Max Reid

Yeah, I mean, I have to say, you know, as a journalist and as somebody who writes about the future, making predictions, it felt extremely vindicating to go from a kind of trend piece about how me and a bunch of my friends seem to be turning to group chats to revelations that national security operations at the absolute highest and most top secret level were also being conducted on group chats.

Yeah, I mean, I have to say, you know, as a journalist and as somebody who writes about the future, making predictions, it felt extremely vindicating to go from a kind of trend piece about how me and a bunch of my friends seem to be turning to group chats to revelations that national security operations at the absolute highest and most top secret level were also being conducted on group chats.

Yeah, I mean, I have to say, you know, as a journalist and as somebody who writes about the future, making predictions, it felt extremely vindicating to go from a kind of trend piece about how me and a bunch of my friends seem to be turning to group chats to revelations that national security operations at the absolute highest and most top secret level were also being conducted on group chats.

I mean, not to the best of my knowledge, but there's a couple group chats where I don't know every single phone number in there. And like maybe Michael Waltz is somehow infiltrated and is just waiting to drop some emoji. It gets sucked in.

I mean, not to the best of my knowledge, but there's a couple group chats where I don't know every single phone number in there. And like maybe Michael Waltz is somehow infiltrated and is just waiting to drop some emoji. It gets sucked in.

I mean, not to the best of my knowledge, but there's a couple group chats where I don't know every single phone number in there. And like maybe Michael Waltz is somehow infiltrated and is just waiting to drop some emoji. It gets sucked in.

Well, you know, I'm a father and I would say most of my group chats these days are with other parents of similarly aged kids to coordinate play dates or to do the thing where, you know, it's 3 p.m. on a Sunday and you're going absolutely insane. And so you just have to throw a flag up and really hope that some other parent will meet you at the playground.

Well, you know, I'm a father and I would say most of my group chats these days are with other parents of similarly aged kids to coordinate play dates or to do the thing where, you know, it's 3 p.m. on a Sunday and you're going absolutely insane. And so you just have to throw a flag up and really hope that some other parent will meet you at the playground.

Well, you know, I'm a father and I would say most of my group chats these days are with other parents of similarly aged kids to coordinate play dates or to do the thing where, you know, it's 3 p.m. on a Sunday and you're going absolutely insane. And so you just have to throw a flag up and really hope that some other parent will meet you at the playground.

I mean, a group chat that's almost exclusively about the movie Hunt for Red October, though also sometimes about submarines and fighter jets if they appear in the news. Does it have a clever name? It's called Ramius's Boys after Captain Marco Ramius, who is Sean Connery's character in Hunt for Red October.

I mean, a group chat that's almost exclusively about the movie Hunt for Red October, though also sometimes about submarines and fighter jets if they appear in the news. Does it have a clever name? It's called Ramius's Boys after Captain Marco Ramius, who is Sean Connery's character in Hunt for Red October.

I mean, a group chat that's almost exclusively about the movie Hunt for Red October, though also sometimes about submarines and fighter jets if they appear in the news. Does it have a clever name? It's called Ramius's Boys after Captain Marco Ramius, who is Sean Connery's character in Hunt for Red October.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, exactly.

I'm also in a group chat dedicated to analyzing and reading Ross Douthat columns, the New York Times columnist.

I'm also in a group chat dedicated to analyzing and reading Ross Douthat columns, the New York Times columnist.

I'm also in a group chat dedicated to analyzing and reading Ross Douthat columns, the New York Times columnist.

It's called Douthat Chat Natalists Only. I want to be clear that's an ironic name. I'm not a political natalist or anything, though I have to admit this is one of two Ross Douthat group chats I'm even aware of. There's another one called The Falcon's Children, which is named after Ross's fantasy series. It sounds like I have a really disordered relationship to Ross Douthat.

It's called Douthat Chat Natalists Only. I want to be clear that's an ironic name. I'm not a political natalist or anything, though I have to admit this is one of two Ross Douthat group chats I'm even aware of. There's another one called The Falcon's Children, which is named after Ross's fantasy series. It sounds like I have a really disordered relationship to Ross Douthat.