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Charlie Warzel

@cwarzel.bsky.social
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Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 15h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026
The reporter Mia Sato speaks with @cwarzel.bsky.social about the rise of Meta’s camera-equipped glasses, the backlash to Flock cameras, and what happens when humans are always being recorded. Watch Galaxy Brain:
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What Do We Do About the Cameras Everywhere?
A genuine reckoning with Meta and the surveillance state
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really enjoyed talking with Charlie about what the Meta glasses/Flock backlash tells us about changing expectations of privacy. Gift link for my piece from August on Meta glasses-driven harassment: www.theverge.com/report/98241...
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Meta glasses are a workplace menace
“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW: great pod w/ the excellent @miasato.bsky.social on Meta’s “pervert glasses” and the broader surveillance backlash! The end of this conversation is one of better ones we’ve done on the pod. Plus the intro features a 13 yr old photo of me reluctantly wearing google glass youtu.be/YR3-2KVNrQI?...
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Meta Glasses, Flock, and the Surveillance State
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
finding and trying to establish a real connection btwn my work and audiences has been a part of my job since early web2 times. but i have always noticed that, when my irl community feels strong/supportive i have so little pull to post/social. but whenever i feel more alone social has a pull. fwiw
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i'm always saying this
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
it may just be garden variety greed but i've also been watching LeBron geek out and get deep in golf YouTube the last year. now he's started his own channel. it seems that, more than the $, he just really wants to be an influencer which is a wild thing to want to be as an active nba legend but alas
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
genuinely curious how much they offered him to do this
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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 21/09/2026
day's cottages, north truro, massachusetts, 1984
day's cottages, north truro, massachusetts, 1984
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote a column this weekend on the AI safety debate and how one might try to parse all the different factions and take this quite seriously, without buying into every doomer narrative offered without proof (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Regulation Time Good interview of Lina Khan by @cwarzel.bsky.social. No easy answers but a lot of clarity about things we ought to be considering. alt link: archive.is/qUcR6 www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
theatlantic.com
Lina Khan on Doomer Panic and Ending AI Exceptionalism
Why the AI-alarmism conversation feels off
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i've said it before but this is just a perfect account
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watching the AI doomer panic the last two weeks and I'm struck by all the strident certainty on display about a subject with little transparency and not very much certainty. I wrote about treating AI as an unexceptional crisis and what that involves. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Julie Morgan (she/her) @juliemstudios.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“You should question whether there’s a sustainable business model for these labs. You should question those who argue that we have to build recklessly or lose to China. You should question those who don’t take seriously the prospect that China doesn’t want to slow down.”
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watching the AI doomer panic the last two weeks and I'm struck by all the strident certainty on display about a subject with little transparency and not very much certainty. I wrote about treating AI as an unexceptional crisis and what that involves. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
what i mean here is when the *airline* starts boarding before the scheduled time which happened tonight and i almost missed my flight lol
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
firm belief: it’s wrong and bad to board a flight *before* the scheduled boarding time.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW (live!) POD: Lina Khan on Doomer Panic and Ending AI Exceptionalism youtu.be/lOI50oMkoHU?...
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AI Is Not Exempt From the Law
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
such a good genre of story!
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
...more unnecessary gesticulating with my hands to come as soon as we publish the pod! idk maybe subscribe to Galaxy Brain wherever you get your pods pls tysvm
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
spoke to Lina Khan today about the AI madness and what the hell we should be doing to hold these companies accountable (in a way that takes their power seriously but doesn't buy into every narrative) full pod coming in the AM!
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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 14/09/2026
We do not need to “accept all cookies” when it comes to tech innovation for the sake of innovation 😤 Atlantic writer @cwarzel.bsky.social and @hasanminhaj.com discuss how people are rejecting AI and pushing back — unlike the initial widespread acceptance of social media. youtu.be/z7lQdkiQfo4?...
"We're not just going to consent — we're not going to accept all cookies on your vision of society and the way that humanity goes."

"Couldn't agree more, brother. Reject all."
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
great pod this week (feat. a lil ai writing rant from me at the top)
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
great pod this week (feat. a lil ai writing rant from me at the top)
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
as a thank you: here is a meat vending machine i just stumbled upon in a small german town on the austrian border.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
holy crap! the lil pod we make cracked the top 200 of all pods on Spotify! it’s been so fun and gratifying to learn this skill and i love doing it so much. we are only 199 behind joe rogan but *i bet* if some ppl here listened, subbed, or dropped a review we could scare 175 by tomorrow (my birthday)
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It‘s Jon Ronson day on the pod! This is a really freaking good one. Jon and I have circled the same subjects for a while (Alex Jones being the biggest) and there’s a moment in this pod where I realize a story of mine changed one of the lives of a character in his newest book youtu.be/MkaZ4OrbQn8?...
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Why So Many Men Are Unraveling
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It‘s Jon Ronson day on the pod! This is a really freaking good one. Jon and I have circled the same subjects for a while (Alex Jones being the biggest) and there’s a moment in this pod where I realize a story of mine changed one of the lives of a character in his newest book youtu.be/MkaZ4OrbQn8?...
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Why So Many Men Are Unraveling
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So today OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, which it called "the world’s most intelligent and aligned model." Also in the system card, from third-party evaluator Apollo Research:
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this account just really delivers all the time man
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Extremely fun life event alert. @hasanminhaj.com asked me to come on his excellent podcast to...uh...discuss what is basically my life's work. Our info hellscape, the blurring of reality, psy-op panic, AI. Humbling and a thrill to get a chance to talk about it all this way youtu.be/z7lQdkiQfo4?...
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The Internet Is Fake - with Charlie Warzel
YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/09/2026
All of the dizzying AI-enabled disorientations of today add up to something bigger: Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now, @matteowong.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social argue:
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A Technological Reckoning With No Great Answers
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wrote a big essay w/ @matteowong.bsky.social trying to put a finger on this moment in AI right now. The AI agent hacks, lack of control, the weirdening & slopping of culture. The feeling that the industry is speeding toward something it can’t even decide is good and lecturing that it is inevitable.
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The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
i know this is what "i never thought the leopards would eat my face" is exactly describing. but i'd argue what something like the Milo incident shows is that their version is even shallower than that. they're playing GTA and everyone but them is an NPC. life's barely real to them.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wrote a big essay w/ @matteowong.bsky.social trying to put a finger on this moment in AI right now. The AI agent hacks, lack of control, the weirdening & slopping of culture. The feeling that the industry is speeding toward something it can’t even decide is good and lecturing that it is inevitable.
theatlantic.com
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems
Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
i'm well aware of what's actually going on here. however, just on its own, written this way, this sounds p funny
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
extremely curious about exact the degree to which the president is fully encased in a slop-generated alternate reality
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
resharing this weeks pod on the scrolling backlash for your weekend scrolling pleasure youtu.be/3K6eXyP7NR8?...
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Why Everybody Wants to Touch Grass Right Now
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you liked the Chicago Rat Hole, you’ll LOVE the Brooklyn Potato Chasm
A pothole full of potatoes
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW POD WITH JULIE IT IS GOOD PLS LISTEN YOU WILL LIKE TYSVM
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#4
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Matt Zeitlin @zeitlin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It's very very hot in Texas. But the grid is fine. Electricity prices are manageable. What happened? 🔋🔋🔋🔋BATTERIES!!! 🔋🔋🔋 heatmap.news/energy/texas...
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The Texas Grid Has Had a Boring Summer Thanks to Batteries
Temperatures are high, but electricity drama is low.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The phrase "may their memory be a blessing" can feel like something people just say. But every time somebody amazing dies I'm struck anew by the beauty of how a life well-lived and in service to others (which is itself a gift) transforms into yet another offering (often, a lesson in how to live)
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
you know what, yeah, that is who I want to hear a tribute from here
Shoney's pays tribute to Dolly Parton
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
not disagreeing w/ ben here. what i will say is that it's pretty common w/ rich ppl that they already have underlings writing their op-eds/comms for them. what'w noticeable is the post-shame ethos moving into AI use. true bummer that so many ppl in power don't seem to want to fight for human work
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
weird, wild world out there
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R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com · 20/08/2026
“Generative AI, for all of its utility, is a homogenizing technology. Despite being trained on the glorious quirks of humankind’s creative canon, the models push our ersatz artistic output into a bland, muddled middle ground. The majority of content that I consumed on Fairground was…forgettable”
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
was an absolute blast to hang and talk about the lovely lil dystopia we've built for ourselves
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
As somebody on X commented: "Roku: At Last, We've Created Infinite Jest, The TV Channel That Kills You"
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