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The Latitude: Email from Jeff Hull

**Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:47 pm

BubbleBoy

There is this:

http://www.thelatitude.com

**Posted:** Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:02 am

edinarayne · Kilroy Joined: 22 Apr 2015 Posts: 1

I watched the The Institute over a year ago and moved to the bay area not long after. I always loved it and today decided to check up and see what was going on. I just learned about the Latitude Institute and have been trying to figure out what is going on. After reading all of the pages (that are locked Confused

) I am still at a loss for what is going on.

I would be interested to see where your email exchange goes.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:35 pm

automaton

Basically nothing was happening which is why it got locked--that and someone dug a little too hard and exposed personal information of someone unrelated to the game.

Interesting that it seems to have finally started after all these years though. Keep us updated. It looks city-specific so I can't join unfortunately.

**Posted:** Mon May 04, 2015 10:09 am

Metaforest

Update

**Posted:** Wed May 13, 2015 5:54 am

Adragonspassion · Greenhorn Joined: 10 May 2015 Posts: 3

I had received an facebook message from a "Spence" who is from "The Institute's" Facebook Page stating that clues would be released sometime July or August. As much as I would love to participate, unfortunately I'm on the East Coast and it seems these experiences are only really done on the West Coast.....It would be nice to have something done in NY.

**Posted:** Wed May 13, 2015 2:12 pm

Adm_BlackCat

New article with the usual cryptic bits of info.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/game-or-cult-the-alternate-reality-of-the-jejune-institute

Nonchalance also has an apprenticeship open.

**Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 7:35 am

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**Posted:** Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:41 pm

Listicle · Greenhorn Joined: 19 May 2015 Posts: 9

Re: Storycode Meetup

**Posted:** Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:41 am

Adm_BlackCat

Is it all over?

**Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:42 am

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gimlet · Unfettered Joined: 20 Jan 2016 Posts: 358

Big new long read just posted on Motherboard:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/my-year-in-san-franciscos-2-million-secret-society-startup

Get's really in depth about what The Latitude was how it's members experienced it, even mentions and begins to explain a little of the related sketchiness that played out here that got it banned from the Unforum.

Sounds like an amazing but tenuous experience that I am somewhat sorry I missed, but mostly pretty smug about it's inevitable collapse (collapse was oh so inevitable).

Ironically, it sounds like it was ultimately hamstrung by the out-of-touch demands of their incredibly privileged and not-so-benevolent benefactor. Sounds like the backstory of an Nonchalance project.

EDIT: more background on the article here:

http://lydialaurenson.com/my-new-article-in-vice-about-san-franciscos-startup-secret-society/

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:16 am

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**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2016 10:25 am

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gimlet · Unfettered Joined: 20 Jan 2016 Posts: 358

Yeah, I couldn't phrase that right. I meant it touches on the elitism and paranoia around secrecy that caused sketchy behavior by it's associates that seem to have resulted (from my perspective as a total outsider) in things like what went down in that locked thread, not that the article mentions what happened here, or has any particular insight into it.

I mean, you're kinda stoking my curiosty about more of what went on behind the scenes, but I've also seen enough boneheadery by these guys to get the gist.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2016 10:42 am