June 30, 2023

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Jun 30 2023

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

• rejecting one fundamentalism to accept another

• a report on tea drinking

• thinking about Lexington's pride flags

• langue, ponctuation, et logiciel

• on Abraham and syntax

• some more on Abraham

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• Kiddo: “I just want to teach cavemen to make pepperoni pizza.”

• There are Aquabats songs that I like because I know they’re dumb, but there is zero irony in my love for “Pizza Day.”

• Grateful to have a spouse who thinks I like ginger way more than a person should but still buys dark chocolate ginger cookies because she knows I’ll like them. She and kiddo tried them, but I’m the only one who appreciates the burn.

• Aujourd’hui, j’ai appris que James Bond avait une mère vaudoise.

• In further proof that stereotypical plots in children’s media often have some truth to them, kiddo was dreading going to summer camp this morning but wished this afternoon that she didn’t have to leave.

• Ce matin, je prends un petit voyage ferroviare entre Bâle et Strasbourg grâce à YouTube.

• It annoys me when a journal asks a reviewer to address specific prompts; it annoys me more when I only realize this after writing my review.

• I’ve tried to scale back my media consumption recently. My RSS client feels empty, and it’s weird not to check social media as much. Every time I think about stepping it back up, though, it just stresses me out.

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

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Reddit Tells Mods That Protesting By Changing Sub To NSFW Violates The Rules | Techdirt'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Student Monitoring Tools Should Not Flag LGBTQ+ Keywords | Electronic Frontier Foundation'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Reddit pressures mods to end the blackout as they find new ways to protest - The Verge'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private - The Verge'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Internal Twitter Video Reveals Twitter Bent Over Backwards To Protect Trump And Pro-Trump Insurrectionists | Techdirt'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Reddit Won’t Be the Same. Neither Will the Internet | WIRED'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed | WIRED'

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

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for Adventuregame Comics 1: Leviathan, by Jason Shiga

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Meanwhile, by Jason Shiga

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Spencer