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Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today’s Read Max Experimental Audio Product is a reading of this week’s newsletter, covering:
* Who is “Leopold Aschenbrenner,” and why is he suddenly a top A.I. influencer?; and
* A short history of the anti-woke finance grift, starring Bill Ackman and Vivek Ramaswamy.
A reminder: The Read Max Experimental Audio Product is supported entirely by paying readers. I’m able to spend time recording this podcast (and eventually moving it out of the “experimental” designation) because of the generosity of paying subscribers. If you enjoy having the newsletter read aloud every week, and you would price your enjoyment at $5 a month (one draft beer or Big Mac, roughly) or more, please consider signing up as a paid subscriber.



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Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s experimental audio product:
* The Google “AI Overview” fiasco, why it was so funny/depressing, and what it tells us about Google
* A theory about the “All Eyes on Rafah” A.I.-generated Instagram image and why it (and not others) went viral
* My pick for “most dangerous app”
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Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s Read Max Experimental Audio Product, I’ll be reading from this week’s newsletter on two items:
* A critical exploration of this week’s announcements from OpenAI and Google, and why I think the new Google search stuff sucks.
* Looking at The New Yorker’s Lucy Letby story as a story about media in the U.S. and the U.K.
In addition to the embed above, the podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts here, as well as many other popular podcast platforms. It can also technically be found on Spotify but I recommend you do not find it there.
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Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s episode of the Read Max Podcast--an experimental audio product in which I read the text of the newsletter for busy and/or illiterate subscribers--we’ll be covering the following:
* What the f**k is up with this weird f*****g recipe video? And what can it tell us about the effect of A.I. on social media?
* Miami watch: Zoomer con-man package-return scam edition
* Celebrating the insane Bitcoin guy who spoke at OSU commencement and made everyone there sing 4 Non Blondes
In addition to the embed above, the podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts here, as well as many other popular podcast platforms. It can also technically be found on Spotify but I recommend you do not find it there.
If you enjoy the Read Max Experimental Audio product please consider subscribing to Read Max, a broadly beloved twice-weekly newsletter guide to the future. Read Max’s independent reporting and criticism is funded almost entirely by paying subscribers, whose generosity is matched only by their mental illness.


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Greetings from Read Max HQ, and please, enjoy this, the second episode of the Read Max Experimental Audio Product--a “podcast”-style reading of this week’s newsletter. In addition to the embed above, the podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts here, as well as many other popular podcast platforms. It can also technically be found on Spotify but I recommend you do not find it there. On the podcast, as well as in this newsletter, I am discussing two items drawn from this week’s newsletter:
* A.I.-generated audio: What is it good for? What is it even good at? And in what ways will it make all of our lives worse?
* Marques Brownlee, the last great gadget blogger
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Greetings from Read Max HQ! I’m very pleased to publish this “experimental Read Max audio product,” which is to say a podcast of me reading this week’s newsletter--with some of the classic off-the-cuff riffing you’ve come to associate with the Read Max brand identity 😎.
In addition to the embed above, the podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts here, or Overcast. It can also technically be found on Spotify but I recommend you do not find it there. On the podcast, as well as in this newsletter, I am discussing two items:
* The current crisis in Hollywood, the danger posed to the time-wasting industry, and the 2001 baseball romance Summer Catch.
* The secret origins of Twitter power user and political candidate Will Stancil.
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