January 27, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Jan 26 2025

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

• posting last month's sermon about hope in spite of gestures at everything

• another sermon text: believing in a God who doesn't intervene

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• I keep saying that I blog for myself before any other audience, but there’s a lot I haven’t been posting because I knew my POSSE setup was borked these past couple of weeks. I think it’s fixed now, so time to get those posts finished and published.

• I have always thought the TikTok ban was dumb, and it just seems to get dumber with every new development. It’s not that there aren’t salient arguments in there, it’s that they’re all buried under vibes and nonsense.

• Mormon Studies professional organizations are funny because when you ask for someone’s affiliation on a survey, there’s a distinctive minority of people who list their religious status instead of (or alongside) what university they belong to.

• Kiddo just told me to “make an Insight check” after fibbing to me about something, so it sounds like that D&D actual play podcast we’ve been listening to is making an impression.

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

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Who Said It: Donald Trump or Martin Luther King Jr.?'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI Dungeon Master experiment exposes the vulnerability of Critical Role’s fandom'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Emptiness Of Zuck’s Promise To Move ‘Biased’ Trust & Safety From California To Texas'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk, Video Game King? Well, Maybe Not.'

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

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Red Team Blues (A Martin Hench Novel), by Cory Doctorow

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for The Bezzle (A Martin Hench Novel), by Cory Doctorow

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Spencer