June 7, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Jun 07 2024

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Here are long-form blog posts I published this week:

• the difficulty of imagining the kingdom of God

• some people get Mormons, but lots of people don't

• how to translate 'restoration' and different views on religion

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• I don’t know how this is possible, but I’m now at a stage of my career where I’m giving advice to junior faculty and newly-minted PhDs. I honestly don’t know if that diminishes or increases my feelings of imposter syndrome.

• My current RSS reader (feeeed for iOS) boasts Fediverse integration. I always figured it was just through grabbing accounts’ RSS feeds, and you can do that, but it turns out if you subscribe to it as a Fediverse account, it works as a quasi-client, with additional data pulled in. Neat!

• Let’s be honest: I’d much rather be at my department’s writing retreat today (with free lunch, to boot!) and that my kid be going to (definitely not free) summer camp. All that said, I’m deeply grateful that a professor’s schedule is flexible enough that I can respond to a sick kid pretty easily.

• The most expensive part of this round of strep throat is going to be the 40% of summer camp tuition that corresponds to the days kiddo won’t be attending.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on this week:

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'OpenAI launches programs making ChatGPT cheaper for schools and nonprofits'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Wallace & Gromit's New Movie Will Bring Back the Greatest Villain In Animation History'

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

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for Beyond Resistance: The Institutional Church Meets the Postmodern World, by John Dorhauer

• 🎙️ radioblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for The Man Born to Be King

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for Social Fiction, by Chantal Montellier

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou Deluxe Edition (Volume 1), by Hitoshi Ashinano

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Spencer