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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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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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If you say that getting Israeli civilians ethnically cleansed or killed would be Good Actually for any reason, then I’m not sure how anti-war or anti-genocide you are, really.

That’s a lot of “he’s hurting the wrong people” energy.

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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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euractiv, to random
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Europol’s declaration against end-to-end encryption reignites debate, sparks privacy concerns https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/news/europols-declaration-against-end-to-end-encryption-reignites-debate-sparks-privacy-concerns/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

MisuseCase,
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@euractiv @ErikJonker The EU be like “we don’t want private enterprise to violate our citizens’ privacy but it’s totally fine when the government does it, without a warrant. Oh, and we are exempting government, military, and police messaging systems from this.”

MisuseCase, to Israel
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I had said before that the U.S. cutting off military aid to would not stop what they’re doing in right away for a variety of reasons, one being that the right-wing government really wants to keep doing what they’re doing.

cuts off two shipments of ammunition and orders a fresh assault on ~24 hours later, so what’s happening is even worse than I thought it would be.

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MisuseCase,
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There are some people on here being like “Biden is only cutting off military aid as part of an elaborate deception to keep from being associated with the attack on Rafah,” which is basically like saying all the protests and demands to cut off aid mean nothing (it’s pretty absurd, IMO, and casting any kind of success as failure).

But this is Netanyahu being like “you can’t tell me what to do” and just trashing everything as he realizes the walls are closing in on him.

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MisuseCase,
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Netanyahu wants to avoid new elections and prison, not just for his corruption scandals but now for war crimes. Israelis are protesting for him to accept the ceasefire deal offered by Hamas and for new elections - they’re doing things like setting fires in Tel Aviv and blocking highways.

He can’t get control of the situation by prolonging the slaughter of Gazans or speeding it up, but try telling him that.

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Sherifazuhur, to Israel
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In , thousands of protesters are marching on the Ayalon highway and police are making arrests. They want their govt. to accept the deal with Hamas.

MisuseCase,
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@Sherifazuhur @bmacDonald94 But Netanyahu and his cabinet want to pretend they never got an offer like that so they can go ahead and attack Rafah.

StillIRise1963, to random
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If you use the election to make a statement about Gaza by not voting, wish your trans friends well in the camps they’ll be sent to.

MisuseCase,
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@StillIRise1963 @RamenCatholic Lots of people get mad when someone says “everything you don’t like about America will be worse under a Trump presidency” and accuse you of bullying them or something.

MisuseCase,
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@StillIRise1963 @RamenCatholic I forgot who said on here that the propaganda for the right is “government doesn’t work, vote for the GOP to destroy it” and the propaganda on the left is “government doesn’t work, don’t vote.”

StillIRise1963, to random
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"The liberal Manhattan Democrat said Netanyahu has done more damage to his own people than anyone since a Jewish monarch of the Hasmonean dynasty who invited Roman invaders into the Holy Land to help him defeat an internal rebellion in the first century BC.”

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/05/03/jerry-nadler-benjamin-netanyahu-worst-jewish-leader/

MisuseCase,
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@StillIRise1963 That’s a deep cut!

And it’s true. Inflaming antisemitism against Diaspora Jews has been part of Netanyahu’s political agenda for a long time - it creates reactionary tendencies and lets him position himself as the strong man who can protect us.

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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MisuseCase,
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I know there are a lot of people who think Biden could have strong-armed Manchin like LBJ strong-armed the Senate back in his day. But LBJ had a bigger majority to work with, which means he had a lot of carrots and sticks to use on individual Senators.

With just 50 Senators and the VP to pass things in the Senate, Manchin had a lot more power as an individual Senator, and he knew it (Biden knew it too).

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MisuseCase,
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Lots of folks hate hearing stuff like “Democrats need a bigger majority in the Senate/Congress to get you those things you want” but yes, it do be like that. In a narrow majority, assholes like Manchin have a lot of power.

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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.

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