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MisuseCase

@MisuseCase@twit.social

#infosec and #cybersecurity professional who preaches about stakeholder engagement and #usability. #poverty abolitionist. Does #knitting, loves #kdramas.

My political views do not reflect those of my employer, who I will not disclose.

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MisuseCase, to random
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I don’t know how many other people remember how much we all hated Senator Joe Manchin back in 2021-2022, but if you think Biden hasn’t done enough on COVID or the climate, Sen. Manchin is more to blame for that than anyone IMO.

He’s the reason climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act got watered down, and also why all the funding for anything related to COVID or the COVID economic crisis expired much sooner than they should have.

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mattwilcox, to random
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So far, this should be a wake up call for Labour. They should be scared.

Why? Don’t focus on the absolutes. Look at the changes.

187 seats lost from the Tories. Where are those seats going? Well only 74 to Labour. Most are going elsewhere.

Labour are picking up only 40% of defections from Tory seats.

Labour should realise that means people are pissed at them. This is failure. It’s also dangerous come general election time.

MisuseCase,
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@mattwilcox @aslakr Wow. I didn’t think other parties would pick up a majority of the Tories’ lost seats, but they did.

MisuseCase,
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@mattwilcox @aslakr I know part of the issue is that the smaller parties don’t run candidates for every seat, and where they do, they might not be able to get a good campaign together. Combine that with the FPTP voting system and a lot of general dissatisfaction and bad things can happen.

RickiTarr, to random
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But...but that's a female lion...so...

MisuseCase,
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@RickiTarr Hoo boy the use of the word “predators” in this context reflects at best a serious lack of self-awareness

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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Is long COVID forever? A new study has clues.

"A new study shows that an abnormally active immune system, a characteristic of long COVID patients, largely subsides two years after the initial infection."

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(24)00065-8/abstract#%20

Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/long-covid-inflammation-immune-recover

@auscovid19

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MisuseCase,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 But if people get infected every two years or multiple times within two years, which seems to be happening, well…

JoshuaHolland, to random
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I’m old enough to remember when politicians tried to hide it when they engaged in viewpoint discrimination but the GOP is totally open about it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/01/antisemitism-awarness-act-campus-protests/

MisuseCase,
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@JoshuaHolland A lot of Democrats voted for this too, even over the objections of, e.g., Jerry Nadler. The opinions of actual Jews don’t matter for this shit I guess.

samhainnight, to random
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Looking at all the universities sending cops to brutalize protesting students, I wonder how many of the universities realize that the students are paying them to do a job (ie to educate them), not paying them to be harassed and arrested.
Do you have to pay your student loan if you can’t attend class because your university arrested you for spurious reasons?

MisuseCase,
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@samhainnight I’m half-convinced that Columbia felt free to respond the way it did because it makes its real money off being one of Manhattan’s biggest landlords and the education thing is just kind of a side gig.

cferdinandi, to random
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I'm getting so sick of people who don't live in the US insisting that Biden and Trump are basically the same thing.

Maybe just sit down and shut the fuck up on this one?

Is Biden a deeply flawed, and even bad candidate? Absolutely!

But Trump is a literal fascist wannabe dictator. We're voting on the difference between open and rigged elections. On women's access to healthcare. On the lives of immigrants. On whether or not LGBTQ people are full humans equally deserving of human rights. /1

MisuseCase,
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@cferdinandi I think for some people, repeating that they’re the same to anyone who will listen (and also some who won’t) is a way of burnishing their BlueAnon credentials.

thisismissem, to random
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I feel like anger is a great motivator, but a terrible sustainer — like anger gets things started, but doesn't necessarily last or have a positive feedback loop, it just dissipates & fades.

And being continuously angry doesn't seem healthy to me.

MisuseCase,
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@hrefna @trochee @thisismissem There are also a lot of people who conflate the first three things with organizing, which is why (IMO) folks say things like “Twitter was good for organizing” or “TikTok is good for organizing.” They’re not good for organizing but for the stuff leading up to it.

MarvinFreeman, to random
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Have smartphones created an ‘anxious generation’? Jonathan Haidt sounds the alarm
https://theconversation.com/have-smartphones-created-an-anxious-generation-jonathan-haidt-sounds-the-alarm-227344

MisuseCase,
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@MarvinFreeman @JonChevreau Haidt is full of crap, though.

Actual studies indicate that smartphones and social media don’t really make young people anxious: they are getting blamed for a lot of other things that do make kids anxious which the “sensible adults” don’t want to deal with.

This is just a new version of complaining about rock and roll or video games or what have you.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

MisuseCase,
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@mekkaokereke I am super annoyed that a lot of liberals have accepted beefing up border enforcement as synonymous with “immigration reform” when what we really need is to expand USCIS and revamp processing to fix the kind of problem you are talking about, so people can get legal residency more easily among other things.

MisuseCase,
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@ShiitakeToast @mekkaokereke I forgot who proposed a “Marshall Plan for Central America,” was it Reuben Gallego? He had the right idea.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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What's one lesson that you learned from 2016 that you would like young people who are able to vote now but were too young to be engaged in 2016 to know?

MisuseCase,
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@BlackAzizAnansi Make sure you vote in small elections and primaries. Join up with a group or two that you can bug your elected officials and representatives with.

Actually I should add, young people getting REALLY politically active, participating in primaries, and keeping tabs on their electeds scares a lot of the old fossils, so you should totally do it as a young person.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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If there's one thing I hope that people have picked up on, it's that they're not just fighting Biden for change, they're fighting decades old institutions which are well connected and funded for change, which is a lot harder than trying to convince 1 person to change their policy.

MisuseCase,
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@BlackAzizAnansi This is why people who are like “I wish we had a different nominee than Biden” miss the point IMO. Any other Democratic President and you’re still dealing with the same people, institutions, and baggage.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Police are arresting youth, attempting to fuck up their futures because they are TELLING THE TRUTH about GENOCIDE.

MisuseCase,
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@obeto @StillIRise1963 @hannu_ikonen He seems like he does not understand protest or what he should reasonably be expected to deal with in his job, and that’s the least of his issues.

MisuseCase, to random
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“Throw out anyone talking about violence (AKA entryists)” is good advice for any leftist movement that’s not focused on violence. (If your movement is like that, I’m not opening that can of worms today.)

Violence is different from disruptive protest tactics of course.

Entryists destroy thriving movements and organizations, but they’re also bad for situations where you need movement discipline, which is a lot of them.

/1 https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/112315483501512448

MisuseCase,
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Say you are doing something where you know the police will be around. There may be a significant probability of police violence. Maybe you are anticipating that some or all of your people doing the thing will get arrested.

Whatever it is, you have hopefully made a plan and discussed the risks beforehand. The people participating know who is volunteering to be arrested and who isn’t.

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MisuseCase,
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An entryist who wants to start chaos and violence, or someone who just won’t stick to the plan and wants to do a Leeroy Jenkins or whatever, will make the situation much more chaotic and dangerous. They will put people who take risks in even riskier situations, and people who may not have signed up for it are more likely to face police violence and arrest.

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MisuseCase,
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Besides being a shitty thing to do to your comrades, entryist behavior will also destroy trust in movements and organizations.

If 50% of the people at your action signed up to get arrested but nobody signed up for a riot or setting things on fire and someone tries to make that stuff happen anyway, both the people who volunteered for arrest and the people who didn’t are going to have some serious misgivings afterwards.

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MisuseCase,
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This is why you should throw out people advocating for violence when it’s not your thing, or even people who are too eager to go off-script.

Don’t report them or turn them over to the cops (unless they have concrete plans to harm someone), but turn them away.

Movement discipline is important for keeping risk within acceptable bounds as much as possible and for preserving trust.

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MisuseCase, to windows
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Okay I may need to put a #Windows partition on my #Macbook to run something after all.

If I want to try and run it virtualized, and with a minimally annoying Windows setup, what should I do?

MisuseCase, to random
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With regards to pro-Palestine protests, the educational institutions have already hit that point where cracking down on the protests/protesters just makes the protests bigger.

Of course, they are trying to satisfy their mega-wealthy donors and fend off bad-faith right-wing accusations of antisemitism. As long as they are operating in that mode they’re going to keep making the situation worse

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 30: Every student at the University of Minnesota Peace Camp was arrested and banned from campus for a year yesterday. This is what happened next.
A bigger peace camp is being organised for today.
The kids are alright.

MisuseCase,
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@fkamiah17 @gee8sh They may think “can’t have a university without any students, right?” But the higher-ups and admins are blinkered and might be like “we can keep going as long as we have megawealthy donors.”

mcnado, to random
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Guys, I hate to tell y’all, but particles from pathogens are found in all pasteurized milk. Pasteurization doesn’t remove pathogens, it kills them. So yeah, dead (inactive) bird flu is gonna be in milk if cows have it. So is E. coli, and many other pathogens. That’s why we pasteurize it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030213004104

MisuseCase,
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@lewiscowles1986 @mcnado That’s a valid question but it helps to know how pasteurization works - it’s heating the milk up enough to break down the protein shell of viruses (pretty much all viruses have them) to kill them.

Unless bird flu is some kind of heat-resistant super-virus, pasteurization probably works on it

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MisuseCase,
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@starfrost @jago @gsuberland @felurx @panamared27401 There are lots of different people who are white, maybe they did not used to be white, whiteness is contingent, etc., etc. In Euroamerican society white is a caste and has the privilege of normalcy and this form of kind-of-fashy environmentalism is associated with people who qualify of be quite or aspire to be white.

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