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+id: 2026-02-27T17:48:43-05:00
+aliases: []
+title: "2026-02-27 17:48:43"
+tags:
+  - authorship/original
+  - destiny/permanent
+  - status/draft
+  - type/timestamped
+dg-publish: true
+date-created: 2026-02-27T17:48:43-05:00
+daily: "[[2026-02-27]]"
+weekly: "[[2026-W09]]"
+monthly: "[[2026-02]]"
+quarterly: "[[2026-Q1]]"
+yearly: "[[2026]]"
+---
+# 2026-02-27 17:48:43
+
+I've meant to ask my peers who read these notes
+how they feel about my using "my peer"
+rather than their names,
+even when my paraphrasing is so specific
+as to leaves no doubt of authorship.
+
+I'd figured I'd respect their wishes on the matter,
+but thinking about what my reasoning must have been
+(before it became consistency)
+I'll probably keep doing it anyway,
+however I feel I owe them an explanation.
+
+These peers sound like you, but they are not.
+They are characters of my imagining,
+their actions and beliefs
+subject to the whims of the narrative.
+You'll find that they tend to reinforce my own beliefs
+more often than you would.
+Ambiguous attribution is how I hint that an interaction is embellished
+without harshing the whimsy.
+
+And another thing:
+
+The people that I do this for I think aloud with,
+speaking with the understanding that I will say things
+that are ill advised or poorly reasoned.
+I've said before I'd rather not be credited for my ideas,
+not least because ideas are free and I am nothing if not frugal.
+If y'all properly cited me
+on some of the dumb shit I say in implied confidence,
+I'd cry.
+
+In conclusion:
+You could call it plagiarism, but I'd disagree.
+_Intellectual dishonesty_ I'll grant,
+so long as you agree it's tasteful, or at least fun.