James Cornman
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James Cornman
@jizaymes
technology entrepreneur, Internet architect, maker of music, and all around awesome dude. Building @Gozunga
Sioux Falls, SD Katılım Temmuz 2008
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Well so much for that. Already lost. The system is utterly fucked and broken. @stripe
48-page evidence package. Easy to read, Table of contents, filled with visuals (a junior bank employee could easily understand everything).
The customer used the product for 49 days, was logged in 13 hours before filing the chargeback, then canceled the subscription 5 hours after the dispute was already filed. *Technically they are still ACTIVE.
Here's everything we submitted:
PAYMENT INTEGRITY
• AVS postal-code check: PASS
• CVC check: PASS
• Stripe Radar score: Normal (22 / low risk)
• Auth success rate on customer email: 100%
• Card brand, last-4, fingerprint, exp, billing ZIP all confirmed by issuer
CUSTOMER USE POST-CHARGE
• 35 distinct active days in 49 days
• 393 authenticated session-refresh events
• 17 long-form SEO articles generated
• 18 AI images generated
• 3 WordPress sites configured (admin credentials added)
• 4 Google accounts authenticated via OAuth
• Customer added their own paid OpenAI API key (BYOK)
• 4 team members added
TIMING
• 49 days between charge and dispute
• Logged into the dashboard 13 hours BEFORE filing the chargeback
• Canceled the subscription 5 hours AFTER the dispute was filed
INDEPENDENT IP CORROBORATION
• Stripe captured IP at checkout: Manchester, UK
• Microsoft Clarity captured 22 of 38 sessions over 60 days: also Manchester, UK
• Two unrelated 3rd parties placing the same person in the same city across payment + 60 days of authenticated use
THE KICKER - THE CUSTOMER'S OWN PUBLIC WEBSITE CURRENTLY DEPENDS ON OUR PRIVATE CDN
• Articles generated on his account are LIVE on his own public WordPress sites
• Page source contains img tags pointing INSIDE our private R2 bucket
• Last-Modified headers on those CDN files match the EXACT minute his account generated them
• Currently fetched by every visitor to his website
CRYPTOGRAPHIC IDENTITY CHAIN (Automattic / Gravatar)
• Every WordPress author avatar = SHA-256(author email)
• 3 of his sites, 3 perfect SHA-256 matches against the gmail addresses in our DB
• Automattic has no relationship with us, the customer, or the bank
• Effectively unforgeable email-to-WP-admin binding
DOMAIN OWNERSHIP (third-party attestation)
• Google Search Console verified ownership on 4 separate domains
• Public WHOIS: 2 of his domains registered 9 SECONDS APART through the same registrar account
• Both registered 5 MONTHS BEFORE he bought our subscription
• Pre-existing content business, not a stolen-card test
VISA CE 3.0 ELIGIBLE
• Same payment credential had a $0.00 trial-start invoice marked "paid" 7 days before the disputed charge
• Same customer, email, payment method, subscription
• Exactly the prior-undisputed-transaction proof Visa CE 3.0 requires
The chargeback dispute system is broken.

Chris Riley@LCSlates
48 pages, 2hrs later, fingers crossed.
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@birch_js First they will grep for c.
Then they will grep for “c\.”
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Yeah good luck searching for "c" in your codebase a month from now
Jamon@jamonholmgren
Unpopular opinion: 1- or 2-letter variable names in focused, obvious contexts are totally fine.
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@ferron_web You see, Zig is the bottom bun and Rust is now the top..
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@Skeptic_George What did you do for birthing person day this past Sunday?
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WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam has officially launched two cannabis product lines: RVD420 (THC) and DAM GOOD CBD.
@TherealRVD: "Creating these products for other cannabis enthusiasts is very important to me. THC and CBD products have been part of my routine for decades and instrumental to my success. Authenticity, quality, and consistency are all things that I stand for."
RVD420 launches across 7 U.S. markets via a national retail partner. DAM GOOD CBD launches nationally in June 2026. RVD420.com | DAMGOODCBD.com

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@RobertONeill31 Those types of color clashes were kinda common in the 90s
Shout out to Rockapella from the Carmen Sandiego tv show

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@AlecLace Totally sounds like a victim of a crime, and definitely not some scammer.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT OMG CLAUDE JUST CRACKED THIS SHIT, THANK YOU @AnthropicAI THANK YOU @DarioAmodei NAMING MY KID AFTER YOU 😍
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🍜@cprkrn
My wallet with my locked btc from 9 years ago lol 😭😭😭 blockchair.com/bitcoin/addres…
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Silicon Valley-based company Tensor Auto claims their Robocar will be the first L4 autonomous vehicle commercially available for consumers in 2026. It costs ~$200,000.
The vehicle has over 100 sensors:
• 37 cameras
• 5 LiDARs
• 11 radar units
• 22 microphones
• 10 ultrasonics
• 8 water level sensors and more
The steering wheel and pedals fold out if you want to drive manually.
You could probably buy 6+ Tesla Cybercabs for the price of one of these.



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@ChristianLempa The whole bootstrapping process of onboarding new servers with MaaS + netbox + ansible has saved me a lot of time
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Do you automate the boring stuff?
Ansible, scripts, Terraform, GitOps - what actually saved you the most time?
#automation #homelab #devops
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We're thrilled to partner with @Google on something we've been building with them - Googlebook.
Premium, powerful devices designed for Intelligence. We can't wait to get it into your hands this fall.
Learn more at ms.spr.ly/6013vuzjt
#Googlebook #NEXT #Intel

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