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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• la joie d'acheter (mais vraiment acheter) de la musique

• on mowing lawns and climate catastrophe

Here are photos that I published recently:

• I think this will always be my favorite panel from all of Dumbing of Age.

• I am in my late 30s. “Digital native” was first used for my age cohort in the early 2000s—and was riffing off of John Perry Barlow’s 1996 “Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.” It is a USELESS term because its frame of reference keeps shifting to “kids these days” (and other reasons, too).

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: Artemis II astronauts break a record, name a crater

• 🔗 linkblog: Finally, Artemis delivers some exceptional, high-quality photos of the Moon

• 🔗 linkblog: The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI

• 🔗 linkblog: When the President threatens to commit a genocide

• 🔗 linkblog: What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?

• 🔗 linkblog: Money for War, But... | Friends Committee On National Legislation

• 🔗 linkblog: Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics

• 🔗 linkblog: Here's what to expect from the fiery, 14-minute return of Artemis II

• 🔗 linkblog: Trump Threatens CNN For Very Basic Reporting On His Shitty, Unpopular War

• 🔗 linkblog: To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed recently:

• 🎙️ radioblog: Silent Majority (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 🎙️ radioblog: In Memory Alone (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Renounce Magical Thinking and Embrace Empirical Evidence (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: I Excised All My Anxieties into Cartoon Characters Who Definitely Don't Have Feelings for Each Other (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 🎙️ radioblog: Prisoners of the Lake (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Her Hugs Are Traps (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: My Peer Group's Smoochy Chart is Basically Now an Ouroboros (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🍿 movieblog: Project Hail Mary (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Reminding Myself That Despite What that Sign on the Highway Says, Hell Isn't Real (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🎙️ radioblog: The Havoc of Empires (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📺 tvblog: Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Automatic Noodle (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer