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Summer music to get through August
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More weird text spam + reading, music, and TV recommendations
Read Max roundup 7/5/2022
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A great Swedish-Egyptian noir movie, rich-kid art, and more underrated trip-hop
Roundup 6/26/2022
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AI Is Going to Put Posters Out of Business
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How to vote in Brooklyn, the best video ever + a trip-hop special
Roundup 6/19/2022
Jun 19
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Is LaMDA Mount Everest?
Considering the Google engineer who believes a chatbot is sentient
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Read Max Roundup 6/12/2022
'Internet for the People,' 'You Can Live Forever,' Elon Musk is a bad poster
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Web3 as a "speculative community"
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