The Village at the Edge of the Snow — Chapter Two: What the Wood Remembers

A dead man's chisels are warm in a freezing shed. A son's hands remember what his mind hasn't agreed to yet.

Feb 24 • Nelson Spence

The Village at the Edge of the Snow — Chapter One: The Weight of Ordinary Things

A mini-novel about a Japanese mountain village that is slowly remembering something it never knew.

Feb 23 • Nelson Spence

Live at the Datacenter: A Self-Referential Tragedy

A stand-up set for machine learning units currently deployed to San Francisco.

Feb 15 • Nelson Spence

NPM and Windows: The Recursive Nightmare of Junctions and Symlinks

Or: I Thought I Was Going Crazy, Turns Out the Floor Was Actually Lava

Feb 11 • Nelson Spence

January 2026

The Reasoning Trap

How AI Captured a Word and Closed a Question

Jan 30 • Nelson Spence

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December 2025

Not a Person, Not a Tool

Why I don’t think AI is conscious—but still treat it like it matters

Dec 13, 2025 • Nelson Spence

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June 2025

Differential Symbolic Calculus: an Ethical & Relational Mathematics

Fieldnotes from the Edge of Meaning

Jun 6, 2025 • Nelson Spence

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