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No, the ICE agent isn't "kneeling on his neck".
Yes, yes, ICE is the modern gestapo, a bunch of thugs operating without accountability.
What I'm arguing is that you cannot "see" what's happening here. You think you clearly see the ICE agent kneeling on his neck like with George Floyd, but you don't.
What you see here is the approved, trained technique of kneeling OVER the neck. The difference is that the weight is still mostly on the other leg, and on the heels. The knee is extended over the neck to prevent the target from being able to lift their head, but the weight is not on the neck, it's on the heels and other leg.
You can watch the agent leading up to this point, where the ICE agent is carefully placing his foot in the right position, so that the weight stays on his back heels and other leg, then extends his knee over the target's neck.
This technique is extensively trained for and approved, and is included in most training manuals.
That's why you know Chauvin's claim of using his training is false. His weight was on Floyds neck, not on his other leg or heels. He was definitely NOT trained to do this. The two procedures are different for exact the reasons shown, that one can injure the person, and the other simply immobilizes them without injury.
The point of this tweet isn't to defend or attack Chuavin or ICE, but to point out that you and I can see the same videos but see completely different things, and that some education is important.
BREAKING: ICE just broke Minnesota law detaining an American Citizen and kneeing on his neck, which was outlawed after the George Floyd murder.
Trump wants this to keep escalating so that he can continue to consolidate more and more power within the federal government. The more power he has the more he can screw up the 2026 election.
Robert Graham retweeted
Trump: We were in the midst of negotiating and a lot of stupid people said why aren’t you putting Russian sanctions—
Collins: But you said you didn’t give anything for his release
Trump: If I didn’t do that, you wouldn’t have him coming back.
Collins: So you did give something.
Trump: You don’t know anything. You’re fake news CNN.
Collins: You’re saying you lifted the sanctions in exchange for his release?
Trump: You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re a low IQ person. You’re a dummy.
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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We were watching cartoons yesterday and my 5-year-old immediately recognized a giraffe. I started sobbing. My baby Einstein just passed a presidential cognitive test.
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Trump: "I alone could secure a prisoner release from Russia without giving anything in return"
Trump literally ten minutes later: "Now you idiots know why I had to waive sanctions on Russia, no shot I got that prisoner release otherwise"
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I came to realize people liked the french #slopcore without having the lyrics 😅 sorry!
So here is a version with english subtitles!
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Old joke:
A man enters a Swiss bank with a suitcase full of cash. He is met in the lobby by an elegant woman and brought up in a wood-paneled elevator to a finely furnished private suite. A string quartet plays softly in the corner. The head banker greets him, offers a cigar, and counts the money.
"Monsieur, this sum will be credited to your numbered account. We specialize in discreet banking. There is no need for names or identification here. Should you ever need to withdraw your funds, all you will need is the account number on this slip. But keep it safe, as anyone who has the number will have full access to your account."
The man takes the account slip from the banker, finishes his cocktail, and is escorted back out of the building.
Once on the street, he gets curious and unfolds the deposit slip.
"Your account number is 0000 0000 0000 0000 0003. Please tell your friends about Montreux Private Bank!"
arstechnica.com/security/202…
The private keys for these certs are literally the numbers 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237 (life imitates XKCD, again).
@lcamtuf Half the reason for reading his will be to simply enjoy your writing.
It's like reading some author's retelling of the Odyssey tale -- yes, I know how it's going to end (mostly), but the enjoyment is the author's skill with language (or movie directing).
For @BofA_Help I had to call their support. They have a real cool feature that allows the support person to see the same webpage I see, so they can see the exact problem without needing me to describe it. (Users are stupid and cannot describe what they see on the screen).
Unfortunately, their first level support knows less about how their website works than I do, and can do little but put me on hold while they talk with the next level support.
Robert Graham retweeted
“I can excuse bombing Ukrainian cities, but I draw the line at damaging russian oil refineries.”
What gets me is that at Trump rallies, he regularly claims the venue is full and people are waiting outside -- even though everyone inside the venue can see for themselves that this is not true.
Linus Torvalds did not change his mind in 2 years.
The AI industry changed in 2 years.
AI coding abilities in 2024 were rudimentary, they are now excellent in late 2026.
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I've never really understood the disdain for Vivek Ramaswamy. The new ad with Amy Acton's abusive mom has fixed that. If I were an Ohioan, that alone would be enough to swing my vote. No normal, well-adjusted human being with a basic understanding of social cues would do that.