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I think some of the released documents included images of victims, which where redacted. So it's not necessarily malicious removals
If we're assuming they didn't leave victims unredacted on purpose
I found this part interesting: There are also other documents that appear to simulate a scanned document but completely lack the “real-world noise” expected with physical paper-based workflows. The much crisper images appear almost perfect without random artifacts or background noise, and with the exact same amount of image skew across multiple pages. Thanks to the borders around each page of text, page skew can easi…
Very interesting. That document in particular seems to be an interview of A. Acosta by the DoJ from 2019. But what reason would the FBI have for pretending it's a scanned document, if it is genuine? Perhaps there's some aspect of Epstein's deal with Acosta that they'd rather not reveal to the public? https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%207/EFTA000092...
A bit off-topic, but I find it kinda funny that the "Decline" button on the cookie popup on this page is labled "Continue without consent".
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I'm pretty sure Epstein tried to meet with moot at least once: https://www.jmail.world/search?q=chris+poole
He met with moot ("he is sensitive, be gentile", search on jmail), and within a few days the /pol/ board got created, starting a culture war in the US, leading to Trump getting elected president. Absolutely nuts.
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It would've existed regardless of internet memes, just under a different and similarly obnoxious name.
You actually think if we replayed society and magically shut off internet memes it would have played out the exact same but under a different name?
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Just to substantiate this a bit: I remember a gleeful consensus in certain circles being that /pol/ and /r/the_donald had "memed Trump into the White House". It's much more complicated than that, but there's certainly an element of truth there.
Then Reddit and almost all of social media went on to purge trump and pro trump content. The Donald was banned. Trump deplatformed across social media.
Interesting, there are a handful of PDFs in the drop that appear to be an email with a Base64 encoded attachment—inline. OCR is so bad of course that decoding the Base64 seems futile without a lot of effort. Example: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02609... (More mentioned here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qu9az2/theres_unr... )
Would a few byte errors break a binary so much as to make it undecodable ?
I found this part interesting: There are also other documents that appear to simulate a scanned document but completely lack the “real-world noise” expected with physical paper-based workflows. The much crisper images appear almost perfect without random artifacts or background noise, and with the exact same amount of image skew across multiple pages. Thanks to the borders around each page of text, page skew can easi…
GNOME Desktop users can put this in a Bash script in ~/.local/share/nautilus/ for more convincing looking fake PDF scans, accessible from your right-click menu. I do not recall where I copied it from originally to give credit so thanks, random internet person (probably on Stack Exchange). It works perfectly. ROTATION=$(shuf -n 1 -e '-' '')$(shuf -n 1 -e $(seq 0.05 .5)) for pdf in "$@"; do magick -density 150 $pdf \ -…
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Reddit is also removing and shadowbannig such posts, but there's a community on https://lemmy.world/post/42440468
What interest would Reddit have in suppressing the backup of official, public, government document releases?
What would be more interesting: His Bank accounts. Who paid him? Who did get paid?