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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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carrideen, to random
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I know Althusser (caveat), but his insight that there is nothing outside of ideology (which for him is actions that support power, not beliefs) is undervalued. I'm so tired of obviously fascist patriarchal oppressors telling us they're "critical thinkers not ideologues" when they obviously do everything to uphold power as it is. You can't step outside of ideology without stepping into another ideological system. Better to know what system you are promoting rather than "unwittingly" back evil.

MisuseCase,
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@carrideen IMO accelerationism belies a lack of consciously-chosen values. At the very least the theory of change behind it is…not well-thought-out.

And in America it ties into that obsession with violent revolution.

MisuseCase, to random
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Seeing more right-wing troll accounts from Mastodon dot social lately. These are all recently created but have PFPs and bios and things, unlike the hasbara throwaway accounts.

I think these people have been ejected from their instances or perhaps they’re on instances that get defederated by everyone else, so they put up alt accounts on Mastodon dot social which has spotty moderation.

kevinrns, to climate
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In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"

Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.

618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse

MisuseCase,
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@Nonya_Bidniss @kevinrns That’s kind of frustrating and disappointing. States kind of screwed up with applications and benefits for COVID relief (not all of them, but many of them). It would be much better to have the Feds administer it

MisuseCase,
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@Nonya_Bidniss @kevinrns I mean it may not be tenable for the federal government to administer it, either because Congresscritters plain don’t want it done that way or that setting up the citizen service capacity to do it is more expensive and time-consuming than giving the states money

MisuseCase, to random
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Just said something on my synagogue listserve to the effect that Israel has hijacked the term “antisemitism” to advance its own interests and silence critics, often at the expense of American Jews, so effectively that Israel gets more support and consideration from much of our political class than we, actual people who live in America, do.

LOL we will see how people respond.

theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

MisuseCase,
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@theluddite You can say that about solar panels, but as long as the organizations that build, own, and operate them are for-profit companies, profit is going to be top of mind.

It doesn’t matter if the generator is powered by solar or wind or coal or what: if it’s owned by a private company, that’s how it’s going to be. (Which is why utilities should be nationalized/in the public sector.)

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MisuseCase,
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@theluddite The idea that solar panels are somehow free of all the issues and perverse incentives associated with capitalism, or that they should be even if they are some company’s private property, is something popularized by capitalist marketing.

Unless they are nationalized, solar panels are an instrument of profit and subject to the whims of their profit-oriented owners too.

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@theluddite Also, on a related note, “too much electricity on the grid” is a real mechanical/engineering problem that can break things. It’s why we need more storage and transmission to both ensure grid resiliency and to make full use of abundant renewable energy when stuff like this happens.

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MisuseCase,
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@CedarTea @theluddite Making clean fuels would be good, or doing water desalinization or something. (The latter might require uninterrupted power, I’m not sure: I know water treatment and sewage treatment do.)

I’m also in favor of putting more nuclear on the grid to manage baseload demand. Nuclear has a smaller material/physical/ecological footprint than renewables and solar - but may not be appropriate for all situations.

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@billiglarper @CedarTea @theluddite “Baseload” means the electricity you need to generate to meet demand at its absolute lowest. You may need more than that at times (like peak times), but never less. Something that generates constantly and predictably is perfect for that.

“Baseload thinking doesn’t work anymore” well, the problem with that is baseload still exists.

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@billiglarper @CedarTea @theluddite “Nuclear is expensive as it runs at 95% capacity” well, the cost of nuclear and its capacity have nothing to do with each other. It’s also not true that nuclear’s more expensive than equivalent solar generation.

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=y_J1gSeWomA&ab_channel=NuclearforAustralia

And while older light-water reactors can’t ramp up or down, newer designs can.

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MisuseCase,
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@CedarTea @billiglarper @theluddite Another problem with “unsubsidized” is that solar got a lot of subsidies to get where it is and still does to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the region/state/country.

If solar can be subsidized, why not nuclear?

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@CedarTea @marwe @billiglarper @theluddite In addition, every form of energy generation (including solar) produces waste, which may or may not include radioactive material but definitely includes some material that will be dangerous for much longer than the half-life of anything radioactive.

So when discussing the danger of waste from nuclear and the cost of managing it, it’s useful to ask, compared to what?

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MisuseCase,
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@CedarTea @marwe @billiglarper @theluddite Should we not manage and securely dispose of spent fuel, externalizing the cost to the environment and human health? That’s what coal and gas generation do. And some of the waste they put into the water and air is radioactive!

Obviously, this is not acceptable.

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MisuseCase,
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@CedarTea @marwe @billiglarper @theluddite What about solar? That actually creates waste too. Mining rare earths for solar panels is actually a nasty business.

For solar panels that have reached the end of their useful lifetimes, some materials can (and should) be recycled. Other materials can’t be, and must be safely disposed of.

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MisuseCase,
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@CedarTea @marwe @billiglarper @theluddite Both recyclable and non-recyclable material left over from solar panels include very toxic material.

(Waste from rare earth mining includes radioactive material.)

And properly dealing with all the waste generated by the lifecycle of solar panels is costly…in no small part because there’s so much of it.

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MisuseCase,
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@CedarTea @marwe @billiglarper @theluddite Whether you are talking about solar or nuclear, there’s waste material that needs to be sequestered safely for centuries or maybe millennia.

Or sometimes longer. There’s a lot of non-radioactive stuff that’s toxic forever, like arsenic.

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@CedarTea @marwe @billiglarper @theluddite We manage long-term disposal of stuff like arsenic from industrial processes all the time though. Just sequester it and bury it in a vault below the water table. Which is the proper way to sequester spent nuclear fuel. If the spent fuel is reprocessed then what’s left over only needs to be sequestered for ~300 years.

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MisuseCase,
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@ArneBab @CedarTea @billiglarper @theluddite Solar got (and still receives) plenty of subsidies. I don’t know why people are hung up on the subsidies thing when every form of generation gets them.

MisuseCase, to random
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That popular leftist account with a Picrew avatar of a red-headed woman is saying egregiously incorrect things for likes and retoots again.

This time it’s “Joe Biden obviously has no plans to tax the rich” when his proposed presidential budget included raising taxes on the very rich, and more significantly, the IRS is aggressively going after rich tax cheats more aggressively than they have since…well, since I can remember.

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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MisuseCase,
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@GossiTheDog @Laird_Dave So this is definitely geared towards not just middle-aged dudes but managers.

Like, can these people not just organize their emails into folders by topic? Microsoft could have re-worked the Outlook rules function to make this easier instead of whatever this is.

MisuseCase,
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@Laird_Dave If @GossiTheDog is correct about who drove the decision to create Recall and why (and IMO it’s very plausible), then it means business leaders don’t talk to their legal departments, CISOs, records managers, or any of the other roles in their organizations that could have told them why this was bad.

MisuseCase,
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@GossiTheDog @Laird_Dave Sure, I can see that. But Microsoft has a lot of enterprise customers with CISOs, legal departments, regulatory requirements, etc. for whom Recall is worse than useless. That actually describes most of their largest enterprise customers!

Do they even pay attention to their own customers at all?

Sure enterprises can use GPO to turn it off but why make something that most of your biggest customers are going to have to turn off?

MisuseCase, to random
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In any discussion of degrowth there will be at least one white man who brings up “overpopulation” as if degrowth isn’t about letting us all live on the planet with a sustainable ecological footprint.

Then the white man gets mad when you (well, I) bring up the fact that his line of thinking naturally leads to doing at least one U.N. definition of genocide.

(Yes it is pretty much always a white man.)

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MisuseCase,
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@maruey @seanbala @collectifission Given the bent of the play, “Hail Malthus!” might be sarcastic or at least not meant to be taken at face value.

MisuseCase,
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@maruey @seanbala @collectifission I don’t know what interpretation your troupe is using and it’s been a while since I’ve seen Urinetown. But IIRC one reasonable interpretation of it is that using conservation as a pretext to restrict personal freedoms and serve capital doesn’t really “work,” as such, and will ultimately lead back to unsustainability/disaster again.

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