April 25, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Apr 25 2025

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Here are long-form blog posts I published this week:

• DuckDuckGo and IP geolocation (with a MapQuest and generative AI tangent)

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• My dad just now, describing the other guests coming to Easter dinner: “Oh, I’d say they’re about your age. You know, around [lists some ages a full decade younger than me].”

• A good work day is one where a colleague asks if you have a d20 in your office (I did!) because you seem like the kind of person who would (I am!).

Here are photos that I published this week (or at least their descriptions):

• One of the perks of building some new content taxonomies for my review posts is that I can get a quick view of whose stuff I’m reading (or listening to) most… and realize just how much of my reading is comics.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on this week:

• 🔗 linkblog: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flop is bigger than Katy Perry

• 🔗 linkblog: Louisville officials defend proposal to take Churchill Downs money from JCPS

• 🔗 linkblog: Marco Rubio’s Family Values: Preventing Mahmoud Khalil From Witnessing His Child’s Birth

• 🔗 linkblog: 4chan may be dead, but its toxic legacy lives on

• 🔗 linkblog: The Man Who Wants AI to Help You ‘Cheat on Everything’

• 🔗 linkblog: Star Wars’ ‘Andor’ Season 2 Depicts the Banality of American Fascism

• 🔗 linkblog: Who Ordered That? On AI, Education, and the Illusion of Necessity | Punya Mishra's Web

• 🔗 linkblog: How the War in Gaza Drove Israel’s A.I. Experiments

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

• 📚 bookblog: Lawful Interception (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Karla's Choice (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 🎙️ radioblog: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Dieu n'existe pas encore (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer