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[zach @jzt]

@levelsio The only winning move is not to play.

[Rob Crow 🧢 @rob5d4]

Turns out Jesus Lizard is still the best live band.

[Frankie Quinones @FrankieQuinones]

We’re making a movie.😎🌿 https://t.co/yrVWhtZEpf

[Todd Vaziri @tvaziri]

Something We've Never Noticed in "The Abyss"
https://t.co/9ajUjzbfUH

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

The Trautonium. Invented early 1930s. Just listen to this thing.

[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

[Michael McKean @MJMcKean]

Watch Jerry O'Connell limp along dragging his microphone battery at the very end.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

55 Nouns
55 Verbs
55 Adjectives
55 Prepositions
55 Adverbs
100 Conjunctions
100 Gerunds
100 Abbreviations
100 Interjections
100 Onomatopoeias
55 Determiners
55 Acronyms
55 Place Names
55 Participles

[the heart @Fredward3948576]

Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first year Gatorade drinker. You just finished drinking some regular flavor like Red so naturally that’s what you’ll believe until next month when you get to Yellow and get convinced that that’s the best flavor.

[Ana @_motherslug]

Remember that time the jumbotron picked up Guy Picciotto at a Washington Wizards game and every Fugazi fan had the exact same thought? 🥹🏀

[David Hines @hradzka]

CONAN THE BARBARIAN is my go-to Christmas movie, and some new things really stood out to me at this year's viewing.

I want to talk about THIS moment and THIS guy.

This is the story of Red Hair.

[Eyes On Cinema @RealEOC]

Stand By Me behind the scenes footage filmed by River Phoenix

[regular steve albini @electricalWSOP]

When the Moon Patrol buggy fucked the Peavey logo.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

D.C. Police Lose Control Of Rioting Trump Supporters After Hundreds Of Officers Called Away To Deal With Black Jaywalker https://t.co/B90PyPED91

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I had come across this technique in aerospace work, but never seen it in action!

[windytan @windyoona]

(pin) The sound of the dialup, pictured.
Explanation: https://t.co/GzHtG6H2kx

[Ryon_D @Ryon_D]

Don't work for them and quit if you do. It has become a moral imperative.