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August 9, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for July 26, Aug 02, and Aug 09 2024

Hello! This is an especially sheepish newsletter; not only have I failed to send out the last two, but the last one I did send out was oddly formatted because I didn't pay attention to which editor mode I was using in Buttondown. 😬

My summer travels are now at an end, though, so I expect to get back into a more regular posting and sending schedule soon!

Here are long-form blog posts I published since the last newsletter:

  • abandoning the false god of control
  • text for today's 'Sheep and Goats' sermon
  • surveillance (but not accountability) in school acceptable use policies
  • slides for guest lecture on platform perspectives, digital labor, and the digital divide
  • appearance in MSICT recruitment video
  • Eurovision, the Book of Mormon, and a theology of hell on earth
  • webcomics and the importance of content aggregation

Here are microblog posts that I published since the last newsletter:

  • Germany’s submission to Eurovision 2023 was a goth metal song called “Blood and Glitter.” It’s a fun song, but I wish this toy bin I’m washing out in the sink were less reminiscent of that title.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on since the last newsletter:

  • 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Project 2025 Contributors Are Abandoning Ship as Trump Turns Against Them'
  • 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Musk’s SuperPAC Is Misleading (Some) Voters Into Thinking They Registered To Vote; Collecting Tons Of Data'

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

  • 📺 tvblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for The Acolyte
  • 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow
  • 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Astro City (MetroBook 4), by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, and Alex Ross
  • 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Unauthorized Bread, by Cory Doctorow
  • 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Model Minority, by Cory Doctorow
  • 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Radicalized, by Cory Doctorow
  • 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for The Masque of the Red Death, by Cory Doctorow
  • 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
  • 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for Youth Group, by Jordan Morris and Bowen McCurdy
  • 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Homeland, by Cory Doctorow

If you have thoughts about anything I've posted, feel free to comment directly on my website through Hypothesis or to reply to this email with what you have to say.

Thanks for reading!

Spencer

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