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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.
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 ore he can screw up the 2026 election.
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Same thing has always been true.
You can't buy a tool that solves cybersecurity problems for you.
Instead, you solve the cybersecurity problem yourself -- tools are just things you buy to make your job easier.
Now replace "tool" with "AI".
The chronic problem in cybersecurity has always been that organizations have abdicated responsibility for defense, relying upon vendors (and their tools) to solve cybersecurity for them.
Now people want to outsource responsibility to the AI and it's going to work just as well -- which is to say, not at all.
But the way, it's the same problem we have everywhere with AI doing work for people. Using AI is great -- but humans cannot abdicate responsibility to machines. In other words, if a lawyer uses AI to draft a pleading, they are responsible if the AI makes a mistake. We hear numerous stories of AIs hallucinating false references. It's not the AI's fault, it's the lawyer's fault who used AI. Now, lawyers should be using AI to draft such things, AIs will generally do a better job. But it's still the lawyer who is responsible for everything that document says, who needs to fact check every claim put there by the AI.
The same with AI. You, the human, are responsible for understanding cybersecurity. Once you understand it, you can use AI to make it cheaper and easier to do it. But you cannot outsource responsibility to the AI.
But, since it's been the industry norm to outsource responsibility to vendor products for over 30 years, people are going to attempt to apply the same strategy to AI. It'll become the next big things that vendors claim is the "silver bullet" or "magic pill" that'll solve your problems, and you (or your manager) is going to buy it, and it still won't be the thing that was promised.
You can't buy a tool that solves cybersecurity problems for you.
Instead, you solve the cybersecurity problem yourself -- tools are just things you buy to make your job easier.
Now replace "tool" with "AI".
The chronic problem in cybersecurity has always been that organizations have abdicated responsibility for defense, relying upon vendors (and their tools) to solve cybersecurity for them.
Now people want to outsource responsibility to the AI and it's going to work just as well -- which is to say, not at all.
But the way, it's the same problem we have everywhere with AI doing work for people. Using AI is great -- but humans cannot abdicate responsibility to machines. In other words, if a lawyer uses AI to draft a pleading, they are responsible if the AI makes a mistake. We hear numerous stories of AIs hallucinating false references. It's not the AI's fault, it's the lawyer's fault who used AI. Now, lawyers should be using AI to draft such things, AIs will generally do a better job. But it's still the lawyer who is responsible for everything that document says, who needs to fact check every claim put there by the AI.
The same with AI. You, the human, are responsible for understanding cybersecurity. Once you understand it, you can use AI to make it cheaper and easier to do it. But you cannot outsource responsibility to the AI.
But, since it's been the industry norm to outsource responsibility to vendor products for over 30 years, people are going to attempt to apply the same strategy to AI. It'll become the next big things that vendors claim is the "silver bullet" or "magic pill" that'll solve your problems, and you (or your manager) is going to buy it, and it still won't be the thing that was promised.
There's a *ton* of cybersecurity advice going around right now. Organizations should choose which advice they follow wisely because the next 1-2 years will demonstrate what advice was good vs. not.
My rubric for what I think is a good strategy vs. bad strategy boils down to whether I think the strategy is still solid *without any use of AI*. If so, then use AI to amplify the strategy.
If the strategy being successful wholly depends upon using AI (and lots of it), then all defenders must outspend the most token-richest attackers. That tells me there's a critical bottleneck outside of your organization's control in it being successful. That's a huge risk to take.
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Someone has created a vulnerable PHP website, loaded it with a Bitcoin wallet, and challenged the Internet to hack into it and they can keep the Bitcoin. It has a running timer to show if the PHP exploitability was over-hyped. stealmybitcoin.com
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Robert Graham retweeted
ClaudiaGI - Faîtes l'amour, pas des prompts! (Make love, not prompts!)
Your daily bucket of french #slopcore with english subtitles 😍
Your daily bucket of french #slopcore with english subtitles 😍
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The tweet below asks about Ohio gasoline prices after a gas tax cut.
The cause is:
1. a big refinery when offline in Jolliet, Illinois
2. gasoline markets are highly regional so you see the same spike in neighboring states
Because Ohio got rid of the gas tax, it's gasoline is ors. It's pretty mean, because it effectively increases gasoline prices for neighboring states, as sellers realize there's more profit to selling in Ohio rather than neighbors like Michigan.
As you can see, Michigan and Ohio gasoline prices are correlated until that tax cut, at which point Michigan prices went up and Ohio prices down.
Given that fundamental difference, though, Michigan saw the same spike as Ohio did in response to that refinery shutdown.
Gasoline is pretty fungible, so over time, pipelines and stuff will start moving more gasoline into the region and Ohio gasoline prices will go back down below the national average.
The cause is:
1. a big refinery when offline in Jolliet, Illinois
2. gasoline markets are highly regional so you see the same spike in neighboring states
Because Ohio got rid of the gas tax, it's gasoline is ors. It's pretty mean, because it effectively increases gasoline prices for neighboring states, as sellers realize there's more profit to selling in Ohio rather than neighbors like Michigan.
As you can see, Michigan and Ohio gasoline prices are correlated until that tax cut, at which point Michigan prices went up and Ohio prices down.
Given that fundamental difference, though, Michigan saw the same spike as Ohio did in response to that refinery shutdown.
Gasoline is pretty fungible, so over time, pipelines and stuff will start moving more gasoline into the region and Ohio gasoline prices will go back down below the national average.
Something fishy going on in Ohio! Before the gas tax cut Ohio was $.20 below the national average. Immediately after the cut had dropped to $.52 below the national average. Now 18 days later Ohio is $.12 above the national average. Someone please explain.
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Robert Graham retweeted
Am French slopcore fan now and you can’t stop moi
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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Robert Graham retweeted
The DOJ lawsuit in Alaska is directly targeted at the certification, contrary to what the AG says below.
The Department of Justice does not seek to stop any ballot from being cast or to stop the certification of Alaska's election. This litigation seeks to ensure that after Alaskans cast their ballots, they are preserved in a manner so that only Alaska's governing officials have the information necessary to make a determination as to whether Alaskan voters were confused or mislead.
The lawsuit was written by Justice Department attorneys and the Department did not coordinate with any campaign or candidate, but rather relied solely on federal law.
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This is a lie. Here is the exact text from the filing, where they specifically ask to stop certification.
The Attorney General of the United States is a bald face liar.
The Attorney General of the United States is a bald face liar.
The Department of Justice does not seek to stop any ballot from being cast or to stop the certification of Alaska's election. This litigation seeks to ensure that after Alaskans cast their ballots, they are preserved in a manner so that only Alaska's governing officials have the information necessary to make a determination as to whether Alaskan voters were confused or mislead.
The lawsuit was written by Justice Department attorneys and the Department did not coordinate with any campaign or candidate, but rather relied solely on federal law.
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Alaska uses "ranked choice", so you simply vote for one Dan Sullivan as #1 and the other one as #2. Regardless of which order you choose, the correct Dan Sullivan will get all the votes anyway.
Trumpists are simultaneously claiming that "ranked choice" is some sort of scam and that the two "Dan Sullivans" another scam. But the first cancels out the second.
Trumpists are simultaneously claiming that "ranked choice" is some sort of scam and that the two "Dan Sullivans" another scam. But the first cancels out the second.
Dems placing a second Dan Sullivan on the ballot in Alaska (a fake candidate designed to conceal who is the actual US Senator running for re-election) is one of the most egregious attacks we have seen on the integrity of American elections. It reveals pure contempt for voters.
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The "Democrats" know that this Dan Sullivan can't be a spoiler due to "ranked choice". Therefore, it's unlikely this is some sort of Democrat lead conspiracy. It's more likely that this other Dan Sullivan thought it'd be fun to run.
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Robert Graham retweeted
The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations have been restored to the speeds we had before the restrictions. The speeds are now where they need to be. The restoration began overnight, and by this morning, speeds were already sufficient. This matters: tics, for defending Ukraine against jet-powered “shaheds.”
I thank all Americans and all our partners who took this seriously and truly helped – members of Congress, senators, all the media, the State Department, and the President. Protecting lives matters.
I thank all Americans and all our partners who took this seriously and truly helped – members of Congress, senators, all the media, the State Department, and the President. Protecting lives matters.
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