spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Jul 12 2024
Hello! Thanks for subscribing to my newsletter, and sorry for disappearing recently. Now that I’m back from a lot of summer travel (which will surely inspire future posts), I’m ready to start newslettering again. This newsletter includes content from the past four weeks, though I haven’t been much of a writer, so there’s not really any more than there might be for a “normal” newsletter.
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Here are long-form blog posts I published:
* [reinterpreting scripture and rethinking sexual ethics in Jacob's temple sermon](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/reinterpreting-scripture-and-rethinking-sexual-ethics-in-jacobs-temple-sermon/)
Here are microblog posts that I published this week:
* [Summer is my traditional time for messing around with my Hugo site. It’s relaxing, but it’s also professional development, given that I teach content management systems every fall.](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2024-06-14-summer-is/)
* [Ça faisait longtemps que je n’avais pas de jeu sur mon portable, puis on m’a rappelé Mini Metro, et maintenant je crains perdre pas mal de temps avec ça.](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-06-14-%C3%A7a-faisait/)
* [Kiddo has a stuffy which is a garden-style gnome but with a mermaid tail instead of a pointed hat. This is super cute but has caused long-running family arguments about which end is “up” for the creature.](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/relationships/2024-06-17-kiddo-has/)
* [Woke up from a dream that I’d been charged with sharing results for federal grant applications from my college. Looked up myself, and was relieved to not get the grant that I’d applied for—but surprised to be awarded funds for a “bike book” project I didn’t remember proposing.](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2024-06-21-woke-up/)
* [I follow higher ed coverage from both The Guardian and my local paper, so when “UK” shows up in my RSS reader, I nearly always have to pause before I can parse whether it refers to the University of Kentucky or the United Kingdom.](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2024-07-12-i-follow/)
Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on:
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-06-18-this-is/)
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Fast Crimes at Lambda School'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2024-06-24-what-a/)
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How Does the Book of Mormon Reinterpret the Bible? – From the Desk'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2024-06-24-austins-book/)
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Boone County High School alum still fighting for school to drop the ‘Rebels’ as mascot'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2024-06-25-i-went/)
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/work/2024-06-25-this-is/)
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2024-06-27-im-not/)
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump asks for conviction to be overturned after immunity ruling'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2024-07-02-look-ive/)
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI means Google's greenhouse gas emissions up 48% in 5 years'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2024-07-03-if-ai/)
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2024-07-12-this-sucks/)
* [🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'What France and America Know About Each Other'](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-07-12-this-is/)
Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed this week:
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for This Campus is a Friggin' Escher Print (The First Dumbing of Age Collection), by David Willis](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-06-30-it-was/)
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for I Beg You, Don't Cast Your Body Into the Cragged Shame Pits of the Lustwolves (A Second Dumbing of Age Collection), by David Willis](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-07-02-like-the/)
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Your Stupid Overconfidence is Nostalgic (A Third Dumbing of Age Collection), by David Willis](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-07-02-doa-can/)
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Amazi-Girl is Always Prepared for Anything (A Fourth Dumbing of Age Collection), by David Willis](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-07-04-to-be/)
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Hey, Guess What, I'm a Lesbian! (A Fifth Dumbing of Age Collection), by David Willis](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-07-05-lots-of/)
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for The Machinations of my Revenge Will Be Cold, Swift, and Absolutely Ridiculous (A Sixth Dumbing of Age Collection), by David Willis](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-07-07-the-lines/)
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Just Put Down the Ukulele Only Then Can the Healing Begin (A Seventh Dumbing of Age Collection), by David Willis](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-07-09-this-continues/)
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Boys Weekend, by Mattie Lubchansky](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2024-07-09-theres-a/)
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Up Here We Can Be Garbage (An Eighth Dumbing of Age Collection), by David Willis](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/myself/2024-07-10-in-some/)
* [📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus, by Leo Tolstoy](https://spencergreenhalgh.com/communities/2024-07-10-i-dont/)
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Spencer