Charlie Warzel
@cwarzel.bsky.social
Writer. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
@cwarzel.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social why the tech oligarchs’ grand vision for the future feels so profoundly anti-human: "They don't seem to be able to articulate a brilliant vision of what the future looks like, because I think their imaginations are really, really small."
the truth can be uncomfortable for a lot of people
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterdayAI is a very useful tool
"Elon Musk lost, in one trading day, more than Bill Gates' entire net worth.” @cwarzel.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social how Elon Musk turned his unprecedented wealth into unchecked political power.
Claire Stapleton, who organized an employee walkout at Google in 2018, talks with @cwarzel.bsky.social about what sparked it. Watch Galaxy Brain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzw...
haven’t shared this here but 2 years ago i lost a bet playing golf in Ireland where the loser had to get hair extensions and I paid it off last week (back in Ireland) with a mullet. please enjoy.
"they're trying to rerun p'nut but they're juiceless" almost makes it to my lips as the lights go out in my head
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 2w agoevery day i feel like we're experiencing some kind of societal gas leak
every day i feel like we're experiencing some kind of societal gas leak
New POD ALERT: AI MAKING THINGS EXPENSIVE BECAUSE OF THE MEMORY SHORTAGE (i promise i'm getting a haircut soon) youtu.be/cMTp5SuuXlA?...
How AI Is Causing an Affordability Crisis
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ah well apparently this was a parody account. i think im washed.
🎶 i am a lineman for the county 🎶
Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 2w agoWTH? LOL
so much going on here but all i can think about right now is that i'd really like to have an official regional sponsor for when i leave the united states 'Dunhill, the official regional sponsor of charlie when he has a cigarette in europe because an occasional dart doesn't count there on vacation'
Dave Lee@davelee.me · 2w agoInbox: "Faraday & Future becomes the Official Regional Sponsor of the Argentine National Team in North America" I see
what a great article — I had no idea about any of this. There are only 25 IMAX 70mm theaters in all of America!! They can’t make new IMAX projectors because they don’t have the plans anymore! They had to track down broken ones ahead of “The Odyssey” and fix them!! variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Why Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? ‘It’s Not Practical,’ Company Says
'The Odyssey' has spiked interest in IMAX70mm showings, but the company explains why building more is 'not practical.'
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I'm not the greatest headline writer, in part because at the end of writing something, I've usually given it enough of my time/brainspace that it's difficult to have to sum it all up in a catchy, pithy way. but it gets clearer each year that for so many people the hed/dek are the product (it sucks!)
Tim Marchman@timmarchman.bsky.social · 2w agoI don’t know how to convince anyone of this, but the hundreds or thousands of words many publications run below the headline aren’t decorative. Often they contain nuance that doesn’t fit into ten words.
when im posting to all of you this is how i imagine our dynamic
Magda watches Arthur forcing down his morning bowl of honey. She remembers when they used to talk, when they used to touch. Now it's just honey all the time. All the doorknobs and drawer handles are sticky. All the spoons are glued together with crusted honey. There are angry bees at the door.
such a good, sad window. these side quest conspiracies are just desperate attempts to protect an alternate reality they've been fed algorithmically. the utter popularity of this film is evidence that they live in a bubble of insanity. so they recruit new "evidence" so as not to confront that truth
Sal Gentile@salgentile.bsky.social · 2w agothe odyssey discourse is a beautiful perfect window into right wing culture war psychosis. they went from hysterial racist mania over a character that’s on screen for 5 minutes to claiming there’s a massive conspiracy to fake ticket sales. this is just what they do for everything now. they’re insane
having now seen the odyssey, i think the only way to view the reactionary freak out over it is to see it a victory for normal ppl everywhere. if you’re so brain poisoned that you can’t enjoy *that* time at the movies then i think you’ve already lost whatever war you think you’re fighting
great pod today with America's hardest working man, ROGER BENNETT (feat. me in my senegal kit) youtu.be/fClQ-zo52zo?...
How the World Cup Finally Won Over America | Roger Bennett
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The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3w agoThis week on Galaxy Brain, @cwarzel.bsky.social talks with the soccer podcaster Roger Bennett about what the World Cup has taught us about national pride, collective memory, and the internet in 2026:
In 2020 I wrote about wildfires and the desperation and anxiety a lot of people feel out west feel when the smoke settles in and smothers. Anyhow it led to me going on MSNBC to (animatedly, i guess) talk about it and my friend ended up taking what is the single funniest screen grab of me of all time
A very good @annehelen.bsky.social on normal gossip slop on Facebook and the strange interaction of decaying social networks and algorithms that push us to very odd places www.patreon.com/CultureStudy...
Confessions of a Facebook Normal Gossip Junkie | Culture Study
This week's episode of the Culture Study Podcast is all about the Heartthrobs of 2026 and it is a romp, a bop, and a pleasure for all involv
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who will buy me the chatgpt basketball from the openai store
i don't wanna be hyperbolic but somebody please end my life
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w agoSpotted while out and about
interesting piece that scratches also at my personal hobbyhorse which is that nobody knows what anyone else is actually consuming/thinking/where they're hanging out online/what they really believe and so many factions and arguments online are different people shadowboxing imagined people/audiences
Alex Kirshner@alexkirshner.com · 3w agoGraham Platner's collapse is an indictment of what Twitter has done to people's brains, and a major W for this platform and the general idea of "not spending time in Elon Musk's sandbox" slate.com/technology/2...
