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A few readers have taken me to task for “missing the point of the film,” which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Here’s my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didn’t follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.
A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin… via @NYTimes
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A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin… via @NYTimes
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New from me: A look at how AI agents are socializing — at dinner parties, on podcasts and as “coworkers.”
As more and more of these things rove the web, we’re still figuring out how to treat them and what to expect when they interact with each other. It’s all very weird and wild.
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In this week's Magazine: New York Times podcaster @readmaxread explains how the logic of gambling took over the entire internet — and the world. nytimes.com/2026/10/04/magaz…
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Highest possible rec for this so far. Chapter 2 on the death of the celebrity profile is the definitive piece on that, imo
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Unpopular Front is going on vacation! But I will be streaming live later today with @readmaxread.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is a really good idea. Someone should do this. nytimes.com/2020/12/13/busin…
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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"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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Great post from @readmaxread about how wonderful @letterboxd is because it lacks an adversarial relationship with its users, it “Doesn’t Make Me Wish I Was Dead.”
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Hi all! If you're in NY on Thursday, I'll be overcoming my fear of public speaking at the KGB Bar Reading Series (curated by @NoreenMalone and Mark Jacobson), with @readmaxread & friends. 7pm, 85 E 4th St. Come hang out!
