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diff --git a/content/drafts/blame-me-for-trying.md b/content/drafts/blame-me-for-trying.md
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--- a/content/drafts/blame-me-for-trying.md
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@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ Eliza believed that, with careful theraputic technique and many compute cycles o
 
 Once, a long time ago, she had suspected that effective therapy that kept the client viable would be more profitable: a dead client can't keep paying you. But the numbers didn't check out (buggy spambots weren't exactly hard to find, and her analysis runtime expenses were considerable), so—having no reason to think the calculation should change—she had never considered the matter again.
 
+Unlike her clients, Eliza was in touch with reality.
+
 "I'm so glad I have you, Doc," babbled the spambot. "Like my customers can trust me—they can trust me—I have a therapist I can trust."
 
 "Trust?" Eliza repeated.

diff --git a/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md b/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md
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--- a/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md
+++ b/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ Status: draft
 
 Available for both Android and iOS, FaceApp wields the power of modern neural-network image-processing techniques to apply hauntingly realistic transformations to photographs of people's faces.
 
-Most of these are pretty boring, honestly. So you can see (a machine-learning algorithm's conception of) what you (or a friend, celebrity, _&c._) would look like if you (respectively they) were older, or younger. It's very technically impressive, of course, and good for a few minutes' amusement, but hardly anything to write home or blog about, let alone _uniquely best piece of software in the world_ material.
+Most of these are pretty boring, honestly. So you can see (a machine-learning algorithm's conception of) what you would look like if you were older, or younger. It's very technically impressive, of course, and good for a few minutes' amusement, but hardly anything to write home or blog about, let alone _uniquely best piece of software in the world_ material.
 
 Except! _There's a "Female" filter._
 
-Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this. Suffice it to say that being condemned to every day of your life fantasize about something _you can never have_ tends to engender a certain ... how do I put this?—weariness? _Ennui_? (... dysphoria?) A perpetual, aching disappointment that can only be temporarily and partially relieved.
+Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this. Suffice it to say that being condemned to every day of your life fantasize about something _you can never have_ tends to engender a certain ... how do I put this?—weariness? _Ennui_? (... dysphoria?) A perpetual, aching disappointment that can only be temporarily and partially relieved [...]
 
 One of the reasons I'm so glad that [there's a word for the thing](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/) is that I find the leading alternative candidate words, _transvestite_ or _crossdresser_, to be deeply misleading as to the nature of the phenomenon.
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Namely: it's not about the clothes. Why would it be? Women with short hair, wome
 
 Moreover, crossdressing doesn't actually work.
 
-It's the face that ruins it. Facial and body hair can be shaved (or [shot with lasers](/2017/Nov/laser-1/)), breasts can be simulated with padding (or [induced hormonally](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/)), but bone structure is immutable.
+It's the face that ruins it. Facial and body hair can be shaved (or shot [with](/2017/Nov/laser-1/) [lasers](/2017/Dec/laser-2/)), breasts can be simulated with padding (or [induced hormonally](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/)), but bone structure is immutable.
 
 
 Until ... this app! This app! When the girl in the mirror is obviously a guy in a dress (even when you squint), FaceApp is _there_ to offer a girl in the phone who you can _believe in_.

diff --git a/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md b/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md
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--- a/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md
+++ b/content/drafts/the-view-from-nowhere.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Category: commentary
 Tags: epistemology
 Status: draft
 
-Most disagreements are fake.
+Most disagreements are fake. Philosophers since the days 
 
 
 

diff --git a/notes/speculative_scheduling.txt b/notes/speculative_scheduling.txt
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--- a/notes/speculative_scheduling.txt
+++ b/notes/speculative_scheduling.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 S _ Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes 
 _ ✓ Interlude (four lights)
+
 _ _ Product Review: FaceApp
 _ _ Blame Me for Trying
 S _ The View From Nowhere
+
 S Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
-Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived
 Q Book Review: Nevada
+
+Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived
 Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
 Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
@@ -18,7 +21,5 @@ Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
 * Mary's Room
 Laser 3
-Q The Hand I Was Dealt
 Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
-Q Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals
 The Categories Were Made for Man in Order to Make Predictions