Throwaway in case this is assumed to be politcally motivated.
I spent some time organizing the Eptstein files to make transparency a little clearer. I need to tighten the data for organizations and people a bit more, but hopeful this is helpful in research in the interim.
Would be nice if the messages are formatted with just date, sender and message and the metadata is hidden in a popup or whatever.
Unfortunately it's several thousand raw text files, and determining a single relevant date, sender and message for each file is a bit more complex than I had time for this week. Next week we'll make the files more readable, ingest & display the images, amongst other usabillity improvements.
The stuff I am coming across in here is WILD.
If you could find a way to make some of this more easily searchable/readable/etc. (Minimize headings/convert links/fix line breaks etc)
BTW, the chat logs of other parties anonymous, but you can clearly tell these are with Steve Bannon:
https://searchepsteinfiles.com/file/text/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025... https://searchepsteinfiles.com/file/text/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027...
Yep, I've had a snoot-full of this project this week - but next week I'll start pulling in the images and making improvements. Thank you for the feedback!
The stuff at https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-rele... ?
Essentially we are helping them brain hack the masses into accepting the status quo.
Slow drip and fight the quick news cycle forgetfulness by taking a front page spot for each drop.
This week: not answering questions. Three weeks time: it’s old news.
This pattern was used particularly effectively to escape scrutiny throughout Trump 1.
But don’t be blind to how effectively that strategy works.
https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/search?collecti...
https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?c...
As usual with Trump, nobody who cared had any power, and nobody who had any power cared. I expect that's how it'll play out this time... just another missed swing at the mad king.
It doesn’t feel like it because with each fracturing off of the moderate end of MAGA (insofar as that exists), the core gets more committed, more extreme, and therefore more vocal.
This is on its way to being a very small but extreme group of citizens and a fairly large and extreme group of politicians (since backing up isn’t as easy as removing a yard sign and avoiding the topic in social engagements).
But it's really just independent people here and there, and mostly framed around some (typically partisan) polemic. Really leaves me scratching my head.
And more!
I also wouldn't be surprised if Trump's order to open an investigation into Democrats named in the documents, in a blatantly-transparent attempt to get them back under seal, turns out to be a bridge too far. At some point, maybe even the most diehard MAGAs will realize that he's insulting their intelligence.
Meanwhile, reports say that he has been cowering in the White House all day, blasting show tunes at high volume, as he is apparently wont to do when stressed.
Someone get shazam on this! I need a playlist.
> ______ and husband, NASCAR driver Brian Vickers, arrive on the red carpet at the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.
Gee, I wonder who that could be without a difficult investigation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/unsubstantiated-trump-child-rape-... seems a surprisingly good article about it, despite it being Yahoo.
I imagine it's still possible that it really happened, but it seems more likely that it was false
The court documents referencing Johnson were filed in California and New York but were dismissed or withdrawn due to lack of credibility and proper legal standing. The plaintiff provided false contact information, including the address of a foreclosed home, and repeatedly failed to appear for scheduled press conferences despite promises to do so.
The claims were tied to Norm Lubow, a former producer for "The Jerry Springer Show," who used the pseudonym Al Taylor to promote the allegations.
Lubow admitted to Snopes in 2024 that he was behind the Al Taylor persona and had helped draft the initial lawsuit and publicize the claims, though he maintained the story was true.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3914012/Troubled-wo...
Ultimately Lubow recruited a patent lawyer to run the case who also apparently never met her. Then a real lawyer set up a press conference for her. This was the first time any journalist got to meet her in person - and it was the Daily Mail. They reported it was all made up and the case and “Katie Johnson” disappeared forever.
But still it keeps coming up again and again, because people really want to believe their political enemies are evil. I guess it’s no different than the conspiracy theories Clinton was killing people. I just hope we as a country get better.
https://searchepsteinfiles.com/file/text/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015...
“James Tagg, a tech entrepreneur, wanted to found a Penrose Institute in San Diego to pursue the consciousness theories. Penrose went along with the plan and Tagg set about fundraising. At a meeting of consciousness aficionados in 2017, Penrose was told there was someone who wanted to talk to him who might be willing to put big money into the institute. This turned out to be Jeffrey Epstein, who had for some time financed initiatives in physics as well as in mind and brain research. ‘I was sitting there talking to Jeffrey Epstein and he was asking me about this institute,’ Penrose told Barss. ‘Now I didn’t really know anything about him. He said he had these parties. He was wondering whether I’d be interested to go to New York. He could invite Woody Allen.’ Penrose’s colleagues told him that Epstein was a convicted sex offender; Penrose recommended to Epstein that he support a colleague of his, a female physicist, but decided to skip the party.”
Could this be prompt injection or something that snuck an ai book in?
I made an attempt at something similar, but putting it online was a bit beyond what I know how to do.
garciasn•2mo ago
This is some sort of searchable index that reminds me a lot of what the web was like prior to Google; the Altavista days. It's just a jumble of poorly formatted text that isn't really contextually aware and is largely useless for the volume of textual documents.
Then there's the whole 'I landed on an email that offers the text of an email that, I assume, the pertinent information is in the attachment listed, of which I cannot easily access.
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I'd be more interested to see how you enhance this in v2.
baby_souffle•2mo ago
I did a quick spot check and the lack of _clear_ date field is going to make contextualizing a bit trickier. It looks like most of the `email` have them but other types like `report` may have an unknown "first, created/circulated internally" date and a broader "the public can see it" date.
Nevertheless, it's only a matter of time before this gets loaded into a graph DB so the context becomes more apparent similar to what the journalists did for the panama papers.
searchepstein•2mo ago
Marked improvements incoming...