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
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:48:37 +0000 (11:48 -0800)]
start drafting "Ainslie vs. Pareto"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 19:14:17 +0000 (11:14 -0800)]
continuing to draft "Lesser Known Demand Curves"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:12:37 +0000 (10:12 -0800)]
more missed location-masking in "Joined"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:03:44 +0000 (10:03 -0800)]
missing Ozy tag capitalization
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:56:41 +0000 (12:56 -0800)]
another missed location mask in "Joined"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:21:26 +0000 (00:21 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:20:15 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
drafting "Lesser Known Demand Curves"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 29 Nov 2017 03:58:14 +0000 (19:58 -0800)]
try to capitalize Ozy's tag
The one word "ozy" felt like a reasonable lowercase tag at the time, but I'm
likely going to end up with "Julia Serano" and "Scott Alexander" tags, which
should clearly be capitalized; I should treat Ozy the same.
(At commit time, the development server seems to still be rendering the tag as
lowercase, which is _deeply confusing_ and may need to be debugged later??)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 06:25:05 +0000 (22:25 -0800)]
redact a location from "Joined"
so like, there's _also_ a _far_ more "incriminating" link to my real-name blog
(!) still in there, but I almost think the æsthetic of my ostensible
pseudonymity is better satisfied by leaving it in, as if it were just something
Saotome-Westlake happened to stumble across on the web and remember enough to
link. Remember that story about how the key to breaking the Enigma was that it
never mapped a letter to itself? Let's be smarter than that, sort of
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 06:16:08 +0000 (22:16 -0800)]
retroactively cross-post cosplay posts from my other blog
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:48:12 +0000 (21:48 -0800)]
elaborate on epistemic status of "From What I've Tasted of Desire"
This post has gotten a disproportionate amount of attention but justifiably
evokes a lot of "WTF!?"-ness from readers who don't already get where I'm
coming from; maybe strengthen the warning label just a bit
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:07:25 +0000 (22:07 -0800)]
fix pull to working repo in post-receive hook, probably
It would seem that codes run on behalf of the bare repo have $GIT_DIR='.',
which is not what we want when working on a non-bare repo.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:57:16 +0000 (18:57 -0800)]
note autoscheduler bugs to fix later
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:53:15 +0000 (18:53 -0800)]
revise publication time of "The Blockhead"
There were at least two bugs in my autoscheduler. Firstly, the git-pull to the
working repo didn't seem to happen for some reason (although it worked when I
invoked the autoscheduler manually). Secondly, the server is on UTC.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:45:35 +0000 (18:45 -0800)]
schedule "The Blockhead", "Interlude X"
(cross your fingers and hope that my auto-scheduler works)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:43:35 +0000 (18:43 -0800)]
yet another "A Leaf" post-publication edit: "clearly"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:42:54 +0000 (18:42 -0800)]
post idea: FaceApp product review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 02:42:06 +0000 (18:42 -0800)]
notes check-in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 24 Nov 2017 23:08:07 +0000 (15:08 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 05:01:26 +0000 (21:01 -0800)]
prefer relative URLs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 04:41:47 +0000 (20:41 -0800)]
poking Nevada review stub
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 04:33:37 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
link to actual text of Creative Commons license
Maybe Larry Lessig's minions think they're being cute by publicizing a
"human-readable summary" rather than the actual license, but I think that
phrasing is kind of insulting to lawyers. Plus, the license fulltext page
doesn't have an obnoxious fundraising banner, unlike the "deed" page.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 03:43:22 +0000 (19:43 -0800)]
introducing Pelican Scheduler
I haven't tested this end-to-end yet, but I've spot-checked most of the
individual pieces and it's plausible that this will work.
Some might say, "You know, you could schedule posts in advance without writing
any code at all if you just used WordPress"
but
then you'd be using WordPress
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:36:00 +0000 (16:36 -0800)]
Pelican footer link to main site, rather than 3.6.3 docs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:33:10 +0000 (16:33 -0800)]
now with Gitweb! link it in footer; check in copy of Nginx conf
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:34:30 +0000 (10:34 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:19:53 +0000 (18:19 -0800)]
split off another priority tier
I would like to go get a new dayjob before too long; this distinction is worth
making
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:16:38 +0000 (18:16 -0800)]
notes: mostly tidying covered material
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:26:34 +0000 (17:26 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:25:46 +0000 (17:25 -0800)]
more post-publication edits to "A Leaf"
A typo, and being nicer to my contact
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:25:09 +0000 (17:25 -0800)]
bullet-biting tag
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Nov 2017 22:29:19 +0000 (14:29 -0800)]
notes: two links and an adaptable Secret Conspiracy Chatroom moment
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 6 Nov 2017 20:31:39 +0000 (12:31 -0800)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Nov 2017 06:49:50 +0000 (23:49 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Nov 2017 01:02:50 +0000 (18:02 -0700)]
"Laser 1"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Nov 2017 00:19:04 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
Creative Commons Attribution license
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 4 Nov 2017 18:40:16 +0000 (11:40 -0700)]
.gitignore entry for note/reference material I don't want to check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:18:33 +0000 (18:18 -0700)]
link Gwern's Death Note essay in "The Line in the Sand"
Maybe this kind of context-setting makes the "doesn't know information theory"
remark clearer?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 4 Nov 2017 01:06:07 +0000 (18:06 -0700)]
some post-publication edits to "A Leaf in the Crosswind"
Is even this not precisely what I want to say?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:21:04 +0000 (13:21 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:13:23 +0000 (12:13 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Oct 2017 06:47:21 +0000 (23:47 -0700)]
"A Leaf in the Crosswind"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Oct 2017 02:45:52 +0000 (19:45 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:59:51 +0000 (11:59 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 16 Oct 2017 06:10:03 +0000 (23:10 -0700)]
a key subparenthetical qualifier in "Hormones Day 156"
This is not the kind of blog that can be unambiguously "marketed." It's
something that needs to exist, and it's something that should be carefully
promoted to carefully-sliced market segments
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Oct 2017 23:45:08 +0000 (16:45 -0700)]
import "Interlude XI" draft
Like "Interlude X", this is a gem from my Facebook vaguebooking period
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:35:56 +0000 (14:35 -0700)]
Miranda Yardley to blogroll
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:27:11 +0000 (14:27 -0700)]
after-the-fact edits to "Hormones Day 156"
A powerful reason for keeping my blog's source in Git, is that I feel less
guilty about making nontrivial edits to already-published posts (which already
have a publication date and often, like this one, are about a particular point
in time): it's clearer that I'm refining my expression rather than trying to
edit the past, when there's an easily-accessible log of what changed and when.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:00:43 +0000 (14:00 -0700)]
fix school plausibility in "Select"
I said "Harvey Mudd" because they have a reputation as a STEM-specialty school,
but Trent and another friend of the blog pointed out that they don't actually
have a graduate program; the other friend suggested CMU as a replacement
respecting the desired prestige ordering.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Oct 2017 21:11:17 +0000 (14:11 -0700)]
correct spelling of AGP in tag
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Oct 2017 18:43:58 +0000 (11:43 -0700)]
Trent's comment re "school" trigger warning
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Oct 2017 05:22:23 +0000 (22:22 -0700)]
"Select"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Oct 2017 05:16:00 +0000 (22:16 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Sep 2017 06:55:32 +0000 (23:55 -0700)]
finish and publish "Hormones Day 156 ..."
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 28 Sep 2017 01:11:08 +0000 (18:11 -0700)]
estradiol result came in!
I officially have girl blood!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:00:26 +0000 (13:00 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:18:25 +0000 (13:18 -0700)]
publish "Interlude IX"
This one is kind of mean. Forgive me.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:40:27 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
update schedule
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:40:00 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
check in new labs
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:12:44 +0000 (15:12 -0700)]
reördering future interlude dialogues
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 21:01:41 +0000 (14:01 -0700)]
publish "Neither as Plea nor as Despair"
This one is pretty obscure, but it's my blog and my æsthetic
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:37:47 +0000 (17:37 -0700)]
check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 16 Sep 2017 23:56:34 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
shepherd dialogue coherence
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:30:57 +0000 (11:30 -0700)]
publish "Grim Trigger"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:09:19 +0000 (00:09 -0700)]
Maria Catt is back online!
And under her real name, unlike some cowards, huh?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 10 Sep 2017 00:50:15 +0000 (17:50 -0700)]
publish "The Nadir of Reading Comprehension"