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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• remembering ordination

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Nan, mais c’est qui le type qui a traduit “se tenir au drone de secours” comme “stand with the relief drone” en Heave Ho 2 ? Parce que c’est bien différent, ça.

• Taken aback when I found some of my siblings listed within one of the systems where I work. There’s probably an “explainable creepy” rather than “inexplicable creepy” reason for this, but it’s still weird.

• Because trademark bullying is in the news lately: Did you know that Intellectual Reserve owns the top-level domains .lds and .mormon, presumably for the sole purpose of preventing anyone else from using them?

• Going over an assessment data report generated by my university, and while I don’t consider myself a data analysis expert, I have some complaints about how data are being presented here. Not doing much to challenge my suspicion that assessment data are often more performative than productive.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: Dismiss Church’s Trademark Lawsuit Against “Mormon Stories” Podcast, EFF Urges Court

• 🔗 linkblog: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fiction

• 🔗 linkblog: Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI

• 🔗 linkblog: Grace After Institutional Betrayal

• 🔗 linkblog: CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues

• 🔗 linkblog: Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’

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

• 📚 bookblog: Mormon Garments: Sacred and Secret (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🍿 movieblog: Hundreds of Beavers (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Reap What Was Sown (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Thorne in the Flesh (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Roots of All Evil (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🎙️ radioblog: 57, rue de Varenne, Saison 1 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📺 tvblog: Widow's Bay Season 1 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: The Seed (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer