A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files, just in case you don’t, understandably, want anything to do with them on the already deranged social network.
404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.
“I found myself wondering whether anyone had mapped Epstein’s network in the style of LinkedIn—how many people are 1st/2nd/3rd degree connections of Jeffrey Epstein?” Christopher Finke, the creator of the tool, told 404 Media in an email. “Smarter programmers than me have already built tools to visualize that, but I couldn’t find anything that would show the overlap between my network and his.”
- Archive: http://archive.today/AIkL2
- Github: https://github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn
We need to be careful in how we view the latest batch from the files. They contain lots of names of people who were not involved in the least. Bilbo Baggins and Punxsutawney Phil are in there. Lots of celebrities are in there simply because they’re referenced in an email, while they had no contact with Epstein knowledge of what was happening.
And if we’re too aggressive in how we react to people’s names popping up in searches, it gives cover to those who were complicit.
Also, every single name that gets released is a name that Trump was ok with releasing. From my pov, it just turns it into a more effective blackmail tool. He’s not afraid of what’s in the files. If it was going to ruin him, it would have already done so.
Instead it just shows others who know they are in the files that a) he’s one of them (if they didn’t already know), b) that he can protect them, c) he isn’t protecting everyone in the files just because of point a.
Hate to be realizing this, but I think everyone who thought the release of the Epstein files would help anything got played. Just like everyone who thought the Mueller investigation would threaten his first term or result in making a second term impossible.
This release of the files always was going to be like this sure. That doesn’t mean a release of the files wouldn’t help. If they were released to a consortium of news organizations to do the redacting honestly to protect victims, and ongoing investigations is a moot point, it would free all of those people from the weight of blackmail.
At this point they are getting blackmailed from several directions simultaneously, not just Israel, the president’s people, and whomever else. Releasing the files honestly would free them, putting the organization controlled by the chief villains in charge of redacting information about themselves was never going to work.
The release of the Epstein files wasn’t about Trump. It was about getting closure for the victims.
Slavov Zizek is named… In the How To Academy newsletter Epstein has subscribed to.
And yet I checked Slovenian media and they are writing that he “is in the files”.
What a disgrace.
Yeah it’s clearly one thing to be a public persona and someone mentions your name in an email, and another thing altogether to be an Epstein correspondent. That line is being shamelessly blurred by some media
The bash 3.1-beta1 reference manual is in the Epstein files.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00315849.pdf
One of the commenters on the site did point out that it’s a defamation lawsuit waiting to happen.
Though defamation requires the claim to be both a lie, and made publicly (and have caused “legally redressable injury”, whatever that means, IANAL). The tool needs to be run locally, and specifically tells you that it’s searching by name and that others with the same name will be found in the results, and that’s why it gives the context and lists where in the files it came up.
So the tool itself most likely isn’t defamatory, but anyone that uses is better be damn sure that they have the correct person if they start publicly talking or writing about what it finds.
From a distance, it’s very hard to tell if it’s two consenting hobbits or if one is a child. It’s easy for them to find themselves on the list, poor Bilbo.
And how old even in a child hobbit? 60?
I believe they reach adulthood in their mid to late thirties. Merry and Pippin are technically in the equivalent of their late teens when they head off with Frodo in FotR
Not Punxsatawney Phil! Aside from his short rivalry with Murray over the starring role in Groundhog Day, he’s a good guy!
HE KNOWS WHAT HE DID.