Doomscrolling Chinese Twitter
ChinaTalk10 Maalis 2024

Doomscrolling Chinese Twitter

Chinese Doomscroll, which faithfully records happenings from the wild west that is Weibo (China’s Twitter/X equivalent), won the ChinaTalk award for best China-focussed Substack on 2023. Today we have on the brain behind the newsletter: Molly, who’s been doomscrolling for us since early 2023. We discuss: Why Weibo keeps Molly up at night; Chinese elementary school kids’ academic prowess; How social issues gain attention on the trending list; Terrible bots; And what makes microblogging uniquely compelling. Outtro music is 演员 by Joker Xue 薛之谦: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKuL5xaKZHM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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EMERGENCY POD: China's Rare Earth Export Controls

EMERGENCY POD: China's Rare Earth Export Controls

Chris Miller (chip wars), Chris McGuire (10 year State Dpt vet, check out the past episode on the feed) and I discuss a big move by MOFCOM to squeeze Trump in advance of their APEC summit. Outtro ...

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AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Beat Nvidia

AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Beat Nvidia

Last week, Jensen Huang said that China is “nanoseconds behind” the US in chipmaking. Is he right? Today, Chris McGuire joins ChinaTalk for a US-China AI hardware net assessment. Chris spent a decade ...

8 Loka 20251h 28min

Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs

Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs

Bryan Clark, a former submariner now with the Hudson Institute, joins the show! Outtro speech: George C. Scott's rendition of Patton's speech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

6 Loka 20251h 1min

RAND's Jeff Alstott on How Facts Can Shape Tech Policymaking

RAND's Jeff Alstott on How Facts Can Shape Tech Policymaking

At long last, Jeff Alstott, the fairy godfather of DC AI policy, joins the show. He’s the founding director for RAND’s center for technology and security policy, TASP, worked at NSC, NSF and IARPA, an...

3 Loka 20251h 7min

Transistor Radio: Intel, Dylan Falls in Love, Nvidia Captures Dylan, Slop City (our dumbest show yet)

Transistor Radio: Intel, Dylan Falls in Love, Nvidia Captures Dylan, Slop City (our dumbest show yet)

for better or worse, the first ep on chinatalk feed I had to put an explicit tag on... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Loka 202551min

Second Breakfast: The Future of Intelligence

Second Breakfast: The Future of Intelligence

Anthony Vinci, former CTO of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and author of the upcoming book The Fourth Intelligence Revolution, joins as Second Breakfast's first ever guest. Outtro Mu...

29 Syys 20251h 23min

Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, Jordan a Berkeley Bowl Hater

Overfit: Shenzhen vs SF Vibes, Model Progress, Jordan a Berkeley Bowl Hater

Jasmine Sun of https://jasmi.news/ and Nathan Lambert of https://www.interconnects.ai/ discuss a wide variety of topics of interest around AI and culture. Outtro Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

25 Syys 20251h 11min

Second Breakfast: RIP China Hawks, NDAA, Innovation Kayfabe, Child Soldiers

Second Breakfast: RIP China Hawks, NDAA, Innovation Kayfabe, Child Soldiers

back at it again Outtro Music: Boys of the Old Brigade, Wolf Tones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoQBXgbVVT4&ab_channel=rebelsongs Book: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/child-soldiers-in-th...

19 Syys 20251h 7min

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