August 31, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Aug 31 2025

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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• a glimpse of hope in Ice Cream Man (and hoopla still sucks)

• une série de France Culture sur Jacques Ellul

• religious institutions, religious community, and religion-as-platform

• lines from the existential horror comic Ice Cream Man that I could work into sermons

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Today, I attended my first kids’ soccer game since rereading James Carse’s “Finite and Infinite Games” and since reading about Jacques Ellul’s ethic of non-power, and it turns out that makes a difference?

• After years of putting this off, I have finally figured out how to network my computer to the department printer, and I no longer have to worry that my position as a tenured professor of information communication technology will be revoked for being intimidated by basic office setups.

• DuckDuckGo (or Bing?) really loves to feed me local results when I’m deliberately looking for results in another city/state/country. It’s driving me crazy.

• Spaced on an evening meeting that I’d actually been looking forward to and 😫😫😫

• Today was really, truly going to be a much-needed writing day, and then I didn’t even clear my inbox until 2:30. Yayyyyyy.

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

• I hate read this article because I was sure RSS wouldn’t be mentioned. It did get a reference at the very end, but that almost feels worse. RSS is hands down the best way of customizing news consumption, and it kills me that we don’t talk about it more.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: What the ‘Panama Playlists’ Exposed About Spotify User Privacy

• 🔗 linkblog: The Mysterious Shortwave Radio Station Stoking US-Russia Nuclear Fears

• 🔗 linkblog: The NSF just cut K-12 STEM Education research going forward

• 🔗 linkblog: AI doesn’t belong in journaling

• 🔗 linkblog: Former faculty leader leaves University of Kentucky after bucking president’s governance plan • Kentucky Lantern

• 🔗 linkblog: “ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs

• 🔗 linkblog: Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month

• 🔗 linkblog: The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’

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

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Sundae Edition, Volume One (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Four (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Five (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Six (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Seven (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Eight (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Nine (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

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Spencer