Bryan Bishop

Thanks to everyone for the feedback, good and bad.

To put some sort of timeframe on when we might get a response on this, Sabrina said she wanted the poll handled within 24 hours of her call yesterday. That would be 10:30AM PT today.

Just to be clear, that line in the article was not referring to any OSDM/ODSM confusion. And as @winstonsmith has pointed out in Slack, “D” and “S” are right night to each other on the keyboard, so… more food for thought.

@daela The transcript is accurate. Her saying ODSM stood out to me in particular because during the message Sabrina said “Oh” — then caught herself, almost as if she had started saying the wrong name — and quickly went back to “Oh-Dee-Ess-Em”. She never said “OSDM”, but the hiccup was enough for me to note it while listening.

Noah made such a bi…[Read more]

Was in a meeting when Sabrina called again. She left a voicemail clarifying the stakes involved in today’s vote:

“Bryan, I hate repeating myself, even when clarifying things you don’t understand. You’re voting on our last data center. Taking down the ODSM is like trying to take the oxygen out of the air we breathe.

These are accountants, aca…[Read more]

@chelsea THIS.

@daela

According to Bryan, she said specifically, “91 pencil pushers….you will either cause their reduction, or their relocation.”

Well, that’s a particularly angled paraphrase. The initial quote is: “Los Angeles. Chapter 3 AL 21. Last data center standing. 91 little pencil pushers. You and the players of your fucking game have to make a real ha…[Read more]

To clarify: no specific instructions were given with regard to what constitutes the “next” voter, but the inference seemed to be that each person would hand off to someone of their choice.

Given that this is as much about testing us as it is about determining what happens to any entity, that’s how I’ll be proceeding unless I hear otherwise from Sabrina.

@nothenrygale She hung up when I tried to clarify, but “dissolve” and “reduction” were the first-mentioned options in both cases.

Exact-ish language from my notes:

“There are two options in this poll. Dissolve or absolve them. One person votes at a time. Starting with you.”

Consequences as quoted above.

7) In fact, let’s start with the obvious question – why is Sabrina texting Darren a play by play of her mission at all? Is she giving him a chance to stop it? Is this her version of a cry for help?

That’s the only one that seems clear to me. It’s a fuck you. A demonstration of her total agency. DLB and CS aren’t pulling her strings anymore.

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I’m reeling over the above photos. And the email I got this morning that ties into them.

A few weeks ago I was emailed a series of leaked text screenshots that appeared to be a conversation with one of TPTB. This morning on my work email I received another series of screenshots from that same email address — only this time, the conversation is wi…[Read more]

Thank you for pulling this apart and making it read in one go, @daela!

There was a ton of great, thoughtful conversation in Slack today. Though we have differences of opinion at times, I sincerely love chatting with you guys. <3

This seems to be calling out the fact that many of us have referred to this as a war. Maybe this is showing what the consequences of a war will actually be, and how it will change us.

Oh damn, @erisbonn, this is great. The full quote = how easy it can be to manipulate people into doing things they’d otherwise consider beyond the pale. The…[Read more]

@chelsea Ummmm…

This is an organization who has been known to pull this shit to people.

This is my point, @nothenrygale. You knew what they were capable of, which is exactly why more care should have been taken.

What’s done is done at this point so I’m good to let this go. And I know you have nothing but good in your heart, and that’s where you come from with…[Read more]

@nothenrygale I’m not shifting any blame. I find this horrible across the board, and it’s forcing me to think through a lot. But I am interested in your answer to the question I posed. If you’d known children could be harmed as a result, would you have followed through with your vote?

Again, this is not a troll or a gotcha. I actually think it’s…[Read more]

@nothenrygale I’m sure their kid Mackenzie is really feeling you on the nobility of your struggle.

Real question: If you had known your vote would potentially result in the death of children — who are inherently innocent because they’re, yaknow, children — would you have gone through with it? Not trolling; this is a legitimate moral quand…[Read more]

And here I thought BOS was all about nobody getting hurt. Hrm.