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A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Given how strongly he was against it, this is pretty clearly a ploy. He could release them unilaterally if he hadn't just reopened the investigation which he himself shut down.

Yeah I have not a clue what is going on behind the scenes or why the previous admin did not release them.

They were sealed at the time, and the admin was following the law.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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This is the best rendition I've seen so far. The Bill Clinton entity is interesting. > 2009: Bill Clinton discontinued association with Jeffrey Epstein > 2010: Jeffrey Epstein provided flights on jets to Bill Clinton > 2010-2011: Jeffrey Epstein traveled via private aircraft with Bill Clinton > 2011: Ghislaine Maxwell piloted helicopter for Bill Clinton > 2014: Bill Clinton alleged presence at sex parties > 2015: Bil…

This obviously the correct lens but note that the 2008 plea deal was so neutered by the time of settlement it made it somewhat easy to stay friends with him. This is of course ontop of the 2006 Florida prostitution charge though.

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Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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This obviously the correct lens but note that the 2008 plea deal was so neutered by the time of settlement it made it somewhat easy to stay friends with him. This is of course ontop of the 2006 Florida prostitution charge though.

Especially when Epstein was paying off journalists at the NYT and intimidating other outlets. But point being those people that were friends with him had to know. Whether it was socially acceptable by the elite because the public wasn't aware isn't very relevant.

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Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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> Wasn't very good at discontinuing the relationship it seems. Keep in mind that those summaries are AI-generated. There's gonna be a lot of confabulating in there.

Yes, but the the summaries generated are referenced with sources. Care to dispute the summaries using the sources?

I read the gp as saying you should just check the sources, not defending.

I mean here's a weird example. Searching Donald Trump there's the headline

  (1994-06 Wexner Mansion NYC) 
  Donald Trump forced to perform oral sex and physically abused 13-year-old female plaintiff and 12-year-old female. 
Like that sounds weird... DT forced to rape? That doesn't make sense to me. The longer summary reads

  A declaration from Tiffany Doe (pseudonym) testifying that she witnessed Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump sexually abuse a 13-year-old girl and other minors during parties from 1990-2000 in New York City. 
It references House Oversight 025937. The actual document looks much more like that summary. Here's a snippet

  7. It was at these series of parties that I personally witnessed the Plaintiff being forced to perform various sexual acts with Donald J. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old.
It gets worse so if you want to look further it's Case 1:16-cv-04642 Document 1-2 Filed 06/20/16 Page 1 of 2.

So far the paragraph summaries seem to be accurate in my poking around but the headlines are mixing ordering and have other weird errors like this. Anyways, always good to check when things are as serious as this...

Here's the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KzAOYCjxwEhnyrsiBpKM8OGBJp...

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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This is the best rendition I've seen so far. The Bill Clinton entity is interesting. > 2009: Bill Clinton discontinued association with Jeffrey Epstein > 2010: Jeffrey Epstein provided flights on jets to Bill Clinton > 2010-2011: Jeffrey Epstein traveled via private aircraft with Bill Clinton > 2011: Ghislaine Maxwell piloted helicopter for Bill Clinton > 2014: Bill Clinton alleged presence at sex parties > 2015: Bil…

> The Bill Clinton entity is interesting.

Not really. After Epstein got convicted in 2008, he set about trying to rehabilitate his image, to be seen as a philanthropist, a patron of science, and (perversely) a supporter of women and girls. He hired reputation management consultants to help carry out the project, with one of the models they used being Mike Milken (of Drexel infamy), who ultimately secured a pardon from Trump. A lot of prominent people, knowingly or not, served as "useful idiots" in this project, often due to financial incentives that were not wholly selfish. For example, the MIT and Harvard scientists whose labs and research he funded, and who visited his island for science-themed retreats. Clinton was probably another of Epstein's useful idiots, being lured in through his Clinton Global Initiative and the promise that Epstein, with his ample wealth, could help greatly expand it.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

#106
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We're going to send people to jail based purely on hearsay from Epstein or his affiliates?

What about... investigations...

If the evidence is strong enough, sure. But as much as I like a "the elites are pedophiles" witchhunt, given that the Biden administration sat on it, it's probably safe to conclude the evidence isn't great. The Trump administration is trying to get another wack at it, but given their recent history of investigations, it's probably safe to conclude that's purely politically motivated than some cold case that got cracked.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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> Wasn't very good at discontinuing the relationship it seems. Keep in mind that those summaries are AI-generated. There's gonna be a lot of confabulating in there.

Yes, but the the summaries generated are referenced with sources. Care to dispute the summaries using the sources?

Confabulators gonna confabulate.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

#108
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Why are they all moving, what does the time axis represent?

>A force-directed graph is a technique for visualizing networks where nodes are treated like physical objects with forces acting between them to create a stable arrangement. Attractive forces (like springs) pull connected nodes together, while repulsive forces (like electric charges) push all nodes apart, resulting in a layout where connected nodes are closer and unconnected nodes are more separated https://observabl…

I think it would be better and faster if the website calculated the positions of the nodes in the background (with a good enough limit of iterations), and then showed the result. Animating 4k nodes and 25k edges (15k by default) is a waste of CPU and is laggy even on my high-end CPU. But maybe the author was limited by the tools used.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Well for one those other people are not the current president of the most powerful country in the world. But sure, lock all of them up, just don't ignore a few because they are too powerful.

Sure. What evidence would you like to use to lock Trump up? Point to an email in this dump or anything else. It's clear as day Trump cut ties when he found out who he was and was against him. Not so much for others.

  > It's clear as day Trump cut ties when he found out who he was and was against him.
Really? I'm very much under the impression that Trump knew exactly who Epstein was.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45961278

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

#110

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Well for one those other people are not the current president of the most powerful country in the world. But sure, lock all of them up, just don't ignore a few because they are too powerful.

It’s been wild to see people subsume not defending child rapists to their partisan identity. I’m still convinced it’s a minority of loud voices online and on social media.

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