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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• on mowing lawns and climate catastrophe

• hallucination in the LLM-based Kagi Translate

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Just posting to say how much I love the way that Creative Commons licenses are allowing publications (say, Techdirt or States Newsroom) to repost good writing from other sources (say, The Conversation or ProPublica).

Here are photos that I published recently:

• Love to get unsolicited AI-generated parenting advice from the communication platform kiddo’s school district has invested in.

• Wait, is Open AI naming a science-oriented product after a researcher whose work was famously appropriated by others for their personal benefit?

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

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

• 🔗 linkblog: The Strait of Hormuz blockade is causing a slow-moving food crisis

• 🔗 linkblog: Trump picks fight with Pope Leo as Iran peace talks dissolve • Kentucky Lantern

• 🔗 linkblog: The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought

• 🔗 linkblog: Apple quietly threatened Grok to curb sexual deepfakes or get pulled from App Store

• 🔗 linkblog: The Senate is voting to save free IRS Direct File today

• 🔗 linkblog: The Cybertruck of e-bikes is here to replace your car

• 🔗 linkblog: Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s “unconstrained” relationship with the truth

• 🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: A Pascal’s Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 🔗 linkblog: The Right Wing Origins Age Verification Laws Don’t Disappear Just Because They’re Going Bipartisan.

• 🔗 linkblog: Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion

• 🔗 linkblog: Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked

• 🔗 linkblog: Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family

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

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

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

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

• 🎙️ radioblog: The Sontarans (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: The Future of Another Timeline (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🍿 movieblog: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Old Media (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

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Spencer