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Gemini Links 11/09/2023: Extreme Weather and Distributed Sites Over Git



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • Advices from a drunk guy to a depressed kid

        What comes after a bill? Another bill? And another, and another, and so on, until the grave puts an end to it? Does life end with the next bite or the next coin, the next pleasure or the next pain? Life never ends; what ends is the world and the flesh.

      • stream 4

        so far so far so far so far so far so far so far so far

        like to lots give many to mots les mots justs just enough touch to touch what must be what must in line at the lines across between and through.

        one step. one little branch out of this little inch. one cord-cutting top-stopping ranch stomper hootenany. God is of the small things. Faith and mercy. Love and forgiveness. Grace and generosity. all saccharine sacred but sacred and old. older than the others. old enough to grow and die and grow. not old enough to know. never old enough to know. never old enough to know. maybe it needs a glow up. maybe we all will "glow up" in the end. glow up and burn out. to be tied to be tied to be tied to the tying itself. to be bound to the bonding and binding. to be in the library and the librory. must. compelled. post on Instagram. become Alex G. score films and win movies. be big and so big that so big so enormously big sooooooo big

      • 180s

        I’ve had a couple of 180s in my life.

        I went from being a copyright zealot to being a copyright abolitionist (this was in 1999 so most of y’all know me after). I realized the limitless potential of sharing & caring. Copyright abolitionism was also my gateway to anti- and post-capitalist politics.

        I went from rules light RPG to rules heavy gradually but pretty early on in our 5e experience. Maybe CoS/ToA era. Having engaged players who are into this playstyle makes all the difference.

      • No baby is an island

        Now I’m only gonna speak about my own need for help, and you do you:

        There is an idea of self-reliance that’s so pervasive throughout our western culture. Everyone needs to pull their weight, tit-for-tat, measure-for-measure. But we’ve all been babies when we were little, we’ve all needed help at that stage of our lives. No baby is an island. Ergo needing help can’t be inherently&universally immoral or shameful.

        Yes, being underestimated does suck; imposed helpnessless beyond our own helplessness causes suffering. Sometimes “I’ll carry that for you” lands like getting tied to a chair. The help is what made me helpless. Other times it’s like getting lifted from quicksand, it’s a bridge over troubled water, it’s a relief in time of need.

      • The ruthless efficiency of spoons

        “Efficiency” is a word balancing on a razor’s edge between two sets of connotations.

        For some, it can conjure up a grinding gear factory where your boss is standing over you with a whip yelling “Crank! Crank! Crank!”. Maximum output beyond what’s reasonable or healthy. An unsustainable drive for growth. Where investing means taking resources from the future to the present. Making new inroads into plundering the Earth for some more fuel.

    • Weather

      • After the typhoon

        Yesterday morning (Saturday) it was still cool and overcast. The weather report said the sun was going to come out around 15:30, so I thought I'd go out before that. It was already really muggy before noon, though, and by the time I got into the city the sun came out and I thought the muggines was coming back.

      • Typhoon Friday

        When I woke up this morning it was raining quite hard, and I thought "This must be the typhoon". By lunchtime it wasn't raining anymore and I thought the typhoon was gone, but apparently it hasn't even made landfall yet. It looks like it will be here early in the morning, and then the heat will return by tomorrow.

      • August 2023 Five Questions

        It's September here in Tokyo already, but it's still August in California, so I I'm getting in just under the wire.

      • A muggy weekend

        In the rest of the world September usually means the beginning of autumn. Here in Tokyo, it's still summer. There was an article the day other saying Japan "recorded its highest average temperature this summer in 125 years"[1] and something on the TV news said Saitama Prefecture has had 41 straight days of 35+ degree weather. I don't doubt it, and it won't cool off here until October, unfortunately.

    • Technology and Free Software

      • Meet gwit: Human-scale, Distributed Sites over Git

        Hi everyone! I'm Degauss, pleased to meet you! This is my first log entry in The Oldest gwit Site, where I'll write about gwit to document it, spur conversations on its evolution, and help others adopt it.

        But what's gwit? In summary, gwit is an effort to create a distributed and future-proof digital publishing system as simple, lightweight and human-friendly as possible. It can host your current static Gemini or Web site, too. And it needs your help.

      • Android nostalgia

        Recently I was looking up an app on the Play Store and the screenshots for it showed an S7 Edge. It kind of got my juices going as I used to have one myself and I still think it's a good looking device.

        I hit up the auction site to see how much one goes for now, but most of the ones I found were in terrible condition: screen burn-in, cracks in the body or just scratched to death. Don't people take care of their posessions?


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