Clayton Cramer.
Conservative. Idaho. Software engineer. Historian. Trying to prevent Idiocracy from becoming a documentary.
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Thursday, July 17, 2025
Why is 4.5" Now 4.75"?
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
In Case You Have Been Asleep for Several Years
I Think HFCS Fear is Unfounded
Save Me From Being Mispronouned
The Ultimate Centrally Planned Economy
Obscure Bash Question
It has been almost 20 years since I made heavy use of Unix, but I vaguely recall a construct in some shell where you could
ls {circle*|mkcircle*}
and have it match every file of those two wildcard matches. I cannot find that in any reference work. Was that just an imagined capacity because I wanted it?
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
The Epstein List
7/15/25 The Hill reports on what Epstein's lawyer says about the "clients' list."
Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer Alan Dershowitz said two judges in New York are suppressing information about the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender’s case, not the Trump administration....
Dershowitz, who helped get a plea deal for Epstein in 2008, said that there’s no Epstein “client list,” just a redacted FBI affidavit from accusers.
“There are several of them from accusers that accuse Jeffrey — that accuse various people of having improper sex, and that has been redacted, the names of the people accused have been blacked out. Now, of course, because I was lawyer and I did all the investigations, I know who all these people are,” Dershowitz said Monday in an appearance on NewsNation’s “Cuomo.”
The former lawyer argued none of the people in the affidavit are figures currently holding a public office.
“Some of them were previously in office. Some of them are dead. But there is no client list,” he told host Chris Cuomo. “And the redactions could be undone if you go to court.”
“So, many of the things that are being suppressed are being suppressed by two judges in Manhattan, and they’re doing it largely to protect the alleged accusers who are, in the view of the judges, victims, even though we don’t know what their actual status is,” he added.
Dershowitz reiterated he cannot disclose more information due to judge’s orders, but said Attorney General Pam Bondi and Trump were “not responsible” for missing information.
“I don’t know of any information that they could disclose that they haven’t disclosed. Now maybe there is some, but I’m simply not aware of it,” he said. “And so, I think it’s important to place the blame where the blame deserves to be placed.”
That list, unredacted, might be very interesting, but victims' recollections depend on being to accurately identify who these people were at the time of the offense. For a famous person, this is unlikely to be difficult, but for anyone else, this might be hearsay, in which case judges regarding those in the affadavit as victims could actually be true if they were not whom the victims thought they were.
This just keeps getting weirder. 7/14/25 Petapixel reports thst Wired turned over the "raw footage" from Epstein’s cell to experts who report that it was edited by Adobe Premiere Pro from two different sources videos in May. It is hard to imagine that anyone would go to this much trouble but not know about Metadata.
I am reminded of Obama's birth certificate that was grossly and obviously constructed in PhotoShop, probably to provoke more conspiracy theories.
7/15/25 Wired now says almost three minutes of video are missing. What can happen in three minutes?