Whistle Orga

I'm sad. We had work to do

Okay, that's fair and I respect that. But I have to say that makes me question doing anything important with the possibility that it could happen again. Chris fucking got doxxed.

Swarms are temporary by nature. Part of the job is knowing when to dissolve, and how to reform.

I have some disaster insight if anyone wants to dm me . I don't want to slander them as a group. They are not a cohesive group.

I definitely will, thank you

Swarm Dissolve 10/21/2017 7:00 PM Eastern


Grab whatever history you feel like you need to gang, this swarm has hit EOL. We did a good job, and we'll do more of them in the future.


Everything Will Be Fine.

This is scary and sad :(. But agreed, maybe best to end this. We do still have work to do, but we did a hell of a lot and I'm proud to have worked with all of you on this 💚

Lori is so right. Love you awesome nerds

Thanks for letting me mostly observe and learn. You are an incredible group of peeps.

Glad to be of some help. Take care folks.

Thanks for letting me be part of it, even if life and work made me mostly useless.

Yeah. Same. I'm the mantispidae of Rochester.

Lol. I made grammar edits and a Reddit post. Not the pinnacle of usefulness here either

I'm upset and scared that things were being leaked intentionally, but I'm on board for future work with this. At least for now.

Word is that everyone in this room got removed from Bovine Ethology. Can people check and confirm?

I think I left it a couple weeks ago

I left it a while back.

I haven't had an active installation for about 6 months now?

around the time they switched to slack iirc.

What’s that?

circle the wagons!

😂

A restricted access toolkit. It has a lot of functions, I don't know them all. I coveted the one that lets you pull total MU for a field construct with a single click, for a while.

load up Yackety Sax

but, eh. whatever. It's just bells and whistles.

I haven't checked into it in a long minute, but its most interesting aspect IMO was that it demystified how MU is actually calculated, largely from user-submitted field data.

Huh, that actually is vaguely interesting. Never heard of it before today

Yeah. The shaky bit is the scraping for MU counts.

Same

This is distressing. I thought we had more trust in here than that.

Is Tiernan a BE dev? I have no idea.

I don't *think* so.

I'd forgotten about that one. I knew about it but never sought access because the numbers never interested me beyond what popped up as the fields were established. I know it's scrapery but my impression was that it was a narrowly focused research project. I hope it's not shutting down but I get the worry.

That's not a reasonable expectation. This is not solely a TGR group, and spinning it off of the main changed the nature and tenor of the conversation.


We brushed up against very hard topics about which people have very strong opinions.


Leaks were to be expected. Once they occurred, extraordinary reactions were to be expected.

Much of the content from the room ended up facing D0gboy and Sarah New in real time. Foggy was talking about it. There was a lot of finger wagging and stern dadding. It was pretty humorous, tbh.

I'm sure they'll read this too.


Fuck 'em.

There's a big difference between talking about what was going on to the "wrong" people and leaking, and sharing screenshots. Maybe I should be mad. But I'm just sad and disappointed.

It's just a reasonable expectation. People have competing loyalties and we can't all possibly share the same ideals on something as polarizing as this stuff.

It doesn't matter. The team did the job. We completed a vast amount of work and achieved a dramatically positive result in a short period of time. It could't have happened any other way.


Swarms have a lifespan. It's ok. Please don't try to witch hunt, or get all angry or betrayed. People do what people do.

We'll just re-form and hit it again from another angle. It's the nature of these things.

Confirmed that this morning yes