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Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2024-07-26

Books mentioned on Kamala's Tech Agenda, Drunken AI Spending, Meta’s Open Source Necessity

1 book · With Ranjan Roy · Listen

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) Kamala in, Biden out 2) Kamala's tech agenda 3) The importance of Lina Khan 4) Do VCs regret backing Trump after the past week's developments 5) J.

Ranjan Roy discussed Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Hillbilly Elegy

    J D Vance · at 5:28

    Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.

    Discussed
    “So someone totally shitposting tweeted that J.D. Vance, in Hillbilly Elegy, the book he wrote in 2016, had written about how he had stuck a rubber glove in a couch and had sex with it, and this was in Hillbilly Elegy.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Hillbilly Elegy
“That could be, especially within Hillbilly Elegy in the book, that like, and the memes have been good.”
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