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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• rediscovering Jonathan Coulton this morning

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

Here are photos that I published recently:

• Look, I enjoy that I get to study the weirdness of online Mormonism in all its breadth, but I was still not expecting a genAI Ghibli rendition of the Short Creek raid as a thumbnail for a Warren Jeffs recording on a fundamentalist Rumble channel.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few

• 🔗 linkblog: Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI

• 🔗 linkblog: She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

• 🔗 linkblog: ‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access

• 🔗 linkblog: Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation.

• 🔗 linkblog: Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien

• 🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 🔗 linkblog: US law enforcement warns of 'anti-tech extremism' as AI hatred grows

• 🔗 linkblog: Clavicular Wakes Up As Hideous, Jawless Monster After Rating Old Crone A 4

• 🔗 linkblog: Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags

• 🔗 linkblog: Utilities report as many as 30 data centers under discussion in Kentucky • Kentucky Lantern

• 🔗 linkblog: This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

• 🔗 linkblog: Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious

• 🔗 linkblog: The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens

• 🔗 linkblog: Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

• 🔗 linkblog: How AI Can Lead To False Arrests & Wrongful Convictions

• 🔗 linkblog: AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle

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

• 🍿 movieblog: The Sheep Detectives (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Godworld (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: True Atonement (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Forbidden Realms and Hidden Truths (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Exctinction is the Rule (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Later Than You Think (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: No Authority But Yourself (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Anarchy in Action (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Rainbow Sprinkles (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Strange Neapolitan (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

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Spencer