February 16, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Feb 16 2024

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

• un helvétisme que je ne savais pas connaître

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• It’s remarkable how much of my service in academic organizations has come down to “oh, hey, you know WordPress, don’t you?”

• “Dad, what’s a… lunch-ee-on?” “A Luncheon? It’s an evolution of Eevee. Lunch-type Pokémon.” “Dad! No, it’s not!”

• I spent 12 hours last week working on a small, open journal’s WordPress site, and I came away from that with a new, begrudging respect for what they’ve done with the Gutenberg site builder. The same things that made me cranky in terms of my personal site make sense for larger scale projects.

• Trying to figure out which circle of hell it is when three people in a row fail to recognize a message is coming from a university listserv and reply all with “hey, think you meant to send this to someone else!”

• Everyone else seems to be getting over The Family Cold, so if I can just avoid catching it in the first place, we’ll be on track for a fun weekend.

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

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Sell lab-grown meat in Tennessee, pay a $1 million fine'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The rise and fall of robots.txt'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Microsoft and OpenAI say hackers are using ChatGPT to improve cyberattacks'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'UK president to legislature: Proposed DEI, tenure legislation is ‘deeply concerning’ for Kentucky colleges'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Future data centres may have built-in nuclear reactors'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Russia Hides Its War Toll. We Pieced Together the Clues.'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'University of Michigan Sells Recordings of Study Groups and Office Hours to Train AI'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act '

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How the Kansas City shooting proves the 'good guy with a gun' idea is a fallacy'

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

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People, by Nadia Bolz-Weber

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Spencer