June 7, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Jun 07 2025

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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• Jacques Ellul and success as the only techbro metric

• on abstracting human life in games

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Kiddo just apologized for being the “baron of bad news,” and that’s how we’re all going to say it from now on, okay?

• Il n’y a pas d’anxiété sans été.

• Road trip tomorrow, so downloading Portal to kiddo’s Switch to see if she’s old enough to enjoy it.

• So, uh, is my kid’s dream about a peanut butter fountain a good or a bad omen for all the hours we’re spending in the car today?

• One of the fun things (for me) about attending World Conference is remembering how much more useful French is in Community of Christ contexts than LDS contexts.

• Living my best Mormon(-adjacent) life today by having an article accepted in Dialogue the same day that I’ll be watching two of the people who gave me advice on revisions be ordained apostles in Community of Christ.

• “What am I, made of jokes tonight?” - kiddo, after telling two admittedly good ones

• Un ami norvégien qui a passé son enfance dans le Vaud m’a dit cette semaine qu’il détectait de l’influence suisse dans mon français, et j’en ai été très fier !

Here are photos that I published this week (or at least their descriptions):

• I know what this school means, and I hate feeling like I’m playing ivory tower definitions games, but it REALLY bugs me when we limit “technology” to “things with chips in them.” A wiffle ball is technology, too.

• Here’s Stassi Cramm presiding at Community of Christ World Conference after being ordained last night as our church’s first female prophet-president.

• Dr. Calvin discovers the labor problems in academic publishing.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: From LDS missionary to Community of Christ elder — this Utah woman is ready to lead in her new faith

• 🔗 linkblog: Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

• 🔗 linkblog: The Internet of Consent - Anil Dash

• 🔗 linkblog: ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows

• 🔗 linkblog: Eurovision Reminds Me of a Country That No Longer Exists - Electric Literature

• 🔗 linkblog: Doing Justice by Providing Sabbath for Others

• 🔗 linkblog: A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion

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

• 📚 bookblog: Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Presence in the Modern World (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🍿 movieblog: A Minecraft Movie (❤️❤️🖤🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 🎙️ radioblog: Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk, Saison 1 (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

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Spencer