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# njms' gemlog

My writing here tends to be shorter, higher frequency, and less filtered than the stuff I publish elsewhere. Probably weirder, too. I usually write about nature, epistemology, spirituality, and how they pertain to computer things.

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=> /gemlog/2024-07-04.gmi	2024-07-04 - The software supply chain is something they've done to themselves
=> /gemlog/2024-07-01.gmi	2024-07-01 - Two perspectives on personhood
=> /gemlog/2024-06-23.gmi	2024-06-23 - You're not supposed to sympathize with Pan Han
=> /gemlog/2024-06-18.gmi	2024-06-18 - If you don't do sustainability, the trees stop coming back
=> /gemlog/2024-06-15.gmi	2024-06-15 - The phenomenology of the Computer Science Course Union
=> /gemlog/2024-06-02.gmi	2024-06-02 - How do you pronounce 'Nat'?
=> /gemlog/2024-06-01.gmi	2024-06-01 - Sympathy for the porn bots
=> /gemlog/2024-05-23.gmi	2024-05-23 - Displacement Equals Zero
=> /gemlog/2024-05-13.gmi	2024-05-13 - A list of wholly self-contained descriptors
=> /gemlog/2024-05-10.gmi	2024-05-10 - Software development is antiscience
=> /gemlog/2024-05-08.gmi	2024-05-08 - Registered Computer Professionals
=> /gemlog/music-addiction.gmi	2024-05-02 - Music addiction
=> /gemlog/2024-04-26.gmi	2024-04-26 - The end
=> /gemlog/2024-04-13.gmi	2024-04-13 - Why I left gender studies
=> /gemlog/2024-04-08.gmi	2024-04-08 - An economy of stolen recycling bins
=> /gemlog/2024-04-07.gmi	2024-04-07 - Why I don't write callouts
=> /gemlog/2024-04-06.gmi	2024-04-06 - One njms.ca under God
=> /gemlog/2024-03-30.gmi	2024-03-30 - Academiology VII: Silvics
=> /gemlog/2024-03-26.gmi	2024-03-26 - Thoughts on the carbon tax
=> /gemlog/2024-03-25.gmi	2024-03-25 - Unix-like elders
=> /gemlog/2024-03-21.gmi	2024-03-21 - Should black cats go to heaven?
=> /gemlog/2024-03-19.gmi	2024-03-19 - The OSI model of reality
=> /gemlog/2024-03-17.gmi	2024-03-17 - Today I screwed up
=> /gemlog/2024-03-16.gmi	2024-03-16 - Quintillions of untold stories
=> /gemlog/2024-03-14.gmi	2024-03-14 - A "bad" counselor
=> /gemlog/2024-03-13.gmi	2024-03-13 - What if we gave the flies voting rights?
=> /gemlog/2024-03-11.gmi	2024-03-11 - Three interesting ways of knowing
=> /gemlog/2024-03-07.gmi	2024-03-07 - I just want you to tell me everything's going to be okay, Part I: Thinly-veiled nihilism
=> /gemlog/2024-03-06.gmi	2024-03-06 - Academiology VI: Humility
=> /gemlog/2024-03-05.gmi	2024-03-05 - Maturity
=> /gemlog/silly-computer-things.gmi	2024-03-04 - Silly computer things
=> /gemlog/2024-03-03.gmi	2024-03-03 - Telling stories about the future
=> /gemlog/2024-03-02.gmi	2024-03-02 - Performative friendship
=> /gemlog/2024-03-01.gmi	2024-03-01 - The analog gap
=> /gemlog/2024-02-29.gmi	2024-02-29 - Why I make art
=> /gemlog/2024-02-28.gmi	2024-02-28 - A curious question on a geology final
=> /gemlog/2024-02-27.gmi	2024-02-27 - Anarchism works
=> /gemlog/2024-02-26.gmi	2024-02-26 - We're asking the wrong questions about AI
=> /gemlog/2024-02-25.gmi	2024-02-25 - Our biogeoclimatic monomyth
=> /gemlog/2024-02-24.gmi	2024-02-24 - Reading is hard
=> /gemlog/2024-02-23.gmi	2024-02-23 - The black box
=> /gemlog/2024-02-22.gmi	2024-02-22 - Being seen on the internet
=> /gemlog/2024-02-21.gmi	2024-02-21 - Coffee
=> /gemlog/2024-02-20.gmi	2024-02-20 - Academiology V: Place
=> /gemlog/2024-02-19.gmi	2024-02-19 - Academiology IV: Land
=> /gemlog/2024-02-18.gmi	2024-02-18 - Academiology III: Investment
=> /gemlog/2024-02-17.gmi	2024-02-17 - 136 000 volts can kill you
=> /gemlog/2024-02-16.gmi	2024-02-16 - God hates old growth
=> /gemlog/2024-02-15.gmi	2024-02-15 - Shoot first, ask questions later
=> /gemlog/2024-02-14.gmi	2024-02-14 - Composition is an invitation
=> /gemlog/2024-02-13.gmi	2024-02-13 - Partially-applied self
=> /gemlog/2024-02-12.gmi	2024-02-12 - A eulogy for smartphones I'll never understand
=> /gemlog/2024-02-11.gmi	2024-02-11 - Academiology II: Residency
=> /gemlog/2024-02-10.gmi	2024-02-10 - What happens in gemspace…
=> /gemlog/2024-02-09.gmi	2024-02-09 - Spectres of What Came Before (re: "Reverberations of What Came Before" by winter)
=> /gemlog/2024-02-08.gmi	2024-02-08 - Academiology I: Ritual
=> /gemlog/2024-02-07.gmi	2024-02-07 - Hypermemetic intersectional normalcy
=> /gemlog/2024-02-06.gmi	2024-02-06 - Academiology 0: On the willingness to know the value of university
=> /gemlog/2024-02-05.gmi	2024-02-05 - The existential horror of being transgender
=> /gemlog/2024-02-04.gmi	2024-02-04 - It's not asceticism, it's real life.
=> /gemlog/2024-02-03.gmi	2024-02-03 - Life unloaded
=> /gemlog/2024-02-02.gmi	2024-02-02 - Community Air Filtration Action
=> /gemlog/2024-02-01.gmi	2024-02-01 - Biogeochemical girl
=> /gemlog/2024-01-31.gmi	2024-01-31 - When the jeans rip beside the seam.
=> /gemlog/2024-01-30.gmi	2024-01-30 - Performative empathy
=> /gemlog/2024-01-29.gmi	2024-01-29 - Collective delusions of a past that didn't exist
=> /gemlog/2024-01-28.gmi	2024-01-28 - The women are absent
=> /gemlog/2024-01-27.gmi	2024-01-27 - Ecological machines
=> /gemlog/2024-01-26.gmi	2024-01-26 - CollapseOS is Foundation for climate doomers
=> /gemlog/2024-01-25.gmi	2024-01-25 - Puritanically good
=> /gemlog/2024-01-24.gmi	2024-01-24 - The stakes of an idea
=> /gemlog/2024-01-23.gmi	2024-01-23 - A cargo cult in the imperial core
=> /gemlog/2024-01-22.gmi	2024-01-22 - Robert
=> /gemlog/2024-01-21.gmi	2024-01-21 - Nobody cares about independent digital infrastructure
=> /gemlog/2024-01-20.gmi	2024-01-20 - I share a name with a real person
=> /gemlog/2024-01-19.gmi	2024-01-19 - Will forests still be beautiful if they're gone?
=> /gemlog/2024-01-18.gmi	2024-01-18 - Ageless, sexless, omnipresent
=> /gemlog/2024-01-17.gmi	2024-01-17 - Art that's meant to be understood
=> /gemlog/2024-01-16.gmi	2024-01-16 - Going to class with a dangerous respiratory illness
=> /gemlog/2024-01-15.gmi	2024-01-15 - EOL
=> /gemlog/2024-01-14.gmi	2024-01-14 - What the left has to learn from cults
=> /gemlog/2024-01-13.gmi	2024-01-13 - Autism in the social model of disability
=> /gemlog/2024-01-12.gmi	2024-01-12 - Virtual marginalia
=> /gemlog/2024-01-11.gmi	2024-01-11 - Why I don't write arguments
=> /gemlog/2024-01-10.gmi	2024-01-10 - Scientific apostasy
=> /gemlog/2024-01-09.gmi	2024-01-09 - Foreordination
=> /gemlog/2024-01-08.gmi	2024-01-08 - Sand never asked to think
=> /gemlog/2024-01-07.gmi	2024-01-07 - Tending your garden on the moral high ground
=> /gemlog/2024-01-06.gmi	2024-01-06 - Relationships long-distance in time
=> /gemlog/2024-01-05.gmi	2024-01-05 - "Fuck cars," and foregrounding marginalized voices
=> /gemlog/2024-01-04.gmi	2024-01-04 - How I escaped longtermism
=> /gemlog/2024-01-03.gmi	2024-01-03 - I want to be your friend
=> /gemlog/2024-01-02.gmi	2024-01-02 - EEE is something we do to ourselves
=> /gemlog/2024-01-01.gmi	2024-01-01 - Identity is a network
=> /gemlog/2023-12-31.gmi	2023-12-31 - Autoreiphilia
=> /gemlog/2023-12-30.gmi	2023-12-30 - Holistically broken
=> /gemlog/leap-of-faith-vs-willingness-to-know.gmi	2023-12-29 - A leap of faith versus the willingness to Know
=> /gemlog/my-principles-are-your-technical-debt.gmi	2023-12-26 - My principles are your technical debt
=> /gemlog/2023-12-26.gmi	2023-12-26 - On Christmas
=> /gemlog/everything-is-a-stream.gmi	2023-12-13 - Everything is a Stream
=> /gemlog/2023-12-12.gmi	2023-12-12 - A crisis of faith in the Web
=> /gemlog/2023-09-20.gmi	2023-09-20 - Growing out of your sigma-grindset
=> /gemlog/2023-09-15.gmi	2023-09-15 - Studying computer science at the end of the world
=> /gemlog/2023-09-14.gmi	2023-09-14 - Rocks are as animate as I am
=> /gemlog/2023-08-29.gmi	2023-08-29 - Manifestation is useful, whether or not it's real
=> /gemlog/this-software-is-a-gift.gmi	2023-08-24 - This software is a gift
=> /gemlog/2023-08-22.gmi	2023-08-22 - Who do you write for?
=> /gemlog/2023-08-15.gmi	2023-08-15 - Why make cassettes in 2023
=> /gemlog/technology-is-political.gmi	2023-08-02 - All your software is a political statement
=> /gemlog/transience-orientated-programming.gmi	2023-02-19 - Transience-orientated programming, or how to make software for ghosts
=> /gemlog/low-tech-aesthetic.gmi	2023-01-05 - A self reflection on the aestheticization of low-tech and doing it anyway
=> /gemlog/will-i-ever-post-again.gmi	2022-12-21 - Will I ever post here again?
=> /gemlog/monads-are-scary.gmi	2022-04-25 - Monads are scary; or, The Queering of Object Orientated Programming
=> /gemlog/ethical-anti-design.gmi	2021-02-21 - Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to.
=> /gemlog/the-fediverse-solves-half-the-problem.gmi	2021-02-14 - The Fediverse only solves half the problem.
=> /gemlog/the-dark-web-could-be-a-really-great-place.gmi	2018-09-09 - The dark web could be a really great place.
=> /gemlog/closures-in-programming.gmi	2017-12-28 - Closures in programming: What are they and how do they work?
=> /gemlog/modern-js-arrow-functions.gmi	2017-12-28 - Modern JS concepts: Arrow functions, the new and improved function literals