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Dokapon Findom
Dec 5, 2022

They hated Futanari because His posts were shit.
Make good posts out of compassion for your assigned minder

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my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Dokapon Findom posted:

Make good posts out of compassion for your assigned minder

hey NSA nerd reading this post

:flipoff:

The_Rob
Feb 1, 2007

Blah blah blah blah!!
it’s not that people are spied on here it’s that some posters are just low level feds who get assigned seeding arguments in this thread. it’s like operation chaos but lamer.

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


cspam is a battleground between feds trying to manchurian candidate goons and goons trying to get feds to read marx

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

The_Rob posted:

it’s not that people are spied on here it’s that some posters are just low level feds who get assigned seeding arguments in this thread. it’s like operation chaos but lamer.

the funnier option is some entry level go-getter posting here as an off the books side project

Sextro
Aug 23, 2014

Did y'all not actually read Think Tank Aesthetics? The structure of the economic, political, and (the remaining husk of) cultural systems that make up the artificial component of cybernetic organism known as "The West" function to encourage correct behaviors, including escalating negative responses to "incorrect" behaviors.

Dokapon Findom
Dec 5, 2022

They hated Futanari because His posts were shit.
That's just Nudge Theory

Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010
that sounds super boring, but I guess feds have a lot of time on their hands

inchworm
Jun 23, 2023
how many osint redditors do epic psyops on forums

the whole internet is your oyster after all

The Atomic Man-Boy
Jul 23, 2007

Sextro posted:

Did y'all not actually read Think Tank Aesthetics? The structure of the economic, political, and (the remaining husk of) cultural systems that make up the artificial component of cybernetic organism known as "The West" function to encourage correct behaviors, including escalating negative responses to "incorrect" behaviors.

It’s been recommended, but there are like a hundred books that have been recommended here. if you think it’s good, write an interesting synopsis and you’ll encourage some more goons to read it.

Sextro
Aug 23, 2014

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

It’s been recommended, but there are like a hundred books that have been recommended here. if you think it’s good, write an interesting synopsis and you’ll encourage some more goons to read it.

Honestly I'd have to re-read it to do that and it's quite dry. Most of the impact of it has been from it simmering in my hindbrain for months after reading it rather than any actual "woah" moments provided like many of the more popular recommended titles.

The Saucer Hovers
May 16, 2005

the fed honeypot known as cspam has caused extreme radicalization that led to the murder of one tiny toe

Marenghi
Oct 16, 2008

Don't trust the liberals,
they will betray you

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

It’s been recommended, but there are like a hundred books that have been recommended here. if you think it’s good, write an interesting synopsis and you’ll encourage some more goons to read it.

Should stick a reading list in the OP. I've gotten some good recommendations here but having them all together would make it easier to keep track of.

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

The Saucer Hovers posted:

the fed honeypot known as cspam has caused extreme radicalization that led to the murder of one tiny toe

tinytoemor

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



Dokapon Findom posted:

I like the CIA World Factbook's rundowns of various locales

I remember a website that was kinda like a neutral CIA World Factbook. I remember reading it around 2012 and the entry on the US was things like "The election between Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney will largely revolve around perceptions of the economy and Mr. Obama's changes to healthcare." Anyone know the name of that site?

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
how many feds do you think were forced to sleep with a goon in a honeypot operation

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Al! posted:

how many feds do you think were forced to sleep with a goon in a honeypot operation

0 but they do have problems disposing of all the printers

Hubbert
Mar 25, 2007

At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Al! posted:

how many feds do you think were forced to sleep with a goon in a honeypot operation

:gooncamp:

maxwellhill
Jan 5, 2022
none, just a huge sum of overtime to chris hansen

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

The_Rob posted:

it’s not that people are spied on here it’s that some posters are just low level feds who get assigned seeding arguments in this thread. it’s like operation chaos but lamer.

We'll see who stops posting when the government shuts down in March

Hooplah
Jul 15, 2006


luckily for the cia, much of their funding doesn't come from the federal government

cagliostr0
Jun 8, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 20 hours!
I will say that the old Leveson enquiry IRC was a fascinating place and time because of the split towards the end between the people who joined Bellingcat and the people who listened to thoic

FirstnameLastname
Jul 10, 2022
In recent years, Skull and Bones, like other elite Yale institutions, has been "utterly transformed" according to The Atlantic. Few descendants of alumni get in, and left-wing activism, such as joining the Democratic Socialists of America, is an asset. The class of 2021 admitted no conservatives.

Dr. Jerrold Coe
Feb 6, 2021

Is it me?
some more good ufo/epstein thread crossover here from old ufo skeptic head robert sheaffer, covering a weird dude who was an epstein orbiter (married to ghislaine's sister!) and a skeptical figure in his own right, al seckel: https://badufos.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-strange-life-and-death-of-al-seckel.html

quote:

This article veers just a bit from our usual dose of UFOlogy to talk about a man who was both a skeptical activist and a con-man, whose exploits sound like the script of an implausible movie – except it all really happened. Al Seckel was (or perhaps still is?) a very strange and interesting character. He founded the Southern California Skeptics in 1985, as a local affiliate of CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, now just “CSI”). He claimed to be a “physicist,” sometimes a “cognitive neuroscientist,” but never completed even a year of college. He claimed to be a graduate student working on a PhD in physics (and History of Science) at Cal Tech in Pasadena, but had actually just been ‘hanging around’ there (during which time he became friends with the famous physicist Richard Feynman, and arranged lectures for the Southern California Skeptics at Cal Tech). Soon accusations of financial improprieties were swirling around Seckel, although CSICOP didn’t pay much attention, and reflexively defended ‘their guy’ from attacks. The attacks mostly came from critics of CSICOP - Erik Beckjord, James Moseley, George Hansen - but in this case the critics were correct. When Seckel’s deceptions finally led to the collapse of the Southern California Skeptics, he disappeared from sight (supposedly because he was dying of leukemia, or else cancer). Seckel did actually have leukemia, although his illness didn’t occur until after SCS had already collapsed. He later made a complete recovery.

Seckel surfaced again a few years later as a TED talker and a famous scholar of optical illusions, writing (and sometimes plagiarizing) books and articles, again claiming bogus degrees and affiliations. He rubbed shoulders with many famous people, and after two divorces Seckel (somehow!) married supermodel Denice D. Lewis, who previously had dated George Hamilton, Dodi Fayed, and Pierce Brosnan, among others. (The marriage only lasted a few months.) Later Seckel married Isabel Maxwell, the daughter of the billionaire media mogul (and disgraced fraudster) Robert Maxwell, who has a more famous sister named Ghislaine. Seckel became an associate of the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in 2011 organizing a science-related conference on Epstein’s (in)famous private island (although no sexual improprieties have been alleged concerning this conference). About 2011 Seckel and Isabel moved from California to France, apparently to better escape creditors and avoid testifying for their pending bankruptcy. Then in September, 2015, Isabel publicly announces that her husband Al Seckel was dead, having fallen off a cliff in France two months earlier. (Why she would wait two months to announce his death has never been explained.) However, no documentary evidence of Seckel’s reported death was then produced – although we may have something like that now.

sheaffer says most of his info comes from a tom mciver @https://undeceive.weebly.com

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/conzmoleman/status/1755335061379920270?t=7LI9Sz4wy9X1zUX5sJlMCQ&s=19

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
the last honest politician

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:

some more good ufo/epstein thread crossover here from old ufo skeptic head robert sheaffer, covering a weird dude who was an epstein orbiter (married to ghislaine's sister!) and a skeptical figure in his own right, al seckel: https://badufos.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-strange-life-and-death-of-al-seckel.html

sheaffer says most of his info comes from a tom mciver @https://undeceive.weebly.com

this is a fun read, honestly good on Al Seckel for scamming skeptic groups, those guys are stuffy nerds who deserve it.

Yessod
Mar 21, 2007
I honestly just assumed this thread was for all the different agency dudes monitoring the forums to bitch about how dumb their bosses were

kind of a cspam version of the culinary industry thread in gws

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I'm like a little bitter that the last guy to point out that feds were watching this forum was laughed at and probed but apparently it's just haha heehee common knowledge now that we've come to accept

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002
I was once questioned by air force osi over posts I made on sa so take that for what it's worth

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I was once questioned by air force osi over posts I made on sa so take that for what it's worth

FBI got me for Facebook once lol

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




dear men in black, it dont gotta be work work work. come over for dinner and we can play tekken after.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I was once questioned by air force osi over posts I made on sa so take that for what it's worth

during the iraq war there was an account on here named something like OSI Monitor who would roam the forums and yell at posters for not keeping proper infosec

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


gradenko_2000 posted:

I'm like a little bitter that the last guy to point out that feds were watching this forum was laughed at and probed but apparently it's just haha heehee common knowledge now that we've come to accept

I assume there's at least one (1) fed into whose rotations this website is included, but let's not get an overinflated sense of ourselves here

I have no idea how off-duty feds in the 21st century spend their time though

Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002

Al! posted:

during the iraq war there was an account on here named something like OSI Monitor who would roam the forums and yell at posters for not keeping proper infosec

I bet it was that fucker

Mr. Lobe posted:

I assume there's at least one (1) fed into whose rotations this website is included, but let's not get an overinflated sense of ourselves here
it's not about ego, it's about resources, and also snitches. If AFOSI knew what i posted you can bet your life SA also has eyes from the bigger, more well resourced alphabets

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
i would absolutely love to read the "Nite Crew" dossier that absolutely exists somewhere

Feral Integral
Jun 6, 2006

YOSPOS

gradenko_2000 posted:

I'm like a little bitter that the last guy to point out that feds were watching this forum was laughed at and probed but apparently it's just haha heehee common knowledge now that we've come to accept

Free cuppy tea

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Feral Integral posted:

Free cuppy tea

been saying this

One More Fat Nerd
Apr 13, 2007

Mama’s Lil’ Louie

Nap Ghost

gradenko_2000 posted:

been saying this

This mf works in a british supermarket

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Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Feral Integral posted:

Free cuppy tea

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