May 10, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for May 10 2024

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

• Stack Exchange and digital labor

• setting up POSSE-style microblogging with a Hugo static site and Micro.blog

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• Faut que j’arrête d’écouter le nouvel album des Cowboys fringants en voiture—trop difficile de conduire les larmes aux yeux.

• In hindsight, I should not have waited for the day I wanted to submit final grades to do the obligatory annual reset of my institutional password.

• Today is the first day of that sacred season of “I’m done with school but kiddo isn’t yet,” so naturally, I am spending it with a kiddo home sick from school. 😅

• Je ne suis plus étudiant en français ni prof de FLE, mais ça continue à me plaire quand je fais de petites améliorations de ma connaissance de la langue de Moliére. J’aurais aimé me rendre compte de certaines choses quand elles m’auraient aidé professionellement, mais bof.

• I have zero personal interest in joining Bluesky, but I’m happy that you can follow accounts via RSS and even happier that whatever bug was stopping my RSS reader from pulling posts has been resolved. Glad to be following some people I haven’t seen since Twitter.

• This morning, I’m reviewing a manuscript while watching a “cab ride” video on YouTube and thinking about how much calmer academic work is once final grades have been submitted.

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

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Stack Overflow users sabotage their posts after OpenAI deal'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Eurovision 2024: Here are the songs with the best shot at glory'

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

• 🎙️ radioblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (Series 7)

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for A Way of Life: Understanding Our Christian Faith, by Tony Chvala-Smith

• 🎙️ radioblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (Series 8)

• 📺 tvblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Pushing Daisies (Season 1)

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Spencer