Charlie Warzel

jeff epstein and so many ai guys just barely missed each other

anyone else tasting metal all the time?

spongebob big guy pants okay

spongebob big guy pants okay

once again forced to conclude that the cultural dynamic of late 2025 is 'i have lead poisoning' or 'there is a gas leak'

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

perhaps these creeps don't experience it this way but it sure seems like they're all positively miserable and pretending otherwise

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal When QAnon meets Veep

guess i should link the story lol www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

this is so well said by elias and really what i was trying to get at in my story earlier this week. those emails just feel like the final nail in the coffin re: 'the ruling class'

pop leo pls come on my new podcast to talk algorithms

few ideologies with a higher batting average than trump derangement syndrome

YouTube video by The Atlantic Hank Green: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better | Galaxy Brain

Friends! Here is the first episode of a new podcast i'm hosting. I'm thinking of it as a way of trying to have more of the conversations I have w/ smart ppl about the internet/politics/broken attention economy in public. first guest is the great @hankgreen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=A492...

great call! will talk to the team!!

i'm lolling out loud

oh man. thank you so much! i really appreciate that

i try to do this too. sadly a big problem w/ the way information moves these days is that basically every system we have to, ideally, learn helpful things abt the world is just a cannon that rockets 'this is not really my business' stuff at you in a way where it takes lots of willpower to tune out

i will try to force the nlu boys on at some point that's a promise

feeds.megaphone.fm/galaxybrain

anyhow sorry to grovel on main here. but really thank you. its really weird to promote things and hard to launch things but spinning this thing up has really lit my brain on fire creatively & i am pretty thrilled about the first 4 eps we have coming. hope you'll come along or check it out this month

my ambitions for this thing are for it to take different formats for different topics. sometimes fun/playful/stupid. sometimes serious. would also love love love if people would suggest people whose work they'd like to see amplified/guest ideas. dm me or email cwarzel @ the atlantic dot com PLEASE!

The Internet Is a Misery Machine Podcast Episode · Galaxy Brain · 11/14/2025 · 57m

if you want to avoid my face (who could blame you) here are some links to the actual podcast. if you do end up liking it and then subscribing i will be forever in your debt

APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7xTO...

rss: feeds.megaphone.fm/galaxybrain

it's terrifying to try something new (writing is a more *polished* thing but i think its vital to think out loud in public). and i know there are 12 billion things vying for everyone's attention at once my hope is to try to create another space people can pop into that doesnt feel awful/extractive

at the risk of being overly earnest...if you have enjoyed any of my work over the years, I really hope you'll give a listen to the first few of these (out on fridays). i want to evolve this thing over time & use it as a way to do new kinds of reporting and give a platform to new and differnt voices

YouTube video by The Atlantic Hank Green: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better | Galaxy Brain

Friends! Here is the first episode of a new podcast i'm hosting. I'm thinking of it as a way of trying to have more of the conversations I have w/ smart ppl about the internet/politics/broken attention economy in public. first guest is the great @hankgreen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=A492...

The Epstein revelations of the past few months suggest that these conspiracies actually do represent reality in some way—plainly speaking, some of the most powerful people in the world were communicating with one another through the kingpin of an alleged child-sex-trafficking operation. But the emails also prove that the truth is dumber than fiction. These global elites are far from organized and hyper-competent—it feels like how Veep would have treated QAnon. The elites don’t message with sex pests using code words; they openly muse about having fun with girls at “Hawaiian Tropic” parties. That reading these emails feels surreal makes sense—they shatter the myth of genius and merit that the ruling class tries carefully and spends exorbitantly to cultivate, and they affirm the worst suspicions of the conspiracy-minded. As more revelations are made public, it may feel like the conspiracy theorists have won. But they’ve been wrong as well. Cabal is too flattering a word for this crowd of cosplaying, hunt-and-peck email addicts. Conspiracy theories are a flawed tool meant to help make sense of a nonsensical world. The truth is darker: You don’t need an elaborate master plan to dodge accountability when everyone’s all too willing to simply look the other way.

but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

When QAnon Meets Veep The dumb, abhorrent truth at the heart of the Epstein scandal

Importance: High

subj: An article for U (gift link)

i wrote ,,,,,, about jeff epstein. s emails.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

🙏🙏

shoulda led with this

The Epstein revelations of the past few months suggest that these conspiracies actually do represent reality in some way—plainly speaking, some of the most powerful people in the world were communicating with one another through the kingpin of an alleged child-sex-trafficking operation. But the emails also prove that the truth is dumber than fiction. These global elites are far from organized and hyper-competent—it feels like how Veep would have treated QAnon. The elites don’t message with sex pests using code words; they openly muse about having fun with girls at “Hawaiian Tropic” parties. That reading these emails feels surreal makes sense—they shatter the myth of genius and merit that the ruling class tries carefully and spends exorbitantly to cultivate, and they affirm the worst suspicions of the conspiracy-minded. As more revelations are made public, it may feel like the conspiracy theorists have won. But they’ve been wrong as well. Cabal is too flattering a word for this crowd of cosplaying, hunt-and-peck email addicts. Conspiracy theories are a flawed tool meant to help make sense of a nonsensical world. The truth is darker: You don’t need an elaborate master plan to dodge accountability when everyone’s all too willing to simply look the other way.

but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...