phrenology confirms this, so many keepers have clear "baseball player face" ... these are all 800 OPS guys you can just tell

good LLM writing and good human writing have the same problem--lots of resources required to create an idiosyncratic (and likely polarizing) voice for which there usually isn't much demand. in a real sense "why ai writing is mid" and "why most professional writing is mid" have the same answer(s)

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genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

the decision to make these movies turgid auteurist slogs with rigid continuity for 30somethings who reply to "DiscussingFilm" is one of the pre-eminent signs of the decline of the west

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

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god he would have been an INCREDIBLE wide receiver if the US had annexed holland for some reason

realizing that cameron winter's mom is the woman who wrote the brooklyn open-marriage memoir from a couple years ago, and mentally adjusting to the fact that basically any way you slice it i am a member of her cohort and not his

Good (if characteristically blogstyle) Max Read on “platform temperance” and big tech as big tobacco. Dickish of me to say, but may I once again note that I made exactly the cigarette comparison, down to the details, in 2012, a time before The Atlantic’s CMS natively supported deks or top images.

Interesting post: maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

good @maxread.info newsletter on @wertwhile.bsky.social's (also good) proposal for a new strategy in big tech regulation the grip of Brooklyn Soccer Dads on the discourse has never been tighter maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

"One way of thinking about the past half-decade or so of life on the internet is that we’ve all become test subjects in a grand experiment to see just how bad 'good enough' can be." Good essay by the villain max read. maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

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this has been updated slightly since originally published to draw in some other environmental factors contributing to the discourse, and also to illustrate some of the caution i feel based on the tiktok ban/sale maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

on an emerging movement in the discourse: "platform temperance" maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

This by @maxread.info is really interesting on shift from a liberal-market critique of Big Tech to a (potentially far more potent) public health critique maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

on an emerging movement in the discourse: "platform temperance" maxread.substack.com/p/platform-t...

visualizations like this arent per se bad but they are basically designed to foment bitter factional fights on short text sites like this one bc they imply a ghost candidate reverse-engineered from a set of policies when most of us experience politics as a real candidate from whom positions flow

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something about so funny about watching wemby highlights like ... why didn't they simply make the really tall guys good at basketball before ??

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as i tired to suggest in my post last week, chatgpt's absurd growth and the culture/incentives of silicon valley have cursed the company (and investors) to chase facebook-type revenues--and, worse facebook-type revenue models maxread.substack.com/p/can-openai...

i think this is true, though id add is that everything is becoming “tv” without an FCC or union labor, two key institutional checks on the otherwise maximal corrosiveness of tv. (though of course reality TV and cable has meant that TV has also mostly become TV without an FCC or union labor)

whole other post to be written about the cars in the first 1/2 of obaa--the taurus, the olds wagon, plus smith's '68 mustang (same year as bullitt's), gorgeous and certainly the only pantheon Classic--pta lingers on it, and having smith change it to a swagless 2013 for the chase is a cool choice

This is a really fun and fascinating piece that digs into a reall interesting part of the movie! It got me thinking about other things the vehicle choices communicate. Great piece!

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Adding my voice to the chorus of praise for this Max Read piece on the cars in OBAA. I clocked the visual references in the car chase scene to Sugarland Express, Duel, and Two-lane Blacktop, but missed the more direct connection to Bullitt. Good good stuff.

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so glad someone's writing about the most important character in One Battle After Another: Bob's purple 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R maxread.substack.com/p/the-oscar-...

this is so good and now I need to go back and watch the final chase again

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This is such a good write-up, it really opened up some of the things being messaged in the car chase I didn’t quite have the information to understand. The shot described with the three cars is also one of my favorites in OBAA.

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I saw the movie last night and I’ve been thinking about this Nissan ever since

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

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