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Mar 5
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22 Apr 2025
Unpopular Front is going on vacation! But I will be streaming live later today with @readmaxread.
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30 Jan 2025
New York magazine is the last great magazine because of the incredible work its staff puts in week after week. They deserve to be paid fairly!
30 Jan 2025
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26 Sep 2024
This week, @NYMag published a very good feature story on low-grade AI-created content taking over the Internet and making it worse. It’s about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop:
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25 Sep 2024
This is a great feature by @readmaxread in the new issue of @NYMag about what happens when human-made content gets replaced by AI slop: nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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16 Jun 2023
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Reddit revolts. Plus: @readmaxread joins to to discuss what we can learn from Mr. Beast. And we debate whether trust and safety was a ZIRP nytimes.com/2023/06/16/podca…
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16 Jun 2023
This week on Hard Fork:
• What's fueling the Reddit revolt?
• Max Read on MrBeast
• Was trust and safety a zero-interest-rate phenomenon?
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12 Jun 2023
I wrote about MrBeast's demonic/genius charity-audience growth flywheel for the New York Times Magazine
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12 Jun 2023
IMO the piece pairs well with my interview with TikTok Baby Gronk specialist "H00pify" in that both are about how Zoomer platform natives understand what they're doing and how it relates to sincerity
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7 Jun 2023
I don’t believe that the air quality is unhealthy bc I think smoking is good for you
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7 Jun 2023
max's substack, maxread.substack.com, is the best ongoing commentary for AI out there right now. Always finds something interesting and mostly avoids the "are we doomed" or "is this bullshit" binary
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7 Jun 2023
New ep! This week, we welcome back our friend @readmaxread for an anniversary chat. We unpack the labor and education dimensions of of A.I. ascendancy and get Max’s inside perspective on the WGA strike.
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30 May 2023
Breaking: 350 leading AI researchers (including the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind) have signed a remarkable statement warning that AI poses a “risk of extinction,” and comparing it to pandemics and nuclear weapons. nytimes.com/2023/05/30/techn…
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30 May 2023
increasingly feels like "opposing sam altman's preferences" is the best heuristic for dealing with a.i. on a policy level, and probably with engaging it with it "philosophically" too
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30 May 2023
screenshots from this post, which i get the sense will have a long shelf life!
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26 Apr 2023
This is a really good idea. Someone should do this. nytimes.com/2020/12/13/busin…
21 Apr 2023
This review of the new Ben Smith book on 2010s era of Buzzfeed and Gawker makes me all the more confident that a Mad Men-esque highbrow drama set in an early 2010s digital media company released in the 2030s could be A .
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"Given this state of affairs it’s hard not to feel like 'Traffic' is making an inadvertent but compelling case that Gawker and BuzzFeed were, in the grand scheme of things, not particularly important." By @readmaxread washingtonpost.com/books/202…
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21 Apr 2023
"There is lots of delusion in this book. There is also a little bit of rivalry. But I have to be honest. I do not think there are any geniuses." washingtonpost.com/books/202…
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