Note to self:

If I need to publish something and have it remain completely anonymous, convert it to ASCII TEXT. That is one of the few formats I understand well enough to be CERTAIN that it is free of metadata.

Now all I have to worry about is how I can anonymously publish it, text style analysis, and how to include diagrams without resorting to ASCII drawings.

I wonder if there is a tool to obfuscate text to prevent analysis. one way I could think of is to use any online translation tool to translate to a foreign language and then back to english. and then fix the grammar slightly. the structure of the text should hopefully be different enough for any tool/human to recognize it's your style. is there an easier way to do this?

There is some free software available[0] to do stylometry analysis. And some software which purports to assist in anonymizing writings[1]. I've not really played around with either, so I can't speak to their ease of use and/or effectiveness. But it's at least somewhere to start.

[0] http://evllabs.com/jgaap/w/index.php/Main_Page

[1] https://github.com/psal/anonymouth