#reality Leigh winner

[aninventoryofthepossible]

Inspirations for VOID 1680 AM

Earlier this year, I released a new solo TTRPG: VOID 1680 AM. In it, you use a deck of cards, a six-sided die, your music collection and a voice recorder to create your own late-night radio show.

The cards help you dig deep into your collection to reconnect with music you love; they and the die also help you create anonymous Callers and the concerns, hopes and obsessions that drove them to reach out to you, a fellow lone voice in the darkness.

I also included steps for joining the library of Callers for other players to use, and even to submit your full show for broadcast on the "real" VOID 1680 AM. You can see some of those Affiliate broadcasts here. They're genuinely very cool.

You can check out the game here, and I'm proud to say VOID 1680 AM is now a Judges' Spotlight Winner in this year's ENNIES.

Okay, enough table-setting. Let's get into it.

VOID was the culmination of a lifelong obsession with commercial radio; both the technology (which feels retro despite scarcely being over a century old) and the melancholy romance of lonesome voices baring themselves to an audience they'll never know the scope of.

This, to me, is an apt metaphor for the act of making something - anything at all. Speak into the Void, the back cover copy says. You never know who is listening. So it is with putting something you love into the world.

So what inspired VOID? I cite both Anamnesis by Sam Leigh and The Wretched by Chris Bissette in the book itself, two solo RPGs whose tones and methods did much to help me find my own.

But if I'm being truthful, VOID's inspirations mostly reside outside of games. Here are a few things that haunted me profoundly enough to drive me to respond.

The first is Talk Radio, specifically Oliver Stone's adaptation of Eric Bogosian's play. The movie's tagline is "the last neighborhood in America," which to me frames radio's persistent relevance and puts social media - often called a "town square" itself - in proper context as one piece of the many ways people find connection with others, for better or worse.

Contra the VOID DJ, Barry in Talk Radio is very, very aware of how his audience receives him (hint: not well). Barry must be heard, and so must the similarly damaged souls who call in to dump the poison in their brain into his... and everyone who's listening in, besides. It's a host of people who want to connect but don't know how, spiraling in decaying orbit around each other until something awful happens.

VOID 1680 AM was originally much darker before I decided to pull back and let players pick their own tone, and Talk Radio is why.

Oxenfree is a narrative video game about a small group of teens stuck on an island haunted by hungry ghosts who can be tuned in and out of reality with handheld radios. There's more to it than that, but I'll leave you to discover what on your own - because I would recommend this game to just about anyone.

Insofar as VOID 1680 AM can have a "soundtrack," it is this one by scntfc, created using WWII-era radio equipment.

The Vast of Night is a quietly alarming lo-fi/sci-fi set in a small town in New Mexico in the late '50s. A radio DJ and a switchboard operator pick up strange signals, and then... things happen.

This specific radio station (stylized in the poster above) is what I picture for "my" VOID 1680 AM.

Then there's Stevie in The Fog, played by Adrienne Barbeau. She's the bridge between VOID 1680 AM and my earlier solo game, Lighthouse at the End of the World.

She is, yes: a late night DJ. And her radio station is, yes: in a lighthouse. She's living my dream, at least until the ghost pirates show up.

Spoilers, I guess?

But the most important influence? VOID 1680 AM cover artist Jordan Witt's fan art for the podcast King Falls AM years ago. This image took up residence in my head, so much so that I still use it as phone wallpaper despite never having listened to the show it's for.

When it came time to partner with a cover artist, who that cover artist would be was never in question. Entirely unknowingly, Jordan took all these loose ideas in my head and gave them something to cohere to. A beacon, if you will.

They spoke something into the Void, and I listened.

Fun fact: Jordan even jazzed up the original logo I made for VOID 1680 AM when that title only applied to the AM transmitter in my garage. Here's my original - you can plainly see the influence of Jordan's art on that O. It all really came full circle.

Those are the biggest ingredients in the stew that made VOID 1680 AM. It's fun to talk about stuff I like, but also I hope it might nudge someone - anyone - to get going on something they're after.

(That's you. I'm talking about you.)

A project finding its voice is a wonderful thing, but there's no real miracle to it, no outside influence that will tell you what to do. It's just things in your head magnetizing to each other until they got a shape that - with coaxing - can stand on its own.

See you on the dial.

#indie ttrpg #ttrpg design #solo ttrpg #void 1680 am

[thefutureiswhat]

New Fargo Season 5 character portraits, via the FX website. Official character descriptions under the cut.

Dorothy "Dot" Lyon: Depending on who you ask, "Dot," portrayed by Juno Temple, is a wife and mother, a member of the PTA, a fighter, survivor or a tiger. She’s tenacious to almost a delusional fault, never giving up no matter how impossible the circumstances. Ultimately, she’s a mama bear with a lion’s heart.

Roy Tillman: “Roy Tillman,” portrayed by Jon Hamm, is one of those constitutional sheriffs, a rancher preacher, defender of the American gospel. A man who works from sunup to sundown shepherding God’s land. In Roy’s own reality, he is the law and therefore is above the law; he’s the judge, jury and too often the executioner.

Lorraine Lyon: “Lorraine Lyon,” portrayed by Jennifer Jason Leigh, is CEO of the largest Debt Collection Agency in the country, with two billion dollars in annual revenue. Lorraine is poised, regal and opinionated. She’s also a huge donor to any candidate or cause that she believes in, regardless of political affiliation (read: anyone that can be helpful to her in the future).

Wayne Lyon: “Wayne Lyon,” portrayed by David Rysdahl, has the forced cheer of a man whose mother raised him with a thick brew of disappointment and guilt. Now he owns a car dealership and three quarters of a fishing boat. A sweet guy who doesn’t match up to society’s (or his mother’s) definition of masculinity, his ideal evening is playing sock hockey at home with his daughter, Scotty.

Gator Tillman: “Gator Tillman,” portrayed by Joe Keery, is a handsome charmer, the way the snake in the garden was a charmer. He’s a sapling struggling to grow in the shadow of an oak, desperate to prove himself to his larger-than-life father in the absence of a mother’s love. With daddy issues up there with Oedipus Rex’s, Gator wants to be a winner but unfortunately doesn’t know what the word means.

Witt Farr: “North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr,” portrayed by Lamorne Morris, is the guy when you look up the word “reliable” in the dictionary, you see his picture. He splits the check down to the cent, not because he’s cheap but because he’s fair. He’s dogged, earnest and Minnesota Nice.

Indira Olmstead: “Minnesota Police Deputy Indira Olmstead,” portrayed by Richa Moorjani, is a practical woman – socks before shoes – and good at puzzles, which may have led to her career in law enforcement. She struggles to manage her finances while supporting her husband Lars and his delusional dream of winning the Masters Golf Tournament.

Ole Munch: Age unknown, birthplace unknown. On any given day, “Ole Munch,” portrayed by Sam Spruell, looks as though he could be 30-60. Some say he has always been here, blowing through the American landscape – the dark shadow waiting for us at the end of the hall. He’s carved from stone, relentless as the sea, the forces of physics don’t apply to him.

Danish Graves: “Danish Graves,” portrayed by Dave Foley, is Lorraine Lyon’s in-house counsel and primary advisor. A country club type, who has never been in a real fight, but sees himself as a winner, when clearly Lorraine is the heavyweight champion and he just holds her spit bucket.

#fargo #fargo fx #fargo season 5 #fx fargo #season 5

[tearsinthemist]

Reality Leigh Winner

Reality Leigh Winner (born December 4, 1991) is an American U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator.

Reality Leigh Winner (born December 4, 1991)[5][6] is an American U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator. In 2018, she was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for an unauthorized release of government information to the media[7] after she leaked an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[8] She was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison.[9]

On June 3, 2017, while employed by the military contractor Pluribus International Corporation, Winner was arrested on suspicion of leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections from the National Security Agency (NSA) to the news website The Intercept. The report indicated that Russian hackers accessed voter registration polls in the United States with an email phishing operation,[10] though it was unclear whether any changes had been made.

Born: 1991 (age 32 years), Alice, TX

Full name: Reality Leigh Winner

Award: Commendation Medal

Parents: Billie Winner-Davis, Ronald Winner

Conviction(s): Pleaded guilty to felony transmission of national defense information

Criminal status: Released

[anamericangirl]

What do you think of Trump being issued a subpoena to turn over stolen documents and him ignoring the subpoena, forcing the government to step in and retrieve the documents themselves?

Remember now, Reality Leigh Winner was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for stealing a single document on Russian interference in American elections, and Trump took 27 boxes of documents, including nuclear secrets .

He complied with the subpoena and if they wanted additional documents or information they should have sent another one. And why are you accusing him of stealing documents? Do you have evidence that the documents were stolen and that he had no right to have them or are you just accusing him of that because you don't know any better?

Reality Winner was sentenced to prison because she leaked classified information to the media. That's completely different and you might not understand why because you don't seem too bright but most people with basic reading comprehension can see how they aren't comparable so nice non sequitur.

#anon #answered

[dorothyser]

= Walt Disney’s Silly Symphony: Funny Little Bunnies=

Year: March 24, 1934

Director: Wilfred Jackson

Animators:

Art Babbitt Joe D'Igalo Dick Huemer Dick Lundy Hamilton Luske Wolfgang Reitherman Archie Robin Leonard Sebring Ben Sharpsteen Cy Young

Studio: Walt Disney Productions

Music: Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline

Layouts: Hugh Hennessy

Story Outline: A pair of bunnies invite the spectator to join a magical, cute, and sweet bunny land where all bunnies cooperate to create easter decorations. We can see all kind of treats, chocolate bunnies, gigantic chocolate eggs and even baskets. Everything is in this charming spectrum that indicates that this is a mystical place where color comes from rainbow drops.

Award: Venice Film Festival, Golden Medal Winner

Color Process: Technicolor. This technology was very expensive and still in a testing process, so the Silly Symphonies shorts were a crucial point to prove that the three-strip technicolor technique was an improvement in the film industry. In 1932 Burton Wescott and Joseph A. developed the camera with three-strip color process which would offer a full color range, instead of the red and green that had been used before. This camera exposed three color stripes at the same time on top of the black and white film. This technique was created by its own enterprise called Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, founded by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost Comstock, and W. Burton Wescott. This process was used exclusive by Walt Disney (who made an agreement of exclusivity) up until 1936 so the competition such as the Fleisher Studios were left behind (technology and color wise).

Reception: In general, for the Silly Symphonies, they had a great impact not only as a counter part for the people’s emotion and moral due to the Great Depression, which was awful, it was hard to get a job and any job would just not be enough, still, people would still pay 3.25 dollars to see movies, it was the great escape from reality. Yet again, this time was also a time where the color film was trying to become affordable for studios and being accepted for crowds, a technological competition that never stopped, considering that the first Technicolor movie was consider a fiasco, according to the Fortune magazine. In this magazine review is also revealed that Merian Caldwell Cooper, producer of King Kong (1933) after seeing the silly symphonies was no longer interested in producing in black and white.

Extra: In the case of the “Funny Little Bunnies”, we know that the Great Depression was sinking people’s moral and for so, Disney was creating this happy, magical, it’s all okay projects, but there was also merchandising and adds were also money makers. If I look for the date of the release this short was just before easter meaning appealing for a good selling market, not to mention that by this time, the Disney brand was not only selling on high exclusive products like diamonds but there were also more affordable home friendly items like blackboards.

[getjoys]

The Maternal Force Fueling Aaron Rodgers' Football Journey

You might know Aaron Rodgers as a famous football player, but have you ever heard about his mother, Darla Leigh Pittman Rodgers? She’s not just any football player’s mom. Her story is about strength, support, and how she quietly helped shape a sports legend.

Darla’s life shows the importance of family values in Aaron’s successful career. Join us as we share the tale of a woman whose influence extends far beyond the football field, into the heart of her family’s passion for sports.

Birth, Parents, and Education

Darla Leigh Pittman Rodgers was born on January 26, 1958 in Mendocino, California to parents Charles Pittman and Barbara Blair. She received her primary education at Ukiah High School and continued her studies at both Sacramento University and California State University.

Along with her academic pursuits, Darla also pursued dance during her time in high school and university, eventually going on to have a professional career in the field. She began her higher education at Sacramento University before transferring to California State University after two years.

There, she studied Gerontology and Stress Management and was active in dance as part of the cheerleading team. Darla also played baseball during her college years.

Marriage

Darla Leigh Pittman Rodgers and Edward Wesley Rodgers tied the knot on April 5, 1980. Their paths crossed at California State University (Chico). Where Darla was part of the university’s dance team and Edward was playing football as an offensive lineman for the Chico State Wildcats. Since their college times, they have stayed together, maintaining a strong and loving relationship throughout their marriage.

Edward Wesley Rodgers: Husband

Edward Wesley Rodgers, renowned for his work as a sports injury specialist and traditional chiropractor, is married to Darla Leigh Pittman Rodgers. With over two decades in the chiropractic business, Edward, often referred to as Ed, has earned recognition for his expertise in sports medicine and wellness.

He is also noted for his educational background in Physical Education/Exercise Science and Exercise Physiology. Ed Rodgers played football during his college days and later pursued a career in chiropractic, graduating from Western States Chiropractic College in 1997. He is the father of Aaron Rodgers. The NFL quarterback who has played for teams like the Green Bay Packers and the New York Jets.

Children 

Darla Leigh Pittman Rodgers and Edward Wesley Rodgers are parents to three sons. Each following his own distinct career path:

Luke Rodgers, who came into the world in April 1982, works as a podcaster. He and his wife, Aimee Rodgers, are parents to a boy named Jack Jordan Rodgers.

Aaron Charles Rodgers, born on December 2, 1983, is a famous NFL quarterback, known for his successful career with teams like the Green Bay Packers.

Jordan Rodgers pursued football during his college years and later became known as a sports commentator and the winner of the 12th season of the reality TV show “The Bachelorette.”

Aaron Rodgers

Aaron Rodgers was born on December 2, 1983, in Chico, California, and is a well-known American football quarterback famous for his accuracy and smart play on the field. He started playing football as a quarterback at Pleasant Valley High School in Chico.

Despite showing promise, he didn’t attract much attention from college teams. Which led him to play for Butte Community College. After a year, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley. Where he studied American Studies and helped the Golden Bears achieve a 10–2 record and a top-ten finish in 2004.

In the 2005 NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers selected Rodgers in the first round. He served as a backup to Brett Favre for his first three seasons. By 2008, Rodgers was the team’s starting quarterback, quickly proving himself as one of the top players in the league. His career highlights include:

Winning Super Bowl XLV and being named Super Bowl MVP

Being named NFL Most Valuable Player four times (2011, 2014, 2020, 2021)

Selection to the Pro Bowl ten times

Earning First-team All-Pro honors four times

Setting the NFL record for career passer rating (minimum 1,500 attempts) at 103.6

Recording the lowest single-season interception percentage at 0.3% in 2018

Leading the NFL in stats like touchdown-to-interception ratio, passing touchdowns, and passer rating several times.

Rodgers is known for his strategic play, including rare interceptions and high passer ratings, making him one of the most efficient quarterbacks ever. His knack for making crucial plays, especially his famous “Hail Mary” passes, has made him a key player in clutch moments.

Throughout his time with the Packers, Rodgers led the team to numerous playoff runs and consistently challenged for the championship. His leadership and abilities have not only brought success to his team but have also influenced many fans and players. As of 2023, Rodgers is playing with the New York Jets. Adding a new chapter to his NFL journey with his vast experience and skills.

Personal Life

Aaron Rodgers is not married. He was previously engaged to actress Shailene Woodley, but the engagement was called off. Currently, he is reported to be dating Mallory Edens.

Relations of Aaron Rodgers with his Family

Reports have suggested a strained relationship between Aaron Rodgers and his mother, Darla Leigh Pittman Rodgers, for several years. This rift within the family, including Aaron’s younger brother Jordan Rodgers, has been a topic of public discussion since at least 2014.

In 2016, it became widely known that there was tension in the relationship between Aaron Rodgers and his family. This became evident when his brother, Jordan Rodgers, made an appearance on the television show “The Bachelorette” and discussed their estrangement. However, the family has not publicly revealed the specific reasons for their strained relationship.

Reconciliation Rumors

Aaron Rodgers’ relationship with his parents has been strained, and there have been periods where they did not speak........ Read More

Source: Getjoys

#getjoys #Darla Leigh Pittman Rodgers

[worldofwardcraft]

Bad things can happen to you when you steal secrets.

September 15, 2022

There are serious penalties for knowingly removing classified government documents and keeping them in an unapproved location (18 USC §1924). And even more severe punishments for taking secret national defense information and disclosing it to someone not authorized to have it (18 USC §793). Doing that could land you in the slammer for up to ten years and cost you up to $250,000. Or worse.

Like what happened to the Rosenbergs. In 1953, amidst the paranoia of the Cold War, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during World War II. It was later revealed that neither Rosenberg was a member of any atomic bomb spy ring. And that Julius had provided only military-industrial information in order to help the USSR fight the Nazis.

Then there's Reality Leigh Winner, a former US Air Force intelligence specialist. In 2017, while employed by a military contractor, she was arrested on suspicion of leaking a National Security Agency report about Russian interference in the 2016 elections to The Intercept, a news website. Found guilty, she was sentenced to five years and three months in federal prison, the longest sentence ever meted out for unauthorized release of government information to the media.

More recent is the case of Asia Janay Lavarello, a Defense Department employee. While working at the US Embassy in the Philippines, Lavarello took some low-level "Confidential" documents home with her. She wasn't a spy. She wasn't selling any secrets. She merely kept them unsecured. But in February the US District Court for Hawaii sentenced her to three months in prison.

Which brings us to Donald John Trump. Last January, his lawyers turned over 15 boxes of government documents he'd squirreled away at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida country club. These included over 100 documents comprising more than 700 pages of restricted information. Then, last month, the FBI retrieved 184 additional documents — 67 marked confidential, 92 secret and 25 top secret. Also found were 40 empty folders with classified markings, indicating there are other documents still missing.

We don't know whether Trump sold any of the state secrets he stole to some foreign government, like the Saudis or the Russians. Knowing his criminal predilection and insatiable appetite for money, he most likely did. But even if he didn't, former FBI counter- intelligence agent Asha Rangappa observes, "The extent of what has been compromised in our intelligence gathering capabilities is going to be staggering." And should be more than enough to put Trump away for the next several hundred years.

#secret documents #reality winner #espionage #trump the traitor

[the-dragontamer115]

k so i wanna engage in Smart People Discussions as a Real Adult and this made me realize I need to Know Some Things in life, so if anyone can help me out with any of the following because idk how I'm gonna tackle everything I want to learn before i die :

- The Bosnian Conflict

- how do companies/corporations/whatever ACTUALLY work

- Like I know the media can't be trusted but like... how?? like what is actually wrong with reading a New York Times article and believing every word?

- also explain exactly WHY Amazon is bad, cause I know it is

- look into white supremacy in local police precincts and the FBI's knowledge of this

- Shakespeare's bisexuality??

- Thomas Day on the Declaration of Independence's hypocrisy (condemnation of slavery in slavery's day)

- Olive oil's use as lube for gay sex in Ancient Greece??

- how the Salvation Army works/how they're bad

- are there any benefits of watching a certain movie just because the protagonist is a woman/black person/ etc. Idk, even if it just normalizes those people in those roles in my brain?

- how free healthcare works (in Canada). Is it actually free? Do we just pay for it in our taxes or something?

- when I was little I specifically remember being told the Black Panthers were terrorists, but now I'm reading that they were a civil rights group/ activists??

- origin of the statue of liberty

- how was Christopher Columbus actually viewed in his day

- gay people (pink triangles) were kept in concentration camps after liberation ("Paragraph 175")? did the Allies do this on purpose after they liberated everyone else??

- US bombing of Laos

- India's culture pre-colonization (tolerance of homosexuality?)

- Elon Musk sending an un-sterilized vehicle into space and that this is dangerous

- That there has never actually been a country that was properly communist so we can't say that we know communism doesn't work

- Us vs Nicaragua??

- Origins of AAVE and its validity as a dialect/vernacular

- Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

- Hobby-Lobby Iraq-US museum scandal...

- criminalization of black people via criminalization of weed... was this deliberate from the start? what was the war on drugs and how does this tie into it

- punk subculture, riot girl (grrl?), radical feminism

- what exactly is Two-Spirit and its history and validity in Indigenous cultures

- history of the recognition of the gender non-binary/ gender freedom through the centuries

- how do i learn enough about how the economy works to form an opinion on the best economic system (cause i know i'm anti-capitalist but like how exactly do i support that)

- is it possibly to save the planet at this point? or even just delay the inevitable? if it were, is it possibly to get people to actually do it?

- use of overcomplicated language to make info less accessible (see my previous post quoting Gloria Steinem

- what complete destigmatization of menstruation would look like. more specifically, why we need it because sometimes i just think it should be on the same level as other bathroom things (like we don't talk about pooping in public because... it's gross) but sometimes i recognize that it's about so much more than that because it's not just another bathroom thing, it ties into traditions of misogyny, oppression, etc.?? am i on the right track here...

- why prison doesn't work

- but first maybe, what exactly is the prison system

- how exactly do gangs work (i read the Freedom Writers Diary okay)

- how do Canada's levels of government and judicial systems work

- Mexico's refusal to accept a fugitive slave treaty with the US

- do universities really need to be that expensive? if not, why are they? are those in charge of them really just making billions from them then?

- Mexican Revolutionary war

- the male vs female gaze

- where do our current beauty standards come from

- use of propaganda in north america in the 21st century

- that photo of 2 covers of the same issue of the wall street journal that are different because of the different demographics of the areas they're sold in/marketed to.

- Toys R Us US corporation vs Swedish union 1995

- Tovegene Khatun

- why do we have different skin colors/where does melanin come from and why? geography?

- the watergate scandal

- are there actually more gay/autistic/depressed/u name it people now adays than in centuries past? or are they just actually diagnosed now?

- brand identity scheme- companies' social media accounts presenting as relatable people in their advertising

- museum collectors stealing Idigenous artefacts, saying their origins are "unknown"

- pol pot and khmer rouge in Cambodia

- what was happing in Cambodia in the '90's (basically why were there refugees? was there a war?)

- origins of witches and witch hunts (before Salem...?)

- fall of rome

- spanish inquisition

- idi amin of uganda

- leopold 2nd of belgium/ the congo

- armenian genocide

- that yale study about women's pain being perceived as less serious than men's

- are there still people today living in southern usa who think that slavery was a good thing and with they were still in the "good old days"?

- did c sections really originate in uganda/tanzania/the congo??

- how does money actually work (why we can't just "print more")

- how does inflation work (couldn't we just... leave prices where they are? is it because as natural resources get scarcer, they get more expensive?)

- is abolishing the police ever actually going to happen and how would we go about doing that. what does it really mean/look like?

- was the irish potato famine actually deliberately caused by the british? why?? also how did it even start. and did Choctaw Native Americans actually send aid?... how?

- seneca village in central park nyc

- russian meddling in the 2016 US election?? Reality Leigh Winner

- How Finland ended homelessness

- the Haiti Revolution 1791

- how hawaii became a state. idk i just heard it was bad

- che guevara

- Tulsa race massacre and Tulsa's black businesses before it

- the only coup d'état in America; The Wilmington insurrection of 1898

- body positivity is the kind of movement that I can totally recognize is a good thing and will get behind, but I have a question... isn't being overweight unhealthy? Or is it only healthy if you're like "dangerously obese"? Or, is body positivity not denying that you're unhealthy but about loving yourself anyway, while you do or don't work on becoming healthier? Or is just about how it's nobody's business to shame your body's appearance, healthy or not?

- complexities of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas case and verdict.

-SNC Lavalin Affair

Have at 'er my friends, any info I can get. And preferably sources too, cause Pinterest is helpful but I gotta read exact facts myself, can't take anything at face value.

#queer #bisexual #che guevara #hawaii #history #gay history #non binary #non binary history #two spirit #indigenous #russian #russia #reality winner #reality Leigh winner #finland #homelessness #haitian #haitienne #haiti revolution #1791 #2016 election #irish potato famine #british history #british monarchy #seneca #seneca village #central park #nyc #choctaw #abolish the cops

[maswartz]

#jared kushner #donald trump #reality winner #reality leigh winner

[gehayi]

By Sean Gallagher 6/6/2017, 11:00 AM

When reporters at The Intercept approached the National Security Agency on June 1 to confirm a document that had been anonymously leaked to the publication in May, they handed over a copy of the document to the NSA to verify its authenticity. When they did so, the Intercept team inadvertently exposed its source because the copy showed fold marks that indicated it had been printed—and it included encoded watermarking that revealed exactly when it had been printed and on what printer.

The watermarks, shown in the image above—an enhancement of the scanned document The Intercept published yesterday—were from a Xerox Docucolor printer. Many printers use this or similar schemes, printing faint yellow dots in a grid pattern on printed documents as a form ofsteganography, encoding metadata about the document into its hard-copy output. Researchers working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation have reverse-engineered the grid pattern employed by this class of printer; using the tool, Ars (and others, including security researcher Robert Graham) determined that the document passed to The Intercept was printed on May 9, 2017 at 6:20am from a printer with the serial number 535218 or 29535218.

Armed with this evidence, the NSA was able to quickly determine who had printed the document by checking audit logs. NSA investigators quickly narrowed it down to Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old contractor for Pluribus International Corporation, a company that provides analytical, translation, and cyberwarfare development services to the intelligence community. Winner was working at the NSA's Fort Gordon, Georgia facility. 

The U.S. Government Agency conducted an internal audit to determine who accessed the intelligence reporting since its publication. The U.S. Government Agency determined that six individuals printed this reporting. WINNER was one of these six individuals. A further audit of the six individuals' desk computers revealed that WINNER had e-mail contact with the News Outlet. The audit did not reveal that any of the other individuals had e-mail contact with the News Outlet. Her identification was apparently aided, according to the Justice Department's arrest warrant affidavit, by her contacting The Intercept from her work e-mail:

When confronted by the FBI, Winner confessed to being the source of the leak.

Can you imagine getting NSA info leaked to you and then handing the info back to the NSA?  Talk about not protecting your source!

#the intercept #national security agency #reality leigh winner

[guruwithin]

H.A. Goodman: JULIAN ASSANGE SUPPORTS NSA WHISTLEBLOWER REALITY LEIGH WINNER: Alleged Intercept NSA Whistleblower

#H.A. Goodman #julian assange #Reality Leigh Winner #NSA #Whistleblower

[themusingstranger]

So what's the deal with leakers? Do we like them, do we not like them? Is everyone a naked partisan? A bit of a scumbag, maybe? Talk to me America.

#reality leigh winner

[jujufilms]

Free Reality Leigh Winner!

Free Reality Leigh Winner!

Reality Leigh Winner, 25, of Augusta, Ga., was arrested by the Justice Department for allegedly leaking an intelligence report detailing Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections to The Intercept, while the subjects of the leaks Donald Trump senior and junior are free men.

yeah

BTW Democrats fight like pussy cats, Reality Leigh Winner should never have spent a day in jail. –…

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#DonaldTrump #Donald Trump Jr #Reality Leigh Winner #Russia

[littlemixnet]

Little Mix set the record straight: 'We have so much to celebrate as a three'

Amid a public spat and rumours of a split, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards are still very much in harmony. Forty minutes before I’m due to speak to Little Mix over Zoom – their first interview as a threesome – the band’s PR texts to apologise because Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock will be delayed, as they’re feeding their babies (Perrie gave birth to a son in August; in the same month, Leigh-Anne gave birth to twins). Five minutes before schedule, their PR texts again. ‘Perrie has had a nappy explosion! A few mins. Sorry.’ These minor delays are nothing, given the interview almost didn’t take place. Two days earlier, a row had broken out between Leigh-Anne and former bandmate Jesy Nelson, after leaked messages between Leigh-Anne and a friend allegedly showed Leigh-Anne accusing Jesy of ‘blackfishing’ – when someone white tries to appear black for social or financial gain – in her music video for her new single Boyz. Leigh-Anne has been vocal about the racism she’s experienced: her BBC documentary, Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop and Power, is a must-watch for anyone who wants to educate themselves about how racism is still dangerously unchecked in the music industry. Do they have anything to say about blackfishing? ‘Capitalising on aspects of blackness without having to endure the daily realities of the black experience is problematic and harmful to people of colour,’ says Leigh-Anne. ‘We think it’s absolutely not OK to use harmful stereotypes. There’s so much to say on that subject that it’s hard to sum up in a sound bite.’ They are adamant, however, that they don’t want to discuss their feud with Jesy. ‘We don’t really want to dwell, because we have so much to celebrate as a three,’ says Jade Thirlwall. ‘We’ve dealt with it in the best way that we know how, and got each other through it. We don’t want to talk about the video, or be critical, but one thing we will clarify regarding the blackfishing situation is that Jesy was approached by the group in a very friendly, educational manner.’ This conversation, in fact, took place before Jesy even left the band. The first British band to break America since the Spice Girls, Little Mix are one of the most successful girl groups in the world. Six UK number ones, a slew of platinum albums and an estimated £54 million fortune later, they’re also the wealthiest X Factor winners in the show’s history. Funny, outspoken and refreshingly down to earth, Little Mix have amassed a devoted fan base who love their feisty brand of girl power, and the honesty with which they’ve readily credited other girl bands (most notably the Spice Girls, whom they namechecked last year when they won a Brit Award for Best British Group – the first girl band to take the title) as having paved the way for their success. Today they are in a reflective mood, grateful for the past, grateful to their fans and hopeful about the future. ‘We knew we had something special, and we loved our sisterhood, so we wanted it to last for ever,’ says Perrie, when asked whether she ever imagined Little Mix would last this long. ‘We’re lucky to have a fan base that supports us no matter what. If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t have been together for 10 years.’ Hair scraped back, make-up free and dressed down in loungewear, all three women are as sparky today as they were when they started out (Perrie and Jade are now 28; Leigh-Anne, 30), and seem unchanged by fame. Any new parent wondering what maternity leave looks like when you’re in the UK’s most successful girl band should note that it looks pretty much like everyone else’s: a chaotic mix of sleepless nights and barely getting dressed, fuelled by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and too many Deliveroos. ‘There’s no such thing as having a scheduled lifestyle any more,’ Perrie says ruefully, speaking from the nursery in her Manchester home. Leigh-Anne, meanwhile, is speaking from her house in Buckinghamshire. ‘Like you say, Pez, you can’t plan anything. Even when you want to feed them at a certain time, it never goes to plan.’ ‘Axel is a good sleeper, but I don’t know how you’re doing it with two, Leigh-Anne,’ says Perrie. ‘I don’t even know myself,’ replies Leigh-Anne. ‘Last night was horrific. I’ve tried to feed them at the same time, one right after the other. That’s normally quite a good routine, but it wasn’t last night. Oh, it was horrible!’ While Perrie has shared pictures of baby Axel, whose father is Liverpool footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, on social media, Leigh-Anne has chosen to keep the genders and names of her twins with partner Andre Gray (also a footballer, for QPR) secret. She declines to share more details now. ‘I’m just gonna keep it to myself,’ she demurs. Jade, who lives in London, is the only remaining Little Mixer not to have spawned a Littler Mixer, but has recently acquired another rescue dog, whom she shares with her partner, hip-hop band Rizzle Kicks’ Jordan Stephens. ‘We already have Spike, and now we have Mimi,’ she says. ‘That’s my baby currently.’ Collectively, the girls’ other baby is their new album, the first track from which, Love (Sweet Love), was released last month, and reached number five in the iTunes chart. Between Us is a greatest hits album also featuring new tracks, full of their signature pithy lines, positive affirmations and soaring vocal harmonies. ‘I feel like whenever we go into the studio, automatically we want to write about female empowerment,’ says Leigh-Anne. I’d been worried about conducting a multi-screen Zoom interview with a band in turmoil and rumoured themselves to be splitting soon (all three are actively pursuing solo projects), but whatever the tabloids are saying, Jade, Perrie and Leigh-Anne are putting on a convincing show of unity, finishing each other’s sentences and empathising with each other with all the warmth of a happily married thruple. ‘We’re very in sync, aren’t we?’ says Jade, and the others nod. ‘It’s like a superpower you get when you’re in a girl band: you just know what each other is thinking. It’s pretty wild.’ It’s equally wild that a band formed by Simon Cowell (they parted with his management team, Syco, in 2018) on The X Factor has managed to stay together (albeit with one fewer member) for 10 years – not least since they all auditioned for the show as solo artists. Around 13 million people watched Little Mix win The X Factor in 2011, launching four 17- to 20-year-old unknowns into the music industry with a velocity that took their breath away, and for which they were little prepared. So how does a girl band survive in the 21st century? How would they define their staying power? ‘It’s a combination of fate, hard work, friendship, and lack of ego,’ says Jade. ‘We all very much had the same goal of being equal, and the constant acknowledgement of the bigger picture, rather than the smaller, petty things. We’ve really worked hard and always had this underdog mentality. As a girl band coming from a show like The X Factor, it always felt like there was this point to constantly prove.’ What do they wish they’d known 10 years ago? ‘How to read a contract properly,’ says Jade. ‘We were literally 17, 18 and 19. Obviously our families didn’t understand how it [the record industry] worked either, so there really wasn’t anyone to advise us.’ ‘Yes,’ agrees Leigh-Anne. ‘I don’t even feel like we read anything.’ ‘Jade, you’re right,’ says Perrie. ‘I remember our mams [looking at contracts] saying, “Girls, we don’t even know what any of this means,” so it was quite intimidating. We’d ask about 50 billion questions in one accounting meeting, and we’d write it all down, or record it. So we just basically learned along the way.’ ‘And gradually we brought in people who we trusted to guide us in the right direction,’ adds Jade. ‘Obviously the more successful you get, the more power you have, and the more say in how things are dictated.’ Even as ingénues, they say they always strived to be in control. ‘Even on The X Factor, I’d write my own rap, and we’d come up with the arrangements,’ says Leigh-Anne. ‘I remember that rap,’ smiles Jade. ‘They were probably used to giving everything to the contestants and telling them what they wanted. And then we walked in. Like Leigh said, image-wise, brand-wise, that all very much came from us right from the outset – probably more so than people might think.’ ‘From the very beginning, everyone was in agreement that we were just going to be ourselves,’ adds Perrie. Along with the film and fashion industries, the music industry has had its share of MeToo stories coming out recently, and I wonder whether Little Mix have anything to add. ‘I do think there’s a shift happening where female artists are gaining more control over how they want things run,’ says Jade. ‘But we would love to see more female heads of labels. It does become frustrating sometimes when you’re sat in a room full of business execs and it’s predominantly white, male-led. ‘We’ve definitely experienced a lot of sexism and misogyny over the years, which unfortunately is still quite predominant, as well as racism. We’ve definitely been told before that our opinion isn’t as valid because we’re women. And we’ve definitely been sexualised in a way that maybe wasn’t our choice. Whenever we’ve felt like we want to empower ourselves in a sexual way, that’s very much come from us, but in the early days, especially when we’d walk into certain rooms, it was expected for us to flirt with people, or maybe use that [flirting] as a way of trying to get somewhere in our careers. There have definitely been a few producers along the way that I’ve sat in a room with and felt intimidated by, or worried for other women. I don’t know about the other girls, but I’m really grateful that I’m as successful as I am, because I would worry for someone who was just starting out, being in that room.’ The others nod in unison. ‘But also, the media have always sexualised us,’ points out Leigh-Anne. ‘I feel that needs to stop. Talk about how talented we are, not how our breasts look.’ ‘If I had a pound for every time an article will say “ample bosom”, “displays midriff” or “puts on a sexy display”,’ sighs Jade. ‘Like, really? Do we have to use those terms? We come from an era where, especially in the beginning, paps were very much still allowed to try to get up your skirt as you got in a taxi.’ She goes on to recall being included in the now-defunct men’s magazine FHM’s Sexiest Women awards, and her friends congratulating her. ‘“Well done”?’ she sputters. ‘I’d just turned 18. I literally looked like a child in the photo.’ ‘Women are so sexualised, always,’ says Perrie. ‘It’s just s—t. If you want to feel really sexy and put yourself out there, it’s frowned upon. You can’t win. You cover up in baggy hoodies, because you’re a bit insecure, and they complain about that as well. As women, you’re never going to please everybody. It’s just the way it is. It needs to change.’ ‘I feel like now, I’m looking at my body differently,’ adds Leigh-Anne. ‘I breastfeed, so I feel like they’re boobs to feed my child. When I’m out and I want to breastfeed, why is it something that I’m embarrassed to do?’ They all credit their families for keeping them grounded and tethering them to their communities despite their respective millions. ‘For me, money means help,’ says Perrie. ‘My mam was a single mother with two kids. She scrimped and scraped, although we never wanted for anything. When I went on The X Factor, I just wanted a good life for my mam and my brother. Buying her a house was the best thing in the world. The majority of my money just goes to my family.’ ‘Money means you can invest in your community and use it for good,’ adds Jade, who is extremely close to her Egyptian/Yemeni mother and English father. She bought a bar and nightclub in her native South Shields, as well as investing in local football and theatre clubs. Leigh-Anne, meanwhile, who was brought up in High Wycombe, has set up The Black Fund, an organisation that channels financial and other support to charities that help empower black communities. ‘I was sick of talking about seeing a change, and wanted to put something into action,’ she says. ‘Action’ is each band member’s most defining quality, for it’s clear that they all have big plans. But while the drive to achieve and better themselves is what’s kept them together for so long, it’s also what might ultimately drive them apart. Whether they remain as a band or pursue their solo dreams, I hope they can remain at peace with each other. And Little Mix fans can be heartened that they’ve made peace with themselves.

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Presenting the Winners of the 2021 *Book Shimmy* Awards!

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We want to thank all the book lovers—readers, authors, bloggers, and everyone else who makes up the YA community—for making these awards possible. You spent the year reading and finding new favorite authors, new favorite characters, new favorite ships, gushed about them all online and IRL, and then voted them into the *Book Shimmy* Awards!

Best of Shelf: Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo

Cover Lust: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

All By My Shelf: Lore by Alexandra Bracken

Mirrors & Windows: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Heartstopper: The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He

Reality Bites: Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco

Hot Under the Covers: Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant

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Retelling: Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

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Book recommendations please?!

Books have really been helping me through my grief! I lost my mum 5 months ago and basically just want to live in beautiful YA fantasy worlds💕Reality is definitely a struggle at the moment!

Current favourites:

ACOTAR series by Sarah j Maas

TOG series by Sarah j Maas

The winners curse series by Marie Rutkoski

An Ember in the Ashes series by Sanaa Tahir

A Six of Crows series by Leigh Bardugo

Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi

Poison Study series by Maria V Snyder

The Cruel Prince series by Holly Black

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