The Cambridge Analytica débâcle is hot on many of our minds. Paul and Jeremy discuss leaks of personal data and how it's kind of pointless to #DeleteFacebook at this point. Plus, examination of how insanely fast our brains make gut-level aesthetic decisions. Apparently you know whether you like this show within 50ms.

Show Notes

• General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia
• US Court Finds Anti-Robocall Rule Made Nearly Every Smartphone User a Criminal
• Listen to ‘The Daily’: The Data Harvesters - The New York Times
• Why Is #DeleteFacebook Trending On Twitter? | Daily Wire
• 'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine | News | The Guardian
• Facebook’s Surveillance Machine - The New York Times
• Annihilation (2018) - IMDb
• Wind River (2017) - IMDb
• Phantom Thread (2017) - IMDb
• H. P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia
• The Call of Cthulhu - Wikipedia
• Highway to Heaven - Wikipedia
• Under the Skin (2013) - IMDb
• Michel Faber - Wikipedia
• Amazon.com: The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel (8601423678511): Michel Faber: Books
• Not One More Death: John le Carré, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Michel Faber, Harold Pinter: 9781844671168: Amazon.com: Books
• The role of visual complexity and prototypicality regarding first impression of websites: Working towards understanding aesthetic judgments
• Sensory Overload Anxiety

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