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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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fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 32: Students at Duke University walk out of their commencement chanting Free Palestine, drowning out Jerry Seinfeld, who was invited to speak by the university.

MisuseCase,
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@fkamiah17 @Bwasscher I’m wondering what will happen when Biden gives the commencement speech at Morehouse. I hope it’s creative and that it makes him super uncomfortable.

MisuseCase, to random
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“Most of the people arrested at the campus protests were not students or faculty” is an oft-repeated (by police and media) lie that is debunked over and over again by students and faculty participating in (and getting arrested at) these protests. Almost all the people getting arrested are students and faculty.

The purpose of the lie is to prevent us from facing the reality of what’s being perpetrated on our kids and their teachers.

fulelo, to China
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“ is not buying Africa, it is building ” is the view from Beijing. How is this landing with local audiences? There have been hints of a cooling down of Sino-African friendship. For this episode, travels to the Kenyan capital Nairobi to get a sense of influence on the ground, and understand why has chosen it as a hub for its media operation in Africa.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hx9h3z

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@fulelo I was talking to someone at an organizing event yesterday who said China under Mao supported African anti-colonial/liberation movements in the mid-20th century, so a cozy relationship between many African countries and China is older than we generally think.

(Cuba and Russia also supported anti-colonial movements in Africa at the time.)

KimPerales, (edited ) to random
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-in a positive direction, however, not nearly as fast or at the scope that United States would like to see." 6/6

Link to the report:
https://www.justsecurity.org/95584/nsm-20-report-israel-us/

MisuseCase,
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@KimPerales Sorry but this is broken off the thread it’s supposed to belong to.

MisuseCase, to Israel
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I get the strong impression that even if a lot of people on Fedi think that drawing a red line on and pausing military aid shipments is some kind of trick, the government of doesn’t think so, and is doing the typical thing abusers do when they’re denied cooperation that they have come to take for granted: hurting the person who withdrew it from them, or at least anything close to hand.

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MisuseCase,
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Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has been complaining that cares about the too much and has been forcing the government to hold back on killing them, etc. So now Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, et. al. are going “withhold weapons to warn us against killing them are you? You can’t tell us what to do! We’ll kill them anyway to show you.”

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MisuseCase, to random
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Some of the attitudes and behavior you see from conservatives and self-described liberals makes more sense when you understand the mindset: dead Jews and theoretical Jews are useful, but actual living Jews with opinions (and we have many opinions!) are inconvenient and difficult.

That’s been a thing for a while and it’s why nobody cares to register Jews’ criticism of Israel, or participation in campus protests. https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112411881715629556

KimPerales, to random
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is defiant:

"The Biden admin has said a major invasion would be a red line -noting that it could result in more civilian deaths. Aid groups -already having difficulty distributing much needed aid to the >1.4M ppl -current fighting: killed dozens of people in the last 24 hrs -more robust IDF presence now. 2 brigades, one’s a specialist in tunnels & the other one were the perpetrators of the WCK incident. Those are the 2 brigades operating now & in South Rafa."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/israel-rafah-scott-anderson-unrwa-00156924w

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@KimPerales Ben-Gvir has been complaining for a while that Biden is too nice to the Palestinians and holds Israel back too much: he’d rather have Trump in office.

And Mitt “47%” Romney seems to have memory-holed our abandonment of the Kurds, who were our allies.

StillIRise1963, to random
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"President Biden on Wednesday warned he would stop supplying Israel with offensive weapons like bombs and artillery shells if Israeli forces launch an invasion of Rafah, laying down a clear line amid outcry over the conflict in Gaza.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4652482-biden-stop-offensive-weapons-israel-invade-rafah/

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@angiebaby @mloxton @StillIRise1963 I think Israel has been saying something like that for a while. They make non-precision bombs domestically, and if they had been using those instead of precision bombs provided by the U.S., the death toll in Gaza would be even higher. (It’s all pretty fucked up.)

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@angiebaby @mloxton @StillIRise1963 A big problem is that Netanyahu is being told by the right-wing psychos in his cabinet, “if you accept a ceasefire agreement we’ll force a general election, you’ll lose your position, and then go to prison for all your crimes pre 10/7/23.” So I don’t know if there’s a way to incentivize him to stop. It would require something like crippling sanctions or military intervention.

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guncelawits, to random
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2024 Presidential Candidates

  • Competent administrator and war criminal

vs.

  • Serial rapist and wannabe war criminal

vs.

  • Science hater and serial whatthefuckist
MisuseCase,
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@guncelawits @trochee Trump is actually a war criminal, if not to the extent he wants.

He loosened the restrictions on collateral damage/civilian casualties for drone strikes and also made it so that records of strikes and their casualties were not public.

MisuseCase,
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@trochee @guncelawits Both The Beast and The Smiler were supposed to be analogous to Nixon, IIRC. Just different aspects of Nixon.

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@guncelawits @trochee I think it’s Reagan, but I have lived most of my life in The Gipper’s shadow, more or less.

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@trochee @guncelawits The Democratic Party is far from where I’d like it to be, but it’s pretty different from how it was in the 90s.

And politicians from both parties being subservient to corporate/lobby interests didn’t start with Clinton either. It goes back to the early 20th century and probably earlier.

MisuseCase, to random
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Today is Bike to School Day so my son and I went to school on our bikes. He still has training wheels and had to walk the bike up some steep sections but he did very well. And I was able to get home in 10 minutes.

I’ll be able to go pick him up on my bike and we can ride home together, since I locked up his bike on the rack at school.

MisuseCase, to random
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People keep telling me both parties are the same and voting doesn’t matter, if so what’s this? An elaborate psyop I guess? https://mas.to/@marcelias/112405284475358233

MisuseCase, to random
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Finally, but this isn’t going to slow Netanyahu’s murder machine down, because if he stops/accepts a ceasefire the absolute ghouls in his cabinet will force a new election, Netanyahu will be out of office, and his goose will be cooked https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112402992882703683

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Again, "Trump is worse!" Then blocked🤷🏿‍♂️

https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/112402055418029413

Gotta respect the doubling down! Replying to me posting some dude saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me, with saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me too! The commitment to the bit is impressive!

Listen, you can get as mad as you want. You can call Black folk criticizing Biden "Bitching" if you want. We're still going to do it.

The CDC under Biden dropped the Covid isolation period from "5 days" to "vibes days." Not Trump.

MisuseCase,
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@Paxxi @andytiedye @cam @mekkaokereke Parties court swing voters who vote regularly (yes, they do exist) because for them it’s a better use of limited resources than trying to turn out people who vote infrequently or not at all. It’s rational and not really nefarious but it sucks.

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MisuseCase,
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@Paxxi @andytiedye @cam @mekkaokereke The Poor People’s Campaign, which is non-partisan, focuses on GOTV efforts specifically for the people that parties usually ignore: poor and low-wealth people who vote infrequently or don’t vote. Mobilizing poor and low-wealth Americans to vote regularly and be politically active in other ways will be transformative for American politics.

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/

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MisuseCase,
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@Paxxi @andytiedye @cam @mekkaokereke It’s not hard to measure who’s an eligible voter but not registered and who votes infrequently vs. who votes consistently because campaigns and parties can check voter rolls.

It’s also not hard to measure the response rate/effectiveness of outreach to consistent voters vs. infrequent voters or non-voters.

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Gwendolyn, to random
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If smart phones and social media are the cause of the mental health crisis among young adults (aka teens) in the USA why aren't they having the same crisis in Europe?

MisuseCase,
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@Gwendolyn @bmacDonald94 “Social media is causing youth to have a mental health crisis,” say all the Serious Adults who refuse to deal with the things actually causing young people to have mental health crises.

FeralRobots, to random
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Very few people seem to be dealing with the facts that:

  • services are all being priced as loss-leaders at this point.

  • gen AI is only going to get more expensive, there's literally no forseeable prospect for cost reduction in how AI is produced.

  • Eventually these vendors are gonna be expected to count profits, not revenues, & that's going to mean either fewer services, less service, higher prices, or all of the above.

MisuseCase,
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@FeralRobots @Binder We’re also likely to see incidents similar to that Air Canada one where someone sues a company over deception and/or harm caused by their half-baked chatbot and the court says “pay up.” These things may turn out to be huge liabilities just as the fees get more expensive.

MisuseCase,
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@vfrmedia @FeralRobots @Binder There’s this big company that does websites for most of the car dealerships in the United States and has web content managers collaborate with their clients and this company has not adopted AI at all, from what I can tell, because their fairly wealthy clientele only wants to deal with actual people

MisuseCase,
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@vfrmedia @FeralRobots @Binder This is also how we know that the notion of AI service being as good as service provided by humans is total bunk. The rich don’t think that it’s true and they won’t use it. They expect and require all the services that they use to be provided by humans.

MisuseCase, to random
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Seeing a fair number of allegedly anti-genocide no-avatar accounts saying things along the lines of “if we stop giving Israel ammunition they will be destroyed and that’s good” or even “we should stop supplying Iron Dome (and other defensive systems too because Israel’s government will be forced into a peace agreement if Israel civilians are in danger.”

Kind of like how I used to see a lot of no-avatar hasbara accounts saying horrible things.

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MisuseCase,
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Besides which, Israel is a society with a universal conscription requirement, it’s far more militarized than America or the U.K. or wherever you’re posting from, probably.

And Netanyahu doesn’t care about making “his own people” suffer except that he can use it for propaganda.

“Putting the civilian population in danger to pressure Netanyahu/the government” is not going to work out the way you say you want at all.

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