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Real life Rupert Murdoch is so Succession-y Jerry Hall's divorce banned her from speaking to the writers and his sons have accused each other of leaking stuff to them.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/rupert-murdoch-cover-story

“He’s fit. He’s strong. He’s armed. He’s trained. Just about everything you can expect out of some sort of crazy movie,”

I am willing to bet we'll eventually see photos of a tubby white dude with an unkept neck beard and stained sweatpants being led in handcuffs out of his mum's basement.

Man who is plausibly a relatively low level employee has a community where he is seen as a father figure.

I'm not as low level anymore as when I joined this forum, but ... thank you (blushes)

Also supposed to be a load of ex-SAS who are there 'independently' and not just training or advising.

Well yeh, was a video of one of them being killed on Twitter a couple of days ago

The leaker is a "Man in his mid twenties" and the WaPo spoke to "a boy still not 18" plus with the kid showing loyalty and refusing to ID the leaker sounds like he's been grooming them.

It's still all pretty unclear - I've also seen a reference to the OG guy also being his teens and pretending he was older to impress his acolytes.

I was going by the WaPo report, if OG is not in his mid 20's but a teen, then he was unlikely to be the source of classified information unless the US is in the habit of providing clearance to minors.

But he was still grooming them in some manner.

OG has been ID'd as a 21 yo air national guard member

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html

FML 21 and trusted with military secrets. I'd have struggled to keep my mates' secrets.

It’s the US. You’ll get to fire a Howitzer at other people at 20, but don’t touch a beer.

If he’s smart he’ll surrender asap, FBI/SWAT/military police terrorism response teams must be chomping at the bit right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT-7RgLWvf4

Bellingcat and Politico reporting the arrest of a 21 y/o Massachusetts national guardsman for the leaks.

Called it. Full battle rattle and machine gunners perched on armoured personnel carriers. Not that I blame them, guy is looking at serious prison time.

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Everyone he associated with will be looking over their shoulders.
How he even got access to NOFORN material is shocking. This stuff is kept under lock and key. Someone allowed him to take it out of a secure area.
There will be fallout over lax security.

The garrison commander at Ft. Bragg must be wondering how to save his career. He has a solid CV, nothing amazingly outstanding, could’ve made it to one star but not with an international scandal like this on his resumé.
https://home.army.mil/bragg/index.php/about/leadership/garrison-commander

Can't help but feel this is the thin end of a bad wedge:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65272929

while the hands-off technology will be free for the first 90 days, drivers will then have to sign up for a monthly subscription

Can't forsee any issues arising from this business model at all, no siree!

Because human drivers are so safe as it is

This who monthly subscription thing needs to get in the fucking sea

This whole monthly subscription thing needs to get in the fucking sea

Monthly subscriptions in cars can fuck right off.

Isn't that the point though - that technology (if well done) will be safer than human driving.

But then we'll have a legal test when some driver tries to dodge responsibility for causing a fatal crash by blaming the tech... And with the record of juries in the country, who would bet against them.

I'm sure there will be something in the Ts&Cs that will mean you accept liability. Wouldn't be surprise if you had to press an OK every time you get in the car.

Doesn't stop the driver challenging the Ts &Cs in court. I don't doubt the manufacturer won't be liable. But would a jury see it as less responsibility for the driver? You'd hope any judge would direct them otherwise, but still.