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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• sermon on priorities, tensions, and unexpected solutions

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Cette semaine, je vais faire livrer le nouveau tome Brume jusqu’aux USA pour moi et ma fille, mais ce n’est qu’en commandant un tas de choses de chez Fnac que les frais de port deviennent supportables. J’accepte donc tout conseil sur ce qu’il faut lire de francophone en ce moment !

• Bad faith challenges of expertise are real problems with potentially disastrous consequences for society, but the lifting up of academic researchers as purely objective and authoritative because they can express their conclusions in numbers is not the solution.

• Slow Horses Season 6 made a lot of strange adaptation choices, but I appreciate that they kept the “Poirot” bit and made it work for television despite being so heavily dependent on narration in the original.

• Today’s adventures in helping kiddo with a science fair project include: 1) discovering I can still do long division and 2) complaining that the school worksheet organizes data into rows and columns differently than I would have.

Here are photos that I published recently:

• Okay, maybe the trick to continuing to appreciate “does AI deserve rights?” media from pre-2022 is to recognize when it was also concerned about labor, exploitation, and hubristic growth.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems

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

• 📚 bookblog: That One Matt Bors Comic (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Singularities (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Orbital Mechanics (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🍿 movieblog: Quai d'Orsay (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Rise of the Robots (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🎙️ radioblog: 57, rue de Varenne, Saison 2 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: The Machine War (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 🎙️ radioblog: 57, rue de Varenne, Saison 3 (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Resident Alien, Omnibus 1 (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📺 tvblog: Slow Horses Season 6 (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Resident Alien, Omnibus Volume 2 (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: The Book of Love (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: The Book of Life (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: The Book of Changes (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer