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Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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At this point you're taking a piss, this is not a honest discussion stance. Judges themselves complained about their own orders being ivolated/ignored. Repeatedly.

> you're taking a piss

"You are taking a piss" -- you are currently urinating.

"You are taking the piss" -- you are mocking me or this.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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I mean, the internet is finding all her mistakes for her. She is actually doing alright with this. Crowdsource everything, fix the mistakes. lol.

This would be funnier if it wasn’t child porn being unredacted by our government

If you think the child porn is the worst part of this mess, I’ve got news for you.

We’d all be lucky if it was just distributing child porn.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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This would be funnier if it wasn’t child porn being unredacted by our government

Weren’t. Subjunctive mood.

Language is whatever people think it is, and "it wasn't" has plurality agreement which "it weren't" does not

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

#154

Nerdsnipe confirmed :) Claude Opus came up with this script: https://pastebin.com/ntE50PkZ It produces a somewhat-readable PDF (first page at least) with this text output: https://pastebin.com/SADsJZHd (I used the cleaned output at https://pastebin.com/UXRAJdKJ mentioned in a comment by Joe on the blog page)

This is cool!

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Every second of my political consciousness in the United States has been acutely tinged with the awareness that a bunch of people, across most of the political spectrum live in a constant state of denial. Denial of personal responsibility or culpability. Denial of cognitive dissonance. Denial of any distinct, self-informed morals. Denial of anything but a fear of others. Denial of anything that makes them fearful or…

>and a distraction from class consciousness

As a non american looking in I feel like that applies to the other side as well and is how you ended up here.

Having paid a bit of attention during the election seeing bernie and trump at least in terms of rethoric more in line with eachother on the same trade agreements, migration, etc whilst also both outperforming Hillary in the same swing states, etc is not some coincidence.

And given that you live in a 2 party state it's always going to swing at some point eventually. No matter how depraved someone like trump is. If the next one is just as bad and they sit it out long enough they will get their turn.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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At this point you're taking a piss, this is not a honest discussion stance. Judges themselves complained about their own orders being ivolated/ignored. Repeatedly.

If someone violates a court order don’t they get arrested?? Can’t the judge pronounce the perpetrators should be arrested instead of just complaining?

This is exactly the breakdown of the system that people are sounding the alarm about.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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As noted above: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ38/pdf/PLAW-... : the Attorney General was to have produced the entirety of the Epstein files, with very narrowly-enumerated redactions, in December. She has not done so. Furthermore, there are numerous allegations that the documents that have been released contain CSAM, which (referencing the PDF above) may fall afoul of 18 U.S.C. 2252–2252A. In additio…

Allegations aren't evidence. Has the Administration actually been found guilty of violating the law - if that is even possible.

> Has the Administration actually been found guilty of violating the law - if that is even possible.

Obviously administrations can violate the law. Otherwise this is just an autocracy with term limits.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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On one hand, the DOJ gets shit because it was taking too long to produce the documents, and then on another, they get shit because there are mistakes in the redacting because there are 3 million pages of documents.

It really doesn’t matter which foot you use to step on your own dick. This could not have been more mishandled if they gave it to an actual snake.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Honestly, this is something that should've been kept private, until each and every single one of the files is out in the open. Sure, mistakes are being made, but if you blast them onto the internet, they WILL eventually get fixed. Cool article, however.

Won't that entire DOJ archive already be downloaded for backup by several people? If I'd be a journalist working on those files, this is the very first thing I would do as soon as those files were published. Just to make sure you have the originals before DOJ can start adding more redactions.

Re: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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Typing 76 pages is easy when it's words in a language you understand. WPM is going to be incredibly slow when you actually have to read every character. On top of that, no spaces and no spellcheck so hopefully you didn't miss a character.

Seems like a job for an LLM

Quite the opposite if you want to trust the results
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