check in from blob day ... and a half

Okay, yesterday I picked up my car from the shop and bought groceries,
and then just hung out all day. (It took a bit longer to turn off the
phone and laptop, even if I pulled the desktop network cable in the
morning.) But today, and tomorrow, and Sunday is time to do a lot of
memoiring! I got an "Electric 8's" lotto scratcher with 15 boxes on
the play area. 15 writing blocks between today and tomorrow? (Scratch
a box after a work block, to tell your brain you're on the right track
to riches.) My behavior from Sunday the 17th suggests that should be
an eminently achievable goal.

... and then today, I still, just, didn't want to get started. I
played Solitaire and turned on my phone to play Super Auto Pets. But
now the phone is off! Those 15 boxes are still in sight (7 today, 8
tomorrow, and then I will bask in feeling like a person, feeling like
an agent, deserving dessert).

diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md b/content/drafts/book-review-johnny-the-walrus.md
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+Title: Book Review: Matt Walsh's <em>Johnny the Walrus</em>
+Date: 2021-05-15 05:00
+Category: commentary
+Tags: natalism, review (book)
+Status: draft
+
+This is a terrible children's book that could have been great if the author could have just _pretended to be subtle_.
+
+Our protagonist, Johnny, is a kid who loves to play make-believe.

diff --git a/content/drafts/reducing-bias-and-improving-safety.md b/content/drafts/reducing-bias-and-improving-safety.md
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--- a/content/drafts/reducing-bias-and-improving-safety.md
+++ b/content/drafts/reducing-bias-and-improving-safety.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Status: draft
 
 https://openai.com/blog/reducing-bias-and-improving-safety-in-dall-e-2/
 
-> Today, we are implementing a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population. This technique is applied at the system level when DALL·E is given a prompt describing a person that does not specify race or gender, like "firefighter."
+> Today, we are implementing a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world's population. This technique is applied at the system level when DALL·E is given a prompt describing a person that does not specify race or gender, like "firefighter."
 
 https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/w1mflp/gender_bias_gone/igmevpj/
 https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1549076996935675904
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ https://twitter.com/cis_female/status/1549526889420947456
 https://twitter.com/robertskmiles/status/1549559401622691840
 
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pRkFkzwKZ2zfa3R6H/without-specific-countermeasures-the-easiest-path-to
+
+------
+

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-validity-sections.md
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@@ -1033,3 +1033,7 @@ Scathing rhetoric to Scott—
 
 Anna thinks trust and integrity is an important resource
 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mmHctwkKjpvaQdC3c/what-should-you-change-in-response-to-an-emergency-and-ai
+
+The HEXACO personality model considers "honesty" and "humility" a single factor
+
+I'm not usually—at least, not always—so much of a scrub as to play chess with a pigeon (which shits on the board and then struts around like it's won), or wrestle with a pig (which gets you both dirty, and the pig likes it), or dispute what the Tortise said to Achilles

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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@@ -143,8 +143,6 @@ https://ericatgswapcaps.blogspot.com/2020/10/swap-clinic-win-win-win.html
 
 reverse Wason selection task: https://twitter.com/ThetaGrunberg/status/1305296703088545792
 
-I'm not usually—at least, not always—so much of a scrub as to play chess with a pigeon (which shits on the board and then struts around like it's won), or wrestle with a pig (which gets you both dirty, and the pig likes it), or dispute what the Tortise said to Achilles
-
 (This needs to go into my "Motivations and Political Context")
 Transitioning is easy if you project into the subspace spanned by "given name" and "preferred pronouns" and "frequency of wearing dresses." The problem is that it's not psychologically realistic to expect everyone else to just throw away all the other dimensions—people were using those dimensions!