TG posted:

This thread is going to attract a lot of negativity

It hasn't yet!

Edit: I am proud of my double post!

Second Edit: No I'm not. Everything has been going to hell lately. I've been feeling overworked and stressed out from my 60 hour long work week in the arsenic factory.I've grown used to the taste of poison, I've grown even more used to not being able to taste things at all, as that's something I've just learned to adapt to. I'll give you guys an update when the leprosy isn't hurting my posting-fingers so much.

Edited by walkinginonit (May 13, 2015 05:33:49)

walkinginonit posted:

Second Edit: No I'm not. Everything has been going to hell lately. I've been feeling overworked and stressed out from my 60 hour long work week in the arsenic factory.I've grown used to the taste of poison, I've grown even more used to not being able to taste poison,as its just something I've learned to adapt to. I'll give you guys an update when the leprosy isn't hurting my posting-fingers so much.

uhhh ignignokt please go post in that terrible subforum for drunks, this is thread is poz

getfiscal posted:

walkinginonit posted:

Second Edit: No I'm not. Everything has been going to hell lately. I've been feeling overworked and stressed out from my 60 hour long work week in the arsenic factory.I've grown used to the taste of poison, I've grown even more used to not being able to taste poison,as its just something I've learned to adapt to. I'll give you guys an update when the leprosy isn't hurting my posting-fingers so much.

uhhh ignignokt please go post in that terrible subforum for drunks, this is thread is poz

I will

shriekingviolet posted:

finished up part of a big collaborative project, feelin pretty good, really proud of my peers. now we're gonna share drinks over a video conference

what kind of project was it?

xipe posted:

shriekingviolet posted:

finished up part of a big collaborative project, feelin pretty good, really proud of my peers. now we're gonna share drinks over a video conference



what kind of project was it?

aw fuck it

we put together a series of scenarios modelling organizational conflict, with the participants acting out assigned roles and recording their thoughts on what was going on from their role's perspective. the scenarios were built through a process of sharing obstacles and catastrophes that had befallen folks in their own work, the goal being to map out the interconnected relationships of what happens when things go wrong for groups of various compositions and needs, and to build better responsive strategies.

the core data is really the stories that went into building the scenarios, but acting them out helped to explore the possibilities of various motivations, external factors, and alternative paths of action that could have been present, along with some valuable knowledge sharing about what cop/spook disruption looks like (among other things) in diverse settings. next step is going to be interviews and group discussions with the participants and a comparison/contrast of how the scenarios played out vs the original stories.

the goals of the project are kind of complicated, but the simple version would be to 1) create and improve trainings for dealing with serious problems and improve the resiliency of groups facing adverse conditions, 2) reverse engineer cointel strategies to develop feasible tactics for groups seeking to undermine and/or disperse hostile presences with minimal risk (astroturfers, conservative thinktank backed campus "activists" and other spook dummy groups, just plain shitheads, etc) 3) explore and evaluate our own capacity to model scenarios

FUNTIMES

shriekingviolet posted:

xipe posted:

shriekingviolet posted:

finished up part of a big collaborative project, feelin pretty good, really proud of my peers. now we're gonna share drinks over a video conference



what kind of project was it?

aw fuck it

we put together a series of scenarios modelling organizational conflict, with the participants acting out assigned roles and recording their thoughts on what was going on from their role's perspective. the scenarios were built through a process of sharing obstacles and catastrophes that had befallen folks in their own work, the goal being to map out the interconnected relationships of what happens when things go wrong for groups of various compositions and needs, and to build better responsive strategies.

the core data is really the stories that went into building the scenarios, but acting them out helped to explore the possibilities of various motivations, external factors, and alternative paths of action that could have been present, along with some valuable knowledge sharing about what cop/spook disruption looks like (among other things) in diverse settings. next step is going to be interviews and group discussions with the participants and a comparison/contrast of how the scenarios played out vs the original stories.

the goals of the project are kind of complicated, but the simple version would be to 1) create and improve trainings for dealing with serious problems and improve the resiliency of groups facing adverse conditions, 2) reverse engineer cointel strategies to develop feasible tactics for groups seeking to undermine and/or disperse hostile presences with minimal risk (astroturfers, conservative thinktank backed campus "activists" and other spook dummy groups, just plain shitheads, etc) 3) explore and evaluate our own capacity to model scenarios

FUNTIMES

sounds really cool.

i bumped in to an old friend today who teaches 'theatre of the oppressed' workshops that might be similar -- were you acting out the scenarios or was it more a thought exercise?

were there any interesting learnings towards the goals you set?