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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• does AI help us work less or work more?

• on little acts of radicalism

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of single-issue voting, but I’m so annoyed by our incumbent mayor’s “let’s think long and hard before rushing into getting rid of Flock” that I don’t know that any other issue is going to matter to me in a few weeks.

• It turns out I can get grumpier about my employer’s “relentless adoption” approach to AI, and that’s when they start calling it SI when the president might be listening.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

• 🔗 linkblog: Experience or a new voice? Lexington mayoral debate highlights contrast between Gorton, Carter

• 🔗 linkblog: Flock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisome

• 🔗 linkblog: Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude

• 🔗 linkblog: 'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting

• 🔗 linkblog: YouTube, Meta, and Twitch won’t say if they’ll allow the US government to live stream an execution

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

• 🍿 movieblog: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Electric Love (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 🍿 movieblog: The Big Short (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer