Solarbird Feb 22

Nathan Myhrvold, ex-Microsft CTO, was another contributor to the Epstein Birthday Book. Nathan had said and continues to say that they never had a personal relationship, only discussions about science funding and TED Talk meetup.

Unfortunately, this is clearly a bald-faced lie, and it keeps getting worse.

Not only that, but Russian dissident media Meduza have found direct ties to Putin.

I'll CW links and such more in replies.

#microsoft #msft #seattle #cascadia #epstein #EpsteinClass #RussiaRussiaRussia #IsTrue #politics #ItsBad

Show threadSolarbird Feb 22

Leaning heavily on a story in the Seattle Times two weeks ago (which I'll link in comments and has some _holy shit_ moments), the Russian dissident media Meduza finds there are also connections to Putin.

Here's the Meduza article:

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/21/ex-microsoft-executive-nathan-myhrvold-told-jeffrey-epstein-he-hosted-putin-s-wife-and-daughter-on-his-superyacht

#microsoft #msft #seattle #cascadia #epstein #EpsteinClass #RussiaRussiaRussia #IsTrue #politics #ItsBad

Ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold told Jeffrey Epstein he hosted Putin’s wife and daughter on his superyacht

Jeffrey Epstein’s interest in Vladimir Putin is well documented in the files released by the U.S. Justice Department in late January. Now, Meduza has uncovered another curious connection between the convicted sex offender and the Russian president: in previously undisclosed emails with Epstein, former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold said that he hosted Putin’s wife and daughter aboard his boat in 2010. The billionaire technologist, who has denied having a personal relationship with Epstein, is the owner of a $15-million superyacht. But the exchange about the Putin family raises more questions than answers.

Meduza
Show threadSolarbird Feb 22

And here's the Seattle Times article:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/records-show-deeper-ties-between-epstein-ex-microsoft-exec-myhrvold/

Which includes reference to a trip to the island, as well a particularly icky tidbit which won't fit here, so I will add in next reply.

#microsoft #msft #seattle #cascadia #epstein #EpsteinClass #RussiaRussiaRussia #IsTrue #politics #ItsBad

Show threadSolarbird Feb 22

Quoting the previously-linked Seattle Times article:

On May 31, 2014, before a visit to Seattle by Epstein, Myhrvold reached out and invited him to visit his labs and office at Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based investment firm co-founded by Myhrvold.

“Have your people call mine, we will set up a lab visit, and you should come see my office. and bring” her, Myhrvold appears to have written, referring to a woman or girl by name.

“i am going to leave her there,” Epstein replied. Myhrvold sent back a smiling face emoticon.

#microsoft #msft #seattle #cascadia #epstein #EpsteinClass #RussiaRussiaRussia #IsTrue #politics #ItsBad

Show threadRoger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔Feb 25

@moira

So,... spring 1980:

After some months of me missing ever more obvious hints from my freshman year roommate (first real encounter with passive-aggressive "Midwestern Nice" that I, from NJ, found totally baffling), making him have to spell out in no uncertain terms

(1) we were **not** friends, that

(2) his announcing a party in our room should **not** be construed as an invitation, and that

(3) I should find some other place to be on such occasions

-- and, to be honest, the whole paradigm of sitting in the room with people I didn't really know, listening to music I didn't really like, while choking on 2nd-hand marijuana smoke was starting to get Old --

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Show threadSolarbird Feb 25

@wrog holy shit what an asshole your roommate was

goddamn

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Show threadRoger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔Mar 3

@rmd1023 @moira

It is possible I'm not being completely fair. I probably did subscribe to any number of Geek Social Fallacies (this preceding that blog post by 15+ years), and the conversation did actually simplify things going forward (we stayed out of each other's way and I no longer had to expend effort on getting along). In theory, if I'd ever wanted to claim the room for a party of my own I could have done so, but somehow this never came up (surprise).

I yet remain mystified what the housing office was thinking in putting us together. I suspect they mostly gleefully ignored what people put on their roommate preference forms.

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Show threadRoger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔Mar 3

@rmd1023 @moira

The one thing that really pissed me off was that he lied about being a non-smoker on the form in order to not get paired with a smoker. And while he promised he'd never smoke in the room and kept to it as far as cigarettes were concerned, this evidently didn't apply to marijuana...

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@wrog @moira
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