August 24, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Aug 23 2024

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

• draft advice for intro to data science students

• putting family ahead of church

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• This semester, I am encouraged to include in my syllabus links to student resources related to mental health, food insecurity, etc., but required to include instructions for how to respond to an “active aggressor.” How depressing.

• One of those mornings where I feel like I’m rolling with disadvantage on all ability checks.

• This afternoon has been a reminder that we are a family that a) plays library for fun and b) gets distracted from playing library by the books that we’re supposed to be checking out to stuffies.

• Look, I’m feeling better about November than I have in a long time, but waking up this morning from a stressful “count the electoral votes” dream has reminded me how nervous I still am about things.

• One day, before I retire, I will remember how to cross-list sections in Canvas without having to look it up.

• It can be a pain to wear different clothes for my bike commute than for work, but it also means my new EFF “Fix Copyright” shirt (featuring Steamboat Willie fixing a John Deere) gets to make brief cameos at the beginning and end of today’s work day.

• After many years of living rent-free in my head, the Daniel Tiger “go potty” song has retreated beyond the limits of my perfect, immediate recollection. I am experiencing a complicated mix of relief and nostalgic sadness.

• “Well, I GUESS I’d better stop talking about the FURIES [of Greek myth] so my dad can go off and have a good time at WORK!” I mean, I’m just trying to get us out the door to school on time, but I still feel like I’ve been owned.

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

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How MIT copes without Elsevier'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Senator Calls U.S. Support for Saudis a “National Disgrace” After Intercept Reveals Unpaid Debt to Pentagon'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'KY inmates and their families spend millions on for-profit computer tablets'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'KY prisoners hack state-issued computer tablets to digitally create $1M. How’d they do it?'

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

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back, by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

• 📺 tvblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for The Ipcress File

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Thanks for reading!

Spencer