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Wake Up, Sheeple!

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London, and now faces prosecution. On this week’s On the Media, a look at what Assange’s arrest may mean for press freedom. Plus, what the new image of a black hole tell us about the power of science in the face of a conspiracy theory minefield. And,…

Everything Is Fake

On Thursday, President Trump flew down to McAllen, Texas to push his pro-wall, anti-immigrant narrative. This week, On the Media examines how the community tells a more welcoming story about the border — and a dogged presidential fact-checker joins us to pick apart the Oval Office address. Plus, ho…

Are you a "high agency" person?

Are you a “high agency” person?The tech world has been buzzing about the benefits of being a “high agency” person: someone who doesn’t wait for permission to pursue their own agendas. And that idea has been trickling out into the wider culture - for instance, posts that say things like “you can jus…

I, Robot (2004) w/ Max Read | Ep. 70

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.bangbangpod.com Underneath the sneaker product placements and CGI chases through a gleaming 2035 Chicago resides our ever-contested present. Except the film is a mess. The plot wanders, full of dropped threads and convenient or confu…

Talking with Max Read about SCOTUS, Zuck's Chain, Vibe Shifts, the Tate Bros. and more

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.unpopularfront.news The Untitled Read Max Unpopular Front Audio Product is back with a new episode! We’re going to try to get back on our every-two-weeks schedule from now on. Max and I talk about the Supreme Court rulings, Zuckerb…

The Utah Entrepreneur Trying to Remake Pine Bluff, Arkansas

In 2019, John Fenley was 39, newly separated, and living in one of his mother's rental apartments in Provo, Utah. Searching LoopNet for the biggest building at the lowest price, he found a 220,000-square-foot warehouse on 17 acres in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, listed at $375,000. He assumed the price wa…

Episode 574: Cyberswarm

Max Read joins us to talk through OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, the para-influencer network shaping AI policy, swagless CEOs and the return of Effective Altruism Hit the tip line: (646) 801-1129 | tips@trueanon.com Discover more episodes at podcast.trueanon.com

What’s Next for ‘Hard Fork’?

For the next few months on “Hard Fork,” join the guest host Max Read and an array of Times reporters and experts as we zoom out, catch up and try to understand both what’s happening inside the tech industry and what tech is doing to all of us. Meet the Host Max Read has been writing about technolog…

Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals

This week, Max Read talks to the Times religion correspondent Elizabeth Dias, the tech reporter Erin Griffith and the opinion writer David Wallace-Wells about Anthropic’s private meetings with religious scholars on A.I. consciousness and how to make Claude “good,” its differences with the Vatican a…