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The weirdest part is it says Epstein was "found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter." That just doesn't seem like the words you'd use to describe a hanging suicide. (Would you really write that the dangling body was "found unresponsive...")
Another oddity is if you look at photos of the body he was strangled by a narrow thing like a wire, but the sheets wrapped around his neck were not like that at all, and the beds were too low. It seems pretty clear someone strangled him with something like a wire then put the sheets around and hung him up as best they could.
>Thomas told investigators he discovered Epstein in his cell shortly after 6:30 a.m. on Aug.10 and that he "ripped" Epstein down from the hanging position.
>Investigators asked what happened to the noose.
>"I don't recall taking the noose off. I really don't," he replied. "I don't recall taking the thing from around his neck."
>Noel, who remained standing at the cell entrance, told investigators she saw Thomas lower Epstein to the floor but did not see a noose around his neck.
>The noose Epstein allegedly used has never been definitively identified. According to the inspector general's report, a noose collected at the scene was later determined not to be the ligature used in Epstein's death.
I think a fun thought experiment is, "If this is indeed a cover up and he's still alive, how would you find where is currently is?" If he's still dead, I think finding the truth might still be valuable for historical and closure purposes, but not as valuable as the "still alive" scenario.
I think "he was murdered by agents of the state before he could reveal anything damaging to the ruling class" is more likely than "he faked his own death and lives on an island somewhere".
It seems hard to square that with the fact of the files being released, or indeed of the FBI being able to obtain files in the first place. You'd have to suppose that "the ruling class" expected/expects to be able to tank vast hordes of deeply obsessed Internet randoms poring through all that data, but not be able to tank Epstein himself speaking publicly.
On the other hand, as far as I can recall, nothing significant happened after the Panama Papers, so.
Could be spook speak — conveniently omitting that he was (perhaps) made to be unresponsive by one conspirator; then stating that he was found unresponsive by another; then omitting that he was (perhaps) killed while unresponsive (if not before); and then stating that he was pronounced dead.
Perens had accepted a position as senior Linux/Open Source Global Strategist for Hewlett-Packard, which he describes as leaving Apple “to work on Open Source. So I asked Steve: ‘You still don’t believe in this Linux stuff, do you?'” And Perens still remembers how Steve Jobs had responded.
“I’ve had a lot to do with building two of the world’s three great operating systems” — which Jobs considered to be NeXT OS, MacOS and Windows. “‘And it took a billion-dollar lab to make each one. So no, I don’t think you can do this.'”
Perens says he later "won that argument" when Jobs stood onstage in front of a slide that said ‘Open Source: We Think It’s Great!’ as he introduced the Safari browser."
That's interesting!
However I would argue Jobs sadly won that argument, as there really didn't come any open source os for neither phones or major push on PCs in the almost 30 years since that exchange.
While yes some software have come in that format, it took the big 3 to push the server Linux based clouds, Google to push it on phone, tablets and laptops and now Steam to make a push for the average gamer.
This is not to discredit the work being done outside those lab's which very much build on the work for free or by foundations, however the first versions just don't capture a majority of the available markets which the OSes Jobs mention very much did and the others by the billion dollar labs since.
I wrote a blog post where I'd transcribed a conversation with a non-native speaker. Someone on Reddit was convinced the mangled syntax of the written-out words meant it must be AI-generated. (I'd also used some emdashes...)
I think the real problem is people being sure they can correctly identify AI (while they're actually just guessing wrong). Honestly, I do appreciate the efforts to weed out AI-generated content. Maybe someday we'll come up with more fool-proof detectors.
In the mean time, those weren't meaningful consequences for me. But one of the big newspapers ran an article about college students wrongfully accused of using AI, and then facing academic discipline for cheating.
It's mostly about AGI predictions, but it made the point that talking about "inevitability" of AI apocalypses ultimately moves resources to AI companies.
That said, I'm all in favor of tech companies offering useful retraining to the masses. (It's just that I've always seen predictions that AI will also create jobs, so I'm not ready to concede that mass displacements are inevitable...)
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