M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:07:50 +0000 (08:07 -0700)]
"Scattered ..." draft: swap in a sharper epigraph
The Mulan quote risks falling into the "anti-identity-politics
identity politics" trap; this one is more situation specific and
having the epigraph represent the attitude that I'm wary of shows
self-awareness. (I would hope that even people who don't like me
should be able to appreciate my blog from a "villain protagonist"
æsthetic perspective.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 06:30:10 +0000 (23:30 -0700)]
drafting "Scattered ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:03:44 +0000 (21:03 -0700)]
check in changes to "Scattered ..."; reverse anchor to sticker discourse
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:03:20 +0000 (21:03 -0700)]
check in notes/clippings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 04:00:32 +0000 (21:00 -0700)]
check in notefile about a code-themed in-universe "deniably allegorical"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Aug 2018 02:45:45 +0000 (19:45 -0700)]
guest post draft check-in: "The Information Theory of Passing"
Sophia verbally said I could republish her analysis from our email
exchange the other year after I run it by her for edits (which, note,
I haven't done yet)! This is not quite verbatim from the email, with a
link to Wikipedia math, changes to formatting (subscript twos, Unicode
almost-equals, bolded list items, italicized "etc.", en dashes) and a
couple very minor wording changes (just "very different prospect"
instead of "very very very", cut phrase "in the rest of the email").
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:15:33 +0000 (17:15 -0700)]
"Interlude XIII" jumps the queue
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:15:40 +0000 (08:15 -0700)]
starting to draft "Scattered Personal Reflections After ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Aug 2018 04:09:26 +0000 (21:09 -0700)]
check in notes/clippings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 13 Aug 2018 02:55:53 +0000 (19:55 -0700)]
check in notes/clippings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 10 Aug 2018 05:32:42 +0000 (22:32 -0700)]
check in notes/clippings
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Aug 2018 04:37:51 +0000 (21:37 -0700)]
publish "Interlude XII"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 8 Aug 2018 04:00:29 +0000 (21:00 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Aug 2018 22:55:18 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
barest skeleton of reply to Ozy's reply to my reply to Scott
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Aug 2018 21:47:39 +0000 (14:47 -0700)]
write interludes to disk
Maybe the "Interlude Numeral" naming convention is not great and I
should just think of actual titles? Where do these fit in to my
publishing schedule?—where would they if I _had_ a publishing schedule
lately.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Aug 2018 20:33:30 +0000 (13:33 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 27 Jul 2018 04:44:24 +0000 (21:44 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Jul 2018 20:24:15 +0000 (13:24 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Jul 2018 20:36:23 +0000 (13:36 -0700)]
check in notes and acclaim
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 3 Jun 2018 19:57:15 +0000 (12:57 -0700)]
check in notes and acclaim
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 17 May 2018 04:48:07 +0000 (21:48 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 May 2018 03:45:03 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Apr 2018 23:20:22 +0000 (16:20 -0700)]
check in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:30:16 +0000 (09:30 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:02:38 +0000 (22:02 -0700)]
schedule "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:00:01 +0000 (22:00 -0700)]
"Reply to The Unit" copyediting pass
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:12:19 +0000 (21:12 -0700)]
"Reply to The Unit" ispell pass
I don't think I usually make this many typos?!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:21:21 +0000 (23:21 -0700)]
twist the knife (queer the knife/nonknife binary??)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Apr 2018 05:49:26 +0000 (22:49 -0700)]
first contiguous draft of "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 17 Apr 2018 05:36:21 +0000 (22:36 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:09:25 +0000 (08:09 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
Got to go dayjob now; is there a hope of finishing this tonight??
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Apr 2018 05:25:10 +0000 (22:25 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:08:40 +0000 (17:08 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to the Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 14 Apr 2018 07:54:12 +0000 (00:54 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:00:18 +0000 (08:00 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
(I think writing in the morning—and I mean every morning—is going to be good
for me!)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Apr 2018 06:15:00 +0000 (23:15 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Apr 2018 05:09:23 +0000 (22:09 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Apr 2018 00:59:29 +0000 (17:59 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to the Unit" (featuring dialogue formatting)
(Arguably the dialogue formatting should have been a separate commit in order
to get a clean `git wordcount`
(https://github.com/zackmdavis/dotfiles/blob/
9fb0964a/bin/git-wordcount) of the
actual writing progress here, but the perfect has reluctantly made some
strategic concessions to its ally the good in the service of their common cause
against the bad.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 5 Apr 2018 03:33:29 +0000 (20:33 -0700)]
Reddit is crazy
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:59:47 +0000 (11:59 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Mar 2018 06:29:58 +0000 (23:29 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 06:45:58 +0000 (23:45 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 03:45:39 +0000 (20:45 -0700)]
check in post-ideas file
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Mar 2018 06:08:32 +0000 (23:08 -0700)]
drafting "Reply to The Unit"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 06:59:42 +0000 (23:59 -0700)]
starting to draft reply to Unit of Caring
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)]
check in
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)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:06:29 +0000 (09:06 -0800)]
check in
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