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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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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 partition on my 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

StillIRise1963, to random
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If Trump were president, our kids on campuses all over the nation would be in danger, perhaps be shot.

MisuseCase,
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@StillIRise1963 Careful. Some flipped-out cop may shoot one or more college kids before this is over. You know what the cops are like.

MisuseCase,
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@StillIRise1963 I wouldn’t put it past Governor Hochul to send some National Guard troops to Columbia and end up with that happening. She’s kind of awful.

MisuseCase,
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@StillIRise1963 Also Columbia’s one of the biggest landlords in NYC. I’m sure if the university President or board of trustees or whoever made enough noise, she’d call in the troops.

MisuseCase, to random
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I’m happy about this, it will affect someone I know.

Non-competes are probably more common than you think they are and IMO they are a form of worker abuse, because it makes it harder to leave and make a living if your employer who made you sign one treats you poorly.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

carnage4life, to random
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A reminder about actual corporate policies not ZIRP era marketing speak.

Bringing your whole self to work? 🚫

Keeping your politics at home? ✅

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/22/google-nimbus-israel-protest-fired-workers/

MisuseCase,
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@carnage4life Well, the boss who decides to build the accountability-washing AI for doing horrible things to people doesn’t have to keep his politics at home…

(Not that I would be bringing my whole self to work anyway. That’s a lot to schlep.)

panamared27401, to random
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MisuseCase,
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@jago @gsuberland @starfrost @felurx @panamared27401 Oh I am not totally surprised. Don’t know if those are real XR stickers but there is a lot of racism in mainstream white environmentalism and has been since the 1970s. A lot of famous conservationists have yikes-on-bikes views of immigration and non-white people.

MisuseCase,
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@starfrost @jago @gsuberland @felurx @panamared27401 Mainstream 1970s style environmentalism which was mostly established by white people. It’s often anti-urban, focused on individual habits rather than systemic change, takes lots of cues from colonialist ideas, thinks indigenous hunting practices are the same as European trophy hunting practices, etc.

MisuseCase,
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@starfrost @jago @gsuberland @felurx @panamared27401 I mean it’s still around. It’s a short trip from that to ecofacism because of all the colonialist stuff baked into it.

And I’m going to stick to my guns and say it’s absolutely correct to call it “white” environmentalism, because of the colonialism thing. Ask some Indigenous or black environmental justice advocates if I’m wrong LMAO

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.

baldur, to random
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99% of tech social media:

“I like this thing, but people say it’s bad so here is a list of self-serving reasons why I should be allowed to like it. They’re my soothing koans to calm the phantom pain of my long-amputated conscience”

“No, none of them actually address the criticism. Why do you ask?”

MisuseCase,
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@edavies @baldur You should delete this before everyone thinks you’re a massive fool or a massive a-hole. For me, it’s too late, and I think you’re both.

I don’t need to see such damnfoolery in the morning before I’ve had coffee

MisuseCase,
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@baldur “But knives” is a thing you hear from rabidly pro-gun people arguing against gun control which is why I did not take it as a good-faith question. It isn’t.

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