Bryan Bishop

This is building off something @coryphella was saying in Slack, but I think this can also be read as evidence that Noah has been subtly manipulating people towards certain end goals.

-Morgan took his story as a reinforcement of his BOS beliefs.

-My story was (apparently?) The Big Bad Wolf, and could perhaps be seen as a nudge towards embracing…[Read more]

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Thus endeth today’s lesson.

Something about this call kept me up thinking way too late last night, and I was hoping everybody here might be able to help me figure it out.

We all know how difficult it can sometimes be to contend with an unexpected phone call. We’re in the middle of a meeting, or it’s hard to hear, but we all do our best to convey what happened to the rest of…[Read more]

but @kevin, there are no walls.

I’m just going to go for the darkest possible interpretation, as that seems like a pretty safe bet these days: It’s Remy. And this whole LUST Experience thing we’ve been taking part in? Plug is being pulled. Too much has been revealed recently that’s put too many behind the scenes entities at stake.

If a Sabrina or a Mason or someone is out the…[Read more]

@candaceisstuck:

I’m wondering if the Investors brought in Briarberg as competition to see which organization would bring them the results they wanted. Didn’t the Investors take over because they weren’t pleased with the results from Tension?

WAAAAAAAAIT a second. Hold the phone. There is something really interesting here.

Have we ever consi…[Read more]

This is picking up something that @chelsea touched upon above, but: have we ever definitively learned that the language about pledging oneself to their sacrifice and freedom was OSDM?

I know I always assumed it was, particularly when Jacob was so, um, forceful about it at the iConfidant meeting. But tonight’s calls definitely seem to frame that i…[Read more]

Well.

1. Lisa was the name of the ex-OSDM employee that Sabrina and I called, who had received $1 million. Same name. Same person? If so, this raises many questions. Mainly, was that call a con? Or has Lisa been flipped to Briarberg.

2. “She asked if I approve of Sabrina giving Mason direct information.” Come again?

Thanks for this recap thread, @daela. I was AFK when this went down, so I appreciate you keeping everything in one place.

In the interests of keeping everyone appraised, it looks like Mason also made another appearance last night in #general:

Mason Silver – 11:56 PM
@a come on man
you have to have something better to do than delete my shit
I’m…[Read more]

You joke, @mike, but if you cared you could do a lot more than just throw up a disinterested post on the forums. You could try to, yaknow, actually help instead of rah rahing Mason.

Did it sound like she was going to Paris? Are there any participants located there that could help?

@chelsea Oooooooooooooooooh.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.

Option 3. Yes. After all, a clean-up crew’s job could technically be articulated as getting people “out” of the OSDM, couldn’t it?

As for OSDM being a charity, I think that might be a misread. Nobody said they were giving out money to be nice.

What does OSDM do? They collect data. What to do…[Read more]

This would be the most boring and straightforward of explanations for Mason performing the 91-person “clean up” but: he’s OSDM. Always has been. Everything he has done has been to either create extreme emotional responses or divisions within the community. The 91 situation was put together in a way so that OSDM would always be able to colle…[Read more]

@mumumusings Really good question that we don’t know the answer to right now — and I suspect we may never have it. I obviously can’t run out there and take unilateral action against Mason, despite how I feel, because I don’t know where he is. But despite that, there’s agency in our emotional commitments and points of view, and I think that’s ac…[Read more]

Reading through all of these calls from last night, and I keep coming back to the same thing:

There is no black-and-white “good” or “evil” in this world. There are only shades of grey.

Assuming something is evil, without any sense of nuance, and should therefore be destroyed is simply wrong. Reckless. Assuming something else is noble and who…[Read more]

Be angry all you like, @mike. All money is blood money at the end of the day.

I’m curious if we spoke to the same woman though. When did your call from Sabrina come in?

@mkarrett Definitely wasn’t Lisa Stanley. I’ll never forget the sound of her voice in the OOA bathroom…