check in—and go

Half past noon on a Friday and I've been feeling sad and resentful all
day—but wouldn't it be better to write about it instead of suffering
in silence? It will never stop hurting until you write it down

diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
index 7a3476a..37ccd25 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
+++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
@@ -218,6 +218,8 @@ But (as I told the LCSW) I would _know_ that I was cherry-picking.
 
 [it was around this time I snuck a copy of _Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism_ into the [MIRI](https://intelligence.org/) office library. (It seemed like something Harry Potter-Evans-Verres would do—and ominously, I noticed, not like something Hermione Granger would do.)]
 
+[internet pharmacy]
+
 [TODO: early 2017, eventually I start being louder on Facebook and eventually have a nervous breakdown]
 
 [TODO: one thing that kept coming up during the private and Facebook discussions was this category boundary argument—including, e.g., with MIRI comms director Rob Bensinger. That part, I knew I could win]

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
index cf7b6cc..407cf76 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
+++ b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
@@ -746,4 +746,12 @@ https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1801140#reply-1801140
 > When somebody stops coordinating with you, stop coordinating with them.  It's not 'punishment' to Defect against somebody who's Defecting against you, in a cooperation-defection dilemma; you're just withdrawing the Cooperation you were trying to coordinate with them
 https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1801374#reply-1801374
 
+I joined the "Eliezerfic" server in spite of my enmity, and JoshTriplett is in there (contrary to my gut instinct that Rust peeps hate my rationalist peeps)
 
+Tweet about "unvirtuous to just believe me"—well, YES
+
+The cowardice is remarkable, coming from someone who otherwise
+
+jbeshir
+> I have a writer/author friend, they had a problem a couple or so times with people who get really really into the work and community, then in their mind got disappointed in some way- and that investments converts at a surprisingly high exchange rate directly into investment in making your life worse. It... happens.
+—this makes a callout post or Twitter thread seem less appealing

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index da9c047..4080482 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 
 
 Minor—
+_ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/sports/nonbinary-runners-races.html (h/t https://www.unz.com/isteve/run-of-the-mill-also-ran-finally-wins-a-running-race-just-by-calling-himself-nonbinary/ )
 _ my medianworld: https://www.glowfic.com/replies/1619639#reply-1619639
 _ Happy Meal
 _ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"

diff --git a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
index 723ed31..9ccb91f 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
+++ b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
@@ -510,3 +510,7 @@ https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-swedish-investigative-journalist
 https://www.transgendertrend.com/childhood-social-transition/
 
 I'm still a Wells Fargo customer because my father got my a savings account for me in 1992, when I was four years old—I just never bothered to switch
+
+https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2022/05/05/transsexual-kids-do-know/
+
+"Who do you like?" as culturally transmitted sexual norms