#infosec and #cybersecurity professional who preaches about stakeholder engagement and #usability. #poverty abolitionist. Does #knitting, loves #kdramas.
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Last Notes npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case I’m increasingly irritated by folks on here complaining that young people in America aren’t protesting. Teenagers and college-aged Americans protested over police brutality in 2020-2022 and protested against the genocide of Palestinians in 2023-2024. They faced derision and repression for it. And very little changed. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…x9q9 @nprofile…hagm When I heard of this problem I actually thought about one of the patients Oliver Sacks wrote about, a man who apparently told fascinating yarns about his life experiences but was really inventing them out of whole cloth based on cues from other people. He wasn’t trying to con anyone but he had Swiss cheesed his long-term memory due to a lifetime of heavy drinking. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…amay Oh, they’re on the way to inventing Servitors npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Some months back I put myself on the waitlist for the #mozilla #thundermail beta and today I got to create my account! npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 Ken Klipperstein argues against people saying there were “red flags” about Platner that some of his boosters should have picked up on because it would disqualify people who did stupid things in their private lives, but if he doesn’t think making derogatory comments about sexual assault survivors was a big flashing warning sign…. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…pfuj Jesse Waters be like “look at these dirty city people!” npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 LOL he gets it through the “compassionate use” program which is for people suffering from aggressive cancer and other terminal diseases. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 He gets cars wrong too, they almost got banned from urban centers but the burgeoning auto industry ran a massive lobbying and PR campaign to invent the crime of “jaywalking” instead npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…nmr0 This is part of why I suspect that people on here insisting on violent direct action, and demanding that you prove your bona fides by telling them about violent direct action you have done or plan to do, are actually cops npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…glyx @nprofile…pky2 Well, seeing all these people make excuses for the front runner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary who sexted random women and terrorized his girlfriends, I do not feel good about our chances of accomplishing this at all. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…pfuj Not sure if this fits the definition of tactical urbanism but it sure seems like it. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…ytts This is like someone doing the “pieces of flair” bit from OFFICE SPACE in real life. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…wmhr It’s not just that he’s brown and Hispanic or they ICE has quotas and/or all the other things previous comments have said. I bet they’re harassing the poor guy because of the publicity around his case and their own misconduct. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 Getting AI to work properly (for whatever purpose) requires data curation by humans, which requires significant investment, but since part of the AI hype is the idea that you can replace humans nobody wants to admit that or act accordingly. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case This one’s for @nprofile…pfuj and I guess for anyone who follows #warhammer #warhammer40k npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…5ved Twice that much. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…uptt @nprofile…v8f8 @nprofile…wxfy I tend to agree with Steve Gibson when he says that general-purpose LLMs are, fundamentally, not securible. Just by the nature of how they work. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…awd8 @nprofile…h87h I have heard it’s also pretty realistic and unsparing about how war messes you up especially when you’re a child soldier (as the Animorphs are when they start). npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yzxf @nprofile…2h0q LOL way to take a thing about inter-Christian disagreement and turn it into plausibly deniable antisemitism, especially since Zionism has existed in some form for CENTURIES npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…49jh They have to start somewhere. A ceasefire proposal that isn’t acceptable to either side isn’t going to end this mess, but it’s starting somewhere. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…gy0s @nprofile…re5y I remember Emily Gorscecki (I’m probably spelling that wrong) raising this point years back. Out in rural areas, especially, there’s all this conservative talk radio and it’s been largely invisible to non-conservative politicians and campaigns. They don’t get on the airwaves. There’s no counter-programming. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…nmr0 Oh boy with everything going on today, even excluding the Epstein stuff, I cannot imagine how it is to be a teenage girl. I would be so angry all the time. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 Also you won’t have time to worry about your own problems when you’re busy wrangling a beagle npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 If I, a Woman of a Certain Age, were vibe-coding some apps for my own personal use I would certainly not be hyping about it in public. It’s not some great accomplishment and I’m not a free advertising service. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 I canceled my subscription way back when they said they were going to use LLMs instead of human translators to make lessons npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…vt7u @nprofile…x9tq >> Nuclear might be a solution but it is costly, very slow to implement and requires extensive management once in place. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…e965 Discord is carrying on like their previous age verification vendor didn’t leak a bunch of users’ sensitive data (because they were retaining said data which Discord claimed they weren’t going to do). npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case The doctor said the goal with my son’s #ADHD medication was to help smooth out his issues with impulsive behavior, restlessness, and irritability without affecting his personality. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…9psu It’s like npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…pfuj We used to have a place like this in my town but they were not able to renew their lease and now they’re gone. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 There is a lot about grad school I don’t remember but I do remember the ethics course I took there, taught by a developmental psychologist. Some people can’t understand (or won’t understand) strong hints and stuff like social contracts. You have to be very direct and tell them “no” and also “here is what will happen if you don’t take no for an answer.” They behave themselves much better after that, at least for a bit. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…r5zh He wants to use the unreliable Mecha-Hitler as part of the Pentagon’s AI? npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yzxf @nprofile…nw6h So, are you saying “they’re acting like Jews?” npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 I understand why people say “more training” but it doesn’t matter if there are no meaningful consequences for misconduct and the institutional culture is rotten. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 South Park is problematic but the episode around the time of the 2008 crash where everyone was talking about “the economy” like a vengeful god is something that I think about a lot. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 Not a surprise from Frey unfortunately. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…yz28 Copyright used to only apply for 13 years! Then big publishers and (especially) Disney got involved. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case The #ICE agent who killed #ReneeNicoleGood wasn’t some raw recruit with 6 weeks of training hired within the last year. He’s been an ICE agent for almost a decade! npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…pfuj I live in the Washington, DC area and saw a few dozen ladies with the MAGA aesthetic in person around the time of the inauguration last year. They stood out because nobody in DC does their hair or makeup like that, nor do they wear fur coats! npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…hqk5 @nprofile…6fdc Ooh! I’m one of those lanyard people so maybe I should learn to crochet and make one for myself. (I already knit.) npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…pfuj The kids are right at the age where they’re picking up language skills and presumably they’re not isolated in their family’s apartments all the time, right? They are going around hearing people talking. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…vvch @nprofile…6k80 @nprofile…5fga @nprofile…ugpy I’m a cybersecurity policy specialist and I anticipate there’s going to be a lot of “why did we do that? Oh no. How do we make sure we don’t do this again?” in a couple years. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…37zh @nprofile…gv0z @nprofile…xwa4 It was only normal for a subset of the population really. But now it’s not possible even for that subset. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…e4ry A great service for homeless people would be lockers where they could keep their really important small items but God forbid we treat homeless people like actual people, right? npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…e4ry There are a lot of lies about homeless people like that most of them “don’t want housing and refuse it,” which is actually them not wanting to stay in temporary shelters that are unsafe and/or will require them to give up their stuff, separate from loved ones, etc. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…k62u Who says he’s the leading candidate? Are we in a midst of a Presidential primary? Is there a decent poll on Democratic voters’ preferences (3 years away from the next election year as if that means anything)? npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…amvw @nprofile…868s @nprofile…36za Oh my God from what the article says the dad had an encounter with police a month prior where he expressed suicidal thoughts and said he wanted to climb a mountain. Seems like he was trying to kill his kids along with himself npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…e4ry The plastic wood flooring is basically linoleum anyway. Or at least it’s vinyl. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…a0ps @nprofile…87np Are they doing this because they could not push through Chat Control so they want to buy surveillance data from private companies, like the American government does? npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…9j4p I want this to be true. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Now that we all know how much far-right content (and maybe not just far-right content) on #Twitter is basically manufactured in offshore troll farms, I have to wonder whether some politicians’ notion that they have to cater to far right views because they are “the will of the people” is driven by all this manufactured content. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…nq7v We are making children put pictures and videos of themselves online to, uh, protect the children. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…4k5l And many of the people who depend on SNAP to eat *are children.* npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Every time Meredith Whittaker posts something online a herd of white men shows up in her mentions to mansplain to her how #signal works and/or how it should be redesigned to…be a totally different thing. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…204s @nprofile…gau4 @nprofile…vrd6 That’s funny because I’ve seen the opposite, people grasp the fact that they are being surveilled, but tend to be wrong about the particulars of the mechanisms used to surveil them. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…204s @nprofile…gau4 @nprofile…vrd6 Most of the people I know use some kind of adblocker. The people who don’t aren’t technically knowledgeable enough to get one to work, and are too preoccupied with survival, dealing with chronic illness, etc. to learn. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…gau4 @nprofile…vrd6 @nprofile…204s I have to say that while I am interested and compelled by the central thesis of OP’s argument, “users don’t actually care about this, if they did they would…” is such a typical manifestation of the tech-priesthood attitude you see all over Mastodon. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…9wrc There are also a lot of traditional myths (see: the Navajo mythic cycle) about why old age and death from old age is necessary for renewal and change. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case This @nprofile…2u03 article about how D.C. is responding to Trump’s invasion tracks with what I’ve been saying. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…cg79 I’m actually less surprised and outraged about NYT doing npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…cl5w @nprofile…pye9 That critique sounds like something an AI wrote. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case It’s been fascinating (and heartening) to watch the evolving attitudes of a whole contingent of online leftists WRT #50501movement #TeslaTakedown #Indivisible protests, from dismissive contempt to just not talking about to the grudging realization that these are good events to find, radicalize, and recruit newly activated people. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…fzqp It’s very funny to me that Mastodon leftists have gone from dismissive contempt towards 50501, Tesla Takedown, and Indivisible protests to grudgingly accepting that they’re a thing and gently reminding each other that y’all have to actually engage with other people who are dissimilar to you. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Well I talked to some of my local organizing groups about the whole “sit down at a protest” thing and it seems like they realize it’s not a good idea (for safety reasons). Protest trainings in the area are also telling people that staying mobile is the best way to stay safe. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…cg79 To my point, all these MBAs who went to school before ChatGPT are doing that too. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…cg79 It’s a bunch of MBAs, who would be able to tell and what difference would it make? npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case It was a little mean of me but I reported an edgelording Kolektiva account by saying it might be Rusty Bertrand’s alt. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Reminder that if you talk about violent or destructive #Protest action on social media, especially if you are demanding that other people show their bona fides by talking about violent or destructive #Protests they have done, are doing, or will do, then I’m going to assume you’re a cop or at least a stool pigeon. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case I had a somewhat unsettling but very instructive experience with my son today about #artificialintelligence and I want to share it with parents and teachers wondering how to talk to their kids about AI. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…sqcg >> It's also a high-value place for Meta / Tencent to be because you get a load of very valuable metadata from knowing the companies that someone whose identity you know talks to. There's a huge security benefit for individuals from moving to a system that actually protects metadata. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…sqcg The thing you say you are most concerned about with Signal is not something that I or anyone I know cares about. Why would I be concerned about Signal integrating with other apps? I use it for personal communications with people I know. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Of course now that #Signal has become popular with non-techie folks, there are ultranerds on Mastodon kvetching “it’s not private enough, it’s not decentralized enough, use this obscure thing nobody’s heard of instead.” npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case We all agreed that gendered marketing that both stokes and feeds on insecurities is extremely Not Good for a variety of reasons, one being that it encourages strict gender policing and even gender-based violence. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Talking with some dudes in one of my online hobby forums, we got into a discussion about how so many personal care products are aggressively gendered and branded as FOR MANLY MEN, from soap to deodorants to accessories. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Maybe don’t go telling American Jews that Elias Rodriguez was not being antisemitic when he shot two Israelis who actually shared his politics or something close to them? npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case With this administration’s fixation on anti-anti-semitism, this will not be, as my people say, “good for the Jews.” https://flipboard.com/@abc/news-54f0unfaz/-/a-l4p4Yyn9QRq9Acr2Lw42xg%3Aa%3A3195386-%2F0 npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…cg79 The bit about KPMG giving tax assignments to newbies because they can do it with AI (supposedly) is making me clench my teeth. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…8nj8 @nprofile…cplj Fine. You can disagree with me and be wrong. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…8nj8 @nprofile…cplj That answers my question. You don’t understand how contracts work (or are pretending not to). npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…8nj8 @nprofile…cplj Do you really not understand what a contract or a service level agreement is npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case TIL that #Microsoft addressed complaints about #Windows taking too long to boot by engineering it so that the desktop comes up before the machine has fully booted, which explains *so much.* npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…8nj8 @nprofile…cplj The government didn’t “force” it on anyone, except to require it as part of the terms for government contracting companies. In that case it’s the cost of doing business. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…gfyr @nprofile…ps99 Target built a loyal customer base by being one of the first big retailers to explicitly market to same-sex couples and by stocking products from black-owned businesses. “DEI” was not something they did for show but a long-standing aspect of their corporate strategy. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…lgp0 @nprofile…wuyc The English version is “don’t count your chickens before they hatch.” The French version is so much cooler! npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…p8x9 I have been saying all along that the whole “decentralization” of BlueSky is really a ruse to foist off the responsibility for moderation onto instance admins there, while not really providing any of the power or benefits of real decentralization. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case A lot of leftists on here are so weird about things like the #TeslaTakedown protests and #50501Movement events. The sentiments range from “people think they can take down a fascist government by holding signs” to “Indivisible and 50501 are tricking all these people.” Sometimes both. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case In other news, #AppleTV has released a trailer for #Murderbot Diaries: npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case As a born New Yorker it is very weird got me to find myself liking the guy from Jersey better than the guy from New York right now. #CoryFilibuster #SenatorCoryBooker #USPol #USPolitics npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case The point is that it was incredibly demoralizing for a lot of people who were involved and almost certainly dampened the appetite for mass protests. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Overall, we didn’t get nearly the amount of local or national change we were hoping for. Or even what we might have reasonably expected. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Now, there *have* been some positive outcomes at the local and state level in some places, like durable local organizing to unwind the power of the police state, more prosecutions and convictions for police misconduct, fewer people joining police forces, Colorado eliminating qualified immunity for cops, Baltimore getting local control of its police department, etc. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Police, politicians, and the media engaged in a whole lot of consensus manufacturing and outright lying about the protests, the protesters, crime rates, the effectiveness of police, what they could do, and what they actually did. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Organizers were maliciously prosecuted, harassed, and had their lives ruined. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case The George Floyd protests looked a lot like what Canadians and EU citizens (as well as some Americans) say they want to see now. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case Non-USians wondering why Americans aren’t having mass protests should perhaps consider what happened *last* time we had a national protest movement here, all of - let me check my notes - 5 years ago. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case I have pannier bags for my bike and I have backpacks, but since I use my bike to commute to the office sometimes I am considering a convertible pannier/backpack. Does anyone have any recommendations for this kind of thing? npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case If you organize or participate in #TeslaTakeDown protests you may have gotten an email from @nprofile…xy20 about fashy “counterprotesters” showing up at these events! If you are new to protesting or organizing, this may be very alarming, but here are some things you can do to help keep everyone safe. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…2wkl Also it’s not a coincidence that the victim in this instance is black - like most of the cis women very publicly attacked by TERFs are. The violently enforced transphobe definitions of femininity are racialized. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…d2rl I’m a security policy and compliance specialist and NGL I’m starting to wonder if my work matters anymore. Some barely grown 4chan Nazi working for a megalomaniacal billionaire pumped full of drugs can just decide the rules don’t apply. npub16l5zc8ne989084n5c36ldndxan9zpsdd6r2zv894t7tqkrudw9rsd05863 Misuse Case @nprofile…f0x4 I’ve been telling people! I’m a little more charitable and assume that the people organizing this don’t really know what they’re doing but even that is potentially disastrous.
