Lauren Bello

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

@daela

1) Straight out of the SPECTRE playbook. If an arm gets diseased, you don’t treat it. You remove it.

2) http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/File:Oil.jpg

2a) IMHO, it seems clear this is quite intentional. She appears to be happily returned to OSDM.

2b) See #2.

3) My suggestion: think before acting.

4) There is never a “once and for all”

What’s most frustrating here is that we all knew that by taking this action, by taking ANY action with regards to MyChild, there would be an outcome. It was decided by vote that the action taken would be drastic, so now here’s the equally drastic outcome. People having fingers pointed at them saying “let’s stop pointing fingers” know in their…[Read more]

Interesting points, @nothenrygale and @daela.
Not sure if everyone equates BOS with hope, though.
However, Michelle did state that we brought it into being.
Makes you wonder what else we can create, doesn’t it?

That does sound like the calls Sabrina made regarding Joyce and assigning blame, but in each of those she clearly identified herself.

It’s interesting that they seem to be dealing with some shit, but the FB post went up as normal this morning. Unless as @daela speculated in that thread that MyChild or BOS is currently in control of that account.

Right, @daela – there are hard copies, we’ve seen them.

And if it did say “valued” – and we (or our data) are (is) no longer valued – what is?

“There are no shadows left to hide in” – didn’t MyChild say something about we will now step out of the shadows?
Otherwise this does sound ominous, as in we have nowhere to hide.

I feel like I had other,…[Read more]

@bcbishop @rizzzoooooo @daela

Could this have anything to do, with the rescheduling of the mid-season event?! They, the powers that be, even re-framed it as a victory, when no one here was suggesting it was a defeat?!

@rizzzoooooo

@daela I listened a few more times, could it be valued??? The one is no longer valued?

Shit, I think you’re right. That would certainly be in line with the thematic reading I mentioned above. :-

@daela I listened a few more times, could it be valued??? The one is no longer valued?

Hat tip to @daela, @theladyj, and @mkarrett. Seems like the call was:

“Congratulations. The One is no longer valid. The BOS decided The One was our enemy’s greatest vulnerability. We infiltrated and compromised any and all information regarding The One. All data has been corrupted and will destroy The One. Congratulations.”

@daela Joyce was the first thing that crossed my mind, and I think you’re right with the other examples. It’s like it’s a call to be more emotionally present. But then, everything seems like a reproach lately.

The more I rewatch her speech the more it feels like she’s commandeering the event as a display of defiance as much for her “superiors” as us, rather than acting FOR the OSDM. I get the sense that Michelle (Briarberg?) developed and pioneered this emotional data mining process FOR the OSDM, while working on Tension, and now this year with Lust it…[Read more]

@daela. Dude this is awesome.

The shared objective could have been the same at the beginning. Collect data. Learn how to control people. Then something happened? A split? A family argument, perhaps? Maybe it’s as simple as Briarberg saw an opportunity for power and decided to take it – collect the actors, “protect” them from the big bad, giv…[Read more]

Couldn’t have picked a better choice!! Fck yeah @daela!

Such a great choice! Yay, @daela!

@Daela is an excellent choice, and has been super helpful in keeping people up to data here and on Slack.

Thanks to everyone posting in #catchup on slack.

Congrats @daela!