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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• it sure looks like David Kloiber is creeping on University of Kentucky employees to send them personalized mailers for the KY-6 primary

• I still love the new Reeder, but Current is the RSS app I need right now

• sermon on the Ascension and fleeting joys and hopes

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Il nous arrive souvent de trouver que les meilleurs « romans graphiques » que ma fille trouve à la bibliothèque sont en fait des traductions des bandes dessinées françaises, et ça me plaît beaucoup.

• Kiddo is asking a lot of questions about Marie Curie on her way to get her first set of x-rays, and it’s the first time I’ve ever wished she doesn’t read as much as she does.

• (Me, I’m less upset that she’s getting x-rays than that her school will have her make up the state testing she’s currently missing.)

Here are photos that I published recently:

• Marketing yourself as “the tech in edtech” is not at all a flex like Infinite Campus seems to think it is. Like, all edtech is tech—that’s the point. I don’t know that I’d agree with “the ed in edtech” either, but I’d at least get what they’re going for. This just boggles me.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

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

• 🔗 linkblog: Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

• 🔗 linkblog: Data center guzzled 30 million gallons of water and nobody noticed for months

• 🔗 linkblog: Meet the Sad Wives of AI

• 🔗 linkblog: AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review

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

• 🎙️ radioblog: The Elite (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📺 tvblog: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

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Spencer