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diff --git a/commentary_elsewhere.txt b/commentary_elsewhere.txt
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@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/against-blanchardianism/#comment-
 https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/against-blanchardianism/#comment-25861
 https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/against-blanchardianism/#comment-25868
 https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/the-cluster-structure-of-genderspace/comment-page-1/#comment-26132
+https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-is-bad-science/comment-page-1/#comment-26928

diff --git a/content/drafts/changes.md b/content/drafts/changes.md
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@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Status: draft
 
 "Mark, I can't quite place it, but you look ... _different_ somehow," says Alexa.
 
-"Oh, yes, I'm experimenting with a nonstandard hormone balance. It's kind of like being transgender, but without the part where you delusionally claim to be a woman."
+"Oh yes, thanks for noticing. I'm experimenting with a nonstandard hormone balance. It's kind of like being transgender, but without the part where you delusionally claim to be a woman."
 
-"What?"
+"_What?!_"
 
 "I said, 'It's kind of like being transgender, but less socially-disruptive.' Why, what did you think I said?"

diff --git a/content/drafts/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-ii-friendship-survived.md b/content/drafts/memoirs-of-my-recent-madness-part-ii-friendship-survived.md
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@@ -148,3 +148,5 @@ I had done better than average; most people were starving
 "[...] hasn't accepted my request yet"; he literally meant Facebook friend request, not bizarre ambiguity-leveraging favor-trading
 
 evolution of traditions, trying to create a Schelling point everyone going to bed at the same time, as an example of everyone being synchronized
+
+predictive text driving more of the world; right angles and the aesthetic discernment dimension and the vampires

diff --git a/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md b/content/drafts/yes-the-only-real-transwoman-is-a-transitioned-transwoman.md
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@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Status: draft
 >
 > —_Quarantine_ by Greg Egan
 
+_(Epistemic status: I'm usually nicer than this, but I feel like the Zeitgeist is out of control and that I need to pull the brakes, hard.)_
+
 People who are concerned with social justice tend to be rightfully skeptical when privileged straight white men like me complain about identity politics. That's why, when the topic is misogyny or racism, I generally _shut up_—even if I might occasionally privately _think_ I might have something true and relevant to say about the costs of the culture of the political left teaching people to model themselves as helpless victims of a kyriarchical society, I also realize that _my opinion doesn't matter_. I'm not a woman or a racial minority; I don't have their lived experience; I _don't know what it's like_ to face the challenges they face. I don't have standing to speak.
 
 But social progress marches on, and as old grievances recede into the mists of history, new ones take their place, and when the day comes to pass that the designated victim group of our age is _straight boys who wish they were girls_, then suddenly, _I have standing_. Girl, do _I have standing!_ And I will put an _end_ to this _toxic bullshit_, because I am nobody's victim.

diff --git a/notes/tech_tasks.txt b/notes/tech_tasks.txt
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@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 What's going on with caching behavior??
 link to archives page
+archives group posts by month
 configure server with user
 configure scheduled posting with cron
-Git mirror on server
 self-promotion: Reddit, Crossdreamers, Third Way Trans
 Pelican bug report or patch re spacing in file
 favicon
+CSS size (my browser things look better at 90%)

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@@ -208,3 +208,5 @@ https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/883902728849809409 "being nice to peopl
 women do worse on Asch; in contrast, trans women are _selected_ for nonconformity
 
 original research post?— the Hsu–Bailey autopedophilia paper finds a much higher rate of ETLE in pedophiles than in normal men (they say they found 15% AGP in the Mechanical Turk sample gathered for their earlier psychometrics-of-AGP work, but oddly, the psychometrics-of-AGP paper doesn't seem to mention this?? Maybe ask Bailey to clarify sometime??); could this be evidence for the developmental competition effect? (Pedophiles thankfully don't get to actualize their desires, so they fall into ETLI instead?) Similarly, concerning the high IQ of AGP trans women not just being a selection effect: maybe it's because smart people don't get laid (remember that study about a huge fraction of MIT grad students being virgins)
+
+http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118329