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What for?
He is saying on twitter that it was for posting the below email from Jeffrey Epstein to Deepak Chopra:
I haven't checked whether this email is real or if he was trolling, but Chopra does show up in the emails several times
EDIT: It's real.
Deepak Chopra getting a fever dream idea for an app that "detects an aura" and going "wow" re: his own idea is peak Deepak Chopra
If anything, the Epstein file releases have affirmed to me that capitalism rewards people independently of societal merit.
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Because what the FUCK are they even talking about here?
I am repeating once again: it's not that merit is not rewarded, it's that what is "meritous" is not what you think
What I think is meritous is more correct than them.
Their opinion pays for Academi mercs and Pinkertons.
I'll be the smugest pinkerton-made corpse ever to hit the ground just you wait
Why would he get banned for that?
How dare he imply anyone other than Trump and Putin are in the Epstein files, unless you're actively turning this into Russiagate nonsense you're the enemy
I'm so mad at the libs (especially journos) for burying this in blueanon nonsense again.
What’s with the damn = ?
It has something to do with the way servers/protocol broke up emails into lines and stored the lines using = as demarcation. Whenever the emails were assembled, the = remained. We had a thread about it yesterday or the day before.
Do you have a link to that thread?
Because it often appears in place of 'I's and 'E's as if the emails were printed then re-digitalised with OCR(the top and bottom bars on I and E in certain fonts could trigger certain OCRs algos to read it as =)
It also appears to replace characters rather than being appended like you'd expect with a separation flag(chars in unused unicode spaces are also more likely to be used for that function than something commonly used in text like =), I could be wrong though so I'm interested in seeing the discussion
I do not. I just spent about 10 mins trying to find it. It's not in c/technology or c/chapotraphouse, that I can see. Searching "=" or any other relevant key words for posts or comments doesn't bring it up. IDK.
No worries, thanks for looking(I assume you also checked your browser history)
Maybe it was this I saw (thanks to astronot)
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1quqk6q/this_is_where_all_those_equals_signs_in_the/
Really easy to confuse hexbear with r/trueanon since everyone just reposts from there all the time.
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Yeah it looks like the digital rot version of copier burn.
I don't have a link to the thread over here, but this article explains it in depth
Terrible OCR I believe.
Why emails need OCR is a mystery however
In short, emails still use an old ASCII protocol from the 80s, and old servers used unix tools that read pipes line-by-line.
To avoid emails with long lines slowing down the servers, they break long lines before sending them.
Because it's ASCII, they use an ASCII control sequence to mark inserted line breaks.
That sequence is
=␍␊.There's some sequence of screwups in the email export that ended up with
last word =␍␊first wordgetting replaced withlast word =irst wordinstead oflast word first word.Thanks for the explanation, what's up with = appearing in the middle of words? does the protocol inserts breaks after a set number of chars, rather in the nearest whitespace to a set number of chars?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable
It just breaks at 76 characters.
Probably not being outraged at Trump enough.