Here's some fun stuff (for a given value of fun)

I have quite a low Epstein number. I know at least a couple of people named in the files.

There are people I _personally_ know (though these days we're just social media mutuals) but are NOT in the creepy category.

They are there because they are mentioned in emails by Lawrence Krauss, physicist and serial pest, in the context of "hey jeff, how do I handle these accusations from these people?".

He was talking, in part, about an incident that occurred at a Convention in Melbourne at which I was very much an attendee. IIRC Krauss was also a speaker at a later Con in Sydney, at which I was also a speaker/panellist

I have also passingly met (said hi to, had short converations with) Krauss, Dennett, Dawkins, Gates, and probably a few other named people (is Shermer in there?), at various sci/tech/skeptic events. They're all very much direct contacts of Epstein. BillG I briefly met through work, in Seattle, in a conference room in (I think) the Space Needle. Or nearby anyway. I was somewhat tipsy, given I was on an expenses paid conference jolly with a very permissive expense policy.

So yeah, low Epstein number. My Degrees of Creepy Bacon are... troubling

Ewww

@drunkenmadman someone I follow here (I can't remember who exactly) was mentioned in the last (not most recent) batch because of a lecture she did in 2017. IIRC it was on the me too movement.

@skribe Yeah, there are #metoo people, there are #skeptics and #GSoW people and #atheists

I'm obviously not going to hand out names here without consent, but there are a few people in the files who I'm like "YEP. YOU'RE THERE FOR A NOBLE CAUSE YOU FRONT LINE FUCKING WARRIORS YOU"

@drunkenmadman @skribe Rebecca?

I remember telling Krauss (on Twitter) that he should stop apologising for Epstein.

In other circumstances I've met and talked to Dennett, Dawkins, Krauss, Shermer. Is Sam Harris in the files? I've probably met and talked to him too.

@elronxenu very likely Rebecca. She's all over the files. She did a YouTube vid about it I think.

As is Sam Harris.

@drunkenmadman I remember she said it in an episode - but I typed her name into the DoJ search, and no hits.
@elronxenu I got 19 results
@drunkenmadman And Rebecca just dropped another video, with lots of disturbing conversations between Lawrence Krauss and Jeffery Epstein, and revelations about who Richard Dawkins was fucking while he was obsessed with Rebecca.
@drunkenmadman @elronxenu Rebecca was yes, but also someone else that surprised me. I don't want to mention names or even nationalities.

@skribe @elronxenu Good policy, I think, is to name creeps but withhold people who are in there for better reasons.

Anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAiUBNgW-U&themeRefresh=1

Your Number Is One (Long Version)

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@drunkenmadman @skribe I mentioned Sam Harris.

Here's his reaction to the latest tranche of files. He's being completely rinsed in the comments for minimising this thing, being ignorant of the contents, hyper-rational in the face of atrocities, and so on.

https://youtu.be/ZdNVfUGU_tQ

The Epstein Files Weren’t a Nothingburger After All

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