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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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