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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• sermon on the Ascension and fleeting joys and hopes

• l'anglais américain dans les séries télévisées françaises

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 news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: There’s no such thing as “age verification” (19 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 🔗 linkblog: We Need A More Serious Discussion About Suicide And AI Chatbots

• 🔗 linkblog: The Mandalorian and Grogu should have been a season of TV

• 🔗 linkblog: America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here

• 🔗 linkblog: The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

• 🔗 linkblog: Bill Cassidy Loses Primary; RFK Jr. Will Be His Legacy

• 🔗 linkblog: Hey Platforms: Add TAKE IT DOWN To Your Transparency Reports

• 🔗 linkblog: US Senate votes to advance resolution limiting Trump war in Iran as Cassidy flips • Kentucky Lantern

• 🔗 linkblog: 4chan’s Misogynist ‘Wizards’ Are Nudifying Women by Request

• 🔗 linkblog: Trump Sued Himself And Walked Away With A $100 Million Tax Debt Erased

• 🔗 linkblog: Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

• 🔗 linkblog: The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech

• 🔗 linkblog: How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart

• 🔗 linkblog: OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

• 🔗 linkblog: In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs

• 🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: Shopping isn’t politics (21 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 🔗 linkblog: The Science Is Not Settled: How Weak Evidence Is Fueling A National Push To Ban Social Media For Youth

• 🔗 linkblog: Amazon Gets Into The AI Podcast Slop Business

• 🔗 linkblog: SpaceX’s IPO Filing Shows Elon’s Twitter ‘Business Genius’ Was A Fantasy

• 🔗 linkblog: This Week in the World: The Cascading Harms of US Aid Cuts | Friends Committee On National Legislation

• 🔗 linkblog: The FDA Takes Its Turn Burying Studies Showing The Safety Of COVID, Shingles Vaccines

• 🔗 linkblog: In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few

• 🔗 linkblog: Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI

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

• 📺 tvblog: Samuel Saison 1 (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📺 tvblog: Un village français Saison 5 (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

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Spencer