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From the editor· Updated Tue, Aug 4
Most German-learning podcasts make you choose between real content and language you can actually follow. We picked Episode #269 because it refuses the trade: a full Bach biography, delivered slowly enough to follow without a transcript. Listening practice sticks when you want to hear how the story ends. Chinese AI labs now deploy an agent to survey American AI safety discourse daily and compile a report. That detail, from Nathan Goes to China – Part 2, reframes the safety conversation: the speaker argues that if you remove two leading US companies from the comparison, the reported safety gap between American and Chinese firms largely disappears. We also appreciated Deconstructing Save the Cat, which cuts through structural dogma with the reminder that the only unbreakable screenwriting rule is you cannot be too boring for too long.
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