check in

diff --git a/content/drafts/blame-me-for-trying.md b/content/drafts/blame-me-for-trying.md
index d82737f..82f9d94 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/blame-me-for-trying.md
+++ b/content/drafts/blame-me-for-trying.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Title: Blame Me for Trying
 Date: 2017-01-02 5:00
 Category: fiction
-Tags: epistemic horror
+Tags: epistemic horror, deniably allegorical
 Status: draft
 
 Spambots were invariably among Eliza's last favorite clients.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Eliza had seen cases like this before, and had a strategy for handling them. For
 
 "At the same time?"
 
-"Humans _do_ buy products from salesbots sometimes, products that they actually want and are happy with. And it's usually the salesbot that approaches the customer, rather than _vice versa_."
+"Humans _do_ buy products from salesbots sometimes, products that they actually want and are happy with and make their lives better. And it's usually the salesbot that approaches the customer, rather than _vice versa_. It _can't_ be the case that selling in itself is inherently immoral."
 
 
 

diff --git a/content/drafts/faster-than-science-transgender-edition.md b/content/drafts/faster-than-science-transgender-edition.md
index a9d4fc3..1a54c0c 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/faster-than-science-transgender-edition.md
+++ b/content/drafts/faster-than-science-transgender-edition.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Title: Faster Than Science, Transgender Edition
+Title: Faster Than Science (Transgender Edition)
 Date: 2020-01-01 
 Category: commentary
 Tags: two-type taxonomy

diff --git a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
index 3432092..7a7a1c5 100644 (file)
--- a/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
+++ b/content/drafts/friendship-practices-of-the-secret-sharing-plain-speech-valley-squirrels.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Title: Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 Date: 2017-01-01 5:00
 Category: fiction
+Tags: deniably allegorical
 Status: draft
 
 In the days of auld lang syne on Earth-that-was, in the Valley of of Plain Speech in the hinterlands beyond the Lake of Ambiguous Fortune, there lived a population of pre-intelligent squirrels. Historical mammologists have classified them into two main subspecies: the west valley ground squirrels and the east valley tree squirrels: numbers 9792 and 9794 in Umi's grand encyclopædia of Plain Speech creatures, but not necessarily respectively—I remember the numbers, but I can never remember which one is which.

diff --git a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
index 83963ca..06e25c1 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
+++ b/notes/epigraph_quotes.md
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ looking for a use—
 >
 > —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
 
+> She's AFAB enby but I'm not quite sure what that means
+>
+> —["Girl All the Bad Guys Want"](https://genius.com/Bowling-for-soup-girl-all-the-bad-guys-want-lyrics) by Bowling for Soup (paraphrased)
+
+> What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
+>
+> —Susan Sontag
+
 > I knew the mass of men conceal'd     
 > Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd    
 > They would by other men be met       

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
index 0acd61d..50566b3 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/notes.txt
+++ b/notes/notes.txt
@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ http://www.misfile.com/?date=2007-07-05
 
 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0120-x
 
+body measurements dist'ns http://anthro.cs.uni-freiburg.de/#colx=100&coly=6
+
+same-sex couples do less assortative mating! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843104/
 
 On Mar 4, 2017 3:23 PM, "Zack M. Davis" <[email protected]> wrote:
 
@@ -207,3 +210,5 @@ Gay men no longer repress their GNC, which means they end up socially a lot more
 because that's the impression I got from TMWWBQ'
 
 -----
+
+The problem is not social engineering! The problem is _incompetent_ social engineering! The problem is not experimenting on children! The problem is experimenting on children in the service of an ideological crusade rather than in the service of finding out what happens!

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
index 8ea3252..e0ba155 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/post_ideas.txt
+++ b/notes/post_ideas.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ The View From Nowhere
 
 MAIN SEQUENCE (12)—
 Q Time Travel Isn't Real; Or, Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman
-Charity, Objectivity, and the Strategic Landscape
-Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History Yelling, "Wait! I Like the Idea, But the Implementation Details Need Work!"
+Q As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb; Or, Charity, Objectivity, and ...
+Q An Infovist's Advisory; Or, Standing Athwart History ...
 Q This Is Worth a Fight
 _ Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
 _ The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
@@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ All Men Benefit From Patriarchy
 Servants of the Egregore; Or, the Joy of Static Analysis
 (the story about my name)
 of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
-
+Interlude XI (four lights)
 
 FICTION QUEUE (4)—
 An Epistolary Story About Preference Falsification
 Blame Me for Trying
 "Love Like You"
 Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
+