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diff --git a/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md b/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md
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 Available for both Android and iOS, FaceApp wields the power of modern neural-network image-processing techniques to apply hauntingly realistic transformations to photographs of people's faces.
 
 
 Available for both Android and iOS, FaceApp wields the power of modern neural-network image-processing techniques to apply hauntingly realistic transformations to photographs of people's faces.
 

-Most of these are pretty boring, honestly. So you can see (a machine-learning algorithm's conception of) what you would look like if you were older, or younger. It's very technically impressive, of course, and good for a few minutes' amusement, but hardly anything to write home or blog about, let alone _uniquely best piece of software in the world_ material.
+Most of these are pretty boring, honestly. So you can see (a machine-learning algorithm's conception of) what you would look like if you were older, or younger, or [TODO]. It's very technically impressive, of course, and good for a few minutes' amusement, but hardly anything to write home or blog about, let alone _uniquely best piece of software in the world_ material.

 
 Except! _There's a "Female" filter._
 
 
 Except! _There's a "Female" filter._
 

-Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this. Suffice it to say that being condemned to every day of your life fantasize about something _you can never have_ tends to engender a certain ... how do I put this?—weariness? _Ennui_? (... dysphoria?) A perpetual, aching disappointment that can only be temporarily and partially relieved [...]
+Non-autogynephilic readers may not fully appreciate the gravity of this. Suffice it to say that being condemned to every day of your life fantasize about something _you can never have_ tends to engender a certain ... weariness? (_Ennui_? ... dysphoria?) A perpetual dull disappointment that can only be temporarily and partially relieved by simulation.

 
 One of the reasons I'm so glad that [there's a word for the thing](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/) is that I find the leading alternative candidate words, _transvestite_ or _crossdresser_, to be deeply misleading as to the nature of the phenomenon.
 
 
 One of the reasons I'm so glad that [there's a word for the thing](/2017/Feb/a-beacon-through-the-darkness-or-getting-it-right-the-first-time/) is that I find the leading alternative candidate words, _transvestite_ or _crossdresser_, to be deeply misleading as to the nature of the phenomenon.
 


@@ -20,12 +20,16 @@ Namely: it's not about the clothes. Why would it be? Women with short hair, wome
 
 Moreover, crossdressing doesn't actually work.
 
 
 Moreover, crossdressing doesn't actually work.
 

-It's the face that ruins it. Facial and body hair can be shaved (or shot [with](/2017/Nov/laser-1/) [lasers](/2017/Dec/laser-2/)), breasts can be simulated with padding (or [induced hormonally](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/)), but bone structure is immutable.
+It's the face that ruins it. Facial and body hair can be shaved (or shot [with](/2017/Nov/laser-1/) [lasers](/2017/Dec/laser-2/)), breasts can be simulated with padding (or [induced hormonally](/2017/Sep/hormones-day-156-developments-doubts-and-pulling-the-plug-or-putting-the-cis-in-decision/)), but bone structure is immutable—or at least, [much more costly to fix](TODO: FFS linky)—and bone structure is the prison of maleness 
+
+[glorious androgyny of the spirit](/2017/Dec/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention/)

 
 
 Until ... this app! This app! When the girl in the mirror is obviously a guy in a dress (even when you squint), FaceApp is _there_ to offer a girl in the phone who you can _believe in_.
 
 
 
 
 Until ... this app! This app! When the girl in the mirror is obviously a guy in a dress (even when you squint), FaceApp is _there_ to offer a girl in the phone who you can _believe in_.
 
 

+-----------
+

 this is plausibly the best photo of me ever (I won't say the best crossdressing photo, because obviously all photographs of men are bad; only photographs of women or women-adj have the potential to be good)
 
 the horror of seeing what I look like with a beard
 this is plausibly the best photo of me ever (I won't say the best crossdressing photo, because obviously all photographs of men are bad; only photographs of women or women-adj have the potential to be good)
 
 the horror of seeing what I look like with a beard


@@ -39,10 +43,17 @@ in the glorious transhumanist future, there's also BrainApp that can do reversib
 
 Shut up! Shut up and take my money!
 
 
 Shut up! Shut up and take my money!
 

-OUTLINE OF POINTS TO HIT IN THIS POST—
+OUTLINEish—
+
+ * This app!
+ * AGP isn't about clothes; this app is filling a part of the experience
+ * transhumanist fantasy
+ * actual app criticism—
+   * pricing model, &c.
+   * gallery vs. full-size mode, speculating about the reason
+   * server lag?  
+   * double-filter trick
+ * can see the horror of facial hair even though I wasn't patient enough to wait (/2017/Nov/laser-1/)
+
+

 
 

-* server lag?  
-* can see the horror of facial hair even though I wasn't patient enough to wait (/2017/Nov/laser-1/)
-* gallery vs. full-size mode, speculating about the reason
-* transhumanist fantasy
-* double-filter trick

diff --git a/notes/speculative_scheduling.txt b/notes/speculative_scheduling.txt
index 82a8b77..a760d94 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/speculative_scheduling.txt
+++ b/notes/speculative_scheduling.txt
@@ -1,25 +1,27 @@
+EDITING—

 S _ Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes 
 _ ✓ Interlude (four lights)
 S _ Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes 
 _ ✓ Interlude (four lights)

+Blame Me for Trying

 
 

-_ _ Product Review: FaceApp
-_ _ Blame Me for Trying
-S _ The View From Nowhere
+DRAFTING—
+Product Review: FaceApp
+The Categories Were Made for Man in Order to Make Predictions

 
 

+QUEUE—
+S _ The View From Nowhere

 S Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
 Q Book Review: Nevada
 S Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
 Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
 Q Book Review: Nevada

-

 Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived
 Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived

+

 Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
 Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition

-Imperfect Trait Measurements Regress to the Mean
-An Epistolary Story About Preference Falsification
-Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
-_ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
-Q The Gender Czar's Compromise
+Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??

 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model 
 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See
 Q Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model 
 Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See

+
+HOLDING PEN—
+_ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
+Q The Gender Czar's Compromise

 * Mary's Room
 Laser 3
 * Mary's Room
 Laser 3

-Q Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
-The Categories Were Made for Man in Order to Make Predictions

diff --git a/notes/tech_tasks.txt b/notes/tech_tasks.txt
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--- a/notes/tech_tasks.txt
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@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+replacement scan of "There's a word for it" notebook pages

 bigger click-target pagination links
 bigger click-target pagination links

+restrict "fiction" to "longform" (not dialogues) (I made the opposite call at some point, and I think I want to reverse it)

 What's going on with caching behavior??
 glitchiness in "Editorial Process"
 link to archives page
 What's going on with caching behavior??
 glitchiness in "Editorial Process"
 link to archives page