Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today’s Read Max Experimental Audio Product is a reading of this week’s newsletter, covering:

* Who is “Leopold Aschenbrenner,” and why is he suddenly a top A.I. influencer?; and

* A short history of the anti-woke finance grift, starring Bill Ackman and Vivek Ramaswamy.

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