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0:00 Connor’s Cuba adventure
1:14 Chinese-owned Manus AI makes waves
8:08 Is Manus just a fancy ‘wrapper’ for US AI?
14:53 Why Manus makes global AI cooperation more urgent
23:12 Can Trump deport a green card holder over political speech?
34:31 Making sense of Trump's Ukraine strategy
Recorded March 14, 2025.
Read this week's edition of the Earthling:
The real message from China’s latest AI sensation
—The New York Times reports that genetically modified miniature pigs are being produced via cloning in rural Wisconsin, where scientists are pursuing the dream of mass-scale xenotransplantation (the insertion of animal hearts and other organs into humans who need them). But the Times may be making such a future less likely by providing endearing pictures of the piglets—which are rendered feeble in the course of being optimized for organ production—and noting that the project raises challenging moral questions.
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Discussed in Overtime:
Why Connor is still cautiously optimistic about Syria.
Life in Cuba at the start of Trump 2.0.
The restraint movement's Trump problem.
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