Winston Smith

@kipsie It would have to be correspondence chess, so they can wait a standard week between moves. 🙂

I stopped talking to mine, because they had nothing interesting to say, just repeating what I said back to me, sprinkled with a few one-dimensional “you can doit!” platitudes.

I honestly don’t even know what I would have to say to mine. Truth…[Read more]

@wanda102 Oh god, how deep does it go? 🙂

I think all these numbers we’re being assigned are essentially chosen through keyboard mashing. If you look at them as a whole, they don’t look random at all. Much of the time, the digits tend to repeat or are clustered nearly sequentially, far more often than would be expected by chance. They’re numbers like 2233, 5000, 8282, 5599, 4634, 6661,…[Read more]

I just received one as well, from yourconfidant@iconfidant.net. I must have been assigned the talkative one, my introductory email said simply:

🙂

I guess that’s better than a frowny face.

Me too. I guess we all get our special new buddies real soon now. These iConfidants better not be goddamned AOLiza bots.

Just received an email from Stacey Erikson at IConfidant saying that the pairing process had started. I guess we’re all gonna get our new special buddies real soon now? I hope mine likes soup.

She also says the “sheer volume of valuable information” they’re dealing with is exhilarating. Interesting use of “valuable”. Valuable to whom, I wonder?

Just received an email from Stacey Erickson at IConfidant saying that the pairing process had started. I guess we’re all gonna get our new special buddies real soon now? I hope mine likes soup.

She also says the “sheer volume of valuable information” they’re dealing with is exhilarating. Interesting use of “valuable”. Valuable to whom, I wonder?

I also received an Iconfidant acceptance email.

@kasch If you’re a forgiving group, don’t say it. Show it. Step back, and create a space in which someone *can* apologize without having to place their head in a guillotine first. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t, but you will still be on the high road, which is usually the better place to be. If you want someone to own up to a mistake, you…[Read more]

Yes, all of those reasons to be upset at what happened are entirely valid, and understandable. Discussing why the events of last night were a problem is totally fair, and constructive. There does need to be a clear understanding as to how, and why this was out of bounds. By all means, educate.

This shit is hard though, and there’s not…[Read more]

Ya’ll gotta put down the pitchforks, take a deep breath, and slow yer respective rolls. I get that everyone is pissed off, I get that there are real concerns about things like safety, and trust. The way the “prank” aligned with current story developments does make it seem pretty clear that a community member was likely involved, which suggests…[Read more]

Well, that was unexpected.

@theadamo They would have to expect that it would take a little while to decode the message, so I imagine they’d send the Lyft when they knew someone was ready to find it.

If my experience with Black Matter Foundation is any indication, sometimes an Uber can be right in front of your face and still be difficult to spot. Maybe whoever is outside…[Read more]

It could, or it could be an anagram for “men in the Lyft”.

I think it’s interesting that “UNKNOWN CA– USES” is underlined in relation to the reasons one might experience hypoglycemia. Is the suggestion that Noah’s “hypoglycemia” has a mysterious unknown cause, as opposed to one of the more common ones?

Also, why is the last word, “appreciated” struck out? It just ends the sentence, so it doesn’t…[Read more]

Also, I think the highlighted letters in the note read:

BsqRpkxezxpe = FlyInhetment

I think the code buried in the colored letters reads:

BsqRpkxezxpe = FlyInhetment

OK, so this is a Substitution Cipher. The ciphertext, and then the plaintext are below. The highlighted letters are: BsqRpkxezxpe = FlyInhetment, unless i’m making a mistake somewhere.

Re rc rzhlvempe blv ekx hcqokrmevrce el mhhvxormex Bgssq ekx
hvlexmp pmegvx lb kqhlnsqoxzro xhrclwxc. Rpfmvrmusq, ekx
hqhlnsqoxzro meemot rc okmvmoexvrixw…[Read more]

Re rc rzhlvempe blv ekx hcqokrmevrce el mhhvxormex Bgssq ekx
hvlexmp pmegvx lb kqhlnsqoxzro xhrclwxc. Rpfmvrmusq, ekx
hqhlnsqoxzro meemot rc okmvmoexvrixw uq clzx hcqokrmevro
hkxplzxpm mpw rpw ekx zxpems cqzhelzc zmq wlzrpmex ekx
osrproms hroegvx. Mc kmc uxxp hlrpexw lge uq Mssmp mpw lekxvc ekx
hcqokrmevrce rc bvxagxpesq omssxw lp el vxpwxv…[Read more]