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Galaxy Brain
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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 worst-case scenario for Elon Musk's Twitter
Apr 29, 2022 - 16 min
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Confessions of an information hoarder
Apr 2, 2022 - 12 min
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The information war isn’t over yet
Mar 13, 2022 - 11 min
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I found the tech angle on the vibe shift
Feb 27, 2022 - 9 min
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The bad ideas our brains can't shake
Feb 20, 2022 - 13 min
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Wordcel vs. rotator brainworms
Feb 13, 2022 - 12 min
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The internet is eating Wordle alive
Jan 31, 2022 - 11 min
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Builder brain
Jan 29, 2022 - 12 min
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The Michael Bay theory of history
Jan 15, 2022 - 12 min
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The US digital-contact-tracing debacle
Jan 14, 2022 - 18 min
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How to spend 432,870 minutes on Spotify in a year
Dec 18, 2021 - 8 min
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The Omicron information vacuum
Dec 12, 2021 - 10 min
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We are running in 'degraded mode'
Dec 4, 2021 - 12 min
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A crypto true believer makes his case
Nov 27, 2021 - 26 min
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Facebook’s vast wasteland
Nov 20, 2021 - 18 min
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On the front lines of the Great Resignation
Nov 14, 2021 - 16 min
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So... what now?
Nov 7, 2021 - 17 min
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Joe Rogan destroys CNN you won't believe what happens next
Oct 29, 2021 - 14 min
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Who gets to have fun at work?
Oct 24, 2021 - 17 min
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Changing the Facebook conversation
Oct 14, 2021 - 12 min
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What do we do with all this rage?
Oct 9, 2021 - 14 min
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The internet's original sin
Oct 1, 2021 - 27 min
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The algorithm tweaks won't save us
Sep 23, 2021 - 11 min
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What if people don’t want "a career"?
Sep 3, 2021 - 13 min
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What happens on Facebook?
Aug 27, 2021 - 14 min
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Never going back again
Aug 19, 2021 - 10 min
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I need to stop scrolling
Aug 10, 2021 - 13 min
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Reasons for vaccine optimism
Aug 5, 2021 - 13 min
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"Air will find a way"
Jul 30, 2021 - 19 min
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The Biden/Facebook fight is part of the problem
Jul 26, 2021 - 13 min
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We are not ready
Jul 19, 2021 - 20 min
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