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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

between the Twitter "okta leak" yesterday and this today we really need to be working on internet literacy here.

The B Gerber in the WHOIS is probably the CISO of Coupang, weirdly.

Idk why they'd use this old web-1.0 site to register their domain name, but I also don't have high opinions of the ACP's literacy either. More likely visual kinetic was just squatting the domain and the whois hasn't updated.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

between the Twitter "okta leak" yesterday and this today we really need to be working on internet literacy here.

We also need to work on some comm name literacy here too since some people need to learn how to differentiate between posting unsubstantiated info to a news comm vs posting ubsubstantiated info to the shitposting comm sicko-satan (joking? lol)

although I should probably look into talking about adding 'no posting unsubstantiated news' to the rules list too now that I think about it

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

although I should probably look into talking about adding 'no posting unsubstantiated news' to the rules list too now that I think about it

can only support this, would prevent lazy linking from garbage twitter threads.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

this side of Maoist Twitter is practically devoted to giving these guys publicity with their 24/7 speculation I wish they would just pause a few hours to fully investigate and also question if they should be spending all of their time arguing with feds, something these very feds are telling them to do

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

this side of Maoist Twitter is practically devoted to giving these guys publicity with their 24/7 speculation

"Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

It won't do!

It won't do!

You must investigate!

You must not talk nonsense!" -chairman

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

oh I was talking about the post about the leak yesterday in c/chapo, not your attempt to make c/main c/fakenews

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

probably the funniest actual thing here is that they paid $7500 for their domain name lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I have never seen whois fail to update immediately? Since when does it ever take more than a couple hours?

EDIT: Looked it up and almost every says it's usually 1-3 hours. In the WORST case scenarios it's 24-48 hours.

The domain was bought weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It looks like the DNS record was updated at 5:01:01 GMT this morning (July 25th). The twitter post is from yesteday (July 24th)

spoiler

$ whois acp.us
Domain Name: acp.us
Registry Domain ID: D1843810-US
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2024-07-25T05:01:01Z
Creation Date: 2002-04-24T15:57:58Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2026-04-23T23:59:59Z
Registrar: NameCheap, Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 1068
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: CC6ADF201CC294CD3AB5E195A0879569F-GDREG
Registrant Name: Jackson Hinkle
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 500 Westover Dr 33158
Registrant Street:
Registrant Street:
Registrant City: Sanford
Registrant State/Province: NC
Registrant Postal Code: 27330
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.8625009970
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Registrant Application Purpose: P2
Registrant Nexus Category: C11
Registry Admin ID: CDB3229EEC4D849F8B30965D74B3D1F41-GDREG
Admin Name: Jackson Hinkle
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: 500 Westover Dr 33158
Admin Street:
Admin Street:
Admin City: Sanford
Admin State/Province: NC
Admin Postal Code: 27330
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.8625009970
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: [email protected]
Registry Tech ID: CC8C93DAD94B440C3B7F27CDBA5F2BA1C-GDREG
Tech Name: Jackson Hinkle
Tech Organization:
Tech Street: 500 Westover Dr 33158
Tech Street:
Tech Street:
Tech City: Sanford
Tech State/Province: NC
Tech Postal Code: 27330
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.8625009970
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: [email protected]
Name Server: cosmin.ns.cloudflare.com
Name Server: brenna.ns.cloudflare.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2024-07-26T01:16:53Z <<<

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah apparently it gets a little more complicated:

https://x.com/turdism/status/1816620806157615282

Also that C&D letter is hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've said for years now that they're feds so this really isn't that surprising. They have always been exactly what I would create if I was a fucking fed.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So is there any actual corroborating evidence or did people just see slightly similar names and locations and went soypoint-2 to drag out an org they dislike

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does it matter? Because CPUSA certainly doesn't

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

It matters if it's going to get posted in the news comm, at least

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Professor Burton Gerber

Fake ass name lmfao

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Burton Erny

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Baby food-ass name

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Dr. Reid Tamaranda of the CIA's squirrel bones acquisition division

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If this is true it burns the entire patsoc op as well as all the participants.

All thanks to total incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To think I did more due diligence setting up an inconsequential mastodon instance (i.e. making sure my given name and address isn't in the fucking DNS record lmao)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Were the patsocs shilling the ACP?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The ACP are the patsocs lol. Literally all of them. Name any patsoc and I guarantee they're involved. Everyone from Hinkle to Haz.

The only person conspicuously left out is that RT guy Caleb Maupin.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The only person conspicuously left out is that RT guy Caleb Maupin.

Too tedious and annoying for even the other patsocs perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's not a fed is my guess. Just an idiot.

The others that are involved in this project? All feds.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isnt he cancelled for sex pestery? I remember because the latsoc org purged him faster than the cp canada did with their sex pest the month before

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

somehow I missed that, I guess it was inevitable that he'd be a creep too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There was some kind of split and some kind of allegations, I don't remember the details but I remember pointing and laughing at it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Too much of a sex pest even for them?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Well then. I was already sure they were feds so this doesn't change much.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That nitter instance looks rate-limited. Use any from this list but not p*ast because they're Nazi pedos

https://xcancel.com/FalconryFinance/status/1816467676170240428

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Also, isn't that a bunch of tracking info in the OP url? Everything from the ?t= and after is not necessary to see the post and should be taken off the link. OP, it's not your fault of course that the instance got rate limited but please remove tracking code from urls you post.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

They aren't sending their best these days

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

From UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 (@FalconryFinance) on Twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently this Party exists?

I had never even heard of them before. I initially thought this was about CPUSA. Who the fuck is even joining these loser ass parties? Jesus, the Left in the US is miserable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yea

At least PSL are pretty solid despite being pretty tiny

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Really? I was under the impression they were pretty large, relative Communist parties in the US.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

People I hang out with say at most PSL has somewhere between 6,000 and 8,000 full members. That is very large for a communist org though

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, large for a US communist party is tiny is what I meant. They're largely limited to major cities and have a hard time even getting ballot access in a lot of states. Pretty sure the post-2016 swell in DSA membership dwarfed them even though PSL is a much more ideologically coherent org that practices democratic centralism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (9 children)

We're getting ballot pretty much everywhere we targeted and have a presence in at least 60 cities

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

CPDOA - kelly

Look at the other sites in his name. Tradecraft. Privacy. Bitcoin. Totally not captured honeypots.

Can't wait to see Hinkle defend this. That whole group is made.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Whoa wtf theres bitcoin domains from 2011.

According to Bitcoin Return Calculator: Analyze Your Bitcoin Investment, if you bought $100 of bitcoin in June 2011 when bitcoinwallet.us (#23 on that list) or bitcoinx.us (#12) was registered, it would now be worth $4,163,674.

Is this just a search of anyone who registered a domain and called themselves "b gerber"? It seems kind of non specific.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

https://archive.vn/QhpUA https://archive.vn/YkF1u

archived both this tweet and the quoted one for posterity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure how accurate this is. Its easy to dunk on the "ACP" nerds, but I think its less likely that they're feds than it is they're dipshits.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jackson Hinkle and Caleb Maupin are clearly feds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Not convinced by Maupin, I think he's an idiot and a sexpest but not a fed. But Hinkle is 110% a fed.

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