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TRUE ANON TRUTH FEED

Episode 368: High Weirding (Part 2)

TRUE ANON TRUTH FEED

TrueAnon

Politics, News

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Erik Davis, scholar of the weird and esoteric, joins us for part two of a long conversation about the legacy of Philip K. Dick, Silicon Valley technopolypse, the future of California, and more from his forthcoming book Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid medium. Erik Davis’s substack: www.burningshore.com/

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0:00.0

Picture this, Liz. You're 23 years old. You've just graduated from MIT with a BA in CS.

0:11.0

Is that real? Computer Science?

0:13.0

I think you'd have a BS.

0:14.0

Yeah.

0:15.0

You have a BS in CS.

0:17.0

That kind of feels like I'm trying to do like a funky little thing there,

0:20.0

but apparently that's what they call it.

0:21.0

I love that you're looking at me, but I know this is what they call it. I love you're looking at me but I know this is what they call it.

0:23.6

A BS and CS.

0:25.1

You graduated fresh.

0:27.8

You fly across the country, San Francisco.

0:30.7

I got a job interview here. I got a job interview there.'m going to south of motherfucking market I'm talking hello mr

0:38.8

Jack Dorsey hire me here at stripe. Hello m. Elon Musk, perhaps I can work at X.

0:45.0

Formally noticed Twitter.

0:47.0

You get the job.

0:48.6

You move to Cerebral Valley, otherwise known as Hayes Valley.

0:53.0

Wait, do they call it?

0:54.0

They do be calling it that.

0:55.0

Because of AI.

0:56.0

They're trying to call it.

0:57.0

Wait, what?

0:58.0

I didn't know that.

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