June 27, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Jun 27 2025

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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• brief, first thoughts on Flipboard's Surf app

• Ellul on technique and turning stones to bread

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Trader Joe’s chai mints are everything I was hoping they’d be.

• Has anyone ever tried Kagi’s Kid Mode? It sounds like a great idea but also ups the cost significantly, so I’d like to hear about experiences before deciding.

• Woke up with protest music from Andor playing in my head, which seems fitting.

• Kiddo’s Father’s Day card has been addressed to “Dr. Spencer Greenhalgh,” which is technically accurate but still feels off.

• What kind of children’s performer has three different “no photos” reminders before the show even starts?

• I feel like we need to talk more about epistemology—and especially the social construction of facts—in the era of chatbot LLMs.

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

• It was a real choice to start this dystopian comic the same day I got to the chapter in Karen Hao’s Empire of AI about Silicon Valley outsourcing the worst jobs to the Global South in the name of providing economic opportunity.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: Noem Announces Military Will ‘Liberate’ LA From Democracy, Then Watches Security Throw Senator To Ground

• 🔗 linkblog: Teachers Are Not OK

• 🔗 linkblog: The LDS historical department just published an 1886 polygamy revelation

• 🔗 linkblog: GOP Lawmakers Clarify Their Hate-Filled Rhetoric Only Meant To Stoke Fundraising

• 🔗 linkblog: Fanfiction writers battle AI, one scrape at a time

• 🔗 linkblog: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

• 🔗 linkblog: Bezos Wedding Guests Given Monogrammed Plastic Bottles To Urinate In During Ceremony

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

• 📚 bookblog: The Mormon Jesus: A Biography (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Arca (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Saga, Volume 12 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: The Hunger and the Dusk, Volume 1 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: The Sound of Mormonism: A Media History of Latter-day Saints (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Reminding Myself That Despite What That Sign on the Highway Says, Hell Isn't Real (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Kill Columbus (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Age (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

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Spencer