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The death of a livestreamer| maxread.substack.com
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The future of A.I. is more Facebook, not jobs in space| Read Max
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A Read Max re-run: How to be a successful content entrepreneur| Read Max
Special Edition Roundup 07/20/2025| maxread.substack.com
Epistemic arrogance in Silicon Valley| maxread.substack.com
A Read Max re-run: Exploring the Applecore style| Read Max
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PLUS: Is Iran War discourse as stupid as Iraq War discourse?| maxread.substack.com
A guest post from Sam Biddle| maxread.substack.com
The function of Based Zuck| maxread.substack.com
Podcast on Podcast: John Ganz and I talk about Peter Thiel on Ross Douthat| Read Max
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PLUS: The future of sophisticated, hostile pricing| maxread.substack.com
Roundup 06/16/2025| Read Max
Plus: Why everyone cares about the "optics" of Los Angeles protests| Read Max
PLUS: What are ChatGPT-generated book reviews for?| maxread.substack.com
Is there such a thing as "music for Instagram Reels"?| maxread.substack.com
What is a Theo Von, an Adin Ross, a Nelk?| maxread.substack.com
Fincher as greentext auteur| maxread.substack.com
PLUS: All the awful Olympics ads about A.I.| maxread.substack.com
Plus: More on Hawk Tuah and the Zynternet| maxread.substack.com
Plus, for some reason, some thoughts about the debate| maxread.substack.com
A journey into Kindle A.I. slop hell with Leah Beckmann| maxread.substack.com
Who is “Leopold Aschenbrenner"? PLUS: Bill Ackman, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the anti-woke finance grift.| maxread.substack.com
Platforms vs. LLMs. PLUS: "All Eyes on Rafah"| maxread.substack.com
PLUS: U.S. and U.K. media: What if both are bad?| maxread.substack.com
Plus: whatever happened to the "intellectual dark web"?| maxread.substack.com
Plus: a genealogy of the "apocalyptic systems thriller"| maxread.substack.com
Plus: What's up with Miami? And is 'Oppenheimer' a super-hero movie?| maxread.substack.com
Gemini's woke A.I., Taylor Lorenz x Chaya Raichik, and the death of scenes| maxread.substack.com
A taxonomy of 9/11 movies, Part One| maxread.substack.com
Notes toward a theory of the Dad Thriller| maxread.substack.com
Self-promotion for the holidays| maxread.substack.com
It's not funny, V.C.s only do this when they’re in extreme distress.| maxread.substack.com
Looking back on the second year of this newsletter| maxread.substack.com
Exploring the Applecore style| maxread.substack.com
How to be a successful content entrepreneur| maxread.substack.com
Please let's stop predicting the future of A.I.| maxread.substack.com
It's the Read Max Gadget Corner| maxread.substack.com
