1
What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?
Digging into the world of "pig-butchering" scams
Max Read
Read Max is now on Patreon! Don't subscribe below! Instead, visit and subscribe at https://maxread.email. Click to read "Read Max - Now on Patreon!", a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
- Popular posts
- 8
- Total points
- 2,147
- HN comments
- 1,755
- Rank
- #756 personal
Visit maxread.substack.com → RSS feedOn Hacker News Oct 2021 – Feb 2025
Society, Policy & Culture 7Life, Learning & Writing 4AI & Machine Learning 2Security & Privacy 1Crypto & Blockchain 1Tech Industry & Business 1
2
A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials
Exploring the Applecore style
3
The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022)
A Hackernews comment introduces a new character
4
“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated
Dreams are newsletters from the deep
5
Is Web3 Bullshit?
And is that even the right question?
6
The Zizians and the rationalist death cult
What is the deal with Rationalism and cults?
7
A journey into Kindle AI slop hell
A journey into Kindle A.I. slop hell with Leah Beckmann
8
The A.I. business influencer guys must be stopped
Please let's stop predicting the future of A.I.