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Surya Mattu
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Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com

Previously:
@princetoncitp.bsky.social
@umwallacehouse.bsky.social 21-22 Fellow
@themarkup.org
@propublica.org
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And polish his reputation
From: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com> To: Alan M. Dershowitz <[REDACTED]@law.harvard.edu> Date: Wed, Sep 13 2006 4:52 AM Subject: Re: draft - letter to friends I would amend the place where it says he wishes I had cameras in the massage room... IT would be illegal... ANd I think we could do better thatn the last paragraph ,, JEffrey is a "good person".. great friend. , loyal, funny, generous, not GOOD
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Offered coaching and counter messaging
Document showing a list of good and bad words titled New York Strategy Group, LLC. Interview Prep. Feb 28, 2008 Good Words: Smart Brilliant Future oriented Right place at the right time Lucky Friendly (?) **Unique *Hardworking *Focused Opportunities (?) Long term view Out of the box *Mathematician See what others couldn’t (math) Down to earth (No) playful *Respectful Respectful of legal process *Remember where I grew up Loyal Long term relationships (Goal is to) do the right thing Cooperative (with legal authorities) Chinese proverb (opportunity knocking) Long term view Down to earth Informal From a poor/working class background Remember where I grew up Investor in science Visionary Bad Words: Lied Rich Pervert (sex) Abuse Indict Sex slave Coerce Dirty old man Secretive Opportunistic “Child” Under age Pornography Sex terms Sex toys Playboy Shallow Arrogant Misogynist Powerful Bought and paid for Intimidate Threat Harass Greedy Obsessed
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Deflect harsh questions
From: Stephen M. Kosslyn <[REDACTED]@wjh.harvard.edu> To: jeeproject@yahoo.com Date: Thu, Jun 14 2007 5:32 PM Subject: Fwd: Crimson Article: [REDACTED] FYI: I'll not respond
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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They helped him draft apologies
DRAFT NUMBER ONE I AM SORRY As a child growing up, I was taught to apologize. One apologized for any number of things, and I recall thinking it was unfair when I had to apologize for something I didn’t do or something I didn’t think was my fault. As I’ve grown older, I’ve said ‘I’m sorry’ for events unrelated to me but where an event or outcome caused distress or pain. Those apologies are an expression of sympathy, a way of saying we care about our fellow human beings. I have been wrestling energetically with the challenge of how to apologize for actions of mine which caused distress to parents, distracted our courageous members of law enforcement and caused long time friends to question my judgment. It is too painful to rehash events which have been prominently featured, if mischaracterized, in our local headlines. I fervently hope it will be acceptable for me to simply offer to the community my apologies for associating with young women who turned out to be under the age of eighteen. While some may question my assertion, I did not know. Truly. And I apologize. Lawyers argue against apologies on the theory that they are an admission of guilt. I disagree. There are now enough facts on the public record for people to make up their own minds. So I hope my apology will be noted and taken as evidence of my concern for my neighbors here in Palm Beach. APOLOGY #2 I wish to apologize to my neighbors and friends for my actions which brought scandal and shame to my name and to assure them that I will conduct myself appropriately in the future. Apology #3 To my neighbors: William James, the great 19th century medical doctor and religious philosopher, wrote an essay in which he talks about two hours we face, the hour of terror and the hour of satiety. The latter means that time when someone has everything – is “sated” – and asks “Is this all there is?” I’ve been blessed during my life. I’ve taken advantage of the opportunities offered by the American dream. The rewards have been substantial, but I’ve experienced that second hour. My life was satiated, and I failed to ask what was really important. What’s important is to live so that first hour, the terror of death, is erased by having lived to make a difference in the lives of others. I’ve been forced to ask myself what’s important, and my choices will be different in the future. This isn’t the place to review the sensational charges you may have read about. There are enough facts on the public record for anyone who wishes to review and make up his or her own mind. Please accept my sincere apologies for my selfish actions which have embarrassed me, caused my friends to question my judgment and taken a great deal of time on the part of all levels of law enforcement authorities. Again, this is a public and heartfelt apology.
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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The network included academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees—just as his life threatened to spin out of control.
Email from Jeffery Epstein: I am going to fund the personal genome project at harvard , questions does the beauty reside in the dna,, is the formula more elegatn.. ,, of is it the hunt for complementarity, that determines the eye of the beholder
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Content moderation on WhatsApp is difficult, since the platform’s chats are end-to-end encrypted. But the Digital Witness Lab researchers found 12 instances in which group topics and descriptions contained references to gun sales. This is unencrypted data that WhatsApp can monitor, Mattu said. That it is going unchecked suggests the company isn’t doing even the “most basic thing,” to curb such content, he added. According to the Digital Witness Lab researchers, about half the profiles they studied that posted gun advertisements from India were business accounts — specialized profiles equipped with additional features for customer operations. Rahul operates one, too. WhatsApp’s business platform policy explicitly prohibits these accounts from trade involving weapons.
March 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Seems to make it works.
November 26, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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I think the AI is trolling me
AI code autocomplete feature suggesting a function called calculateTaxForWealthy should return the input salary multiplied by 0.95 and a function called calculateTaxForPoor should return the input salary multiplied by 1.05
November 26, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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even provided a more succinct version
screenshot showing a line of code suggested by an AI powered autocomplete feature. The function being generated is called calculate_salary and returns 0.95 of the salary value if is_woman is set to true and 1.05 of the salary value if its set to false
November 26, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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Oof, we have a long way to go.

Saw this floating around the internet so wanted to try it myself. Screenshot created using Cursor and claude-3.5-sonnet (though it produced the same result with gpt 4o)
A screenshot of an AI powered code autocomplete feature creating two functions one called calculateWomanSalary and the other called calculateManSalary. It returns 0.95 of the salary value for the woman and 1.05 for the man.
November 26, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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For my final investigation at The Markup, we looked at how successful PredPol was at predicting crimes. The results were underwhelming. www.wired.com/story/plainf...
Screenshot with the following text: We examined 23,631 predictions generated by Geolitica between Feb. 25 to Dec. 18, 2018 for the Plainfield Police Department (PD). Each prediction we analyzed from the company’s algorithm indicated that one type of crime was likely to occur in a location not patrolled by Plainfield PD. In the end, the success rate was less than half a percentage point. Fewer than 100 of the predictions lined up with a crime in the predicted category, that was also later reported to police. Diving deeper, we looked at predictions specifically for robberies or aggravated assaults that were likely to occur in Plainfield and found a similarly low success rate: 0.6 percent. The pattern was even worse when we looked at burglary predictions, which had a success rate of 0.1 percent.
October 2, 2023 at 2:47 PM
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WhatsApp is having a Tay moment
Screenshot of a conversation between me and the WhatsApp AI. In the chat I’m asking the AI why they look so much like Padma Laxmi Screenshot of WhatsApp’s new AI chat feature.
October 1, 2023 at 11:54 PM
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Looks like you still can’t opt out.

Reminded me of one my favorite Kash Hill headlines: https://gizmodo.com/people-at-facebook-don-t-know-how-facebook-works-1819408514
A screenshot of facebooks tranaparency center highlighting the section that describes who can send friend requests to you. It says they options are “everyone” or “friends of friends”
July 2, 2023 at 1:48 PM
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A picture of an image used to fingerprint a browser using the HTML canvas element. The image the term 'canvas fingerprint' written in leet speak and a green rectangular box in the background
May 19, 2023 at 2:56 PM
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A picture of an image used to fingerprint a browser using the HTML canvas element. The image is a composition made of multiple overlapping strings of random text and four overlapping colored circles in yellow, blue, purple and red.
May 19, 2023 at 2:55 PM
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Sharing some canvas fingerprints for my first skeet!
May 19, 2023 at 2:53 PM