September 12, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Sep 12 2025

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Here are long-form blog posts I published recently:

• lines from the existential horror comic Ice Cream Man that I could work into sermons

• new publication: online space in a Community of Christ congregation

• burn down the platforms

• 404 Media podcast on generative AI and epistemology

Here are microblog posts that I published recently:

• Today was really, truly going to be a much-needed writing day, and then I didn’t even clear my inbox until 2:30. Yayyyyyy.

• I’ve studied enough educational psychology to know I don’t believe in a “general intelligence factor,” but not enough I’m confident I could talk kiddo’s school out of testing students for it.

• If there’s one cause I truly aspire to be more radical about, it’s non-violence.

Here are photos that I published recently (or at least their descriptions):

• TFW a webcomic punchline is more or less your actual theology.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on recently:

• 🔗 linkblog: The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’

• 🔗 linkblog: Le Valais veut se doter d'une université prioritairement à distance

• 🔗 linkblog: Les CFF ajouteront 560 places supplémentaires pour vélos d'ici à 2027

• 🔗 linkblog: How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image

• 🔗 linkblog: Migros célèbre ses 100 ans en grande pompe sur le site de la Fête fédérale de lutte

• 🔗 linkblog: All the President’s Tech CEOs

• 🔗 linkblog: Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner

• 🔗 linkblog: MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech

• 🔗 linkblog: Suisse: le rail atteint un nouveau sommet avec 23 milliards de personnes-kilomètres

• 🔗 linkblog: 'Despicable and thoughtless': Comments on boat strike create a new rift between Sen. Paul and VP Vance

• 🔗 linkblog: GOP megabill could cost UK HealthCare $100M annually in Medicaid reimbursement payments, but a leading university official has doubts

• 🔗 linkblog: This season’s flu and COVID vaccines are now available at Kentucky pharmacies

• 🔗 linkblog: The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags

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

• 📚 bookblog: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Five (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Six (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Seven (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Eight (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Nine (❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: L'île presque (❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️)

• 📚 bookblog: Real Tigers (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: Ice Cream Man, Volume Ten (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

• 📚 bookblog: 1st Nephi: A Brief Theological Introduction (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer