September 20, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Sep 20 2024

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Here are long-form blog posts I published this week:

• 13 family conversations from before, during, and after a graveside service

• James vs. the Trump-Vance ticket: An orphaned, remixed sermon

• the foundational experience of losing temples

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• I had to visit Gab today to hunt down some data for a paper, and boy was this the wrong Monday to visit that hellhole of a site.

• With Mozilla exiting the fediverse, I guess it’s time to really think about either hosting a personal server or seeing if I can make my Hugo site play nice with ActivityPub…

• Real uptick in emphasis on grades, homework, and tests in kiddo’s school this year, and I’m torn between a paternal impulse to get really invested in all of that and my professional disdain for how invested we all get in all of that.

• Trying jasmine tea for the first time. I can see why Le Carré characters keep ragging on Control for drinking it, but it’s not bad, actually.

• Concerned about the fragile masculinity of the driver whose response to my pulling up in the bike lane is to progressively inch forward into the intersection so that I don’t beat him across when the light turns green. My dude, so long as you don’t run me over, I’m good.

• I made a BASIC joke for kiddo’s lunchbox note today. Turns out I forgot to actually put it in her lunch, but once we both got home, I was pleased to see that she puzzled out the syntax on her own.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on this week:

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Big publishers think libraries are the enemy'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'A day in Elon Musk’s mind: 145 tweets with election conspiracies and emojis'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Haitian immigrants helped revive a struggling Ohio town. Then neo-Nazis turned up'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Going the Distance at the Tram Driver Olympics'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Pluralistic: Thinking the unthinkable (19 Sep 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow'

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

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for We Should Improve Society Somewhat, by Matt Bors

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Public Domain (Volume 1), by Chip Zdarsky

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Spencer