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Armistice Day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
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drafting "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 11 Nov 2020 23:56:11 +0000 (15:56 -0800)]
"gender dysphoria" is fake and deserves scare quotes
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add Best-Of selection to About page
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:49:42 +0000 (22:49 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism" Monday evening poke
Bluebird website is really bad for me—I want to finish this
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 20:22:16 +0000 (12:22 -0800)]
Monday morning drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 07:00:51 +0000 (23:00 -0800)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 05:51:16 +0000 (21:51 -0800)]
pronoun glitch (on person! not gender! so it's OK)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 9 Nov 2020 04:26:10 +0000 (20:26 -0800)]
finish "The Feeling Is Mutual"
(I think this can basically be published whenever, but I'm not
thinking about scheduling now, I need to write "Sexual Dimorphism" in
the dying hours of this tragic Sunday)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:57:52 +0000 (23:57 -0800)]
word choices; the badge trim refers to the social construct
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:44:15 +0000 (23:44 -0800)]
"Two Political Short Stories"
The first is from Facebook this time four years ago (thanks to the "On
This Day" notification feature!)—verbatim except with the replacement
of "Russian" for "Chinese". (At the time, we knew that Orange Man Bad,
but we didn't know that he was Putin's lapdog.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 6 Nov 2020 06:54:24 +0000 (22:54 -0800)]
two-types anchor in "... To Make Predictions"
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Nov 2020 06:37:10 +0000 (23:37 -0700)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 1 Nov 2020 06:00:47 +0000 (23:00 -0700)]
filler buffer: "Interlude XX"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 31 Oct 2020 21:19:20 +0000 (14:19 -0700)]
can WNBA players take down a U.S. senator??
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:22:21 +0000 (15:22 -0700)]
nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Oct 2020 20:26:59 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 29 Oct 2020 06:44:01 +0000 (23:44 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": explaining high-dimensionality, again
(This is one of my standard points that I'm pretty practiced at
explaining—should I regret it being in the middle of a long post,
rather than making it an individually linkable standalone (like I did
for just the math part)?)
I'm pleased with the height → faces → FaceApp → morphic-adaptation
flow.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:07:52 +0000 (14:07 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences": lead-in to mapping and coda
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:11:52 +0000 (23:11 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": category of personal identity, into conclusion
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:52:04 +0000 (10:52 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": Sorites identity
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:51:30 +0000 (09:51 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:29:27 +0000 (22:29 -0700)]
Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 2
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:40:39 +0000 (15:40 -0700)]
Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences" 1
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 25 Oct 2020 03:51:06 +0000 (20:51 -0700)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences"
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:31:54 +0000 (11:31 -0700)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": morphic adaption unit specifications
It's always hard to start writing, and it's especially hard to start
writing about this—but it's so important. To me.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:46:38 +0000 (10:46 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:14:23 +0000 (08:14 -0700)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:08:13 +0000 (10:08 -0700)]
some sketching out TODO skeleton for "Sexual Dimorphism"
I need to do my dayjob, but it would really be nice to make a push to
finish this post soon!
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:34:44 +0000 (17:34 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 10 Oct 2020 20:26:56 +0000 (13:26 -0700)]
nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism"
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 9 Oct 2020 02:57:49 +0000 (19:57 -0700)]
explain comment syntax options
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 3 Oct 2020 07:54:45 +0000 (00:54 -0700)]
drafting "Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 2 Oct 2020 04:46:18 +0000 (21:46 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Sep 2020 02:42:17 +0000 (19:42 -0700)]
self-deception hash-anchor in "Human Diversity" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 20 Sep 2020 02:16:51 +0000 (19:16 -0700)]
Wells for Boys!
I don't normally stoop to filler linkposts, but there's a first time
for everything? It is a thing that some blogs do?
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poke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 1 Sep 2020 00:51:23 +0000 (17:51 -0700)]
strip HTML inside <title> tags
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Aug 2020 23:46:13 +0000 (16:46 -0700)]
finish and publish "Memento Mori"
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 29 Aug 2020 06:04:51 +0000 (23:04 -0700)]
Curtis Yarvin robot cult quotepost
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 27 Aug 2020 05:57:28 +0000 (22:57 -0700)]
day drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:31:32 +0000 (11:31 -0700)]
down brightness, up contrast on descender handwriting sample
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:10:00 +0000 (00:10 -0700)]
poke at "Memento Mori"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:21:52 +0000 (22:21 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism in the Sequences"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:19:52 +0000 (22:19 -0700)]
ancillary pages for captions
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 23 Aug 2020 22:23:59 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
tap at "Sexual Dimorphism"
I've been lazy, but it's time to make something of what's left of my
Sunday
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 22 Aug 2020 08:48:20 +0000 (01:48 -0700)]
drafting "Memento Mori"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 21 Aug 2020 06:59:13 +0000 (23:59 -0700)]
drafting "Memento Mori"; and, check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 20 Aug 2020 04:25:09 +0000 (21:25 -0700)]
tap at "Sexual Dimorphism"
I had shifted more activity to the laptop because I was afraid of
being interrupted by the rolling blackouts, but it turns out that I'm
in outage block 50, and " Block 50 customers are usually on the same
circuit as a critical facility such as a hospital, police station or
fire station and are unlikely to be affected by rotating block
outages"
(https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/outages/planning-and-preparedness/safety-and-preparedness/find-your-rotating-outage-block/find-your-rotating-outage-block.page).
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 19 Aug 2020 06:03:44 +0000 (23:03 -0700)]
tap at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:00:15 +0000 (00:00 -0700)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 18 Aug 2020 06:15:05 +0000 (23:15 -0700)]
importing another ancillary Diary entry
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 3 Aug 2020 08:06:24 +0000 (01:06 -0700)]
check in "Blindspot" draft
This unfinished short story draft is from 2011—it might be worth
finishing!
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 3 Aug 2020 08:04:45 +0000 (01:04 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 25 Jul 2020 06:47:45 +0000 (23:47 -0700)]
check in notes; nonconsensual puberty
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 19 Jul 2020 05:27:24 +0000 (22:27 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:58:18 +0000 (13:58 -0700)]
properly yank Irreversible Damage review stub to drafts
It's supposed to be a draft, not finished and scheduled for 1 January
2021.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 18 Jul 2020 00:52:13 +0000 (17:52 -0700)]
check in; incl. Irreversible Damage review stub
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 17 Jul 2020 03:55:33 +0000 (20:55 -0700)]
Interlude from the archives
Thanks to Facebook's "On This Day" notifications.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 17 Jul 2020 01:32:59 +0000 (18:32 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 11 Jul 2020 20:50:59 +0000 (13:50 -0700)]
don't even Facebook
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 08:07:48 +0000 (01:07 -0700)]
gearing towards "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 03:29:42 +0000 (20:29 -0700)]
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 9 Jul 2020 03:29:16 +0000 (20:29 -0700)]
upgrade links on "The Social Construction of Reality"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 19:33:52 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
"Revenge, revenge, revenge—is the one thing on your mind"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 4 Jul 2020 07:32:56 +0000 (00:32 -0700)]
check in (feat. congenital adrenal hyperplasia)
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M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 1 Jul 2020 06:38:22 +0000 (23:38 -0700)]
priorities
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 1 Jul 2020 06:16:25 +0000 (23:16 -0700)]
finish and publish "Oceans Rise, Empires Fall"