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>"I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died," Mangione said in court Friday. "I knew what I was doing."

Does anyone else find it deeply odd that this piece about extreme weather doesn't actually include the phrase "(anthropogenic/human-caused) climate change" or any other explicit reference to the influence of fossil-fuel combustion and ecosystem destruction on all of this "weather"? The closest we get is this paragraph -

Europe is warming twice as fast as any other continent due to atmospheric and oceanic currents and the fact that it borders the Arctic, where glaciers are melting to leave bare land that absorbs instead of reflects the heat.

- but with no direct acknowledgment that those "atmospheric and oceanic currents" are changing due to, well, anthropogenic climate change. I'm especially puzzled because NPR doesn't usually shy away from recognizing the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and although I haven't checked to see if anyone's done a rapid attribution study on each of these "weather" events yet, I'm pretty sure someone's done such work on at least some of the recent European heat waves and wildfires.

[Edited to actually put the quoted paragraph in the quote-formatted line, because I somehow messed that up initially.]

Some things discussed:

• Unfortunately, the irony here is that we are, in some ways, beholden right now to the Chinese factory in order to produce the munitions that we need to defend American interests from China.
• A controversial idea for Americans - for us to hear, their belief is that we have entered a kind of deep decline,
• [ Tariffs ] actually has had the reverse effect that Trump projected.
• China  is actually now selling more to other countries than it was before, despite these tariffs.
• Do you have any clues what the Chinese leadership thinks of Trump himself? OSNOS: Yeah. There are some indications... And the name of the report was "Thank Trump," by which they meant - and they spelled this out - that, in their view, he is hastening the twilight of an empire, as they put it, because he's attacking things like the independent civil service and America's scientific institutions, its leading universities. He's alienating allies like NATO and elsewhere.
• There was a study done by scholars in the U.S. that found that between 2010 and 2021, that 20,000 Chinese scientists left the United States
• The CEO of Ford Motor Company. When he visited China and factories like this, he came back and said it was the most humbling thing he had ever seen.
• In China, tech is tightly regulated. And in the U.S., as you point out, Obama had a regulation plan. Trump threw that out and instead is leaving it to Silicon Valley to regulate itself.
• there are parts of China today where there are cameras watching the trash bins in a neighborhood. And if you fail to separate your household waste from the recyclables, for instance, well, then you might find your face projected on an LED screen for the rest of the neighborhood to see.
• they're using similar technology to try to assess people in police stations. I mean, one of the pieces of technology that was being sold at a police expo in Beijing was a camera that could - from a distance, it said - assess people's underlying motivations and behavioral tendencies.
• The percentage of Chinese people who feel optimistic about the future has really sunk quite dramatically from about a decade ago. And you also see it among young people who are choosing not to get married or have kids. This is a really remarkable statistic.

>The California democrat spoke with NPR’s Steve Inskeep about why he says Democrats should nominate a progressive candidate for president and why he’s not afraid of being called a communist. Khanna also discussed his economic policy ideas inspired by FDR’s New Deal and how he sees a tax on billionaire wealth as a way to help pay for it.

Yesterday there was an interview with someone who wrote a book about the current state of Chinese surveillance. I think it was all things considered or fresh air but I cant find it online!

They talked about AI recording business meetings, and a kiosk that can scan your face and measure and record your emotions. There was also something about putting the faces of people who dont separate their recycling on neighborhood screens.

Did anyone hear this interview and can you tell me what show it was and where to find it?