[chore] Dust off some outdated dependencies

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diff --git a/posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md b/posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md
index cef4058..0a64b7e 100644
--- a/posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md
+++ b/posts/20221031-ubiquitous-mundane-magic.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ structures in school---how to make them think more quickly, or more creatively,
 or more aesthetically and approachably for those not familiar with the arcane,
 inscrutable languages used to form those thought-directing spells. We routinely
 collaborate in the creation of these spells with people from distant cities
-with whom we have not, and likely will never meet face to face. We refer to
+with whom we have not, and perhaps will never meet face to face. We refer to
 spellcrafting techniques by the names of their original codifiers ("Kruskal's
 Algorithm for Minimum Spanning Forests").
 
@@ -45,11 +45,13 @@ numbers at that scale.
 
 And yet that's all just... normal? Even though there's a whole, real,
 fantastical world all around us? I find that blasé attitude fascinating.
-Clarke's third law---any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
-from magic (and the designer's corollary: any technology distinguishable from
-magic is insufficiently advanced)---seems to have... forgotten, or perhaps
-ignored, human neuroplasticity's capacity for forcing even the wildest reality
-into routine familiarity, and I feel like that loss of wonder is a shame.
+Clarke's third law---that any sufficiently advanced technology is
+indistinguishable from magic (and the designer's corollary: that any technology
+distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced)---if the magic it refers
+to is meant to carry the same sense of wonder which I associate with the term,
+the law seems to have... forgotten, or perhaps ignored, human neuroplasticity's
+capacity for forcing even the wildest realities into boring, routine
+familiarity, and I feel like that loss of wonder is a shame.
 
 That's why today, for Halloween, even though I'm not wearing anything different
 from what I usually wear, I'm dressed as a wizard. :mage_woman: