From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 03:36:42 +0000 (-0800) Subject: check in X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f6f29642430a395c42431e18fc7e614cda3b90cd;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git check in --- diff --git a/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md b/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md index d71fe47..628bbbf 100644 --- a/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md +++ b/content/drafts/product-review-faceapp.md @@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ Status: draft 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._ -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. @@ -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. -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_. +----------- + 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! -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 --- 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) +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 - Q Memoirs of My Recent Madness, Part II: Friendship Survived + 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 + +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 -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 index 117a6c1..debebc7 100644 --- a/notes/tech_tasks.txt +++ b/notes/tech_tasks.txt @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ +replacement scan of "There's a word for it" notebook pages 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