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+Title: Social Strategy Notes, February 2019
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: personal, software industry
+Status: draft
+
+> _There's a heart that must be free  
+> To fly  
+> That burns with the need to know  
+> The reason why  
+> Why must we all conceal  
+> What we think, how we feel?  
+> Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?_
+>
+> —"Reflection", _Mulan_ (as performed by Christina Aguilera)
+
+February has been a pretty exciting month for me in terms of advancing in my chosen profession!
+
+First, I flew to "Munich" to participate in the all-hands team meeting for the "Blerp-d9aa89fd"[ref]As part of this blog's æsthetic tradition, we're pretending that I actually care about protecting my identity, so identifying place and proper names continue to be changed, with the replacements enclosed in "scare quotes" in their first appearance in each post, even though it's probably not hard for someone with curiosity and a search engine to work out that "Portland" is actually Berkeley, alphanumeric suffixes are the first eight bytes of the SHA256 hash of the actual name, _&c._[/ref] open-source project that I've been contributing to for the past couple years. My own contributions have been pretty modest so far: mostly plumbing that makes the error messages better, rather than the feats of computer-scientific mastery that one might naïvely expect to be necessary to contribute at all to such cutting-edge technology. This makes it all the more exciting to be accepted as part of the Team, part of the in-crowd. I'm eager to work hard to be worthy of the honor—to continue to grow and contribute more to the infrastructure [holding up the sky](http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4196) of our glorious technological civilization!
+
+Second, I'll be giving a talk at the "Quux-cbc85e20" conference for celebrating the marvels of computing, to be held at the University that I would have actually graduated from nine years ago if I hadn't been such a dysfunctional emotional wreck in my youth. It looks to be a really exciting lineup, and I'm honored to be part of that, too!
+
+But I'm nervous about being socially rejected. Not on account of my technical prowess—I think I'm doing okay on that front. I'm nervous because my read (from Twitter, and from [conversations at BlerpConf](/2018/Oct/sticker-prices/)) of the "Blerp-d9aa89fd" and "Quux-cbc85e20" communities is that people are very—um, how do you say?—socially-just. And I'm ... not?
+
+I don't think my _moral_ compass has been damaged? I was born in 1987 and grew up in California; I received the same egalitarian memetic payload as everyone else in these scenes, that I still [want to stay true to the spirit of](/2017/Dec/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention/). It's just ... from my reading over the past fifteen years, it looks to me like there are a lot of inconvenient facts and well-supported theories in biology, psychology, and economics that make the problem of achieving a better world _somewhat more complicated_ than mustering up the political will.
+
+I remember being at the University in 'aught-six or 'aught-seven, reading a library copy of Robert Wright's [popular-level book on evolutionary psychology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Animal), with utter horror
+
+[Pinterest anecdote]
+
+[my Twitter plan]
+
+[importance of avoiding bravery-debates, uncertainty over degree of silencing]
+
+------------
+
+karaoke: "Reflection" as trans anthem, I said "It permits many interpretations"
+
+ReductRS tweet, I probably looked annoyed rather than mirthful
+
+it's not actually engaging with the 
+
+Aladdin, 1992 it was a different time
+
+---
+
+
+
+!!Con is doing way better than Rust on the diversity front; is that because they're doing somrething different, or because of talks vs. contribs

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-Title: Social Strategy Notes, late January 2019
-Date: 2020-01-01
-Category: commentary
-Tags: personal, software industry
-Status: draft
-
-February is looking to be an exciting month for me in terms of advancing in my chosen profession!
-
-First, I'm flying to "Munich" to participate in the all-hands team meeting for the "Blerp-d9aa89fd"[ref]As part of this blog's æsthetic tradition, we're pretending that I actually care about protecting my identity, so identifying place and proper names continue to be changed, with the replacements enclosed in "scare quotes" in their first appearance in each post, even though it's probably not hard for someone with curiosity and a search engine to work out that "Portland" is actually Berkeley, alphanumeric suffixes are the first eight bytes of the SHA256 hash of the actual name, _&c._[/ref] open-source project that I've been contributing to for the past couple years. My own contributions have been pretty modest so far: mostly plumbing that makes the error messages better, rather than the feats of computer-scientific mastery that one might naïvely expect to be necessary to contribute at all to such cutting-edge technology. This makes it all the more exciting to be accepted as part of the Team, part of the in-crowd. I'm eager to work hard to be worthy of the honor—to continue to grow and contribute more to the infrastructure [holding up the sky](http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4196) of our glorious technological civilization!
-
-Second, I'll be giving a talk at the "Quux-cbc85e20" conference for celebrating the marvels of computing, to be held at the University that I would have actually graduated from nine years ago if I hadn't been such a dysfunctional emotional wreck in my youth. It looks to be a really exciting lineup, and I'm honored to be part of that, too!
-
-But I'm nervous about being socially rejected. Not on account of my technical prowess—I think I'm doing okay on that front. I'm nervous because my read (from Twitter, and from [conversations at BlerpConf](/2018/Oct/sticker-prices/)) of the "Blerp-d9aa89fd" and "Quux-cbc85e20" communities is that people are very—um, how do you say?—socially-just. And I'm ... not?
-
-I don't think my _moral_ compass has been damaged? I was born in 1987 and grew up in California; I received the same egalitarian memetic payload as everyone else in these scenes, that I still [want to stay true to the spirit of](/2017/Dec/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention/). It's just ... from my reading over the past fifteen years, it looks to me like there are a lot of inconvenient facts and well-supported theories in biology, psychology, and economics that make the problem of achieving a better world _somewhat more complicated_ than mustering up the political will.
-
-I remember being at the University in 'aught-six or 'aught-seven, reading a library copy of Robert Wright's [popular-level book on evolutionary psychology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Animal), with utter horror
-
-[Pinterest anecdote]
-
-[my Twitter plan]
-
-[importance of avoiding bravery-debates, uncertainty over degree of silencing]

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 looking for a use—
 
-> _There's a heart that must be free  
-> To fly  
-> That burns with the need to know  
-> The reason why  
-> Why must we all conceal  
-> What we think, how we feel?  
-> Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?_
->
-> —"Reflection", _Mulan_ (as performed by Christina Aguilera)
 
 > "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
 >

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 argument seen on Twitter: "transwomen are transwomen" is like "gays can be civil-unioned". Counter: marriage is wholly socially-constructed, but biological sex is real
 
 "ffs I'm legally practicing ...": https://twitter.com/FeministRoar/status/1092850802299936768 (patient doesn't care about legal fiction)
+
+https://medium.com/@JonnnyBest/the-truth-about-michigan-womyns-festival-and-trans-women-a-correction-899d8e49f655
+
+https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6687123/Mother-arrested-children-calling-transgender-woman-man.html
+
+https://twitter.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1089265017969668097
+
+Is the OP deleted? https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/23piReu6vmfskHyh7/dragon-army-theory-and-charter-30min-read
+
+http://thefutureprimaeval.tumblr.com/post/156517718308/you-may-not-be-interested-in-politics-but
+
+https://twitter.com/Indy_Leya/status/1095257325118648320
+
+"Trying to Be Exp": mention how we don't have shared language to describe what orgasm feels like

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 The Social Construction of Reality and the Sheer Goddamned
+I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
+It Was a Complement!
+Self-Identity as Focal Point; Or, Schelf-Identity
 Dragon in Garage
 Names and Genders Are Not Relevantly Analogous
 Willie McCovington
 A Human's Abridged Guide to Gender Words
 Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
 Trying to Be Explicit
-I Mean, Yes, I Agree That Man Should Allocate Some More Categories, But
+
 "But It Doesn't Matter"
 
 One-Way Trolls