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Innocence, and a fall

Innocence, and a fall

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Virginia Heffernan
Feb 21, 2022
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Expulsion from Paradise, painting by James Tissot.

Q is no longer anon!

Q is Paul Furber and Ron Watkins, a couple of pervy basement dweebs. 

Great piece Friday by David D. Kirkpatrick on how machine learning confirmed Watkins (long heavily suspected) and unveiled Furber (long somewhat suspected) by finding very quiet clues in their prose styles. 

Watkins p…

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