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episode 216: We're Not Buying Them
This week the show is a bad sandwich. First up, awesome tech news: Huawei and Samsung's foldable phones, and the Hololens 2! Next, the rotten meat that is Facebook's content moderation working conditions. But then we have an update on The Life of Elizabeth Holmes from Vanity Fair. Everything's coming up Rocket!
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Quote of the Day: "If you're independently wealthy, or this is how you choose to spend your money, I won't judge you. I'm not buying this because it passes the threshold of what I will piss money away on." - Christina Warren, 2019
Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Huawei Mate X hands-on: our foldable future - The Verge Samsung’s foldable phone is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold - The Verge HoloLens 2: inside Microsoft's new headset - YouTube Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold - The Verge J.Sack on Twitter: "I was a former 'Content Analyst' for over 4 years monitoring Twitter and have a few things to say about this. Thread:… https://t.co/u983YRqsdT" Our Commitment to Our Content Reviewers | Facebook Newsroom The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity | The New Yorker “She Never Looks Back”: Inside Elizabeth Holmes’s Final Months at Theranos | Vanity Fair