Publish "Names"

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+.Dd October 30, 2021
+.Dt NAMES 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm Names
+.Nd three types
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+There are (at least) three
+different types of names
+a person has.
+.
+.Pp
+First, there are normie names.
+These are names usually made up
+of several words
+each of which is capitalized.
+Most people have one of these,
+but it's possible to have more.
+They're names that might appear on
+various types of Documents.
+A
+.Dq legal name
+(dubious)
+is a normie name,
+but normie names need not be
+.Dq legal
+(dubious).
+I list this category first
+not because it's more important,
+but because it is by far the most boring.
+.
+.Pp
+Next, there are Real Names.
+Most people have at least a few
+and will probably go through
+different ones over time.
+Your Real Names are anything people
+use to refer to you.
+On the internet these are often not capitalized.
+Sometimes that is the only distinction
+between a Real Name
+and a normie name.
+.
+.Pp
+There was a period of time
+when I was playing a lot of TF2
+and not really leaving my apartment.
+I had set my steam name to
+.Dq gluten product
+(yeah, from that dril tweet)
+and I talked in the game's voice chat
+quite a bit.
+Naturally other Gamers in voice chat
+called me
+.Dq gluten
+and at some point I realized
+that over the span of months
+I had been refered to as
+.Dq gluten
+more often than any other name.
+So that was a Real Name of mine.
+People used it and I responded to it.
+.
+.Pp
+Last, there are the True Names.
+The kind of name that knowledge of
+gives one power over a person.
+I don't think any humans
+know their own True Names,
+but I do believe they exist.
+It's possible that other animals
+know theirs.
+It's probably best not to know though, right?
+I think if I knew mine
+I would always worry
+about accidentally revealing it.
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An june Aq Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile
index 5b3c86b8..af50eee7 100644
--- a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile
+++ b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ TXTS += 024-seprintf.txt
 TXTS += 025-v6-pwd.txt
 TXTS += 026-git-comment.txt
 TXTS += 027-openbsd-linode.txt
+TXTS += 028-names.txt
 
 all: colb ${TXTS}