March 29, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Mar 29 2024

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

• do you want to be good or to be optimized?

• religious authority, Mormonism, and Instagram

• Community of Christ's Holy Week

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• I’m getting this second-hand, but it sounds like the textbook for one of our classes is giving students the impression that Aaron Swartz was a cybercriminal, and now I have lots of curriculum questions.

• Turns out that biking to and from soccer practice might be a bit too much to ask of kiddo in a single night. At least I got to chat kids and bikes with one of the other soccer dads.

• Really want to make a joke involving Holy Saturday and the 1990s comic arc “Reign of the Supermen,” but those ingredients are all I can come up with.

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

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Politicians Who Voted to Ban TikTok May Own as Much as $126 Million in Tech Stocks'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple (22 Mar 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Elon Discovers When Content Moderation Makes Sense: When He Can Use It To Protect Racist Bigots From Being Called Out'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Special Features of Trump’s Bible'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'College DEI programs survive as clock runs out on KY Republican supermajority'

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

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for The New Testament: A Translation, by David Bentley Hart

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for Nancy Wins at Friendship: A Nancy Comic Collection, by Olivia Jaimes

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Spencer