GamerGate 2.0 update

Elon is cramping muh style with the account needed and nitter nuke.

So can only drop 1 post of the thread

Grummz

@Grummz

This is a doozy. There is a DEI Professor who has quietly raised a million dollars in grants over the the past week, capitalizing on the Sweet Baby Inc. controversy.

Homeland Security and the Canadian gov all announced programs to "investigate gamers" this past week, and it all ties back to this one, now very flush academic.

In my next tweet in this thread, I'm going to link the incredible research @MadamSavvy

has done to unravel this Doctor's elaborate funding scheme.

@DrKowert

the gamers have found you and your efforts to falsely attack gamers is now exposed.

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>>20566773

>This is a doozy. There is a DEI Professor who has quietly raised a million dollars in grants over the the past week, capitalizing on the Sweet Baby Inc. controversy.

>Homeland Security and the Canadian gov all announced programs to "investigate gamers" this past week, and it all ties back to this one, now very flush academic.

Savvy | Artist

@MadamSavvy

🧵🧵 Yesterday, I wrote about @TakeThisOrg

and their DHS grant. @Drkowert

Dr. Rachel Kowert is a very busy individual.

Canada announced a funding program on March 13 2024 to study violent extremism in video games, so lets unpack today the relationships and connections!

The federal government of Canada has announced more than $300,000 in funding awarded to a group to study how gaming communities can potentially create environments conducive to radicalization and violent extremism via gender-based analysis. The official post from Canada dot CA specifically states they are looking at how misogyny plays a role in extremist ideologies across geography.

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Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Public Safety, has approved this funding and are working with Extremism and Gaming Research Network through a partnership with the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. The funding provided falls under the Community Resilience Fund- which aims to combat extreme violence in communities in Canada.

What is Extremism and Gaming Research Network? Lets unpack:

EGRN is a research network that aims to uncover how malign actors exploit gaming and inversely, they want to use gaming for good. Started in 2021, they boast more than 60 registered members and include many "top global think tanks and institutions". One of their core mission questions reads as such: How can gamers and gaming platforms be empowered to combat hate and facilitate building positive, resilient communities?

A direct quote from their website front page:

We also act as a bridge from gamer communities and small CSOs developing their own games,all the way to donor governments and international policymakers at the United Nationsthrough the mandated UN Office of Counter Terrorism (UNOCT) and other mandated UN agencies including UNDP and UNITAR.

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Some listed partners:

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If you scroll to their membership page, filed under individual members, the 5th one listed isDr. Rachel Kowert.Other members included are an ADL Belfer Fellow researcher, lecturers from various universities, and various counter terrorism individuals, along with "far right extremist experts".

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Under the research tab on the website under 'reports & research papers', they directly link to posts written by Dr. Rachel Kowert, linking to Take This Org and the second article listed is that from the ADL.

On the same page, they talk about conducting the first ever behavioral research within the gaming community of BRAZIL and their involvement with political action.

And you must be asking yourself, how does all of this connect back to @SweetBabyInc

?Dr. Kowert authored the blogpost from Take This Org "denouncing" gamergate 2and linking a @Kotaku

article defending SBI.

All links in the following post.

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>>20566773

>>20566790

Several digs converging to a singularity dig

What Rachel's Doing Today

I am currently working on a two-yearproject funded by the Department of Homeland Security (in collaboration with with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Logically AI)examining the landscape of extremist radicalization and recruitment within digital gaming spaces. This project aims to establish a baseline of understanding for the unique characteristics of extremist activities within video game communities, build capacity within the gaming industry to prevent and counter violent extremism in these spaces, and create collaborative networks across public and private sectors.

Gamergate 2.0 Dig

all pb

>>20530172 Gamergate 2.0 Heats up as Media Circles the Wagons. QRD

>>20530182 looks like sweet baby inc's logo is a pedo symbol

>>20530207, >>20530228, >>20530269 If you can sit throught it. Very cringe. Sweet Baby Inc Origin Story in their own words.

>>20530268 Are they scrubbing their website? Appears to be down

>>20530303 all of the baby references are creepy. weird. this doesn't look like spiderman 2

>>20530327 So apparently one of the funding companies behind Sweet Baby Inc was founded by Eileen Holowka

>>20530437 Canadian Government involvement?

>>20530503 Ontario Creates is an agency of the provincial government whose mandate is to be a catalyst for economic development, investment and collaboration in Ontario’s creative industries including the music, book, magazine, film, television and interactive digital media sectors, both domestically and internationally.

>>20530524 Hi! I am: Jennie (Robinson) Faber

>>20530701 With mentorship through the Government of Canada’s Investment Readiness Program

>>20530720 Our network of dreamers, witches and technologists see caring technology.

>>20530785 Perverts confrimmed

I am also currently curating (and editing) a new series of books, The Psychgiest of Pop Culture (ETC Press) that highlights iconic pop culture content from television, film, literature and video games. These books are written with the everyday reader in mind and are a little bit science, a little bit fandom, and a whole lot of love.

>>20566874

>Several digs converging to a singularity dig

> Department of Homeland Security (in collaboration with with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Logically AI)

Logically AI dig.

>Wednesday last week

>>20134943 Oregon Lawmakers Sue to Halt “Misinformation” Contracts Against Election-Related Speech

>>20137138 found while digging on Oregons censorship RFP . Request for ProposalsElections Data Management System Development and SupportIssued​:September 14, 2020 Responses Due​: October 9, 2020

>>20137262 Oregon signs contract with AI-Powered threat intelligence platform to “combat election misinformation,” spy on citizens. the platform is a company called“Logically Intelligence”

>>20137312 >Oregon government hired a company who attacks what it calls "the far right. Same company involved with a grant from Department of Homeland Security to combat radicalization in video games.

>>20137330 US division based in Arlington VA

>>20137262, >>20137515 HRC's campaign was working with a similarly named company in 2016. Tracking influencers in social media to see who to influence.

>>20137515, >>20137523 This particular company was founded after the 2016 election

>>20137539 Looks like Logically meddled in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Brag about it even

>>20137570 Logically became a member of the US Election Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis Center (EI-ISAC). Looks like a DHS CISA Fedboi Revolving Fucking Door. e.g. Brian Murphy

>>20137602 Brian Murphy appeared behind closed doors on Capitol Hill Friday.

>>20137594 Think Logically

>>20137626 Senior DHS official and former FBI Executive Brian Murphy joins Logically

>>20137727 Logically 2020 election use case Report behind a email wall

>>20137746 proud to work with a number of prestigious research partners. including MIddlebury

>>20137312 DHS Grant with archive link

>>20138238 Bun. plus The AI-powered fact checker that investigates QAnon influencers shares its secret weapon. CEO Lyric Jain

>>20138271 we had our very own 'Logically Situation Room'

>>20138300 Logically Intelligencewas utilized in a U.S. battleground state during the 2020 electionto identity 40,000 threats to election integrity

>>20138332 The example shot of these faggots deboonking in muh Qanon situation room includes the 'killed with a fire extinguisher media hoax'

>>20138442 Logically "fact checks"

>>20138468 Logically announces UK partnership with TikTok

>>20138480, >>20138484 A Year in Logically

>>20138497 Partnered with Searce on Google Cloud

>>20138714 Venture Funding announcement. Logically Announces $24m Funding Round

>couple of days later

>Middlebury Vermont Connection?

Family dead in Dover MA mansion

>>20158689 Family of three including teen daughter found dead in $6.8M Massachusetts mansion

>>20158705 someone's cleaning up loose ends

>>20158727 found dead in their $5 million Dover, Massachusetts mansion on Thursday. Cops Suspect Domestic Violence. of course they do.

>>20158752 Justice system in that county, from top to bottom from the looks of it, are seriously compromised. See Karen Read/Turtleboy

>>20159099 teenage daughter, was enrolled in a neuroscience course in Middlebury College,

>>20159125 the Middlebury in Monterey CA is the same outfit as the Middlebury in Vermont. Received the grant to study 'far right extremists' in gaming from DHS

>>20159159, >>20158727 the wife was a 'director of the American Red Cross of Massachusetts'

>>20159122 Dover, MA QRD

>>20159308 same or similar cops including the state police, the same prosecutors and the same judges. and they can't be trusted

>>20159421 Logically AI / Family dead in Dover MA mansion digs bun

>>20159695 Rick Kamal Edunova NSF Foia request

>>20159804 business registration address for Sri Durga Temple, Inc.

>>20159836 Religious Marble Murties Import Genius

>>20159873 This address is also associated with the names of Wasim H Chaudhuri. Wasim Chaudhuri Venture Capital firm

>>20159959 Kamal at Marlborough MA City Council hearing

>>20159985 Dover Counter Lisiting of Land & Building. 8 Wilson Way

>>20160024 +c/o Stephen Bisson? Owner of Wicked Craft

>>20160479 updated buns

>>20160517 India Enterprises Inc

>>20566773

>>20566790

>>20566874

>>20566897

>>20566902

>YOU MIGHT BE OVER TARGET

>>Several digs converging to a singularity dig

>> Department of Homeland Security (in collaboration with with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Logically AI)

U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Statement for the record by Brian Murphy, September 11, 2023

Thank you for the opportunity to speak with the committee today. Before I begin, I will offer my

qualifications. In 2021, I retired from federal service and joined Logically AI. The company’s

focus is to identify, at the speed and scale required, hostile influence operations occurring on the

internet. Many of these are generated by nations. My position at Logically is the Managing

Director for the company's U.S. operations. For this role, I maintain a Top Secret security

clearance. Additionally, I teach a master’s level course on domestic intelligence at Georgetown

University. Before joining Logically, I served as the Principal and Acting Under Security for

Intelligence for DHS (2018 to 2021). Among my job requirements was to identify foreign actors

attempting to influence the homeland covertly. Before DHS, I was a special agent with the FBI

for approximately 20 years. While there, I performed duties from street agent up to roles as a

national manager. I ran multiple programs looking at the intersection of behavior and hostile

activity. I began my federal service in 1994 as a United States Marine Corps officer.

To augment my work, I obtained a Ph.D. from Georgetown University, a Master of Arts from

Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William and Mary. In my

research, I focused on how foreign adversaries have conducted covert operations in the U.S. In

2023, I published a book on the topic, Foreign Disinformation in America and the U.S.

Government’s Ethical Obligations to Respond. I have also published several papers and speak

regularly about the topic. Some of my testimony is lifted directly from published works.

>>20566874

>What Rachel's Doing Today

>>20566925

Let's give these lunatics hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money to video game "Reeeeeeeeeeesearch"

https://www.takethis.org/about/our-team/

Take This Staff

Eve Crevoshay, Executive Director (she/her)

Eve Crevoshay joined Take This as Executive Director in 2018. She is a 20-year veteran of the nonprofit sector, with a focus on fundraising and executing strategy. Her background spans education, social services, and the arts, and she is committed to identifying and enabling systemic change. Eve is a member of the advisory boards for GDC (in the advocacy track), the Fair Play Alliance, The Games and Online Harassment Hotline (gameshotline.org), and The International Game Summit on Mental Health (TIGS.ca); and is the recipient of the inaugural GamesBeat Up and Comer award (2020) and the 2022 Games for Change Festival Vanguard Award. She’s also an avid gardener, cook, and gamer. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband, daughter, and dogs.

Eve is a white, heterosexual, cisgender woman.

Raffael Boccamazzo, PsyD, Clinical Director (he/him)

Raffael Boccamazzo, PsyD (more affectionately known as “Doctor B”) is a psychologist and the clinical director of Take This. He has served in this role since 2015 overseeing many of Take This’ educational and public-facing programs, also applying his perspective as an autism and ADHD self-advocate. Outside his work with Take This, Doctor B is an expert on the applied use of tabletop role playing games in clinical and learning settings and is the co-creator of a pantheoretical model on their applied use. He is also a chapter author in the book Video Games and Well-being: Press Start, co-authored Gardens of Fog – a best-selling, mental health-themed, charity, adventure module for Dungeons & Dragons, and is a frequent contributor – on and off camera – to the YouTube channel How to ADHD. An award-winning speaker and presenter in the game community, Dr. B leads dozens of talks and panels each year and has been featured in such media outlets as the New York Times and gaming publications like Game Informer, Polygon, Kotaku, Gamasutra, SyFy Wire, Geek Wire, and VentureBeat.

Doctor B is an autistic, cisgender, heterosexual, white male.

Rachel Kowert, PhD, Research Director (she/her)

Rachel Kowert, Ph.D is a research psychologist and the Research Director of Take This. She is a world-renowned researcher on the uses and effects of digital games, including their impact on physical, social, and psychological well-being. She has spoken about her work to thousands of people across the globe, including the United States Congress, United Nations, and Department of Homeland Security. An award-winning author, she has published a variety of books and scientific articles relating to the psychology of games and, more recently, the relationship between games and mental health specifically. She also serves as the editor of the Routledge Debates in Media Studies series and the upcoming ETC press series Psychology of Pop Culture. Recently, she founded her YouTube channel Psychgeist, which serves to bridge the gap between moral panic and scientific knowledge on a variety of psychology and game-related topics. In 2021, Dr. Kowert was chosen as a member of The Game Awards Future Class, representing the best and brightest of the future of video games. Dr. Kowert has been featured in various media outlets, including NPR, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, and Wired Magazine. To learn more about Rachel and her work, visit www.rkowert.com.

Dr. Kowert is a white, heterosexual, cisgender woman.

Katrina Keller, Operations Director (she/they)

While our operations director Katrina Keller tends to eschew the spotlight (to the point of asking the rest of the team to write this bio for her), she comes to Take This via a winding and impressive career path. She earned an MS in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University, and spent time as the zookeeper at two zoos and studying coral reefs and caves at a field station at Andros Island in the Bahamas. She has also had jobs as a fabric artist and stained glass artist. Katrina was an enthusiastic Take This volunteer prior to her accepting a contract position in 2017 which quickly evolved into a promotion to Operations Director. Practically nothing gets done at Take This without her, and she’s been repeatedly referred to as the backbone of Take This.

Katrina is a white, LGBTQIA+ person.

>>20566940

>Let's give these lunatics hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money to video game "Reeeeeeeeeeesearch"

>>20566953

Everything these people say is a lie

>Suite 7411

>>20566987

>Everything these people say is a lie

Lots ofTheRapists

Non-Emergency Resources

Therapist Directories

Online Therapy Resources

Culturally-Specific Therapeutic Support (US)

Online Harassment Support

Streamer & Content Creator Resources

Self-Care Tools

Apps and Other Tools

https://archive.ph/wip/rHs82

>>20566940

>Raffael Boccamazzo, PsyD, Clinical Director (he/him)

>Cassie Walker, LCSW, CCTP, Clinical Program Manager (they/them)

>Kelli Dunlap, PsyD, MA, Community Director (she/her)

>>20567054

Russ Pitts

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Founder, Flying Saucer Media @FLyingSaucerLLC

Co-founder and Executive Director of Take This, Inc. @TakeThisOrg

Founding Editor and former Features Editor of polygon.com

Here's a video about me.

Here's a video I made.

Former Editor-in-Chief and Content Director of six-time Webby Award-winning www.escapistmagazine.com

Former head writer and producer of The Screen Savers on TechTV

Award-winning content creator

Published author.

Produced playwright.

Capricorn.

Loves dogs.

Work

Polygon

>>20567089

>Russ Pitts

>Durham, North Carolina, United States

bunch of fucking weirdos

On Eagle Semen and lessons learned – False Gravity

Starting this month I’m selling my book “Eagle Semen” as an eBook through Amazon and Gumroad. It’s the story of how I quit my job as a producer of TechTV’s The Screen Savers in the worst possible way, and why.

What the book doesn’t really go into, though, is what happens after you write an email like that. At the time I thought I was walking away from working in television, and that it really wouldn’t matter what people would think of me for writing an email about all of them “drowning in eagle semen.” I was right and wrong.

As it turns out, I never did work in television again (nor do I intend to), but it does matter what people think of me. Not only did I manage to burn bridges with many of the people I worked with at TechTV (most of whom did me no wrong), but at every job interview since I’ve been asked to address that email, and there have been times when I’ve missed opportunities because of having written it.

I have zero regrets. After all, I’ve done alright. And the person I am today needed to be the person I was then. But one of the lessons I’ve learned over the years is that how you say goodbye matters just as much, if not more, than how you say hello. I’ve never again written such an angry farewell email.

That said, I’ve been tempted. And I’ve also been tempted to “revisit” the “eagle semen” email in sly ways. But in the end (no pun intended) I’ve tended to fall on the side of trying to inspire and encourage those I’m leaving behind, rather than intimidate them.

Below is an email I wrote (but never sent) when I was leaving Polygon in July of 2014. It’s a riff on the “eagle semen” email, but, I think, much more positive.

When men look to the sky, they see the eagle soar and feel shame that they, too, can’t fly. When eagles see men, they see all that man might be and know that some day man, too, will fly.

As you walk into the future that awaits you, don’t look to the sky and see the eagles and doubt that you belong among them. Instead, allow yourself to be filled with the spirit of what the eagles see in men, and know that one day, you too will soar.

If you want to read the original “eagle semen” email, as well as the story of how I worked up to writing it, you can buy my eBook “Eagle Semen” for $1.99 at Gumroad, or $2.99 at Amazon.

Get Eagle Semen

(For those who are curious, below is the actual email (slightly edited to remove confidential company information) I sent to my colleagues when Ieft Polygon.)

My dear friends and colleagues,

You’ve all probably heard by now: I will be leaving Polygon, effective June 27.

When I spoke with Vox in November of 2011 about helping to start Polygon, I thought it was a company led by crazy people. The plan they shared with me, to build websites based on quality first, driven by premium advertising, was one I knew well. We tried it at The Escapist, and I believed in it there (hey, Webbys) and still believe in it now.

But focusing on quality first is a risky play. It takes time and money and a commitment to persevere in the face of impending doom. Many media companies simply don’t have the will to pull it off.

>>20567119

>bunch of fucking weirdos

Vox had the will. Vox believed it could execute, deliver on quality and build a business on top of it. And it convinced me to help try. I couldn’t resist the opportunity.

So I joined this company led by crazy people and guess what? We did it! We built Polygon, and everything we’ve done at Polygon has been of the highest quality. And people noticed. And we became envied, admired and even feared. And we did all of that in just two years.

Features has been just one part of that, but it’s obviously the part of which I am the most proud. Working with Charlie and Matt and Jake and Warren and Tom and Jimmy and Caleb and Tyson and Ally and Jon Douglas and all of you to write, edit, design, film, illustrate and publish Polygon’s amazing longform features has been the fullest experience of my life so far. We created two of the most exciting and interesting products I’ve ever been a part of, in the longform feature-meets-video series ‘Press Reset’ and ‘Human Angle.’ We touched the humanity of game design in a way that few outlets had done before us, and few will successfully copy after. And this passion for quality and humanity is one of the things we are best known for now.

Simply put, these past three and a half years have been the fulfillment of a very long-held dream for me. A crazy dream, perhaps, but living it out has nevertheless been amazing. And I thank you all for every part you played in it, big and small.

But things change.

As Vox continues to tighten its operations — becoming less crazy maybe — it has become clear to me that the time for what I can positively contribute to Polygon has come to an end, and that now is the time for a graceful exit.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be wrapping up existing stories and helping the features team transition to operating in my permanent absence. After that, apart from finally diving into personal writing projects and giving takethis.org some long overdue attention, I have no idea where I will end up.

Wherever I go I will leave a substantial piece of my heart behind with all of you, at this place we built together with our passion, our hard work and our dreams.

Thank you all for making all of it feel worth something. Best of luck with everything that you do in the months and years ahead.

Keep dreaming,

-R

P.S. I’ll still be here for a few weeks, so don’t make it awkward and act like I’m dead.

>>20567127

>all Canuck GamerGate?

and Moar

>>20566874

>Several digs converging to a singularity dig

>Gamergate 2.0 Dig

>Logically AI dig.

>Logically Intelligencewas utilized in a U.S. battleground state during the 2020 election

>involved with a grant from Department of Homeland Security to combat radicalization in video games.

>teenage daughter, was enrolled in a neuroscience course in Middlebury College,

>Logically AI / Family dead in Dover MA mansion digs bun

>>20567089

>Co-founder and Executive Director of Take This, Inc

>>20567133

>>bunch of fucking weirdos

they spelled the name wrong on the tax form???

Shannon Geritzen

Shannon Gerritzen Becomes the New Head of Publishing at IllFonic

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Shannon Gerritzen has been promoted to Head of Publishing at ILLFonic, Inc. (@IllFonic), the game development studio behind titles such as Friday the 13th: The Game and Predator: Huntin.

ILLFONIC PROMOTES SHANNON GERRITZEN TO HEAD OF PUBLISHING

Post author:Vic

Post published:November 1, 2023

Post category:Gaming / Home

November 1, 2023 (Lakewood, Colorado) – IllFonic is thrilled to announce the promotion of Shannon Gerritzen, former Vice President of Marketing and Communications, to Head of Publishing. Gerritzen’s new role answers the call to IllFonic’s recent move to publish fellow indie studios’ games, starting with Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game. She will now oversee the publishing arm of IllFonic, which will now include the Marketing and Communications departments while exploring new business opportunities.

This move is no surprise to those who know her; Gerritzen carries over 11 years of gaming experience, five of which have been with IllFonic. With a background spread across hardware, eSports, and game development, Gerritzen’s keen vision has grown the marketing department from two (including herself) to twelve employees, not counting the numerous global agency partners and contractor aid. She has worked tirelessly on Predator; Hunting Grounds, Arcadegeddon, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and now, Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Her unmatched talent will surely bring continued success to what’s next for IllFonic.

“Shannon has been growing the marketing and communication side of IllFonic for the past five years. She continues to make key power moves that put IllFonic in a position to publish our own titles and work with external studios,” Chief Executive Officer Charles Brungardt remarks. “There is no one better to run IllFonic Publishing than Shannon. Our industry is rapidly changing; with Shannon at the publishing helm, our team is confident her abilities will drive IllFonic’s internal and external project focus while positioning us for success.”

Before Gerritzen’s time in gaming, she worked as an advocate for our oceans and waterways. She led the efforts for the non-profit Surfrider Foundation in Washington State and assisted in British Columbia, to protect our waters on city, state, and federal levels.

“I’ve leaned on my past experiences in PR and events to shape how I look at marketing a game.” Gerritzen reflects. “I now look forward to growing the publishing department. I want to bring games and IPs to IllFonic that we are fans of. We create worlds we want to play in; it’s at the core of our passion and every game we make.”

Outside of work, Gerritzen is a proud mother to two grown sons. She is an avid hula dancer, tennis player, and mentor, often found on her standup paddleboard or riding a wave off the West Coast. This fashionista and traveling road warrior is full of tales as she is a true Renaissance Woman living in 2023. To learn more about Shannon Gerritzen, see her “Meet the Dev” write-up on IllFonic.com

> https://dropthespotlight.com/illfonic-promotes-shannon-gerritzen-to-head-of-publishing/