first time in a little club in Houston in 1995. I've done a version as special music when I was worship leader of a largish next-gen church. And now I'm also a deconstruct(ed/ing) ex-vangelical myself.

I'm SO pumped for Bus Driver 2

[Derek Webb @derekwebb]

so, why did i write the original ‘bus driver’?

with ‘bus driver 2’ coming this monday (march 18), i thought it might be fun to try and remember what put us on this route in the first place.

don’t forget to pre-save ‘bus driver 2’:
https://t.co/SMTthb8rPX

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@GabbyMcNabb @Aella_Girl In fact, even publicly _following_ an account like Aella's wasn't something I wasn't brave enough to do until fairly recently, despite the tremendous amount of value I've gotten out of her blogs over the years.

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@GabbyMcNabb @Aella_Girl This is my excuse. I'm still not comfortable being "horny on main" so I'm actually very careful about which tweets or instagram posts I like using the accounts associated with my IRL identity.

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@TheGirlUnsure Even the PHRASE "special music" is a evangelical tell! I performed a whole bunch of those back in the day....

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls:
This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!!

These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular."

This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll.

In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned.

The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us.

It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful!

Read more in our announcement: https://t.co/rUlrdGXBMs

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@Aella_Girl Might be a good fit for https://t.co/AAZWHGJEez, and @simonw -- at least from his blogs and HN posts -- seems like a cool guy that might even be willing to help

[Dylan Patel @dylan522p]

ASML just made them most badass AI generated ad, using Midjourney and Runway
1,963 Midjourney prompts that yielded 7,852 images
Then processed by RunwayAI, with total film covering 25,957 frames at 1,000 MB per frame
The trickiest scene was with Issac Newton
Via @lithos_graphein

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

when christians in america say they’re being persecuted i wish this is what they meant

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@MicroFlashFic GET OUT

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@Aella_Girl I didn't get THIS email, but I did get one yesterday about an energetic coaching workshop claiming to be from a survey I filled out for you. Is *that* one legit?

If not, it's a hell of a spearphish

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

Welp it looks like we finally got photographic proof that @EvilMopacATX is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

[Graham Mitchell @grahammitchell]

@larsiusprime Absolutely fair.

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Climate change emergency is already impacting levels of Taylor available worldwide 🥺

[Jenna Hanes @jenna_hnz]

Austin City Council just eliminated parking minimums! We are the most populous city in the country to take this important step towards reforming our car-centric status quo.

This is a huge win. Builders are no longer beholden to arbitrary rules that enforce vehicle dependence!