Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[Jake]

I thought this was wildly interesting:

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Good read and very clever for sure. Just sad that all of this clever analysis was used to the benefit of Sir Cheeto. I also just allowed the Cambridge website to access my FB profile and see how good a read it can get on me. Turns out the "likes" they mention are the pages you like (i.e. "Ford" or "Stranger Things") and not the items that you click "Like" on in your newsfeed, posted by friends. The site still got a decent read on me even though I have very few pages liked - the only thing it missed was my religious beliefs (said I was most likely to be a Christian... LOL). I would be curious to see how it interpreted profiles based on newsfeed likes.

In other recent news, all this immigration stuff is pretty fucked up, especially the part about green card holders not being allowed to return home from vacations.

I'm nervous about the Supreme Court justice appointee, too. That's got the potential to hurt us longer-term than a maybe-four-years president.