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2023: The year in weird and stupid futures
Why the internet isn't fun anymore + A.I. and magic
An excellent, funny sci-fi series; a forgotten real-time '90s heist flick; and more
My statement on the situation at Harvard: I simply do not care very much about Harvard
The best ghost stories for December, a great new monster movie, and YouTube nightbus pop
Why I cover A.I. the way I do, good obscure action movies, and other questions from readers
Seeking your questions and your favorite "weird future" stories
The end of business-class A.I. doomerism
The Read Max Holiday Gift Guide
The interested normie's guide to OpenAI drama
David Fincher's new movie 'The Killer' is sigma cinema
Let's clear up a few things about 'Blade Runner' and the cyber truck
What A.I. art spiral images tell us about A.I. (and art)
More reading about Gaza and Israel, an insanely creepy movie for Halloween, and autumnal mixes
"Techno-optimism" is a sign of V.C. crisis
The American "Wicker Man," some great "technothrillers," and a dubstep-jazz-Indian classical LP
An amazing English time-travel fantasy, a great BBC fantasy-mystery, and eerie Irish folk
A.I. and writing: What we won in the strike
What is it with David Brooks and restaurants?
A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
'Brotherhood of the Wolf,' revisited with Indignity's Tom Scocca
Read Max Labor Day sale: 20% off, this week only!
Notes toward a theory of the millennial ambition psycho
A deep-sea domestic horror, a cool noir TV show, and a great debut orchestral pop album
Seeking your questions for a Read Max mailbag
A cult occult fantasy novel, a great drug-war neo-noir, and non-algorithmic algorithm jaxx
The William Friedkin Paranoid-Thriller Double Bill
Smart LeGuin-like sci-fi, a great political kidnapping thriller, and "cyberfunk"
Notes on it's so over/we're so back
Talking with former Threads editor-in-chief Katie Notopoulos
The internet is for 12-year-olds
What to buy in the NYRB summer book sale, a tropical paranoid thriller, and a terrific new RnB album
Why do entertainment executives hate entertainment?
The French 'Heat,' a beautiful book of new folktales, and Malian praise songs
Who is the new Drip King? A conversation with Henry De Tolla, a.k.a. H00pify
The coming pro-smoking discourse
I cannot believe the shit that morons are getting up to with ChatGPT
Do you have horror stories of bad meetings about A.I.?
More reading about A.I., a fun new flick about an iconic tech company, and a great fuzzy indie album
The Read Max A.I. Reading List
A great Y2K corporate-espionage thriller, pre-'Dune 2' reading, and good backpack rap
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Buzzfeed, Gawker, and the end of the 2010s
The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
This I vow to you, David Zaslav, you blackguard, you wretch: only one Max will survive
Every pair of cool sunglasses in the 1992 direct-to-video masterpiece "Nemesis" (dir. Albert Pyun)
An incredible cyberpunk b-movie, some excellent non-tech thrillers, and more
Why would anyone subscribe to a social media platform?
What's happening with Twitter? and other reader questions
Seeking your questions for a Read Max mailbag
What Facebook criticism can teach us about A.I. criticism
What I'm reading about the banking crisis, a Lance Reddick short fantasy film, and more
Lessons from the Silicon Valley Bank bailout
More of what I'm reading about Silicon Valley Bank, Cool Old Michelle Yeoh movies, and more
What happened with Silicon Valley Bank?
Real fake movie posters and fake real stores
A cool cyberpunk-espionage-pirate-adventure sci-fi trilogy, a great '90s neo-noir, and
Can orb unseat cube in the Geometric Solid Power Rankings?
Reading about UFOs, great post-post-punk mixes, and a charming and beautiful Italian comedy
What is the most important tweet of all time?
A.I. Saddam Hussein picks the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl
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An overlooked James Bond classic, excellent college jangle-rock, and more
The greatest crime series of this millennium, fascinating plane-crash mysteries, and more
A.I. Saddam Hussein and A.I. Michel Foucault pick their NFL Conference Championship winners
Matt Yglesias and the secret of blogging
Seven questions to ask about A.I.
A fascinating document of internet subculture and a great sci-fi movie finally on streaming