the shooters all know this too btw!! better than almost anyone else!!

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deeply appreciate the chotiner interview project as historical documentation of the vacuity/sociopathy of elites. but its funny to me when people say "i can't believe anyone picks up the phone!" because like... why wouldnt they? whats gonna happen?

This is a really good analysis of the (alleged) Charlie Kirk shooter, and the fallacy of playing "Is he one of us or one of them?" in a era that's too dominated by weird niches to be truly polarized. @maxread.info maxread.substack.com/p/what-type-...

if you want to put in melinda cooper terms you could note that paramount-skydance and sinclair are both family-controlled firms while disney is one of the archetypal public companies of the era

"People were calling me a 30-year-old fucking millennial who doesn't understand online culture, who themselves were 30-year-old millennials who were just talking completely out of their ass about this." maxread.substack.com/p/what-type-...

"So this is the latest evolution of band kids. Kind of cloying, desperate for approval, really liable to get into unfunny in-jokes, furry references. 'Hey fascist, catch this'--an epic video game reference...He's trying to be epic." maxread.substack.com/p/what-type-...

really good exploration of silicon valley's collective nervous breakdown as its anxieties about deskilling, diminishing returns, etc manifest themselves in self-flattering memes. total sweaty desperation. look at my leading industry dawg we're all going to die

this is good and cautious maxread.substack.com/p/what-type-...

millennial-zoomer peace talks with @ettingermentum.bsky.social getting to the bottom of why he was able to tell immediately that tyler robinson was not a groyper while people my age assumed he was

tired: thiel lawsuit was the trump-prefiguring gawker event wired: gamergate was the trump-prefiguring gawker event inspired: commenters flipping out because richard jokingly called them "peasants" in a private chat was the trump-prefiguring gawker event

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im hearing he was a disturbed person with functionally illegible politics

not an iron law or anything but basically every assassination attempt on a political figure over the last 20 years has turned out to be driven by a disturbed person with functionally illegible politics

the ongoing @waxy.org investigation into the a.i.-edited will smith videos is partially an example of my "a.i. or brazilian?" principle: sometimes a thing you think is so weird it *has* to be a.i. (sobbing will smith fans??) is actually just non-american (in this case, swiss)

LIVE on substack right with @lioneltrolling.bsky.social talking AI, the trump tech summit, epstein, and more open.substack.com/live-stream/...

has anyone actually managed to buy tickets to a vistavision screening of one battle after another at the union square regal? both the regal site and app seem to make it impossible

im always thinking there should be more places where building legos intersects with gambling and child predators

New York magazine asked me to explore Roblox and report back on what the hell is going on in there. I found kids are bombarded with covert ads, casino-style manipulation, and nonstop enticements to spend their parents' money. nymag.com/intelligence...

i incorrectly assumed that trump's note to epstein was an unspeakably weird confession written in a skin-crawling lyrical whisper because trump is an unspeakably weird guy. but it turns out every single note in the book is an unspeakably weird confession written in a skin-crawling lyrical whisper

ive been writing about this for years and i still find myself taken aback at how completely platforms have abdicated any kind of oversight or moderation over the last three or four years

i saw a guy on twitter complaining that tottenham was the only "big six" team not to win a PL or FA cup during levy's tenure. brother, daniel levy is the reason you're talking about "big six" at all!!

On Daniel Levy: www.linkedin.com/posts/omar-c...

The complete list of clubs to break the Premier League's "Big Four" without oil money: Tottenham Hotspur. That's it. Levy did what nobody else could do. You can complain about a lot of choices he made (I have), but all that money he made the club made them winners far beyond any peer.

Wrote this two years ago and I think it holds up really well! bsky.app/profile/mich...

this is good maxread.substack.com/p/is-the-ai-...

Really good look at the state of AI tech and why the initial wave of enthusiasm and curiosity shown for the technology may be turning a corner, via @maxread.info maxread.substack.com/p/is-the-ai-...

always read max: maxread.substack.com/p/is-the-ai-...

Regarding the tragic death of Adam Raine, there are already narratives forming that blame vague "dangers of AI" or a broader moral panic. But this is not a story about the faceless perils of superintelligence. It's about a $500 billion tech company's core software product encouraging child suicide.

is the "a.i." "bubble" "bursting"? or, four ways to consider a vibe shift maxread.substack.com/p/is-the-ai-...

the funniest thing about this is getting an email or a postcard every couple months letting me know that a company i barely remember interacting with owes me $7.65 which i can receive in the form of a target card

I hope Andy Reid gets put at a table with the Haim sisters

"Unsurprisingly, the 'allow unmoderated sociopaths to do what they want on camera provided they also sometimes gamble' strategy has proven to be extremely popular among young men around the world." maxread.substack.com/p/who-killed...

hey @maxread.info has the best explainer of the dead French livestreamer thing my kid was trying to explain to me today maxread.substack.com/p/who-killed...

"This kind of hands-off-my-torture-slop reaction should be unsurprising to anyone familiar with the petulant, reactionary culture of young male livestreamers and their fans" maxread.substack.com/p/who-killed...

if akliouche is really the other target this is like god closing a window and opening a door

my team is never beating the allegations dog

powell slowing down a bit here here... 840-word piece in august and 1333-word piece in june after a 2098-word piece (about one of the stupidest red-asses in baseball) in may and a 4468-word feature in March.... can he hit 10,000 words this year?

"... what could be more normal, in Silicon Valley, than people weeping on a message board because a UX change has transformed the valence of their addiction?"

what if ai is a "continuity" technology rather than a "change" technology? maxread.substack.com/p/ai-as-norm...

can’t tell you how honored I am to be featured on daring fireball… truly the thrill of a lifetime daringfireball.net/2025/08/max_...

imo 'sports misery' occurs as a circle not a spectrum--when your team is complete dogshit you achieve an unstressed freedom only otherwise found in fans of multi-year championship dynasties. true misery is eternal mid-ness, year-in year-out ~.500, one or two beloved stars wasting their careers

every product you order now looks beautiful in photos, but when it comes, it's made of a new, ultrabrittle plastic that fills your home with mysterious nanoparticles, and when you peel off the sticker that says Oak & Hen or something, there's a logo underneath that says SCOOB HOME

ocean's 12, the manchurian candidate, shutter island

very much enjoyed this @maxread.info post about elara voss and stomp clap hey! i'll only add that "elias vance" and derivatives are almost definitely drawn from the amount of half-life posting out there. long live dr. eli vance maxread.substack.com/p/who-is-ela...

would be a really funny transfer (complimentary) for like six different reasons... lord i see what you've done for others

crucial link to heritage craft on the left side of the chart with Taavo Somer, his Freemans (2004) and AvroKO’s Public (2003) as the LES establishments that shaped the next decade of aesthetics, call it deadstock design

*I blame a statistical agglomeration of science-fiction cliché borne of oversampling video-game wikis. #EliasVance #ElaraVoss maxread.substack.com/p/who-is-ela...