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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• des blagues qui se cachent derrière les sous-titres

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Look, I think it can be equally true that the local school district really screwed up their financial situation AND that my rep in the Kentucky state house’s handwringing over that is motivated by bad faith and not genuine concern.

• I love a genuinely good experience as a peer reviewer. The current manuscript I’m reviewing is one that I’m very well suited to review (which does not happen enough), and the authors have clearly improved the paper since the last round. It’s nice when things work like they’re supposed to.

• It’s amazing how much I struggle to write a single sentence during time I’ve set aside for writing, but when I’m in the middle of grading, I can “pause for a second” to jot down an idea and wind up with three draft paragraphs.

• Ça fera bientôt vingt-cinq ans depuis le début de mes études du français, mais dans une scène de fiction, les nuances du tutoiement et du vouvoiement m’échappent toujours. Je comprends ce qui est dit mais trop souvent sans reconnaître les implications pour la relation entre deux personnages.

• My decision a few months ago to import my Twitter archive into my journaling app has been a mixed bag. I’ve been deleting a lot of orphaned references and truncated posts, but also, now I have a record of the time I picked a fight with an LMS CEO about privacy, and that’s fun.

Here are photos that I published recently:

• Amazing time of year for this to happen.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying

• 🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: Bubbles are REALLY evil (07 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 🔗 linkblog: Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

• 🔗 linkblog: The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle

• 🔗 linkblog: 'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech

• 🔗 linkblog: Canvas is open source, but its cloud services ransomware attack really hurts

• 🔗 linkblog: I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

• 🔗 linkblog: Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

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

• 📺 tvblog: Un village français Saison 4 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer