October 10, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Oct 10 2025

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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• where I'm cited on Wikipedia

• Jacques Ellul contre l'appli Sora

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• J’aurai une réunion difficile aujourd’hui, et j’écoute donc Les Cowboys Fringants pour me remonter le moral.

• Un donut, ça remonte aussi le moral (même quand je fais des efforts de consommer moins de sucre).

• Outlook reactions continue to be THE WORST.

• Silly me, worrying about getting up on time to get kiddo to school early for a morning activity. I should have just trusted my brain to continue its streak of waking up an hour early and refusing to let me back asleep.

• It’s early, and I’m tired, but with some help frim French, I just realized something cool about the etymology of the word “defeat,” so I’ve got that going for me.

• Okay, so, is “Super Smash Brothers” just supposed to be a play on “Super Mario Brothers”? On one hand, I’m embarrassed for not realizing(?) that earlier; on the other, it seems like low-tier wordplay, so it honestly never occurred to me before.

• « Vous savez pourquoi il n’y a pas de mot anglais pour “la mie” ? Parce qu’il n’y a que ça dans vos pains américains, il n’y a pas de croûte ! » - ma professeure de français à l’université

• Saw an AI “summarize this discussion” button in Canvas today and it was a real downer. It seems to be only instructor-facing, which is better(?) but still makes me angry.

• I have gotten a remarkable amount of work done on my phone while waiting for my delayed eye doctor’s appointment, but it is now time to read Rogue Squadron on Libby and not feel guilty about it.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

• 🔗 linkblog: 'Just going to blow them up?': Sen. Paul had hoped the Trump administration was backing off on boat strikes

• 🔗 linkblog: Nick Fuentes’ Plan to Conquer America

• 🔗 linkblog: Quand le mouvement MAGA réécrit l’histoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale

• 🔗 linkblog: Les femmes osent les métiers d'hommes en Suisse, mais les hommes hésitent

• 🔗 linkblog: Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist

• 🔗 linkblog: Take a Tour of My Five-Bed, Six-Bath Affront to God

• 🔗 linkblog: In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ‘Fat Troops,’ Says Military Needs to Go Full AI

• 🔗 linkblog: The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

• 🔗 linkblog: If 1980s Teen Movies Took Place Today

• 🔗 linkblog: Adam Mosseri’s ‘we’re totally not spying on you’ video is raising a lot of questions

• 🔗 linkblog: OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

• 🔗 linkblog: DOGE’s “Efficiency” Theater Comes Full Circle: Trump Admin Scrambles To Rehire The Very Workers Musk Fired To “Save Money”

• 🔗 linkblog: Research, curriculum and grading: new data sheds light on how professors are using AI

• 🔗 linkblog: After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

• 🔗 linkblog: New tech bolsters UK's law enforcement presence, but one priority requires buy-in from campus residents

• 🔗 linkblog: OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real

• 🔗 linkblog: Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate?

• 🔗 linkblog: Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

• 🔗 linkblog: Pluralistic: Apple’s unlawful evil (06 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

• 🔗 linkblog: Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

• 🔗 linkblog: Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

• 🔗 linkblog: Dead celebrities are apparently fair game for Sora 2 video manipulation

• 🔗 linkblog: Ted Cruz doesn’t seem to understand Wikipedia, lawyer for Wikimedia says

• 🔗 linkblog: OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

• 🔗 linkblog: People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

• 🔗 linkblog: What the Arrival of A.I. Video Generators Like Sora Means for Us

• 🔗 linkblog: He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

• 🔗 linkblog: Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

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

• 📚 bookblog: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Spook Street (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Persepolis (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Jacob: A Brief Theological Introduction (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Wildfire (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Enos, Jarom, Omni: A Brief Theological Introduction (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Served: A Missionary Comics Anthology (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: London Rules (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: The Humiliation of the Word (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Joe Country (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Malaventure en pain d'épices (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Mosiah: A Brief Theological Introduction (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Théologie et technique : Pour une éthique de non-puissance (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer