One weird trick for fixing Hollywood
04/26/24 • 37 min
Greetings from Read Max HQ! I’m very pleased to publish this “experimental Read Max audio product,” which is to say a podcast of me reading this week’s newsletter--with some of the classic off-the-cuff riffing you’ve come to associate with the Read Max brand identity 😎.
In addition to the embed above, the podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts here, or Overcast. It can also technically be found on Spotify but I recommend you do not find it there. On the podcast, as well as in this newsletter, I am discussing two items:
The current crisis in Hollywood, the danger posed to the time-wasting industry, and the 2001 baseball romance Summer Catch.
The secret origins of Twitter power user and political candidate Will Stancil.
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Greetings from Read Max HQ! I’m very pleased to publish this “experimental Read Max audio product,” which is to say a podcast of me reading this week’s newsletter--with some of the classic off-the-cuff riffing you’ve come to associate with the Read Max brand identity 😎.
In addition to the embed above, the podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts here, or Overcast. It can also technically be found on Spotify but I recommend you do not find it there. On the podcast, as well as in this newsletter, I am discussing two items:
The current crisis in Hollywood, the danger posed to the time-wasting industry, and the 2001 baseball romance Summer Catch.
The secret origins of Twitter power user and political candidate Will Stancil.
A reminder: Read Max is my main source of income and producing it every week is a full-time job. If you find it informative, entertaining, or even just a halfway decent way to kill time, please consider becoming a paying subscriber, at the astonishingly cheap rate of $5/month or $50/year (roughly the cost of buying me a couple Snickers bars every month). Paying subscribers not only improve their karmic standing and transmit goodwill throughout the world, they also get access to the popular weekly reading roundup and recommendations email, where I spotlight overlooked books, movies, and music that are often but not always concerned with the ideas and themes of this newsletter (i.e., the future, the internet, samurais, etc.)
Get full access to Read Max at maxread.substack.com/subscribe
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A.I. and writing: What we won in the strike
Greetings from Read Max HQ in rain-soaked Brooklyn, N.Y.! Today, an emergency experiment: a solo podcast. I was prepared to offer a column today on the A.I. provisions of the Writers Guild of America contract, but our downstairs neighbors’ apartment flooded, my son’s after-school has been canceled, and my wife is trapped in Yonkers (??), which means that my ability to gather my notes together and produce the kind of finely wrought, sparklingly witty, fully error-free newsletter to which you have all become so accustomed is limited. So instead, I sat in my closet and recorded myself talking through the notes I already had, producing what I hope is an at least vaguely coherent riff on the subject, since I know many readers (or, in this case, listeners) will RIOT if they don’t get their weekly dose of b******t from me. I’m sorry for the messiness of production and the various trailing lines of thought; there are already a bunch of things I wish I hadn’t said or had said differently, but that’s the charm of the exciting world of audio podcasts! Anyway, if you’re not really a podcast person there should be an automatically produced transcript, which I will try to clean up at some point. Stay dry out there!
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What is A.I.-generated audio good for?
Greetings from Read Max HQ, and please, enjoy this, the second episode of the Read Max Experimental Audio Product--a “podcast”-style reading of this week’s newsletter. In addition to the embed above, the podcast can be found on Apple Podcasts here, as well as many other popular podcast platforms. It can also technically be found on Spotify but I recommend you do not find it there. On the podcast, as well as in this newsletter, I am discussing two items drawn from this week’s newsletter:
A.I.-generated audio: What is it good for? What is it even good at? And in what ways will it make all of our lives worse?
Marques Brownlee, the last great gadget blogger
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