I wonder how many Defcon presenters may be in those files, and why?
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I'll never forget the guy. ~3 years ago I saw an awesome DefCon talk, I was even more impressed than usual at the presenter's intelligence and resourcefulness. Chatted with him after, followed him on Mastodon.
... where he started posting activist stuff that I politically agree with, but was demonstrably misinformation (which, remember, Russia/Iran/etc love to firehose at all sides)
I posted some objective debunks, expressed solidarity with the end goals but pointed out that these specific allegations were untrue and the suggested protest would possibly further the playbook of authoritarian observers.
Ofc he called me a delusional moron, and blocked me
Stephen Hawking, really? Interesting.
Hawking, a physicist, was mentioned in court documents released in 2024 during Ghislaine Maxwell's trial. The documents included an email Epstein sent in 2015, asking friends of Virginia Giuffre to disprove supposed allegations of Giuffre's that Hawking participated in an "underage orgy" in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein lived. Epstein said he "can issue a reward” to them if they can "prove her allegations are false". The email implies it was written in response to a "new version" of the claim regarding Hawking. Neither Giuffre nor anyone else has ever publicly accused Hawking, who died in 2018, of sexual misconduct. According to physicist Lisa Randall—who was found in 2026 to have corresponded with Epstein—in 2006, Hawking and Epstein were both present at a conference on gravity. Randall describes both her correspondence and Epstein's appearance at the conference as resulting from Epstein's public financing of scientific efforts.
Hawking had a famously large libido
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