You can understand why Paul Weiss rolled over so easy for Trump. Karp and others were active participants in a sex trafficking ring, if not as actual rapists at least as facilitators for other members of their criminal organization to more effectively exploit their victims.

Another interesting detail, Epstein was already being protected before he was even arrested:

Reiter explained that he was upset when the state attorney, Barry Krischer, rebuffed police efforts to arrest Epstein in 2006. After Krischer declined to prosecute, Reiter took the unusual step of writing a later asking Krischer to recuse himself from the case. When Krischer refused, Reiter then took the case to the FBI.

Random super markets can license access to their data. I could easily imagine a company like Palantir or Flock leveraging systems like these in their government contracting. Whether or not these things are privately owned by creepy corporations or under the direct control of a government agency feels like a distinction without a difference, either way the infrastructure of totalitarianism is being constructed around us with these technologies.

This is how crime reporting in the US works too. There isn’t a connection really between crime rates and news reporting, the news media broadly choose to focus on certain types of crimes because they serve the interests of their owners and/or are popular with their audiences. There’s decades of polling showing Americans largely have never had any idea what the actual risks are of crime.

They skipped the weirdest one, the VC formerly known as Masha Drokova.

The descriptions I’ve seen said there are at least 40 nude pictures of Epstein victims and that some of the subjects do appear to potentially be teenagers. It sounds like the DOJ released CSAM, yes.

There isn’t really any reason to think the Fediverse won’t be used for AI training, if it isn’t already. Everything is in the open here, it’s easy enough to scrape all the data.

Eventually the reddit thread would probably balance out, and incorrect information should get downvoted and replaced by corrections from people who know better.

This seems optimistic.

I have a Plex server guy. He is one of my oldest and best friends although we don’t get to hang out much anymore. I know he has other friends he shares the Plex server with but I have no idea who or how many. I’ve been using it since Plex was new, not sure how long exactly but more than a decade. I occasionally buy him nice hard drives because the library is ridiculously huge and always growing. As someone who loves weird and obscure shit, it’s my favorite streaming service by far and he’s my hero for running it.

This is not correct. You can use Windows without a Microsoft account.

I upvote things I disagree with if they contribute to the discourse in some way.

I set alarms and/or calendar reminders as a coping mechanism. I don’t always do the thing when the time comes but it at least gets forced back into my head over and over again until I eventually do it. My life has gone a lot smoother since I started doing this.

The Republican party has not been a traditional political party in quite awhile now, Trumpism has fully transformed it into a dangerous cult. Continued affiliation with the Republican party in the current political context is plenty of evidence to know someone is deeply biased and poses a threat the rule of the law.

No. They have access to a variety of things (e.g. Epstein’s estate provided them with a bunch of his emails) but they just voted to force the DOJ to release the Epstein files, it has not happened yet.

I don’t understand this line of thinking. The Epstein files are the product of criminal investigations. The DOJ has the files and so anyone who has seen them thus far would be authorized to access them by the DOJ (primarily FBI agents and DOJ lawyers). There isn’t any scenario where people like that would be obligated to publicly report incriminating information in the Epstein files. That’s exactly why the DOJ created the Epstein files, to gather incriminating information that can potentially be used in court by Federal prosecutors. If you are under the impression that Democratic politicians have access to the Epstein files, that is not correct.

Yes, I only use it via syncthing-fork so this is a distinction without a difference to me.

Not sure if I qualify as extra paranoid but this whole situation feels very sketchy and has me reconsidering my use of syncthing. Making significant changes like this without any explanation is extremely bad practice.

How old is the cat? It’s only 1 ear or both ears?

I’m disappointed in the screens they used but it unfortunately makes sense that 4k microOLED isn’t feasible. I wish the new controllers supported Lighthouse tracking too. If the new controllers really are proprietary to just this single HMD that’s a big failure in my opinion.

He once owned an iron magnet which got wet and then rusted? That is probably still too logical for him but it’s the only kind of plausible chain of thought I can come up with.