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This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts (www.404media.co)
submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files, just in case you don’t, understandably, want anything to do with them on the already deranged social network.

404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.

“I found myself wondering whether anyone had mapped Epstein's network in the style of LinkedIn—how many people are 1st/2nd/3rd degree connections of Jeffrey Epstein?” Christopher Finke, the creator of the tool, told 404 Media in an email. “Smarter programmers than me have already built tools to visualize that, but I couldn't find anything that would show the overlap between my network and his.”

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 152 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think I know anyone remotely rich enough for this to be a concern.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 79 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

That’s the secondary use of the tool

If you’re not on the list you clearly lack connections and power and aren’t a good fit

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 82 points 17 hours ago

This is the most LinkedInLunatic coded response ever

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Son of a bitch is so poor he's like 4 hops from knowing someone in the Epstein files.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 hours ago

We had six degrees of Kevin Bacon and the Erdos number, now we have the Epstein coefficient?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm sure Mark Tramo, the UCLA neurology professor, is loaded. lol

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Could be? Might be millionaire cause of royalties, speaker fees etc.

https://closertotruth.com/contributor/mark-tramo/

Mark Tramo is Director of The Institute for Music & Brain Science and Co-Director of the University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative.

He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Adjunct Professor in Ethnomusicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. A 2015 recipient of the UC President’s Research Catalyst Award, Dr. Tramo has conducted original research on the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of music perception and cognition for over 25 years.