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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• sermon text on Parable of the Sower

• conference presentation on Jacques Ellul and Mormonism

• Call for Papers: Platformed Mormonism

• les petites victoires d'un francophone aspirant

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Nothing annoys me more than an academic argument whose conclusion I want to agree with but is constructed in a sloppy, superficial way.

• Okay, you weird French blobs: It’s time to try out Heave Ho 2.

• Last night, I decided to return a bunch of unread volumes of My Hero Academia to the library, and I am feeling uncultured.

• I have purchased a reel mower because it is less expensive than buying a replacement battery for our electric mower, which was itself a replacement battery for the one we originally had.

• I have the lowest possible standards for feeling victorious at home improvement tasks, and yet I so rarely meet that standard that I will always take that feeling when it comes.

• I think I have an idea for a book, but a book doesn’t make professional sense for at least two years, BUT this means for the first time in my career, I have an idea of a true research trajectory instead of repeatedly stumbling into cool projects.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

• 🔗 linkblog: Musk’s Starlink Socks Customers With $1500 ‘High Demand’ Surcharge

• 🔗 linkblog: xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

• 🔗 linkblog: The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

• 🔗 linkblog: The dizzying experience of 'vibe coding'

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

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

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

• 📚 bookblog: The Way of the House Husband, Volume 1 (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: The Way of the House Husband, Volume 2 (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: The Way of the House Husband, Volume 3 (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: The Way of the House Husband, Volume 4 (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

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Thanks for reading!

Spencer