Nathan Lambert (https://www.interconnects.ai/), Jasmine Sun (https://jasmi.news/) and I kick off a new series 'Overfit' to talk how AI is shaping the future of media, why Nathan just needs $100m to take on Deepseek, and how to make money in this creator economy.
Outtro music: Todd Terje, Preben Goes to Acapulco https://open.spotify.com/track/70jWHwvymR4x1PUXXrUD1S
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China's Best Music of 2025 (So Far)
Jake Newby, author of the China music substack Concrete Avalanche, presents his official playlist of China’s best new music. It includes ADHD-inspired hip hop, experimental ambient music from rural China, and Shanghai cold wave, finishing off with a “mind-blowing” hyperpop track.
Tracklist:
00:00 ‘Rhyme’ – Rubey Hu
01:02 ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ – SMZB 生命之饼
04:46 ‘秋茄子之味’ – 红发少年杀人事件
09:04 ‘The Wanderer of Renfengli 仁丰里的闲逛者‘ – DaYe 大叶
12:08 ‘back to the pond 1’ – Jian Cui
15:57 ‘Chapter II’ (excerpt) – Chen Mulian et al for xuán yīn
21:13 ‘月光爱人 De Luna Amour’ – 黑木 Heimu
27:27 ‘Ⱪorⱪetteng ⱪobeze / The Kobyz of Korkut 霍尔赫特的库布孜‘ (excerpt) – Mamer 马木尔
35:38 ‘སྒྲོལ་མའི་བསྟོད་པ་། Praise to Tara 度母赞’ – Kalzang Samdrub
37:08 ‘我不知不觉不伦不类’ – 小老虎 J-Fever
39:56 ‘1911 4th Mov. (live) 一九一一 第四回’ (excerpt) – Zhaoze 沼泽
46:55 ‘本该走神的(Should've Been Lost)‘ – 张醒婵 Nono
49:28 ‘失乐园’ – DJ小女孩 DJ Gurl
Some of these tracks are available on YouTube! We've aggregated those links on the ChinaTalk Substack.
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Are We Cooked? Q2 Check In
Is America cooked? We check in on what clarity the past three months have given us on the long term dynamic between the US and China.
Guests include:
Peter Harrell, former Biden official who hosts the Security Economics podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/security-economics/id1794022711)
Matt Klein of the https://theovershoot.co/ substack
Kevin Xu of the https://interconnect.substack.com/ subsctack
Outtro music: Emitt Rhodes, Textile Factory, 1970 https://open.spotify.com/track/1JO2jo0Cyg75mmCFlSW2bB?si=1706c809e80b4bd4
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Dylan, Doug, Jon on AI Mandate of Heaven + Ezra Beef
Two weeks in a row what has gotten into us.
Jordan tries to save the NSF and immigrant visas with an AI researcher letter
Our quarterly AI mandate of heaven update (there's been alot of movement!)
Dylan makes bad slop jokes
The Ezra Klein/Dylan Patel beef begins
We recommend the amazing book Mitsui: Three Centuries of Japanese Business
Outtro music: באמפרים” (pronounced Bam-pe-rim, roughly “Bumpers”) by the Israeli hip-hop duo Ness & Stilla, 2024 https://open.spotify.com/track/3FihyZ7YA7vrNiSUfWww10?si=9817a9122faf4b08
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Doug, Dylan and Jon on Nvidia + Saudi/UAE
Dylan bonds with Nvidia's CFO and I try to keep the GPUs in actual democracies.
Outtro Music: FaceTime, Karencici, 2018. https://open.spotify.com/track/2PNDZp0ultOJrQL4AVENPO?si=46cdf72cdffb40a3
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