Tuesday Somemore

The last The Screed was a bit premature, with me hitting send instead of save while I was scratching the dog. I used to be more careful, to ensure I could never accidentally communicate. But that’s counter to my purposes here, so occasional early edition.

Talked with DerbyK about conversations, the virtues and hazards of physical personhood, and the social value of trivial personal preferences. I still hadn’t really considered the impact to others. For a very long time I have understood things like favorite colors as A) imaginary¹This makes certain forms of security questions very difficult for me. Between that and my inability to enroll in many fingerprint systems I feel like a I need a disability access advocate for auth systems. and B) a thing old people sometimes demand that young people perform, in lieu of mutually respectful human interaction. I’m only just getting over A. B still seems possibly true. Certainly sometimes true. But apparently it’s possible for other people to care about non-utilitarian preferences as a valuable aspect of shared personhood.

Talked with Dave about my role in his Betazoid wedding. I need to figure out how to wear 4 pips without a collar, but this plan works best when his kid is like 22, so I’ve still got some time to figure it out.

Thinking about being 4 – about the last time I allowed myself to consciously have preferences about things like colors – prompts me to remember and recontextualize all sorts of mostly terrible things from the period. Which is hard. But it’s better than being surprised by those things later. And it gives me access to a form of social interaction I didn’t have before – trivial personal preferences. I’m always a sucker for new communications technology.

ZiB

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Sent from a phone.