Charlie Warzel

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New app enthusiast. Huge app guy. Staff writer for The Atlantic.

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Wrote about watching information travel in the hours after the assassination attempt. How the machine isn't broken (it works perfectly) &how it makes sense that the ppl investing/supporting the machine are behind Trump, a man made in the machine's image www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This Is What Happens When News Breakswww.theatlantic.com The chaotic aftermath of the assassination attempt shows a toxic information system working as designed.

lol so i talked to sam altman and arianna huffington about their proposed ai health coach venture (vaporware) and they couldn’t even tell me if it would be an app or not. so i ended up writing about how ai is a faith-based technology www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

AI Has Become a Technology of Faithwww.theatlantic.com Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington told me that they believe generative AI can help millions of suffering people. I’m not so sure.

ngl my twitter feed rn is chiller and more helpful than this place which seems to be focused on pretty toxic and pointless infighting (and we all know twitter is hell!)

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Living on the West Coast during Opinion Season, there are some mornings where I log on and

never tell your bosses about your hobbies because if you do, two jabronies will rant about it during a presidential debate and you’ll have to write about golf handicaps and existential dread t.co/O4xfeBqWyY

Fore More Yearst.co Two presidential candidates argue about who’s better at hitting a ball. Nobody wins.

"we bought a certain dog"

This is a hilariously incoherent answer from Trump to a question about opioid addiction

mood rn

the cool thing about the debate is how there's like almost no possible outcome that will leave me feeling anything but a nagging sense of vague dread about the future

this smart point is also why generative AI stuff frustrates me so much. obviously technology can aid creativity (there are untold examples of that!) but it's not a shortcut for craft. it's very very hard to optimize the creative process because sometimes all it demands is time/attempts/failure.

Writing is not linearly productive. You can write something no one wants and spend months or years on it; it’s not wasted time. It’s time spent learning how to do things you’ll put into practice elsewhere, so long as you don’t get discouraged and stop.

Got the opportunity to write about a band i love (@goosetheband) that is pushing the boundaries of a genre i love (jam bands). hopefully, this captures 1/100000th of the magic www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

The Improbable, Unstoppable Rise of Goosewww.theatlantic.com Meet the jam band that just might persuade you to love a jam band.

this is obviously incredibly dickish behavior from the Medium CEO but there's also something clarifying and useful about the exchange. he's basically saying: trust us when we tell you we don't care about you/creating something that can sustain creative work.

We're not sending our best to media leadership positions. Holy shit. Medium CEO on Threads says to @bcmerchant.bsky.social that the journalists the company hired, then laid off, SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER!

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look. there's no "us" in torment nex—. ok fine. there's no "me" in torm—

wrote about open ai and manifest destiny www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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They let me put my 'toilet theory' of the internet in the magazine www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Toilet Theory of the Internetwww.theatlantic.com Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.

They let me put my 'toilet theory' of the internet in the magazine www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Toilet Theory of the Internetwww.theatlantic.com Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.

Time Zone Rankings 1. MTN - A perfect remove from the tyranny of EST without being alienated (sports start at like 5pm, which rules) 2. PST. Mornings are bad, but you basically dont work after 2pm. 3. EST - A tyrant. But if you're on it you can feel smug. 4. Central - bleh, blah. just be EST already

America’s Worst Time Zonewww.theatlantic.com Where the clocks are off in both directions

hanging out with our friends kids watchin tv and i can’t unsee this

Hi. Hello. A question/request! Does anyone here know a person who could, theoretically digitize some old video footage (not sure exactly what kind of tapes yet) and isolate the audio. It is not for a story, but for a v good cause and I am happy to explain more if you are somebody who could help!

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what a world

People got big mad at Apple's iPad commercial and i had a good time with @dlberes writing about why (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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I’m visiting the Lawrence Public Library and found what is possibly the strongest opener for any book ever

I regret to inform you that I've written about the Sphere again as well as Phish, a band you may have feelings about (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Sphere Is the Mind Killerwww.theatlantic.com What it’s like to groove on Earth’s only LED moon.

this was excellent www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/college-is...

College Is an Education in Bullshitwww.hamiltonnolan.com The value of universities is in revealing how they themselves suck.

this is TREMENDOUS content channel-6.ghost.io/enter-mike-g...

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Here’s what the national guard bullshit is really about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

thrilled to report that i've weighed in on the TikTok ban theatlantic.com/technology/a...

yes but also since trump came down the escalator i feel like every time i see something just flagrantly and incredibly stupid from a politician (the kind of shit where you just laugh and go, ‘man that’s dumb!’) i feel like somehow that thing becomes something i’m forced to see or think about daily

no you're not

so sick that all this stuff is on pace to consume as much energy as the world's most populous country by 2030

i'm fuckin dying

Last month Roku TVs held a bunch of people hostage, disabling TVs unless they accepted a ToS agreement. I wrote about how we are in a golden age of user hostile consumer products and the pervasive sense that the quality of the things we buy is decaying (GIFT LINK) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostilitywww.theatlantic.com They don’t make ’em like they used to!