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0:00 Some brief NonZero World housekeeping
5:24 Trump, China and AI
31:22 Connor's interview with national security law expert Elizabeth Beavers about Trump's use of terror designations
Recorded January 31, 2025.
Read this week's edition of the Earthling:
Washington Gets the Full Musk Treatment
Note: Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that this week brought a new development in NonZero land. After years of using a Substack URL, we decided to make the switch to a slimmer web address: nonzero.org (though we’re still on the Substack platform). This change may bring benefits on Twitter (OK, OK, on “X”), whose algorithm is said to discriminate against Substack URLs. And this change will in any event mark another small step in our journey to becoming a global media behemoth.
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