Graham Mitchell

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

Wtf Instagram?!? I've never used those emojis, much less recently, aside from the heart.

@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

I think the thing that annoys me the most about Google's autocorrect is when it says that a real word is spelled incorrectly, and suggests another. It wanted me to change "Comport" to "Comfort" and I'm like aaaaaaaa

@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.

@Fastmail Okay! fastmailstatus.com/clusqa4rk2273b… Looks like beta.fastmail.com still works, which is good news. Good luck figuring everything out!

Hey @Fastmail , getting 502s for api.fastmail.com/support/session 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! 🤞

[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

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

@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.

@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.

This blog post has generated more deep compliments, likes, and shares, though way fewer substack signups compared to my Good At Sex guide posts. It's weird how anti correlated those two metrics tend to be for my work

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

Oh we are posting proof we were Evangelical? Here is 18 year old me, singing special music on a VBS missions trip to the island of Grenada. And all of us enjoying dinner at one of the pastor's homes. He sold grilled chicken as his main job.

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: scrollprize.org/grandprize

@Aella_Girl Might be a good fit for datasette.io, and @simonw -- at least from his blogs and HN posts -- seems like a cool guy that might even be willing to help

idk what i'm doing; i have ended up with a 4.5-gig joblib file and i want to make it so anyone can put in inputs and get outputs. am i gonna have to learn how to do backend stuff? is there any way to do this without learning another programming language

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

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

@MicroFlashFic GET OUT

“You can't bring a snake in here! This is a bakery!” “Please? He’s totally tame, and we just need one thing.” “OK, fine. What do you need?” “A dozen buns.” “We’re fresh out.” “Oh.” “Can I get you some rolls instead?” “No, sorry. They're for the snake.” “So?” “He’s an anaconda.”

@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

I have a "have sex with me" survey, and one of my partners has started emailing some dudes off of it he thinks would be sexually compatible with me. But almost nobody is responding so: check your spam, and also the dude emailing u is legit

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

@larsiusprime Absolutely fair.

I get the general vibe that quantum computing is kinda the string theory of computer science Is that fair or is it mean

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

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!