Thread by @dearsarah, http://1.So , ages ago I did an enormous amount of research in an [...]

http://1.So , ages ago I did an enormous amount of research in an attempt to convince folks I admired to not take Jeffrey Epstein’s

or collaborate with him. Background/prior thread: https://bobbin.herokuapp.com/thread/1164745302139535360
last tweet: https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1164745302139535360?s=21

2.But first: a prolly silly attempt to offer a bias & conflict check. It is crushing to me how many men (& institutions) I like & admire are featured in these links. Thus, I’m sure who I call out specifically evidences these biases?

3 In terms of conflicts: sharing this completely conflicts with my self interest, but I guess this is overridden by a naïve attachment to the idea of justice & progress—and an expectation that these men & institutions stop obfuscating & do better NOW.

Or my stupidity? Or trauma?

4.Some background: I was at HLS (& had my first project at the MediaLab) when Epstein met Dersh (my crim law prof) https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/934287577124782081?s=21 when he was a part of the early internet crowd…I don’t remember young girls, but it’d have hardly stood out at that juncture at a university

https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/934287577124782081?s=21

http://5.By the time I’d graduated, I’d heard that he was a creep. And then 9/11 happened…I went to India for a year..& likely mostly forgot about it until I read @vickypward’s story in 2003

6.….but it seems evident that if Donald Trump was telling the media that the guy was into young girls, it wasn’t exactly a secret….and yet still, as Web 2 became a thing, I discovered he was still somehow he was tight with so many of the folks I liked & admired.

7.And then he was arrested..and, so lawyer that I am, I dug in & did research; I fell down an enormous rabbit hole. What I found was astonishing...& then a decade later, despite the depth & horror of what I found, I basically failed to convince anyone:

8.Silly me. I always think that if only these men knew they weren’t including women & people of color, they’d do better. It turns out actually they just do not care. https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1132893607654854656?s=21

https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1132893607654854656?s=21

9.Most striking looking back through and compiling all these links was realizing how responsible these men are for where the world is at—and how much they have all profited from it. And, that, instead of paying taxes, https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/671850863749562368?s=21

https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/671850863749562368?s=21

10. FFS they’ve built industries to make rich people feel good about evading taxes & hoarding wealth. https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1148088165619470336?s=21

https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1148088165619470336?s=21

http://11.How much better & fairer world these men could’ve created—they had they chance (& ensured that folks who didn’t resemble them didn’t!) And instead, here we are…. https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1083295198715600896?s=21 #loligarchy

12.Anyway, since it seems I might never sleep again I thought I’d share a timeline using a bunch of these links (I’ve left out all of those that share the private details of the victims) (There are about 50 links) *I actually wrote this a month ago but https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1150168513039892480?s=21 )

https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1150168513039892480?s=21

13.Jeffrey Epstein & his elite friends (an old bio, since removed) https://web.archive.org/web/20111019010958/http://www.edge.org/memberbio/jeffrey_epstein
Here are these dinners over the years: https://www.edge.org/dinners (there’s still a photo of Epstein) https://web.archive.org/web/2018*/https://www.edge.org/dinners

14.2/16/1999 Billionaries Dinner: https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner-1999 (JE) https://web.archive.org/web/20151208030236/https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner-1999https://www.edge.org/igd?page=41https://web.archive.org/web/20190712055310/https://www.edge.org/igd?page=41

15. 2/18/1999 https://web.archive.org/web/20190510075958/https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner
https://web.archive.org/web/19990429010908/http://www.edge.org/documents/dinner/dinner.html
https://www.edge.org/documents/dinner/dinner.html (bottom row, with Nathan M, who no news org will mention, despite Dersh's attempts)

16. 2/23/2000: https://www.edge.org/event/the-billionaires-dinner-2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20160215185256/https://www.edge.org/event/the-billionaires-dinner-2000 "People mentions":

17.2/24/2000 EDGE 2k dinner https://www.edge.org/documents/dinner2k/dinner2k.html
i. https://web.archive.org/web/20010417041151/https://www.edge.org/documents/dinner2k/dinner2k.html
ii. https://web.archive.org/web/20020211225040/https://upside.com/static/ted8.html

18.Germany, 10/3/2000: https://www.edge.org/conversation/hubert_burda-hubert-burda-germanys-agent-of-change https://web.archive.org/web/20160908051106/https://www.edge.org/conversation/hubert_burda-hubert-burda-germanys-agent-of-change https://www.edge.org/igd?page=73https://web.archive.org/web/20190712055815/https://www.edge.org/igd?page=73

19.2/21/2001: https://web.archive.org/web/20010307165707/http://www.edge.org/documents/dinner2001/dinner2001.html

20.2/21/2002: https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner-2002 (Sarah Kellen pictured with John Brockman, but no JE in photos) https://www.edge.org/documents/dinner2002/dinner_index.html (attendees list, Kellen but no JE)
https://web.archive.org/web/20061009025407/https://www.edge.org/documents/dinner2002/dinner_index.html
But he's quoted in the "groin is exposed" NYT article so he was there? https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1148893971441016832?s=21

21.Feburary 2003 (March Edition) Vicky Ward’s article. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303

22.2/27/2003 https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-science-dinner-2003 https://web.archive.org/web/20170320025321/https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-science-dinner-2003 (Sarah Kellen, with Brockman but no JE) 2003: https://www.edge.org/igd?page=31 (JE flew folks to the dinner; also see "people mentions) (damn threads won't let me add any more photos)

23. 2/24/2004: https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner-2004 (JE, all attendees listed) https://web.archive.org/web/20151008065140/https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner-2004
Article re Sergey Brin & JE: https://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge135.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20060427160639/https://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge135.html

24.2004 Harvard PED event: https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/trivers04/trivers04_photos.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20050307154947/https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/trivers04/trivers04_photos.html
https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_trivers-a-full-force-storm-with-gale-winds-blowing https://web.archive.org/web/20151103031036/https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_trivers-a-full-force-storm-with-gale-winds-blowing

25. 2004 Harvard PED Event https://web.archive.org/web/20151103031036/https://www.edge.org/conversation/robert_trivers-a-full-force-storm-with-gale-winds-blowing

26.3/2005: Epstein’s Florida home is searched by police
11/13/2005: https://www.edge.org/conversation/the-edge-of-computation-science-prize https://web.archive.org/web/20121023033007/https://www.edge.org/conversation/the-edge-of-computation-science-prize

27.11.14.05 Edge Epstein Science Prize https://web.archive.org/web/20060925050703/http://www.edge.org/features_archive/features_archive_2005.html

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Also damnit Twitter! Why is my thread broken—& thanks @heathr!

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