M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:00:19 +0000 (08:00 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:56:14 +0000 (14:56 -0800)]
extended copyright year range
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:27:57 +0000 (09:27 -0800)]
at the wire tweaks, and publish "Don't Negotiate"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:27:29 +0000 (08:27 -0800)]
small notes check-in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:26:25 +0000 (08:26 -0800)]
split off "Blegg Mode" as a separate post draft from "The Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 22 Jan 2018 06:27:53 +0000 (22:27 -0800)]
"The Categories ..." extends the rube/blegg parable
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:44:11 +0000 (15:44 -0800)]
"Categories" flailing notes action
Today I thought that it might make sense to return to the blegg/rube parable to
introduce the "It's profitable to make a new category for things that are
_cheaply identifiable_ as coming from a different distribution" point before
switching context to the two types—but maybe that's too repetitive and boring,
and I should just skip to what I actually want to say about trans women (the
part that I'm continually failing to be brave enough to write)?
On the other hand ... I probably _should_ stick to the rule of establishing
philosophical points with neutral-valence examples before getting into the
mind-killing applications: if you try to do both at once, people who can't
handle the political implications won't learn the philosophy, either. If you
successfully teach the philosophy first, they will learn something before
latching on to some other rationalization to deny the political implications.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Jan 2018 05:13:11 +0000 (21:13 -0800)]
restore My Only Path to Power to blogroll
(She's been re-posting her old content.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Jan 2018 05:12:37 +0000 (21:12 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:06:18 +0000 (09:06 -0800)]
"Categories": restore erroneously-removed content, separate notes
I thought I was just being pretentious by writing prose in Git, but it actually
just saved me: while rearranging content in my last commit yesterday, I
actually deleted several very important paragraphs! (I was _wondering_ why my
git-wordcount was so low!)
Let's also put the notes/outline for this post in a separate file: I seem to be
more comfortable growing this draft from the top down.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:57:05 +0000 (08:57 -0800)]
tweaking "Don't Negotiate"
... suppose I finally publish this Monday? (Publishing is an
emotionally-charged act, particularly since I probably want to promote to
/r/GenderCriticalGuys and Slate Star Culture War just afterwards.) Today I'm
offline to work on—maybe even finish a first draft of??—"The Categories".
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:06:25 +0000 (16:06 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 18 Jan 2018 02:57:54 +0000 (18:57 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:16:23 +0000 (09:16 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:13:48 +0000 (09:13 -0800)]
edits to "Don't Negotiate"
I should probably finally publish this tonight? (After like, a year.) I'm sure
this could still be a much stronger piece in so many ways if I were a better
writer, but I'm hitting diminishing returns to further edits.
The change from "is clearly" to "feels" related to my sexuality is very
important, given that I don't don't trust other people's assertions that their
gender identity "clearly" isn't caused by their sexuality.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:02:42 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
Reddit share button
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:46:09 +0000 (14:46 -0800)]
boodle-oops!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:27:04 +0000 (11:27 -0800)]
schedule shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:26:56 +0000 (11:26 -0800)]
just cut the irrelevant parenthetical in "Leaf"
I might want to use the "I'm supposed to say _she_" line elsewhere; if you're
going to be mean, at least make it count in a context where it matters, not
tucked away into an irrelevant aside about something else.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:26:52 +0000 (11:26 -0800)]
provisionally declare writer's bankruptcy on "Memoirs" pt. II
I really did have a lot of interesting delusions back in April that could, with
sufficient writing skill, be turned into a genuinely engaging memoir that
people would want to read despite the lack of objectively important events. But
it's been a while, and I want more general effortposts on page 1 of my blog—not
a rambly Diary entry about stuff that happened the better part of a year
ago. Perhaps the most interesting insights and visions from this period can be
worked into some future work of fiction?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:26:38 +0000 (11:26 -0800)]
prefer LoveIsOver to 4archive
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Jan 2018 04:54:55 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
some drafting of "The Categories ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:22:17 +0000 (15:22 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 11 Jan 2018 01:43:41 +0000 (17:43 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:46:10 +0000 (09:46 -0800)]
check in
My commit-discipline when writing is much weaker than when coding—as you've
noticed, I'll often make little changes to many files, and then lump them into
one commit under the message "check in". In this case, I want to start my
writing day with a clean repo state, so that the git-wordcount (new command I
wrote, like it sounds) of my next "drafting 'The Categories ...'" commit is
more localized in time.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 9 Jan 2018 22:31:06 +0000 (14:31 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 9 Jan 2018 18:41:24 +0000 (10:41 -0800)]
link Lawrence in "Hormones Day 156"
It was weirdly asymmetrical to link Yardley but not Lawrence.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 9 Jan 2018 06:00:56 +0000 (22:00 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 9 Jan 2018 06:00:17 +0000 (22:00 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Jan 2018 18:22:17 +0000 (10:22 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 7 Jan 2018 01:52:53 +0000 (17:52 -0800)]
"The Categories" slug should have definite article
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:56:55 +0000 (12:56 -0800)]
edit and publish "Blame Me for Trying"
Artists ship!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 5 Jan 2018 18:15:40 +0000 (10:15 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 5 Jan 2018 18:14:44 +0000 (10:14 -0800)]
edits to "Blame Me for Trying"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 3 Jan 2018 03:36:42 +0000 (19:36 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 3 Jan 2018 03:34:35 +0000 (19:34 -0800)]
apply some of writing-coach's suggestions to "Don't Negotiate"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 3 Jan 2018 03:11:00 +0000 (19:11 -0800)]
first full draft of "Blame Me for Trying"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 2 Jan 2018 20:45:17 +0000 (12:45 -0800)]
outline support for "Categories Were Made ... to Make Predictions"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 1 Jan 2018 17:48:50 +0000 (09:48 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 1 Jan 2018 05:55:38 +0000 (21:55 -0800)]
move NRxish notes from "Advisory" draftfile to general notesfile
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 31 Dec 2017 20:00:00 +0000 (12:00 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 31 Dec 2017 06:14:24 +0000 (22:14 -0800)]
don't forget to capitalize alternate title of "There's a Land ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 31 Dec 2017 06:04:28 +0000 (22:04 -0800)]
publish "There's a Land ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:45:02 +0000 (11:45 -0800)]
"Don't Negotiate": recount gaslighty conversation; "AGP & Typology" link
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:46:15 +0000 (10:46 -0800)]
minimized "There's a Land ..."?
I still don't know how to execute on the anecdote I was going to tell
here. What if we just cut it? And cut the _Free to Be_ blockquote, which wasn't
adding enough value for the space it takes up?—does that make the title too
inside-referencey, or was that already the case, quote or no?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 08:27:45 +0000 (00:27 -0800)]
link ref for "tense exchange on the blog in which I had protested that"
This is spoiling my pseudonymity in a way that I haven't before (linking
directly to my real name in a way that's not plausibly deniable, like the _An
Algorithmic Lucidity_ link I left in the "Joined" repost; or buried in the
source repo linked in the footer), but that's a joke, anyway (I've made links
in the other direction, from my real name to _Untrue Thought_, several times)—I
want to link up all the relevant context that I can.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 07:51:40 +0000 (23:51 -0800)]
blogroll: prune people who've deleted/hidden all their good content
Why do people do this?? Gender Contrary is offered as a replacement.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 07:44:53 +0000 (23:44 -0800)]
check in TV notes
although I'm currently leaning against editing/publishing this into a post—this
blog doesn't need more filler or obscure cultural references (pop culture is
obscure because all fiction is obscure)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 07:25:10 +0000 (23:25 -0800)]
italicize and respell foreign word; gratuitous "Emacs" tag ('smy blog)
The most common romanizations that start with an _H_ are obviously wrong, but
doubling the _n_ does not seem to be favored.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 07:21:49 +0000 (23:21 -0800)]
ship "Interlude XI"
Artists ship!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 07:17:36 +0000 (23:17 -0800)]
swap order of Reimer/Gage and "four lights" interludes
Maybe I shouldn't have established a convention of not titling these? Some
might say that what is now "Interlude XI" is tasteless dark humor, but if you
can't impulsively publish tasteless dark humor on your own blog—
Well, impulsive writing and publishing, even of a tasteless diaglogue scrap, is
better than the horror of not-writing, which we've had enough of.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 07:06:29 +0000 (23:06 -0800)]
some drafting for "There's a Land ..."
(When am I ever going to finish this? O searing pain of wretched humiliation)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 04:33:56 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
throw the pun (and some more verisimilitude) into "Interlude XII" draft
I couldn't resist. I physically could not.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Dec 2017 02:28:48 +0000 (18:28 -0800)]
draft "Interlude XII" (Gage and Reimer)
(probably need to edit the phrasing before publishing—wasn't Reimer a botched
circumcision (more like circum-trans-ion if you ask me!—but you did not ask me)
or something rather than cloacal extrophy?—should I mention his twin?)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 27 Dec 2017 22:39:48 +0000 (14:39 -0800)]
drafting "Blame Me for Trying"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 25 Dec 2017 08:34:32 +0000 (00:34 -0800)]
schedule "Laser 2"
My day in court being cut after coach pointed out that non-gender-related
Diary-like rambling is boring and no one cares
Part of me feels like I should add a paragraph about how I botched the
aftercare by trying on makeup after I realized that my roommate is out of town
and got this painful pimples on my chin? But maybe we can just shove this in
the queue already
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Dec 2017 17:24:19 +0000 (09:24 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:01:58 +0000 (16:01 -0800)]
drafting "There's a Land ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:19:12 +0000 (12:19 -0800)]
outline of NRx-adj thoughts
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:05:11 +0000 (10:05 -0800)]
outline points for "An Infovist's Advisory" (from my email to BBL)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Dec 2017 06:24:07 +0000 (22:24 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Dec 2017 05:20:39 +0000 (21:20 -0800)]
some work on "Product Review: FaceApp"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Dec 2017 03:17:36 +0000 (19:17 -0800)]
work on "Blame Me for Trying"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 21 Dec 2017 03:19:35 +0000 (19:19 -0800)]
attempted outline support for "As Well for a Sheep ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:25:01 +0000 (15:25 -0800)]
Nevada slug/title
If I'm going to do "Product Review: FaceApp", it should be "Book Review:
Nevada" for symmetry of form.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:02:27 +0000 (15:02 -0800)]
outline support for "Faster Than Science"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:46:22 +0000 (14:46 -0800)]
outline support for "The View From Nowhere"
If I can so easily dash out bullet points describing what material I want to
cover, converting the bullet points into paragraphs of actual prose shouldn't
be so hard, right? Right?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:39:47 +0000 (14:39 -0800)]
outline support for "There's a Land ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:22:09 +0000 (12:22 -0800)]
full first draft of "Laser 2"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:21:04 +0000 (11:21 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:26:04 +0000 (11:26 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:32:57 +0000 (16:32 -0800)]
correct date and draft status of "Lesser-Known ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:28:49 +0000 (16:28 -0800)]
fix sitegen-on-push (probably)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:14:28 +0000 (16:14 -0800)]
enqueue "Lesser-Known Demand Curves" for publication with final tweaks
One might wonder what better post I could have written that would have gotten
across the point better than this one ... but ultimately, artists ship.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 18 Dec 2017 01:38:53 +0000 (17:38 -0800)]
revising "Lesser-Known Demand Curves"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 17 Dec 2017 23:54:55 +0000 (15:54 -0800)]
cut alternative title from "Don't Negotiate"
Obviously, I shouldn't let my pretty attachment the Either/Or title trope
interfere with the actual objective of clearly communicating my ideas! "Why I
Don't Care About Your Feelings" is too easily read as intrinsic callousness,
whereas the text itself makes clear that it's instrumental callousness: it's
precisely _because_ I care about people that I can't let the fact of my caring
be exploited.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 15 Dec 2017 19:00:12 +0000 (11:00 -0800)]
"deniably allegorical" tag to "Grim Trigger"
(This is my favorite tag!)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:59:44 +0000 (10:59 -0800)]
post-facto improvment to "Title Sequence"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 15 Dec 2017 17:13:21 +0000 (09:13 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 15 Dec 2017 17:09:45 +0000 (09:09 -0800)]
autoscheduler: hard-reset instead of pull; another sitegen on push
Not tested yet, but it's quite hard to see what bugs could be lurking in this
fourish-line diff.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:45:53 +0000 (11:45 -0800)]
dysphoria distribution diagram for "Lesser-Known ..."
(Maybe it's dumb to want to make my TODO bullet points format nice-<ul>-y when
previewing the draft.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:39:10 +0000 (16:39 -0800)]
pre-publication TODOs for "Lesser-Known"
It's important to revise and edit and think critically—but ultimately, artists
ship!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:22:57 +0000 (16:22 -0800)]
entirely realistic plans
I've hired a writing coach. Hopefully she'll help me actually get out the
things I want to say on a reasonable schedule—it'll take dedication and hard
work to get out three+ good posts a week, but it's not delusional.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 9 Dec 2017 01:37:56 +0000 (17:37 -0800)]
drafting "Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Dec 2017 22:22:35 +0000 (14:22 -0800)]
drafting "Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Dec 2017 04:40:02 +0000 (20:40 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Dec 2017 04:39:02 +0000 (20:39 -0800)]
drafting "Product Review: FaceApp"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Dec 2017 02:50:47 +0000 (18:50 -0800)]
first draft of "Lesser-Known Demand Curves"
I still want to work in a sentence or paragraph somewhere about how there are a
_lot_ of "dark" AGPs out there, but it's worth committing this version that at
least reads all the way through which I could publish without dying of
embarrassment.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 7 Dec 2017 23:10:17 +0000 (15:10 -0800)]
drafting and diagramming "Lesser Known Demand Curves"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 6 Dec 2017 17:41:13 +0000 (09:41 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 4 Dec 2017 17:07:46 +0000 (09:07 -0800)]
initial conceit
I don't know if anyone will notice, but I think it's adorable and entirely
on-theme if I abbreviate the first name of male cited authors (when it's not
too distracting in my subjective opinion) but not women.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Dec 2017 03:46:30 +0000 (19:46 -0800)]
queue "A Common Misunderstanding; Or, ..." for publication
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Dec 2017 03:35:03 +0000 (19:35 -0800)]
check in "Lesser Known" drafting
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Dec 2017 03:28:38 +0000 (19:28 -0800)]
capitalize alternative title of "Grim Trigger"
Style ruling: the definite article at the beginning of the alternative title
should be capitalized even though "Or" is also capitalized. Justification: the
second ("alternative") title should be on equal footing with the first title;
if the second title had been selected as the first title, the definite article
would be capitalized.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Dec 2017 02:48:03 +0000 (18:48 -0800)]
continuing to draft "Minimal Viable Product", but ...
Do we really want to pollute _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue
Thought_ with _more_ akrasia-blogging? ("The Blockhead" was bad enough.)
It's been a worthwhile exercise to get the blood in my fingers flowing, but
I can imagine a reader crying out, "So stop _telling_ me that you have so
many important thoughts left to share, and fucking _show_ me!"—and she
wouldn't be wrong. Maybe salvagable for my real-name blog?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 23:59:24 +0000 (15:59 -0800)]
continuing to draft "Minimal Viable Product; Or, Ainslie vs. Pareto"
(Continuing our preference for Either/Or Titles, but this working title could
change again)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 22:42:13 +0000 (14:42 -0800)]
finished (?) draft of "A Common Misunderstanding; Or ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:56:49 +0000 (11:56 -0800)]
tentative scheduling??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:54:48 +0000 (11:54 -0800)]
copyediting
"deprivation" with an 'i'; clarifying word "all"; "unpreturbed" doesn't quite
mean that, dummy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:52:00 +0000 (11:52 -0800)]
tag curation