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By Charlie Warzel
A weekly newsletter from journalist and author Charlie Warzel. Warzel is a writer and reporter who covers the intersection of technology, politics, and culture. Formerly a writer-at-large for the New York Times Opinion page and a senior technology writer at BuzzFeed News, he was the recipient of a 2019 Mirror Award for his reporting on Facebook's privacy struggles. Galaxy Brain explores how technology changes everything it touches, specifically, how the modern internet harnesses huge pools of collective attention and influences the way that we behave.
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The Biden/Facebook fight is part of the problem
Jul 26, 2021 - 13 min

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The worst-case scenario for Elon Musk's Twitter
Apr 29, 2022 - 16 min

Confessions of an information hoarder
Apr 2, 2022 - 12 min

The information war isn’t over yet
Mar 13, 2022 - 11 min

I found the tech angle on the vibe shift
Feb 27, 2022 - 9 min

The bad ideas our brains can't shake
Feb 20, 2022 - 13 min

Wordcel vs. rotator brainworms
Feb 13, 2022 - 12 min

The internet is eating Wordle alive
Jan 31, 2022 - 11 min

Builder brain
Jan 29, 2022 - 12 min

The Michael Bay theory of history
Jan 15, 2022 - 12 min

The US digital-contact-tracing debacle
Jan 14, 2022 - 18 min

How to spend 432,870 minutes on Spotify in a year
Dec 18, 2021 - 8 min

The Omicron information vacuum
Dec 12, 2021 - 10 min

We are running in 'degraded mode'
Dec 4, 2021 - 12 min

A crypto true believer makes his case
Nov 27, 2021 - 26 min

Facebook’s vast wasteland
Nov 20, 2021 - 18 min

On the front lines of the Great Resignation
Nov 14, 2021 - 16 min

So... what now?
Nov 7, 2021 - 17 min

Joe Rogan destroys CNN you won't believe what happens next
Oct 29, 2021 - 14 min

Who gets to have fun at work?
Oct 24, 2021 - 17 min

Changing the Facebook conversation
Oct 14, 2021 - 12 min

What do we do with all this rage?
Oct 9, 2021 - 14 min

The internet's original sin
Oct 1, 2021 - 27 min

The algorithm tweaks won't save us
Sep 23, 2021 - 11 min

What if people don’t want "a career"?
Sep 3, 2021 - 13 min

What happens on Facebook?
Aug 27, 2021 - 14 min

Never going back again
Aug 19, 2021 - 10 min

I need to stop scrolling
Aug 10, 2021 - 13 min

Reasons for vaccine optimism
Aug 5, 2021 - 13 min

"Air will find a way"
Jul 30, 2021 - 19 min

The Biden/Facebook fight is part of the problem
Jul 26, 2021 - 13 min

We are not ready
Jul 19, 2021 - 20 min
