After the suspected shooter has been detained, the FBI held a press conference to report on the case and announce the next steps going forward. Spoiler: we, as leftists, are fucked.
Key points:
- The shooter is Tyler Robinson of Utah.
- His friend reported him to the FBI.
- Tyler's Discord messages have been used as evidence, as provided by his roommate.
- ~~Robinson has been reported to be getting increasingly political, and during dinner one day, he spoke about how Kirk was "full of hate".~~ UPDATE 4: Tyler did not say that.
- The casings do not contain any trans references. But they do have anti-fascist rhetoric (bella ciao and "notices bulges OwO" included) and symbols engraved in them.
- Tyler was taken into custody on September 11th, 10 PM local time.
- The investigation is still ongoing.
- One guy cried while speaking.
- Thousands of more leads of potential accomplices are being followed.
- No other arrests are known
- Tyler drove to campus on a car.
- It's not known if Tyler is mentally ill.
- The charging documents will be filed 3 days from now (September 16), then a preliminary hearing will take place.
(Added by LangleyDominos)
- Patel awkwardly trying to signal the Norse viking larp shit. "Charlie, I'll see you in Valhalla"
- Utah Governor Cox told everyone to log off and stop consuming rage bait, called social media a cancer, and that everyone should "touch grass" (his actual words).
UPDATES
- ~~UPDATE 1: Tyler apparently donated to TRUMP??? WHAT~~
- UPDATE 2: ignore update 1
- UPDATE 3: new link to donations check (POTENTIALLY MISLEADING!!!)
Tyler Robinson's mugshot
Other sources:
Don't talk about anything in chats. They're pushing LLMs everywhere and, if not already, will be watching your screens.
And if you have conversations in person, it's best to have it somewhere without phones or a TV, or any other IoT device. Hell, it sounds crazy, but even wifi signals can theoretically listen to you.
Well, I guess that old Soviet joke of "where can you freely express your political opinions? In your own kitchen" isn't as true anymore...
If you're a valuable enough target, glass windows and potato chip bags can also listen to you. If I recall correctly, the laser to glass window listening is in current use. The video of potato chip bags was a proof of concept but that was years ago, so is probably available to use by now too.
Although I think that one can go down too deep of a rabbit hole worrying about this stuff, like in the classic 70s movie from Coppola, "The Conversation".
Crazy, so do they shine a laser at the glass and detect vibrations from speech on the other side?
Exactly! The potato chip bag on the other hand, relies on video to analyze the vibrations on the bag.