Okay, three years lat—three _months_, three _months_ later, let me say it was too optimistic of me to have [suggested that public discourse was working with respect to pandemic response](/2020/Mar/relative-gratitude-and-the-great-plague-of-2020/). I was pointing at _something_ real with that post—there is _some_ subgraph of the network of the world that's interested in doing serious cognition to minimize horrible suffocation deaths, but which is overwhelmingly _not_ interested in ...
-But it's a _small_ subgraph. It is written that every improvement is necessarily a change, but not every change is an improvement. When the center of collective narrative gravity shifts, that _could_ be the homing device of our [beautiful weapons](https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/) converging on the needle of Truth in the haystack of thought, but it could just be the blind thrashing of Fashion.
+But it's a _small_ subgraph. It is written that every improvement is necessarily a change, but not every change is an improvement. When the center of collective narrative gravity shifts, that _could_ be the homing device of our [beautiful weapons](http://web.archive.org/web/20200521005958/https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/) converging on the needle of Truth in the haystack of thought, but it could just be the blind thrashing of Fashion.
The Smart Subgraph [sounding the alarm](https://putanumonit.com/2020/02/27/seeing-the-smoke/) might have been an input into authorities calling for a half-measured lockdown ("lockdown")—which was only enough to push <em>R<sub>0</sub></em> [slightly below 1](https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/covid-19-4-30-stuck-in-limbo/). That might have bought us time if we had any [live players](https://medium.com/@samo.burja/live-versus-dead-players-2b24f6e9eae2) who could do the test-trace-quarantine scurrying we fantasized about, but it doesn't look like that's a thing.
[TODO: but I'm most angry about Hsu]
-https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/06/asymmetric-weapons-gone-bad/
+http://web.archive.org/web/20200514120734/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/06/asymmetric-weapons-gone-bad/
J. K. Rowling
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/05/28/connecticut-transgender-policy-found-to-violate-title-ix
https://www.wnpr.org/post/us-government-wont-recognize-connecticut-transgender-athletes-right-compete-females
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