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      Crappy source, but the info in this article seems legit and is a crazy read.

      Presumably Seckel met Epstein through his sort-of wife, Isabel Maxwell — the sister of alleged Epstein enabler Ghislaine Maxwell — whom he had married in 2007, while apparently still married to someone else.

      “I was never able to establish to my satisfaction that Seckel had died.” Though he didn’t devote a lot of time to the question, he continued, “I always had my suspicions that maybe he faked his own death; it would have been in character.” Others who knew Seckel also have their doubts that he’s dead and, in fact, it’s difficult to verify; authorities in France did not respond to inquiries.

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    It’s easy to see why there was so much resistance to getting these released. It’s not just Trump in there, it’s every fucker, all chatting away pleasantly even when he’d already done one jail sentence for sex trafficking. Even Noam fucking Chomsky is cosying up to him.

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      Noam fucking Chomsky

      waaaaa??

      edit: well shit, no wonder the elites allowed him to have a voice for so long

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      Chomsky

      Is it a trait of famous people being a pedophile or what?

      Maybe it explains a lot of resilient cybercrime websites about child porn I think it’s really expensive to have a forum online while a lot of actors are attacking you like cyber activists, black hat hackers, and law enforcement agencies

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    Proof, should it ever be needed, that a compete lack of understanding of punctuation and grammar should never stand in the way of your dreams of being a multi-millionaire kiddy diddler.

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    PSA, 2 security vendors on VirusTotal flag this site as phishing and 1 as suspicious. It might literally just be because it’s a Gmail clone and nothing else, but I don’t know enough to evaluate it further.

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    Another professor who has received funds from Epstein and defended him was Robert Trivers, a Rutgers University biologist who received about $40,000 from Epstein to study the link between knee symmetry and sprinting ability. Trivers questioned how bad the charges are, noting that girls mature earlier than used to be the case. “By the time they’re 14 or 15, they’re like grown women were 60 years ago, so I don’t see these acts as so heinous,” he told Reuters.

    The black bar biologist delivering that November keynote

    “miss chatting with you” indeed you fucking pervert.

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    There’s a ‘meme’ trend of local ML tinkerers messing with the Epstein files as a dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/tensonaut/EPSTEIN_FILES_20K/

    See: text embeddings https://huggingface.co/datasets/svetfm/epstein-files-nov11-25-house-post-ocr-embeddings


    Edit: Now I’m pondering making an “EpsteinGPT” finetune myself. Maybe like a 4B-14B model for the sole purpose of Epstein RAG? Or a 32B responding in the style of the Epstein email text, just because.

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      Just imagine having to explain being in possession of a handmade “EpsteinGPT” to someone 🤣🤣

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        Meme finetunes are nothing new.

        As an example, there are DPO datasets with positive/negative examples intended to train LLMs to respond politely and helpfully (as opposed to the negative response). There are some that include toxic comments plucked from the web as negative examples.

        And the immediate community thought was “…What if I reversed them?”

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          haha just imaging people showing off their collections, “here’s my Mr. Rogers chatbot, and Thomas Jefferson, and even Luffy from One Piece! And uh…oh yeah over here we have EpsteinGPT for when I, I mean for if, um…its for lulz ok?! Don’t look at me like that, where are you going?!”

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            It’s literally “this one is my fursona. This one won’t refuse BDSM, but its not as eloquent. Oh, this one is lobotimized but really creative.” I kid you not. Here is an example, and note that is one of 115 uploads from one account:

            https://huggingface.co/Mawdistical/RAWMAW-70B?not-for-all-audiences=true

            And I love that madness. It feels like the old internet. In fact, furries and horny roleplayers have made some good code contributions to the space.


            Early on, there were a few ‘character’ finetunes or more generic ones like ‘talk like a pirate’ or ‘talk only in emojiis.’ But as local models got more advanced, they got so good at adopting personas that the finetuning focused more on writing ‘style’ and storytelling than emulating specific characters. For example, one trained specifically to stick to the role of a dungeonmaster: https://huggingface.co/LatitudeGames/Nova-70B-Llama-3.3

            Or this one, where you can look at the datasets and see the anime ‘style’ they’re trying to massage in: https://huggingface.co/zerofata/GLM-4.5-Iceblink-106B-A12B

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      This is interesting. Do you have any thoughts on why someone would want to utilize the epstein data for ML? Like, what’s the point, in your opinion? Just lulz? Or, something else?

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        Lulz.

        It’s an interesting coding exercise, though. Trying to (for example) OCR all the documents, or generate a relations graph between the documents or concepts, is a great into to language modeling (which is not prompt engineering, like most seem to think).

        If you’re like a reporter or something, it’s also the obvious way to comb through the documents looking for clues to actually make headlines. I dunno what techniques they use at big outlets, though.

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      Instead of em dashes, it’s full of extra spaces before and after each period and extra period.

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        I dunno what the ‘writing style’ would end up as. The bulk of the text seems to be formatted like this:

        ...
        10. Is Epstein cooperating with federal suit against Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi
        and Matthew Tannin? Will he testify in their cases?
        
        11. Mr Epstein was deposed on this week, on Thursday. Is it true that he answered almost every
        question by invoking his Fifth Amendment rights?
        
        12. Defense attorney Brad Evans has filed a motion to freeze Mr Epstein’s assets. Has Mr.
        Epstein moved his money from the US offshore or abroad, or does he intend to, in order to
        protect his assets from possible damage claims?
        
        13. What did Mr. Epstein do during his work release program while serving time. Reports have
        said he engaged in “scientific research.” If so, what was he researching?
        ...
        
        Response
        
        "That's because it isn't, and everyone here
        (apparently save one) is rational and objective enough
        to understand that. Physical phenomena, and
        phenomena in general, are
        
        ultimately perceptual in nature and subject to
        observational replication - that's why they call
        physics an empirical science. But consciousness is
        not.
        
        Consciousness cannot be objectively, replicably
        observed. Its putative physical correlates, including
        ...
        
        Bill Clinton identified in lawsuit against his former friend and
        pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had 'regular' orgies at his Caribbean
        compound that the former president visited multiple times
        
        e The former president was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, a financier who was arrested
        in 2008 for soliciting underage prostitutes
        
        e Anew lawsuit has revealed how Clinton took multiple trips to Epstein's private island
        where he 'kept young women as sex slaves'
        
        e Clinton was also apparently friends with a woman who collected naked pictures of
        underage girls for Epstein to choose from
        
        e He hasn't cut ties with that woman, however, and invited her to Chelsea's wedding
        
        e Comes as friends now fear that if Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, all of
        their family's old scandals will be brought to the forefront
        
        e Epstein has a host of famous friends including Prince Andrew who stayed at his New
        
        York mansion AFTER his arrest
        By Daily Mail Reporter
        Published: 09:06 EST, 19 March 2014 | Updated: 21:10 EST, 5 January 2015
        

        I’d have to generate prompt/response wrappers too. But it would definitely bring up Trump and Clinton randomly, heh.

        …There are automated metrics to rank English text by reading level, ‘quality’ and such. I guess it could be filtered to most ‘interesting’ emails and reformatted.

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          Ah I misinterpreted as the most recent email dump. Like you could email back and forth with an avatar of jee

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      No it’s real. It’s basically just the ability to view the emails that were released by congress in the format of looking at the gmail website, including sorting by contact and stuff. Pretty cool

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          Check the starred emails. Fascinating.

          Edit: you can star them yourself so it’s essentially a crowd sourced list of interesting ones.

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      I have been told this is real.

      Edit:

      oh shit https://jmail.world/

      Edit{2}:

      oh shit

      The Epstein Emails Are Hinting at a Bombshell Revelation About Trump

      Even with the feds closing in on him, Epstein was seemingly auditioning for a chance to throw the president to the wolves.

      https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a69442235/epstein-emails-trump-hints/

      Edit{3}:

      This is Ghislaine Maxwells personal email address: [email protected]

      Edit{4}:

      This seems legit!

      Jessica Cadwell
      Aug 06, 2009, 9:51 AM
      Brad – In your answers to ROGS, you list Milton Center for girls as facility that Jane Doe attended
      11
      Jeffrey Epstein
      Aug 11, 2009, 3:01 PM
      Privileged - Redacted
      J
      Jessica Cadwell <████████████████████>
      toJeffrey Epstein [email protected]
      Aug 11, 2009 7:00 PM

      Privileged - Redacted

      Jessica Cadwell, CP, FRP
      Certified Paralegal
      Florida Registered Paralegal
      BURMAN CRITTON LUTTIER & COLEMAN, LLP
      515 N. Flagler Drive
      Suite #400
      West Palm Beach, FL 33401
      Tel: █████████ / Fax: █████████
      Email: ████████████████████

      Edit{5}:

      This deserves its own post. I googled “Milton Center For Girls”, check this out-

      https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article306928786.html

      “Girls confined to ‘box’ if they fought sex abuse at FL youth center, suit says”

      Of multiple employees accused of sexual abuse at a now-closed Florida juvenile justice center, a lawsuit brought by five survivors says one staffer had girls who objected to abuse, or threatened to expose it, confined to what was nicknamed the “box.” The small, cement room was used as a form of punishment at the former Milton Girls Juvenile Residential Facility in Santa Rosa County, located in the Florida Panhandle, the lawsuit says.

      Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article306928786.html#storylink=cpy
      Edit{6}:

      Yo there be some serious shit in these files my brothers and sisters in christ.

      Edit{7}:

      No shit, the Saudis are involved:

      Sultan Bin Sulayem
      Sep 03, 2009, 7:05 AM
      An interesting piece to read before you start your weekend. Guest Post by Jim Krane: Dubai, Not Obam

      Jeffrey Epstein
      toSultan Bin Sulayem
      Sep 03, 2009 11:18 AM

      she is your second biggest fan… iam the first. i sell dubai, to its detractors.

      Sultan Bin Sulayem
      Sultan Bin Sulayem

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        The whole Epstein suicide looks more and not staged every time something gets released

        Imagine what the DOJ is sleeping in and holding back

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    Epstein used other email addresses too, including jeeitunes @ gmail. Will other mailboxes be integrated to this one or will they be separated?

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      It’s fucked up, init?

      I mean, ANYWHERE you look you find shit like

      “”"

      From: J [[email protected]] Sent: 5/30/2019 9:34:38 PM To: Michael Wolff Subject: Re: maybe as a favor to trump. in exchange for yemen and iran support. . smells doesnt it? On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:33 PM Michael Wolff wrote: So MBS was paying him off? Why? Ideas? On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:29 PM J [email protected] wrote: is it a coincidence that the russian that bought the house in palm beach and knows all , is the same guy that sold a painting last year to mbs for 450 million dollars. that was only worth 1. 5m? please note

      “”"

      I wonder who that Russian is. Shouldn’t be too hard to figure it out.

      Trumps fingerprints are everywhere.

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        Dmitry Rybolovlev is the Russian oligarch who sold the painting “Salvator Mundi” to Mohammed bin Salman for $450 million in 2017. He also bought a Palm Springs mansion from Trump in 2008 for $30 million dollars over it’s appraised value. The same mansion both Trump and Epstein coveted in 2004.
        There’s an article that goes into more detail here. It’s fairly dismissive of the whole conspiracy, but I’m not so sure.

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          NO! NO NO NO!

          NO way man.

          Look, I’m an artist and art aficionado, I’m an artficionado, I’ve seen more or less all of Da Vinci’s original works. I remember the morning I saw an article about that painting being sold, “newly discovered so and so!”. Even before I looked at it alarm bells went off, SCAM. SCAM SCAM SCAM.

          And I look at the painting, and it’s a fucking travesty. There is ZERO chance Da Vinci painted that. Look at that stupid goofy fucking face. That orb. What the fuck is that? Maybe they “improved” on some student’s of his home-work and passed it off as a Da Vinci, the whole thing was such a fucking fraud from day one, and I was AMAZED nobody questioned it-

          Until they did. And surprise surprise, there was some shady shit going down, hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, the art business is such a fucking black money laundering market it’s not even funny. How do you know if something is worth $450 million? If someone paid $450 million dollars for it. Pretty inflation safe.

          Jesus christ, I should write an article about that alone.

          Thanks for bringing my attention to the matter hahahah!

          Edit: Here’s something to think about- if they had pulled off the Paris heist and gotten away, who would be the buyer of that merch?