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1 week ago | maxread.substack.com | Max Read

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In today’s newsletter, a new coinage-slash-microgenre: arty thrillers about globalization, which I’m going to call “S.E.Z. Noir”A reminder that this newsletter publishes at the pleasure of its paying subscribers, whose generous contributions allow me to treat it as a full-time job--reading, reporting, thinking, writing, and doing all the other things that mean you get at least one single relatively pleasurable email in your inbox every week.

3 weeks ago | maxread.substack.com | Max Read

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In this week’s edition, “White Genocide Grok.” I had the pleasure of appearing this week on the Double Pivot podcast, where some of the same ideas I’m writing below were discussed--how fortunate that Elon Musk spun out at the same time as we were talking. (We also talked about Tottenham Hotspur.) The podcast is paywalled for now, though if you’re a soccer fan it’s absolutely worth the subscription.

1 month ago | maxread.substack.com | Max Read

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In this week’s dispatch:A further dissection of the differences between the first and second Trump administrations, focused in this case on the sexual fantasies that structure the politics of each; andan examination of Chinese manufacturer TikTok and its response to the Trump tariffs.

2 months ago | maxread.substack.com | Max Read

Greetings from Read Max HQ! In this week’s newsletter, a rundown of a particular flavor of I.Q. discourse on Twitter. A reminder: This newsletter, which comes out at least twice a week and almost always has at least one (1) good joke, is written an edited by one guy (me).

2 months ago | maxread.substack.com | Max Read

Greetings from Read Max HQ! An A.I.-heavy newsletter this week, discussing the new short story generated by a secret OpenAI model (“it got the vibe of metafiction so right,” says Sam Altman) and the continuing use of “A.G.I.” by tech journalists. First, a reminder: This newsletter is the product of a lot of reading, thinking, listening, interviewing, staring at the ceiling, writing, deleting, writing again, etc.