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3 years agonote shuffling
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 22 Feb 2021 04:56:59 +0000 (20:56 -0800)]
note shuffling

3 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": "Tails"?—never heard of her
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:56:59 +0000 (16:56 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": "Tails"?—never heard of her

3 years agoadd alt attributes to ancillary captions
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Feb 2021 23:14:42 +0000 (15:14 -0800)]
add alt attributes to ancillary captions

Pelican has been warning about these, but instead of paying the
warning no mind, maybe I should fix it.

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agocorrect typos in "Human Diversity" review
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:13:38 +0000 (14:13 -0800)]
correct typos in "Human Diversity" review

3 years agotap draft
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:24:37 +0000 (14:24 -0800)]
tap draft

3 years agoPresidential doldrums, cont'd
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 16 Feb 2021 07:24:33 +0000 (23:24 -0800)]
Presidential doldrums, cont'd

3 years agoPresidential doldrums
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 16 Feb 2021 04:49:37 +0000 (20:49 -0800)]
Presidential doldrums

It's so hard to not get distracted!! But I have to prove—that it's
possible to try.

3 years agoready ... (Presidential anxiety edition)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 16 Feb 2021 01:34:59 +0000 (17:34 -0800)]
ready ... (Presidential anxiety edition)

How do I get so lost in a Twitter gutter? I really want to finish
this! And I was supposed to do some dayjob work even though it's
President's Day. Well ... 1730 to 2130 is four hours. You can do a lot
in four hours, if you actually try. Let's try! Let's prove it's
possible to try!

3 years agocaliph
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:10:43 +0000 (01:10 -0800)]
caliph

3 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": not the movement
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 15 Feb 2021 02:51:36 +0000 (18:51 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": not the movement

3 years agoSunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism": lit review ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Feb 2021 23:43:37 +0000 (15:43 -0800)]
Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism": lit review ...

3 years agoready, and ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:32:51 +0000 (12:32 -0800)]
ready, and ...

3 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 6)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Feb 2021 07:10:20 +0000 (23:10 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 6)

3 years agoready ...
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Feb 2021 05:31:28 +0000 (21:31 -0800)]
ready ...

3 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 5)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Feb 2021 05:00:21 +0000 (21:00 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 5)

3 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (call this session 4)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Feb 2021 03:30:57 +0000 (19:30 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (call this session 4)

3 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (call this session 3)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:53:19 +0000 (16:53 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (call this session 3)

3 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (call this session 2)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:39:15 +0000 (15:39 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (call this session 2)

I got coffee but I've also been a bit distracted by the Slate Star/New
York Times drama! A little bit is okay, but now it's time to work!!

3 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 1)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:45:29 +0000 (08:45 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 1)

I might get coffee?! I will have retrospectively deserved coffee if I
can finish this post this weekend!

3 years agocheck in, but tomorrow is going to be a big day
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 13 Feb 2021 07:30:20 +0000 (23:30 -0800)]
check in, but tomorrow is going to be a big day

I just need to push through and finish this—with the end in sight, I
should be able to kick it instead of being afraid.

3 years agoThursday evening drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 12 Feb 2021 07:16:59 +0000 (23:16 -0800)]
Thursday evening drafting "Sexual Dimorphism"

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agonibble at "Sexual Dimorphism" (Wed. eve)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 11 Feb 2021 06:50:06 +0000 (22:50 -0800)]
nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism" (Wed. eve)

(changed my mind again about including the "define a word any way I
want" anthology—goal is to focus on the abstract dynamics and not
E.Y.'s hypocrisy)

3 years agonibble at "Sexual Dimorphism" (still Wed.)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:51:13 +0000 (13:51 -0800)]
nibble at "Sexual Dimorphism" (still Wed.)

3 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (Wednesday morning)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 10 Feb 2021 18:13:05 +0000 (10:13 -0800)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (Wednesday morning)

3 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism" Tuesday nibble
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:49:56 +0000 (23:49 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism" Tuesday nibble

3 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism" TODO "inline outline" structuring
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 9 Feb 2021 20:19:16 +0000 (12:19 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism" TODO "inline outline" structuring

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agoSunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (evening)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Feb 2021 07:07:16 +0000 (23:07 -0800)]
Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (evening)

3 years agoSunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 2)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 8 Feb 2021 00:35:55 +0000 (16:35 -0800)]
Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 2)

3 years agoSunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 1)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 7 Feb 2021 22:47:04 +0000 (14:47 -0800)]
Sunday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (session 1)

Need to step it up!

3 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (evening nibble)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 7 Feb 2021 07:03:12 +0000 (23:03 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (evening nibble)

Need more discipline tomorrow if I'm to get this ready to ship on
Valentine's Day!

3 years agoSaturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (day session)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 7 Feb 2021 01:00:59 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
Saturday drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" (day session)

I've been pretty distracted by social media, but I at least got some
writing done! Maybe I'll do more in the evening!

3 years agocheck in notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 6 Feb 2021 15:44:17 +0000 (07:44 -0800)]
check in notes

3 years agoschedule "You Are Right and I Was Wrong"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 1 Feb 2021 04:40:23 +0000 (20:40 -0800)]
schedule "You Are Right and I Was Wrong"

3 years agocheck in rough linkpost megathread reactions
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 31 Jan 2021 22:13:38 +0000 (14:13 -0800)]
check in rough linkpost megathread reactions

Some quick reactions to be processed into a post later. (And note a
swipe at S.A.'s powerlessness in the general notesfile.)

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agocomplete draft "You Are Right and I Was Wrong"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 31 Jan 2021 02:43:05 +0000 (18:43 -0800)]
complete draft "You Are Right and I Was Wrong"

3 years agodrafting "You Are Right and I Was Wrong"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 30 Jan 2021 23:40:05 +0000 (15:40 -0800)]
drafting "You Are Right and I Was Wrong"

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agotell Isso not to hide comments just because there are many
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:05:38 +0000 (17:05 -0800)]
tell Isso not to hide comments just because there are many

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agoswipe at wellness notes?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:25:56 +0000 (08:25 -0800)]
swipe at wellness notes?

I don't think I actually feel like making a public blog post about my
current problems.

3 years agocheck in note links
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check in note links

3 years ago"Optimized for Deception" linkpost inaugurates a new year
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 8 Jan 2021 22:30:21 +0000 (14:30 -0800)]
"Optimized for Deception" linkpost inaugurates a new year

3 years agocontainment/check in
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 7 Jan 2021 23:10:23 +0000 (15:10 -0800)]
containment/check in

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agocheck in
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3 years agotinker with Pygments colors
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 2 Jan 2021 01:17:18 +0000 (17:17 -0800)]
tinker with Pygments colors

The default Pygments theme was greenish overall, which is off-theme;
this makes it more pink-and-purplish (surely not an optimal palette,
but a low-hanging improvement during fifteen minutes of not being
brave enough to actually write).

3 years agoepigraph on the impression that I get
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 27 Dec 2020 02:12:41 +0000 (18:12 -0800)]
epigraph on the impression that I get

3 years agocritical adjective: shared account
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Dec 2020 17:13:16 +0000 (09:13 -0800)]
critical adjective: shared account

3 years agocheck in
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3 years ago"Liability"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 25 Dec 2020 02:21:28 +0000 (18:21 -0800)]
"Liability"

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agotie off and publish "Crossing the Line"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:02:58 +0000 (14:02 -0800)]
tie off and publish "Crossing the Line"

3 years agoconsolidate vacation agenda?
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:23:07 +0000 (13:23 -0800)]
consolidate vacation agenda?

3 years agoHaskell survey data post: don't count non-responses
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:59:38 +0000 (11:59 -0800)]
Haskell survey data post: don't count non-responses

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agofix busted "Terrorist Memeplexes" link (7 → 8) in "Categories"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:33:52 +0000 (15:33 -0800)]
fix busted "Terrorist Memeplexes" link (7 → 8) in "Categories"

Was that there the whole time?? Thanks to a reader for pointing this
out.

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agopoke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 9 Dec 2020 22:17:39 +0000 (14:17 -0800)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism"

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agookay, I think I do want to include extra rant in the coda
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 9 Dec 2020 04:11:23 +0000 (20:11 -0800)]
okay, I think I do want to include extra rant in the coda

I was leaning towards keeping the scope limited, but now I'm leaning
back? As well for a sheep as a lamb?

3 years agopoke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 8 Dec 2020 21:34:04 +0000 (13:34 -0800)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism"

3 years agopoke at "Sexual Dimorphism" and import Tail's criticism
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 8 Dec 2020 04:54:59 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism" and import Tail's criticism

Happy to be working in the main idea of the "Faster Than Science" post
that never got written.

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agoSunday "Sexual Dimorphism" drafting 2: "Failed Utopia #4-2" & coda story
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Dec 2020 04:57:16 +0000 (20:57 -0800)]
Sunday "Sexual Dimorphism" drafting 2: "Failed Utopia #4-2" & coda story

3 years agoSunday "Sexual Dimorphism" drafting 1: entanglement, transition doubts
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 7 Dec 2020 01:09:39 +0000 (17:09 -0800)]
Sunday "Sexual Dimorphism" drafting 1: entanglement, transition doubts

It's only early evening; let's do another solid session of drafting
before tonight's Advent of Code puzzle release!! I really want to just
be finished with this!

3 years agocheck in
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3 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism": ELTE and the limits of medicine, lean low scope
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 6 Dec 2020 01:57:34 +0000 (17:57 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism": ELTE and the limits of medicine, lean low scope

As you can see from the shoveling, I'm not sure how long I want to
make the coda—this is already a long post, so maybe it shouldn't be
exhaustive on threats to the great common task, but just focus on the
case that I'm not alone, and I shouldn't be alone.

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agopoke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 4 Dec 2020 07:40:46 +0000 (23:40 -0800)]
poke

3 years agopoke
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 3 Dec 2020 07:30:20 +0000 (23:30 -0800)]
poke

3 years agoimport three paragraphs about dark side epistemology
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Dec 2020 04:52:32 +0000 (20:52 -0800)]
import three paragraphs about dark side epistemology

3 years agonibbling at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 2 Dec 2020 04:52:07 +0000 (20:52 -0800)]
nibbling at "Sexual Dimorphism"

3 years agopoke at "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 1 Dec 2020 22:32:37 +0000 (14:32 -0800)]
poke at "Sexual Dimorphism"

3 years agoshovel some notes/scraps between files
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 1 Dec 2020 20:14:43 +0000 (12:14 -0800)]
shovel some notes/scraps between files

Now that I don't have to do ragequit post set to Sara Bareilles, I
might want to extract some of the points that were written for that,
into the present endeavor

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agofilling in Sexual Dimorphism
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Nov 2020 07:12:54 +0000 (23:12 -0800)]
filling in Sexual Dimorphism

3 years agobackport cosplay images
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:20:46 +0000 (19:20 -0800)]
backport cosplay images

3 years agoback-anchors ("Changing Emotions" links (5x), and Murray pt. II)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:43:44 +0000 (14:43 -0800)]
back-anchors ("Changing Emotions" links (5x), and Murray pt. II)

I'm a little worried about whether readers actually understand this
"linking to a hidden anchor in an arbitrary paragraph in the middle of
a post" technique? (If you just see the new tab of the old post
scrolled halfway down, it may not be obvious which part I'm trying to
direct you to without a section header to make it clearer.) But it
still seems better than not-doing it? I love my links.

3 years agoworking on filling in "Sexual Dimorphism"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 29 Nov 2020 00:16:06 +0000 (16:16 -0800)]
working on filling in "Sexual Dimorphism"

Is this thought-dumping bad writing? How am I going to edit this
monster? And yet doesn't it, despite everything, beat the alternative?
(The blog is over four years old; at least I'm getting things said
that I somehow didn't get around to in four years.)

3 years agoeh, just throw the Ranma image on the About page
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:24:05 +0000 (13:24 -0800)]
eh, just throw the Ranma image on the About page

I've had this sitting in the images directory forever—might as
well. (I'm not even particularly familiar with the manga, which I only
read a few borrowed books of in middle school! But—it's famous enough
to be a touchstone, to take part of my pen name from.)

3 years agocheck in
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3 years ago"Sexual Dimorphism" day-after-Thanksgiving TODO pass
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:11:32 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
"Sexual Dimorphism" day-after-Thanksgiving TODO pass

3 years agoupdate old "Changing Emotions" links to nu-LessWrong (LW 2)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 03:48:27 +0000 (19:48 -0800)]
update old "Changing Emotions" links to nu-LessWrong (LW 2)

3 years agoprep and import scraps for T.K.o.t.M.
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Fri, 27 Nov 2020 03:35:38 +0000 (19:35 -0800)]
prep and import scraps for T.K.o.t.M.

Nothing to see here, mostly just importing some prose from a previous
unpublished research project that can be reused

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agocheck in
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3 years agopick up that dropped factor of 2
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:33:36 +0000 (22:33 -0800)]
pick up that dropped factor of 2

The original calculation was comparing cis women to trans people in
general, but I want to be comparing cis women to trans women.

3 years agowrap up and publish "Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 25 Nov 2020 06:12:46 +0000 (22:12 -0800)]
wrap up and publish "Cis and Trans Women Among Haskell Programmers"

3 years agodrafting "Sexual Dimorphism" to closing line (with many gaps)
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:45:40 +0000 (12:45 -0800)]
drafting "Sexual Dimorphism" to closing line (with many gaps)

Okay, I figured out where and how I want to close this off! I still
have a lot of writing to do to fill in all those TODO-labeled gaps,
and a lot of editing after that, but this is a nice
skeleton—especially the pelvis.

3 years agocheck in—with hope
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check in—with hope

It looks like I have three more straightforward minor posts to fit in
the pipeline before "Sexual Dimorphism": the 2020 Haskell survey data
is up, the /r/DrWillPowers threads shouldn't be that hard to
summarize, and I know why my first draft of "Crossing the Line" is
floppy. After "Sexual Dimorphism", I can turn to the finalization of
my philosophy-of-language thesis on the robot-cult blog, and then I'll
finally be free (or free to switch back to the gender war with "Trans
Kids on the Margin")

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agodrafted: "Crossing the Line"
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Sun, 22 Nov 2020 01:40:54 +0000 (17:40 -0800)]
drafted: "Crossing the Line"

What started out just being a paper-review got queered with riffing
off Julia Serano and the best song from the Tangled sequel series?
This is me.

3 years agocheck in
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3 years agosocial media scrap notes
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Thu, 19 Nov 2020 05:13:05 +0000 (21:13 -0800)]
social media scrap notes

3 years agonibble at "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"; cache rhetoric
M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake [Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:33:17 +0000 (12:33 -0800)]
nibble at "Comment on 'The Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis'"; cache rhetoric