M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Mar 2018 03:43:01 +0000 (20:43 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Mar 2018 20:57:02 +0000 (12:57 -0800)]
"'cause the critics all confused him with the great Elvis Costello"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:47:27 +0000 (08:47 -0800)]
publish "The Categories Were Made for Man to Make Predictions"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:27:37 +0000 (01:27 -0800)]
"Categories" line edits
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:07:47 +0000 (01:07 -0800)]
meetup delusions links: use a screenshot
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:43:28 +0000 (00:43 -0800)]
replacement notebook scans for "A Beacon Through the Darkness"
I don't like original phone-as-copy-camera images—for one thing, they ended
up too redshifted. When I was at the copy shop the other week, I actually
made a scan; I want to retrofit them into the post now, especially given
that I'm expecting a traffic bump soon ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:14:32 +0000 (00:14 -0800)]
adjust display size of sheet music
The unresized images were messing the right-hand-side layout of the blog.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:00:35 +0000 (00:00 -0800)]
photo credit CSS
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:00:08 +0000 (00:00 -0800)]
drafting/editing "The Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 07:12:54 +0000 (23:12 -0800)]
work the "branding and market segmentation" phrase into the About page
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:12:33 +0000 (16:12 -0800)]
drafting/editing "The Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:32:20 +0000 (22:32 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:30:14 +0000 (22:30 -0800)]
drafting/editing "Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:28:04 +0000 (16:28 -0800)]
simplify "Simple Footnotes" fragment identifier
The article slug is already in the URL; repeating it in the fragment is
hideous.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:20:08 +0000 (16:20 -0800)]
label axes (albeit uninformatively), explain diagram in a boxed aside
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:14:59 +0000 (16:14 -0800)]
install page hierarchy plugin
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:47:25 +0000 (11:47 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:19:25 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
drafting/editing "Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:17:59 +0000 (00:17 -0800)]
my fluid reasoning wasn't actually that great
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:04:26 +0000 (20:04 -0800)]
fix nested tags bug in footnotes plugin
Jesus Michael Bailey, who the Blanch writes this stuff??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 20 Feb 2018 03:42:52 +0000 (19:42 -0800)]
not thinking in nested parentheticals vs. installing a footnote plugin
If I don't know how to make my thinking more linear and less tree-like,
I might as well shove some of the subtrees into footnotes for
legibility.
I continue to by disappointed by the abysmal quality of the Pelican
plugin/theme ecosystem, and very happy that I chose Pelican. (What I
don't like, I can fix! Because Python! Rah!)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:56:41 +0000 (15:56 -0800)]
drafting/editing "Categories ..." (on the taxonomy)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:14:36 +0000 (13:14 -0800)]
"don't doxx me" language is outdated
Given that I currently have a pretty explicit self-link in "A Common
Misunderstanding", and am considering adding another one in "Categories",
and I link to the source in the footer (which surely names me in the notes
somewhere and is also on my real-name GitHub account), the existing language
seemed to miscommunicate the extent to which I care about privacy (as
contrasted to the much weaker goal of this merely not being the _first_
thing Google tells you about me).
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:51:11 +0000 (13:51 -0800)]
pruning/tidying "Categories" notesfile
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:36:48 +0000 (13:36 -0800)]
first contiguous draft of "The Categories ..."
There are still a bunch of points to work in (that I'm keeping a list of
in the notesfile) and sections that should be reorganized for clarity,
but there are at least (I think) no major discontinuities that I need to
denote with "[...]". I could even publish this as-is and not die of
shame. But we can probably do better than that.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 17 Feb 2018 03:07:04 +0000 (19:07 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories ..." (my Norton moment)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:25:42 +0000 (23:25 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 16 Feb 2018 06:04:49 +0000 (22:04 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories" (motivate weak hypothesis, subclusters)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:56:12 +0000 (21:56 -0800)]
category choice in genderspace diagram
I tend to lean against checking in binaries, but in this case, I've
decided to commit the XCF file. It feels ... responsible? Insofar as
it's more readily editable than the ultimately-displayed PNG, it should
be regarded as the "source" to the PNG's "compiled code".
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 14 Feb 2018 06:44:57 +0000 (22:44 -0800)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:18:18 +0000 (16:18 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories ..." (explaining the taxonomy)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:20:13 +0000 (10:20 -0800)]
check in
The history of the categories-notes file is probably going to be hideous, with
all this copy-pasting back and forth as I rework the material—but we trust that
the historians are prepared to live with this; our primary concern in these
dying weeks of my sabbatical is cutting through to a final draft to serve as an
introduction to The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought for Slate Star
Codex readers.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:00:37 +0000 (13:00 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories" (Norton)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Feb 2018 07:56:13 +0000 (23:56 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:12:29 +0000 (11:12 -0800)]
cut "In Order" from "The Categories ..." title, probably?
We lose a bit of parallelism with the original, because now "man" is no
longer unambiguously a simple direct object: the categories were made for
man-to-make-predictions, rather than the categories were made for man
COMMA, &c. What do you call this, a gerund phrase? But I think this flows
better?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:41:11 +0000 (08:41 -0800)]
check in
Leaning towards avoiding "cis" more often, because of the motte-and-bailey
between the "not trans" and "identity congruent with sex" meanings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 9 Feb 2018 04:07:26 +0000 (20:07 -0800)]
"The Categories ..." pasting loose ends
Including more cuttings from the notes file. This is what I showed my writing
coach today.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 8 Feb 2018 06:21:53 +0000 (22:21 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 8 Feb 2018 06:20:12 +0000 (22:20 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories"
(some of this is copy-pasted from my "notes" file rather than being de novo
text from today, because of my preference for the draft file to be mostly
continuous even if my process remains scrap-oriented)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 7 Feb 2018 20:28:32 +0000 (12:28 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:06:29 +0000 (09:06 -0800)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:53:01 +0000 (09:53 -0800)]
post-facto edits to published posts
"Hormones Day 156": A commenter on /r/slatestarcodex the other month seemed to
interpret the "Editor's note: yes" remark in a gender-identitarian sense of me
realizing that I'm not actually trans; it's worth expanding on what I actually
meant.
Turing Test: As I discovered with "Found in University Library Copy of ...", it
looks like we can include italics in Pelican post titles after all!
"What's My Motivation?": the reason I'm not nonbinary is more ideological than
symptom-driven. If d were really 6 for voice, I would expect not being able to
sex someone's voice to essentially never happen. It's rare, of course, but it
doesn't seem like it's in "never happens" territory. (Remember the "Fast Car"
song?)
"Blegg Mode": misplaced hyphen (hypo?)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 1 Feb 2018 21:47:00 +0000 (13:47 -0800)]
tweak and publish "Blegg Mode"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:53:49 +0000 (13:53 -0800)]
"Found in a University Library Copy of ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 30 Jan 2018 04:35:15 +0000 (20:35 -0800)]
charming hand-drawn 2x2 diagram for "Blegg Mode"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:12:35 +0000 (11:12 -0800)]
full draft of "Blegg Mode"
I also have a diagram (to be scanned and GIMP'd). This post is pretty
straightforward; maybe we can publish it later today??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 29 Jan 2018 06:30:14 +0000 (22:30 -0800)]
drafting "The Categories" and "Blegg Mode"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 28 Jan 2018 17:54:58 +0000 (09:54 -0800)]
a paragraph for "The Categories ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:44:46 +0000 (09:44 -0800)]
check in
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.