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Isolate, Inebriate, Intimidate, Repeat: High Rates of Sexual Force Against Women Are Reported When Young Men Given Anonymous Surveys Lucia F. O’Sullivan, Scott T. Ronis

Most survey women who were targets of sexual aggression or else survey men who consent to being identified. Using anonymous surveys of 2,689 U.S. and Canadian men (18–34  years), we aimed to assess rates of self-reported sexual aggression, reports of strategy effectiveness at forcing known reluctant women into sex, and men’s views of the circumstances, motivations, and positive and negative outcomes. Men reported occasions where they tried to get a woman to engage in sex that they knew she did not want and to which she had not consented. The women were individuals with whom the men shared no prior romantic or sexual history. Overall, 95.1% reported having recently used at least one of the strategies to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented.

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Via Qasim Rashid: Russell Brand, Rape, And “Not All Men” by way of Irene Zhang.

Lyra's Epic Blog: How I accidentally became a millionaire. Fun and games with a combination of issues in Google's bug reporting system, AI generated community notes on Twitter, and AI overviews.

Via.

Github: OpenAI Codex — Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random scripts, cost me $10,000+ #59060

The levels of schadenfreude in the replies are intense.

But I get it. The first time I was getting comfortable with a coding "agent" and my trust in it caused data destruction, I was angry too. Then, of course, I realized that getting angry at it was like getting angry at losing a limb while using a hand grenade as a hammer.

Via this @glyph@mastodon.social thread.

If money is the only barrier to entry, and once all of the capital is gone the AI companies are going to have to live on revenue, and computers depreciate fast, then it's the company that *doesn't* try to go big and fast early that's going to end up being the LLM provider left standing.

The thing about starting to be aware of dogwhistles for structural inequity is that I can't just post "Holy shit, do you even read what you wrote?" on Nextdoor, I have to find ways to lead people through the self-discovery and awareness, and that may not be possible.

Today I learned about Simpson's Paradox: Simpson's paradox in psychological science: a practical guide

From mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca's thread linking to Game Production Alchemist: I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow and Measuring Up, in which "one number" is explained as a tell for implementing Deming's ideas on process measurement without understanding them, in a way that will be counter-productive.

Matt Haughey looks at the film Musk (2026) (via).

And, yes, like him, I'd love to see something going deeper into The Boring Company and a lot of the other stuff.

After 7-months, [Anthropic's] Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Underwhelming Findings

Fingers crossed and hoping: Anthropic IPO Risks Causing AI Market Correction, [Copper Sky head Jack] Selby Says

“Why is Anthropic so anxious to go public?,” Shelby said. “They have so much cash on their balance sheet. They have almost as much cash on their balance sheet as Google. They make more money from interest income than they do from their core business model.”

Via.