July: a programming note
Read Max slows down
Greetings from Read Max HQ! We’re entering what my former boss Nick Denton used to call “cucumber season,” or uborkaszezon, and while in general I would never let anything like “an absence of real and important news stories” prevent me from clogging your inboxes with 2,000 or so words about some dumb bullshit, I also happen to be moving house, as I’ve written about recently, and taking a vacation to the wonderful state of Maine.
Therefore, in order to maintain my sanity while I pack nearly all my worldly possessions into “Gorilla Bins,” with a short interruption to “relax” in an Adirondack chair listening to the beautiful sound of my child asking to watch Trash Truck, I’m slowing down Read Max’s schedule, dropping down from two guaranteed posts a week to one.
There will be a roundup this weekend as usual, and from there a mix of posts. I will do at least one reader mailbag, so please submit questions about whatever’s on your mind--A.I., bad movies, obscure blogs from the 2000s.
If you’re worried about what you might read on those lonely days between once-a-week Read Max missives, don’t forget to check out the Read Max Reading List. For that matter, check out the Read Max Watch List as well. Both of these compendiums have recently been updated, though they are for paying subscribers only.
Other readers might also enjoy the Read Max A.I. Reading List, an idiosyncratic syllabus of interesting things I’ve read about A.I., which is free to everyone:
I should say that I feel comfortable taking a little “break” because Read Max recently passed the frankly astonishing figure of 23,000 subscribers, a healthy portion of whom actually pay to support the newsletter. I feel lucky to be doing this as a job, and grateful to the people who make that possible. I hope you’ll continue to subscribe for a long time.
Enjoy our beautiful state
Nice use of the word compendium