Apparently I am mentioned (just once) in the Epstein Files.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01755942.pdf
(Spoiler: it's a deeply nerdy infosec discussion which name-checks one of my short stories. It doesn't even mention Epstein or Maxwell, let alone the Tangerine Shitgibbon or anything remotely incriminating.)
@cstross Is there going to be a new version of Bacon Numbers? How many degrees of Jeffrey Epstein?
My 15 seconds of fame in the #EpsteinFiles is the beerware license :-)
@cstross Congratulations or something?
@cstross In the future everyone will be famous to 15 jury members.
@cstross I was going to reply "Were they discussing how to use Norse death-magic to summon the Aesir?" and now I realized I spent the last 10+ years thinking you wrote Thor Meets Captain America. I hang my head in shame. 
@cstross A mention in the Epstein Files? Guess that means you're famous now 🤪👍
I'm sure Charlie was satisfied with being 'notable enough' to have a Wikipedia page.
Being notable for Wikipedia values of notable: good.
Being notable for Epstein values of notable: doubleplus-ungood.
@jackwilliambell @cstross Anybody can make a Wikipedia page, but it's something else entirely to get name-dropped in the Fantasy Island Files 😎
@UrbanDjent @jackwilliambell It's not Fantasy Island; it's Rape Island.
When someone outs themselves as not knowing how Wikipedia works.
@jackwilliambell @cstross When some rando buts in on somebody else's non-funny non-joke and answers on behalf of the OP.
@UrbanDjent @jackwilliambell When *someone the OP knows* turns up and is mistaken for an interloper, you mean. Now kindly fuck off.
You would have had your full name and unredacted e-mail address if only you had licenced some free/open source software. (-:
@JdeBP I have no idea what you're trying to say.
As I pointed out in that post, there's a whole bunch of well-known people in the software world in there simply by dint of their names being attached to the copyright licences of various pieces of free/open source softwares. (Hyperlink to document in that post.)
And unlike in other cases, the USADOJ people didn't go through that document and black out the e-mail addresses.
RE: https://masto.nyc/@gbargoud/116003310894666297
There is one person who was included in the files in a positive way, because he decided to CC Epstein on an email he wrote saying Epstein should be throttled
I am somehow feeling disinclined to click on that link. Is this how the web page displays on your side?
@cavyherd Yes, it is indeed the DoJ (I didn't get any active age verification, just a "click here to say you are over 18".)
Ah, okay. That's at least reasonable, given the context of the web page.
@cstross Just as long as they're not applying the Torment Nexus argument to Equoid...
@cstross
You are in good company there: https://youtu.be/VNLdyWPAz18?si=4urxFQVKcAC-Lgnq
@cstross "voice commands give access to system level scripting" ... foreshadowing the current age of "prompt injection" there.
I always wondered how some of the "information warfare" type ideas in some sci-fi worked... turns out it's just prompt injection?
