Scott Mitchell @oceg

Wait! I thought the Augsburg Confession said “we are justified before God by our own mental gymnastics, when we labor strenuously, yea with sweat upon the brow, to think really, really, really hard about believing. For God is well-pleased not by the gift and promise of Christ alone, but chiefly by our furrowed brows, our clenched teeth, and the sheer velocity of our brainwaves”

Not a single reformer ever defined justifying faith as mere intellectual belief.

@C2Antiquity The LCMS believes Anglicanism does not guard the doctrine of justification and the sacraments with the same clarity and certainty that the Lutheran Confessions demand

Lutherans, genuine question. Why wouldn’t you become Anglican?

@cmikob00 @SailingBitty In January 1521, the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem officially excommunicated Luther. Just a historical fact.

@SailingBitty ‘Guy who decided to leave the church’ = guy whom Rome excommunicated because they couldn’t refute his writings.

After attending church this weekend, I have decided to become even more steadfastly Lutheran. 1/

Great to see Woodson Principles (@WoodsonCenter @BobWoodson) in action at the highest levels. People in poverty are not a monolith.

The poor are not a monolith, per @WoodsonCenter. 1. Some are poor due to their decisions (only inside-out transformation helps, which is difficult but possible, per @BobWoodson). 2. Some are "poor" by gaming the system for Medicaid and benefits, choosing this over employment (we need less exploitable systems). 3. Some are poor temporarily and need help to restart. 4. Some are poor due to permanent mental or physical disabilities (we need better ways for families, churches, or communities to provide long-term care).

@DustinMock8 @therabbithole @WoodsonCenter @BobWoodson Indeed, @BobWoodson strongly criticizes Poverty Inc. for focusing on creating more clients rather than solving poverty.

@mitchell360 @therabbithole @WoodsonCenter @BobWoodson You forgot the poor who are stuck in an endless loop of predatory systems that don't allow you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps as it were.

Ending homelessness would require people make better decisions. All the money and resources on planet Earth wouldn’t be able to accomplish this. People can only change themselves at their own discretion.

If by “attractive” you are collapsing some subjective mix of physical, financial and social strengths then I agree Most of the research that focuses on physical attractiveness misses (don’t control for) that those attributes are often proxies for financial and social strengths If financial and social are disconfirmed, the physical strengths are rarely enough.

All stated preferences assume base attractiveness. In the case below: it’s rather that they like attractive guys who are nice, and you’re not that attractive.

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World record: 1 million GB per sec internet speed achieved by Japan over 1,100 miles | Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering Current data transfer speeds aren’t enough to support AI, VR, IoT, and various other emerging technologies. Here’s a mindblowing solution. Imagine downloading 10,000 4K movies in just a second. A team of Japanese researchers has achieved such a mind-blowing internet speed using a specially designed optical fiber that’s no thicker than what we use today. The researchers set a new world record, transmitting 1.02 petabits (1.02 x 106 GB) of data per second over a distance of 1,808 kilometers (~1,118 miles) using their special coupled 19-core optical fiber. However, this achievement isn’t just about faster internet. In their new study, the researchers claim that their newly developed optical-fiber technology can help us prepare our networks for a future where data traffic will skyrocket, thanks to AI, 6G, the Internet of Things, and beyond. The science of insane internet speed For years, scientists have tried to increase the amount of data that can travel through optical fibers. While they’ve managed to send petabits per second before, they could only do it over short distances (less than 1,000 km or 621 miles). Long-distance transmission has always been challenging. That’s because the signal weakens as it travels, and amplifying it across many fiber cores without creating interference is a major technical challenge. The study authors tackled the problem by designing a special type of optical fiber—a 19-core fiber. Think of it like replacing a single-lane road with a 19-lane superhighway, all bundled into a fiber just 0.125 mm thick, the same size as those used in existing infrastructure. Each core carried data independently, and together they allowed a huge amount of information to move simultaneously. The researchers also developed a smart amplification system. Optical signals lose strength as they move along the fiber, so amplifiers are used to boost them. However, there’s one catch:  each core had to be amplified at the same time, and across two different bands of light (C-band and L-band). The team built a system that used a combination of special amplifiers to do this in all 19 cores without mixing up the signals. They set up 19 recirculating loops, each using one core of the fiber, and passed the signals through them 21 times to simulate a total distance of 1,808 kilometers. At the end of the journey, a 19-channel receiver caught the signals, and a multi-input multi-output (MIMO)-based digital processor cleaned them up, removing interference and calculating the data rate. The result was astonishing. A total capacity of 1.02 petabits per second over 1,808 km was achieved, setting a new world record for optical fiber communication using standard-sized fibers. Even more impressive, the capacity-distance product, a key measure of fiber performance, reached 1.86 exabits per second-km, the highest ever recorded. A powerful and practical fiber technology This isn’t the first time a 19-core optical fiber has been put to the test. “The transmission over an earlier generation of 19-core coupled-core fiber was limited to 1.7 petabits per second over a relatively short distance of 63.5 km,” the study authors added. However, this is indeed the first time that this revolutionary technology has broken the distance limits by carrying data over 1,800 km. This success could completely reshape how we build the internet of tomorrow. As the world moves into the post-5G era, with self-driving cars, AI assistants, real-time VR, and billions of connected devices, we’ll need massive data highways to keep everything running. “In the post-5G society, the volume of data traffic is expected to increase explosively due to new communication services, and the realization of advanced information and communication infrastructure is required,” the study authors added. This research shows that it’s possible to build ultra-high-speed, long-distance fiber networks without changing the size of existing infrastructure, which makes real-world deployment much easier. However, when this new optical fiber technology will actually roll out remains to be seen. Read more: interestingengineering.com/innovation/19-…

Less man caves, more studies

@DellAnnaLuca @GGCanto The lottery didn’t contribute to his heart attack(s) and stroke(s). But the stock market may have. Hard to know for sure.

My grandfather would buy lottery tickets once the pot reached certain thresholds. And the $2 provided more than a 1 in a zillion chance of being rich. It afforded 1. Leisure time with his grandchild in the car and at the gas station where he purchased the ticket. 2. Entertainment around betting on his lucky numbers (birthdays of family members) 3. Jokes with friends and family about surly winning the lottery “this time” … and “I’m not sharing…” 4. Conversation re “what would you buy if…” 5. And more Terrible strategy to actually get rich. Potentially legit strategy for other social wants/needs.

79% of French people think that playing the lottery is less risky than the stock market 89% of the Singaporean workforce participated in the Singtel IPO This doesn't have zero explanation power of the difference in trajectory of the two countries

@DellAnnaLuca True about many professions (not just academics). unfortunately too many “communication” courses make people more wooden vs effective.

"Whenever the average working class person encounters people from the academic class, they present as kind of retarded" I've always been baffled by academics spending decades researching a topic and then making ~zero effort to become effective at communicating it (and appearing trustworthy while doing so, with trustworthy defined as "the audience trusts that listening will lead to good things." Once, I spoke at an academic conference whose presenters were so bad at presenting that the following week, I recorded and published an online course on academic presenting. Similarly, I'm baffled that academic institutions make ~zero effort at making their academics effective at communicating the results of their research. It's as if no one cared. A dereliction of duties.

@DellAnnaLuca As with all of your work, this a really good course. @DellAnnaLuca

By the way, this is the course I produced after I was so frustrated that all the academic presenters at that conference were so bad. dellannaluca.gumroad.com/l/aph

"...They disabled with a helping hand. There's something called 'toxic help'. That's what the poverty program was: toxic help." — Bob Woodson, founder of the @WoodsonCenter & #civilrights veteran [A Pathway To American Renewal Symposium]

@DellAnnaLuca But pay special attention to those that are irreversible.

Pareto all the tradeoffs

@deusimpera Athanasius stood against almost the entire institutional Church ( “Athanasius contra mundum”) … Luther may have taught more Athanasius than any other monk at the time.

Protestant history starts in the 1500s. You won’t hear about St. Polycarp, St. Irenaeus, Athanasius, or Ignatius — actual disciples of the apostles. You’ll hear about Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli — men who split Christendom and rewrote Scripture. The choice is yours.

@Pete4CA @pepperdine @PepperdineSPP @IanVRowe Can’t wait to see his speech. The work he has done with @BobWoodson and the @WoodsonCenter has been great.

Awesome 2025 Commencement here at @PepperdineSPP! Such an inspiring address from our Commencement Speaker (and friend), @IanVRowe. Stay tuned for more pix and the video of his speech!

Pepperdine Libraries to acquire prestigious research collection from Bob Woodson and the Woodson Center! Read the full story here: bit.ly/4ivxNwf @WoodsonCenter @pepperdine