Kevin

I really like the idea of option 3, but don’t really think it lines up with Briarberg’s actions to this point. I can sort of see a scenario where it all points to them being the cleaner wing of OSDM, but it feels like a reach. And if Briarberg is really a wing of OSDM, that has even bigger implications for BOS than when we realized Mason had been…[Read more]

@chelsea Yeah, it’s all so strange. I don’t understand why Briarberg even put up a front of wanting to “deprogram” people. The OSDM referred to most of these folks as “pencil pushers”, it looks like they’re out of the organization, and then Mason goes to kill all of them. Nick was celebrating being laid off by the company and was cool being out,…[Read more]

Just to fill in any holes and some things I’ve remembered in the mean time.

As I was driving to the park I was flipping through radio stations and landed on a Katy Perry song. Was fitting given Mason’s predilections for pop music.

Got to the park and wandered around for a while until Mason went live again, if you listen real close you can hear…[Read more]

Mason gave me a USB drive when I met him at the park. Here’s the file:

Mason’s present

I’ll write up a post in a little bit and try to cover anything I might have missed in the Periscope.

@chelsea Did you recognize the man’s voice at all? It sounds like he might have recognized yours, but why not ask Mike or Bryan to disguise their voices too. Especially if the woman seemed aware of who Bryan was and why he might be calling.

The call @mike received makes it seem like the money was a pay out for her husband’s death. “Husband’s former employer” is the tip off and doesn’t sound like a relocation.

Well said, @bcbishop. It really was the only choice.

Some don’t even know what the numbers mean. They have a nine to five and benefits packages. Do you get that?

As we move forward, this piece of information is vital. Not everyone who works for OSDM even knows what they’re working on or who they’re working for.

@daela Outright killing the 91 people, even if that’s not where reduction/dissolve would lead.

@chelsea I’m thinking the exact same way. If we try not to make a decision, they’re going to make the worst one for us, and then hold us responsible because we tried to lawyer our way out of it.

Working in some of the ideas from yesterday’s painting, this man is also warped, but not as completely changed as the one before. His face is splitting in two, his shoulder is strange, his legs aren’t where they’re supposed to be at all, and he has a lock opened into his chest.

The lock isn’t really of a piece with the other aspects, but could…[Read more]

Also moved over from Slack.

While Katniss is associated with the rebellion in The Hunger Games, she was manipulated throughout for someone else’s ends. She essentially becomes the face of the rebellion, but isn’t afforded the opportunity to make many of her own choices.

@shankfx22 It seems more like DLB was trying to prevent people from being dragged into this than preventing Sabrina from releasing that information.

@chelsea With the OSDM it goes even further too. They are so, so proficient at creating bait. Looking back at Addison last year; they presented a young woman and let people season the bait to their own liking. They didn’t even need to do a lot of work! As they said, Addison was a mirror they held up to everyone and we did the rest.

Gleeson’s quote does sum it up perfectly, but actually comparing the two paintings is interesting. Gleeson’s Sower is so different that if you didn’t know the title or what he was doing with it, I’m not sure you could identify it as a riff on Millet’s. The warped nature of Gleeson’s, in every different way, really emphasizes just how much war can…[Read more]

Part of attacking an enemy is making sure innocents are in the clear first. Just sayin’.

Yeah, this sounds right. BOS has stated that their goal is to make sure no one gets hurt. This applies to these people, and especially their kid. I participated in the vote, and in hindsight, hell even just in normal sight, I realized we couldn’t judge t…[Read more]

On Oct 2, 2017, 4:03 PM -0700, Sabrina Kern, wrote:
We all play a role until we are no longer valuable..

What makes them no longer valuable though? If they lost a bunch of information, the people who had been working on it would still be helpful in getting them back to where they were. Even if all the data is corrupted as the man says, I can’t…[Read more]

The email will probably clarify things (at least a little bit), but my first guess about this was that it was referring to BOS. I’m not totally sold on that though. While there are a good number of BOS supporters, the group isn’t particularly large. “The Reduction” makes it seem like it’s something on a much larger scale.

I think this

It’s also possible that Brad being called out is symbolic – sure, he may bear the brunt of that responsibility, but the intention is that it’s for everyone that voted.

and this

Mentioned that everything comes back around (more ouroboros imagery) and that all of us will be there when it happens.

are key to each other.

The menti…[Read more]