• tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Edit > Find > Replace

    F: Trump R: BIDEN!!!

    Result: Donald BIDEN!!! is the dog that hasn’t barked.

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      He’s also friends with Captain Fingerpaint.

      He works with Sergeant Play-Dough under the watchful eyes of General glue eater.

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
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    The bill requires the justice department deliver a report on what was redacted including a list of names.

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    Why are we trusting this guy again, though? Like I’m sure if they can be scrubbed they will be but seriously? Look at the fucking source man.

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    So the Democrats will get better by filtering and the Republicans will stay bad. Brilliant strategy to get the Dems back in power.

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      I haven’t seen anyone talk about how that’s only a win for the evidence tamperers if there are no clean copies in the hands of other actors - and it’s absurd to imagine there’s not. All they’ve done is put themselves in the power of another (likely to be a state actor), and probably one they were already vulnerable to, if I’m any guess.

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    One thing I don’t get about this whole Epstein files thing - there are multiple people who have already had access to all of them for quite a while, including many democrats, right? If there were anything incriminating in them, wouldn’t they be required by law to report it and otherwise incriminate themselves? Where I come from there are certain crimes for which you are required to do so and I’m pretty sure human trafficking and abuse of minors falls into that category. Is that not the case in the US?

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      I am not a lawyer and I do not work in one of the fields I’m about to mention, so this is just what I’m assuming based on things I’ve pieced together from articles and conversions I’ve had over the years, I might be completely wrong idk.

      Afaik, there’s no law requiring a regular person to report a crime they’re aware of. There’s crimes I personally would report if I knew happened, but other types of crimes that I absolutely would not ever report because I’m morally/ethically opposed to that law existing. I don’t think I could get in trouble for that.

      In the us, there are professions where the people in them are considered “mandatory reporters”. Teachers, CPS people, daycare workers, stuff like that. People in those fields will absolutely be charged if they don’t report a crime that requires mandatory reporting. I don’t think all crimes fall under that umbrella either though, I think it’s more just crimes against children etc. Like I’ve shared my media server with a person who is a mandatory reporter, but they’ve never reported me for distribution of copyrighted materials, and I’ve done drugs with another mandatory reporter and they didn’t report me for eating a bunch of mdma like a degenerate raver.

      So I don’t think people in Congress are mandatory reporters, but if they are the crimes at the heart of the Epstein files would definitely be the kind that have to be reported. Also if they’re being briefed in closed door sessions on classified materials, obviously the classification handling procedures would supersede the mandatory reporting requirements. I think, that’s actually an interesting question, is there someone with clearance mandatory reporters can report to if they’re coming across reportable stuff in classified materials? Idk.

      Hopefully someone comes along who knows a bit more than me about this stuff.

    • ultranaut@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        If you are under the impression that Democratic politicians have access to the Epstein files, that is not correct.

        I was under that impression, yes, weren’t they given access some time ago? Seems like I was wrong, thanks for the info!

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          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.

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          This is the release of the files from the oversight committee. Yes, it’s legit, lol. It depends on what committee is releasing what.

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          Presidential use of autopen-type devices goes back hundreds of years:

          https://www.shapell.org/behind-the-scenes/the-robot-pen/

          The first president to use the autopen extensively was Thomas Jefferson. … Since Jefferson, various US presidents have made use of the autopen; some were guarded about it while others were more open about its use. Whereas once the official White House position was to deny the existence or usage of the autopen, today its existence is more of an open secret.

          Harry Truman was rumored to make use of the device; Gerald Ford was open about his utilization of the autopen, but it was Lyndon B. Johnson who blew the doors off the entire affair by allowing the device to be photographed in the White House, appearing on the cover of The National Enquirer with the article “The Robot That Sits in for the President.”

          John F. Kennedy was so dependent on the autopen, that he became the subject of a book entitled The Robot That Helped to Make a President.

          But sure, the biggest political scandal of all time is not putting a Russia-compromised 34-times convicted felon and serial pedophile rapist who aims to turn the USA into a fascist autocracy into the presidency twice, but when Biden used a machine (as Trump also does) to sign things.

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        Thanks for sharing this.

        I’ve been running OCR on the images folder of the files since last week and just reached out to the creator to see if they want the data I’ve processed. Right now that entire graph is ONLY the “text” portion of the dump. There are 26k images, which are mostly pictures of emails and other documents. I’m like 80% through processing them (although I’ve had some hiccups in the past 24 hours).

        https://codeberg.org/sillyhonu/Image_OCR_Processing_Epstein

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          Whoa, I hope they’re interested. I didn’t realize the pics info wasn’t included. Thanks for doing all that work. I looked through some of it and there’s a ton there.

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            Yeah its ridiculous how much is in there. I’m pulling their current repo to see how they are building their DB so if they don’t get back to me, I can at least combine the two databases.

            And if any one reading this wants a copy of what I’ve processed so far, I’m more than happy to share.

            But it looks to me like they dropped a couple hundred on just processing those text files. It would be north of 2.5k additional to process the data I’m creating.

            That being said, mine only goes as far as extracting the contents and creating a sha256 hash to keep track of the documents themselves/ document tampering. It doesn’t take the next step to extract names, locations, dates, etc…

            I’m working that out now but it seems like the way to do this would be so it fits into their DB seamlessly.

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            Its phenomenal. I have found a few places where it falls down, and its usually when the text is incredibly small. You can see its being down sampled before it gets handed off to the model. It falls down on like, one example I found, some bank disclosure documentation from bank of america:

            It just came out as all I’s and o’s.

            For the emails, book text, letters, etc… I genuinely haven’t found a place it didn’t work correctly as I’ve been spot checking the output.

            If you have colab you can just try the script I put up. All you need to do to have it run is to book mark the house oversite committee google drive folder to your local google drive.

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      He approved them because they are now part of an active investigation he asked Bondi to open last week. Can’t release investigation evidence to the public

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    The redacting has already occurred when Trump tasked the Justice Department with it, now it’s in too many hands to be edited by one person. Senate committees and judges. The redacting that did happen was obviously not very thorough or else they were busy erasing really bad shit. Don’t look for the guys Trump hired to have been very good at their jobs.

    Trump’s actually weak for once, this is one of several spears in his soft disgusting underbelly. Redistricting is not looking good all of a sudden, Texas’s map was rejected but California’s might yet stand, oops! Self inflicted wound there. So now he’s suddenly being perceived as a lame duck because, how’s he supposed to get a third term without Congress on his side?

    Once they feel like the ground is soft, his entire party will run to a better camp… notice how other leaders are setting up big tents right now… his only threat is his ability to primary people, but that’ll be gone in an instant when public perception slides out of his control. Trump is trying to stay ahead of it right now, playing it the usual way.

    This article is just Jeff’s brother trying to get his 15 minutes of fame. Bet he’s got a book deal brewing. I do like that the media is showing this idea to people tho, lots of idiots read People.

    Tl;dr I am not worried about it so much, Trump’s undoing may be right at hand.

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      The journalist that went on a date with some MAGA fbi, who bragged about scrubbing out Republicans and leaving in democrats, also confirms this story

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      And Trump will immediately lose power a year from now unless he can find a way to change the Constitution to let himself serve a third term, which I don’t think is very likely, and also he’s old so no one really thinks he’s going to live that long.

      So I’m interested to see how long these sick bastards drag this process out.