Index

• FTAA clock in upper right corner is a GIF. Hands move about every 30 seconds.

Programs

• Clicking on Beth Alice on Chronographic Ethics leads to BAlice Staff Web Space.

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• The book is from the Sacred Text of Abramelin. Using the table after that page, with first number being row, and second number being column, you get “Again I am agog. Again I am raging. No imagining: grinning immoral gang mangling a moral origin all along, aiming on a million in ill gain. Ongoing rolling gloom. I am mingling in a liminal room. I am in an alarm. Normal again? Nagging? I am arranging a long, naming, maligning roar.”

BAlice Staff Web Space

• The italics spell out “SOURCE”.
• On a Colleague Found and Lost
  • Source code hides “It only seems fitting to hide this message inside “code” because of my and Edy’s shared passion for cryptography. She would have loved HTML’s simplicity. If only she hadn’t sacrificed herself before I began exploring these standards that Berners-Lee is working on. She’d be thrilled with these picturesque ways we can hide information inside other things and send it zipping across the globe.”.
• On Deinceps Offensionis
  • Source code hides “I know I can’t stay silent for much longer. The damage they’re going to do to our mission and our purpose in the name of efficiency and “return on investment” is going to be immense. But I don’t know how I can stopper the wound. The best I can do right now is keep leaking these small bits of information. I’m not lost to the fact that leaking a document on “Improper Use of Research” is a bit on the nose. But I’m not leaking it - they asked for it to be put on the server. I’m just letting you know how to unlock it. The translation is the key.”.
• On Embracing WWW
  • Source code hides “I don’t expect the beancounters and bureaucrats to dig into this code so I can be more honest. The agency has been in desperate need of a moral center for a long time. Maybe since ‘67. Some decisions have been severely lacking. Even the push to build the collider in ‘86 came with Reagan’s strings attached. There are those of us who have feared the weaponization of time. I’m beginning to see that we weren’t wrong. Ike was right; the military-industrial complex is frightening. And Corvus Petra is getting more powerful than my moral center is comfortable with.”.
• On Ethics and Temporal Stability
  • Source code hides “There is a failure of trust that occurs in our agency, though, which is less forgivable. We don’t trust our employees. We don’t trust the public. We sure as hell don’t trust the people of other eras. We establish a new policy from hard learned lessons and then hide it away. Maybe it’s plausible deniability. Maybe it’s just some kind of picture of our ideal agency: an empty office filled with equipment but no people we have to keep in the loop. Even something as simple as an employee orientation page we keep under lock and key instead of shouting “welcometomaryland” I don’t get this secrecy.”.
• On False Idols
  • Source code hides “After we lost Edy, I was swi ming in doubt for a few weeks. When le dership listened as I suggeste the non-int rvention policy it buoyed my hopes. Perhaps the ureaucrats were taking notice of what we had learned b losing friends after Ireland. Maybe they would act. I spoke my pie e and submitted a draft. But the p licy got watered down. TS’ contracts with the godda ned Agency and the Bureau were too lucrat ve. CTR had the same rela ionship with State. When I sugges ed no upstream insertion of any sort they balk d. PA rolled over like a basset hound on a hot summ r’s day. What they ended up releasing changed almost nothing. If you could look at what they finally released you’d understand. It had so many things missing that were key.”.
• On Making of Change
  • Source code hides “What can change look like in reality? I know what it shouldn’t look like: a broken San Francisco street lined with the charred ruins of poorly made decisions and misguided attempts at repairing something irreparable. It’s not meddling. But I think that meddling is why we’re here. Why this place was created. How the agency was perfected. I thought the meddling was a small tool, just something that sat alongside the observation and the cataloging. I thought incursion was a tool among tools. Now I think I see - it was always the end in and of itself. We are all time meddlers, starting from the top on down. I’m not absolved of the sin. But maybe I can start to atone. The recent rogue temporal disruption has everyone worried - so much so they won’t let most of the agency know where it happened. More secrets is their answer, of course. We were alone until this point. But is there a time race, now? Are other people meddling? Threatening the agency’s precious power and control? Do we fear what we’ve always championed now? The key is that one word which describes our agency’s stock and trade, I guess.”.
  • Clicking on the last period redirects to fragment.jpg.
• On Serendipity (in an Era of Time Travel)
  • Source code hides “This is a big step. I’ve always considered myself an ethical person. It’s been my stock and trade afterall. That’s meant following the rules and doing what’s right. And until now, those two have aligned relatively closely. Now I’m not so sure. The organization is broken. It might be broken beyond repair. Maybe it’s been broken since the start, if this new set of documents is saying what I think it is. I prepared a special briefing for the rest of leadership and was brushed off. Scolded even. I handed them the key; it was maligned. But the truth must get out. I just can’t quite decide how.”.

Employee Data Storage

New Employee Welcome Letter and Quick Guide - Fort Ritchie

Password: welcometomaryland

Explanation: It is written in On Ethics and Temporal Stability’s Source Code.

Memo: Summary of New Non-Intervention Policy