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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• podcast interview about recent Dialogue article

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• J’ai commencé à écouter Stromae ce matin, sans trop me demander si ça représentait de la trahison après la défaite de mes compatriotes aux mains (aux pieds ?) des Belges hier. Mais bon, j’aime bien Stromae, je m’en fiche un peu du foot, et en tout cas, les USA méritent du châtiment en ce moment.

• One perk of using Markdown/HTML-based slides is that I can work on them from my phone’s text editor when sitting a few rows back from kiddo at a summer library event.

• Am I playing fast and loose with tracking kiddo’s time for summer reading programs? Yes, but she’s also a kid who never gets angrier at me than when I tell her to put down a book to come to dinner, so I think I can get away with it.

• I don’t mind a genuinely difficult escape room (or at-home escape room game), but one advertised as difficult that just feels arbitrary is just frustrating.

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Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.

• 🔗 linkblog: Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader

• 🔗 linkblog: A New Battle Hymn

• 🔗 linkblog: Cops Say Waymo Snitched on Teens for Allegedly Drinking and Shooting a Toy Gun

• 🔗 linkblog: Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

• 🔗 linkblog: Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

• 🔗 linkblog: Meta is reportedly working on smart glasses that would be recording all the time

• 🔗 linkblog: The Party That Screams About The Evils Of Socialism Wants To Nationalize AI Companies

• 🔗 linkblog: Adults Broke The Internet, And They’re Trying To Fix It By Kicking Kids Off

• 🔗 linkblog: How Marco Rubio Runs Venezuela From Afar

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

• 📚 bookblog: I'm a Trash Goblin Who Craves Mess (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🍿 movieblog: Toy Story 5 (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 🍿 movieblog: This is Spinal Tap (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Dungeon Crawler Carl (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Parable of the Sower (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

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Spencer