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You’re reading Read Max, a newsletter about the future, action movies, and occult technology. This is a Friday edition, a roundup of links, videos, reader mail, stupid riffs, and other ways to waste your afternoon. Have a good weekend. I’ll be back with another column on Tuesday.

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