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[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Diligence is costly in executive attention, it is relatively rare that a major donor is using your acceptance of donations to get social cover for an island-based extortion operation

Either deliberately whitewashing the situation or completely missing the point of why people are mad at Epstein, Yud really can't help himself.

edit: Or depending on the timeline and the fact that 'prison time for soliciting a 14 year old' was on top of Epstein's wiki as early a 2016 he's explicitly saying they didn't mind that part with 300k on the line.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago

Double-highlighting this choice bit:

Diligence is costly in executive attention,

Your periodic reminder that this man is considered a major influence by many of today's working venture capitalists