#video on how poor pedestrian infrastructure can be in #USA, for example in New Jersey
#video of photos of design fails, many involving unintentional genital #humor
Ozymandias Brennan recommends that white-collar criminals turn themselves in after meeting with a defense lawyer
“Brent [Dill] sexually abused me [Elizabeth] over the course of our year-and-a-half-long relationship. At the start of our relationship Brent was 39 and I was 19 (I’ve had healthy age-gap relationships, but in retrospect I think this was an unhealthy one); (...) Brent pressured me into #BDSM scenes with gear I hated, pain and discomfort well past my tolerance, insufficient safety protocols, and sometimes drug use. There were dozens of times that he verbally pressured me into an intimate situation I wasn’t comfortable with, saying that if I loved him or cared about him I’d do it. There were fewer times, but probably still dozens, that he didn’t ensure I had a safeword when going into a really heavy scene, or disrespected my safeword when I gave it.” written in September 02018. Holy shit. But it gets worse: “Throughout the relationship he talked about how his ex had submitted much more completely and usefully than me, and how it would be great if I didn’t believe I had the option of escape, if I didn’t have a safeword or social support network. (...) The argument escalated really fast, until he was banging his head on the windowsill. Our landlord had complained before about us making too much noise in that room in the evenings; in the moment, I decided that the best way to get him to stop really fast was to punch him in the face (and that this was okay because he had a history of hurting me with dubious consent / he’d been giving dubious consent for months with the “hit me” comments). Immediately after it was obvious to me that I’d been wrong and used terrible judgement, (...)” #intimate-partner-abuse
Ozymandias Brennan on the ambiguity of #incels: are they "blackpillers" or just love-shy? This is a post about "love-shy" men who have no dating experience but don’t hate women, often because they rarely leave the house due to social anxiety. “Because love-shy men are going off the Internet, which is full of deranged people, they are often mistaken about how dating works.” This seems highly relevant to #pig-butchering scams.
Ozymandias Brennan on how people in #polyamory should give other people dating advice, but mostly about how people’s picture of the #dating pool is distorted by strong filtering they don’t know they’re doing
Ozymandias Brennan on the social dynamics of #dating and how, in particular, shy people often accidentally reject people who try to flirt with them
Scott Alexander’s post about how we all live in self-created social bubbles
Sociosexuality (“unrestricted sociosexuality”) is not quite promiscuity but maybe the inclination towards promiscuity?
Eudai argues that women who ask men out will have better #dating lives than women who don’t. Mentions getting a photo of her rated 6.5/10 for attractiveness by "Photofeeler". “Hey, I think you’re cute and am interested in going on a date with you. Are you free this Saturday afternoon to go on a walk around [place] and maybe come back to my house afterwards to nonsexually cuddle afterwards? Sorry if this is awkward, if you’re not interested I’m happy to proceed with our friendship as if I never asked. :)”
“The Gale-Shapley algorithm is often used to create a stable matching in a market with two-sided ranked-order preferences. What might not be so obvious is that the algorithm favors those who make the first move. The proposers/askers start from the top of their list and move down, and so they get matched to their highest-ranked preference who will accept them.” #dating
Ozymandias Brennan’s account as a juror of the #murder trial of Bomani Hairston-Bassette. #crime
Ozymandias Brennan’s review of Nick Krauser’s book “Daygame Mastery” in which he confesses to being a serial rapist. Pretty horrifying. #crime
Chesed writes about #dating rapists (who didn’t rape her). “His fingers reached under my panties. No, I told him, squirming. I want to keep them on. He slipped his fingers under the panties, fingering me with them on. I wiggled around, unsure what I wanted, unsure what he would do.”
Chesed writes about attending a “Red means No” #BDSM orgy. “I wish I could tell you exactly what happened — how and when he peeled off my underwear and threw me around — but my memories are blurry. I remember how helpless I felt under him, the strength of his arms, the pressure of his body on top of me, and the pleasure I felt with the entrance of his cock. I wasn’t in a particularly fight-y mood and I was very attracted to him, so I struggled just enough to get a sense of his overwhelming strength. (...) As I later discussed with Pandora, my problem with the Sybian may be in part that I am used to orgasming laying down.”
Ozymandias Brennan #news on why there are so many “#rationalist” #cults, including Brent Dill’s Black Lotus Burning Man Camp
“Here, we report the first structured observations of [unprompted] instrumental object manipulation in a pig, the Visayan warty pig Sus cebifrons, which we argue qualifies as tool use. Three individuals were observed using bark or sticks to dig with.” #paper
“Game Review: Rabbit Simulator” disturbing fiction
#Varnish is being renamed Vinyl Cache (#Mastodon)
Ozymandias Brennan on “The Life Goals of Dead People”, which I think is a useful counterpoise to #scrupulosity
Apparently #AI alignment is now a subject of Wall Street Journal editorials, like this one, “The Monster Inside ChatGPT: We discovered how easily a model’s safety training falls off, and below that mask is a lot of darkness.” by Cameron Berg and Judd Rosenblatt, from the June 27th print edition.
Discussion of alternatives to the synaptic plasticity and memory hypothesis in #neuroscience, with Stentor, paramecia, sea slugs, planarians, etc.
#video of planarian regeneration with 30× magnification
inventor of the portable digital camera at Kodak, patent filed in 01977, retired from Kodak in 02009 #history
Cromemco used a 1-kilobit DRAM chip for their first digital camera sensor! #electronics #hardware #history #jugaad
URL of Charlie #Kirk article from before his assassination, which said, “In 2024, Kirk cited Leviticus 20:13 (“If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them”) as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters”.[106]” . #USA #politics #history
The source in which Charlie #Kirk appears to have said killing gay people was “God’s perfect law”, a “Thoughtcrime” panel discussion with four people. Kirk in #video clip: “The second part is Leviticus 19. So you love God. So you must love his law. How do you love somebody? You love them by telling them the truth, not by confirming or affirming their sin. And it says, by the way, Miss Rachel, you might want to crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser-referenced part of the same part of Scripture, is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Miss Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself, the chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.” #USA #politics #history
Another source for Charlie #Kirk endorsing stoning gay people. #USA #politics #history #crime
#video with lots of talking head and stock footage filler about how, in September 02006, 260-pound nurse Susan Kuhnhausen (now #Susan-Walters) strangled Edward Dalton Haffey, the hitman her husband hired to murder her after 17 years of marriage after she filed for divorce during a temporary separation. Haffey was a Vietnam vet working as a janitor who had murdered his ex-girlfriend previously, and he tried to kill her with a hammer, which she wrestled away from him and hit him with, later biting him, and finally strangling him from behind. Her husband died of cancer before his parole. #crime