Charlie Warzel

Staff Writer, @TheAtlantic. I host Galaxy Brain, the first and only video podcast. Occasionally: @golfersjournal. [email protected]

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

We’re all living through a crisis of agency, at least online. Bots, algorithms, clip armies, & the flood of AI stuff have scrambled notions of popularity, turned everything into a ‘psyop’. AI tools/ agents are reversing the fundamental human, collaborative promise of the internet

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

sometimes you lose a golf bet that requires you to get hair extensions. i pay my debts #mullet

[Chasing Scratch Podcast @chasingscratch0]

It happened. Well done, @cwarzel

🇮🇪LGLG🇮🇪

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

every day i feel like we're experiencing some kind of societal gas leak

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

@kevinroose mostly just talking about my IRL experience. online, i mean you're gonna have some people dig in but idk i feel like the critical line is less 'spicy autocomplete' and more...i'm not sure the financials make any sense imo

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

this clip, man. it's the DOGE mentality...the dilettante with the absolute most surface-level understanding of something clearly knows more than a person with lived experience because they are 'cloistered' or 'part of the problem.' just such a dangerous mentality

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

The Economist: You have close to 250 million followers on X. You say things like "civil war in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of when"

Elon Musk: On the current trend, yes.

The Economist: When were you last in the UK?

Musk: A few years ago

The Economist: Exactly. I live there. That is nonsense. The numbers also disprove what you say. London is a much safer city than any city in the US. You have painted Europe and the UK as overrun with terrifying Muslim immigrants, there's rape on every corner, there's civilizational destruction.

Musk: I didn't say any of those things.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

“Rob Schneider as General Pig”

[Gary Peterson 🇺🇸 @GaryPetersonUSA]

Just give all the Oscars to Elon Musk’s The Odyssey right away!

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

this blog post sounds like sarah connor’s monologues in terminator 2

[travis kalanick @travisk]

https://t.co/SEzWZtFurm

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

it’s actually hard to express how bad the ai video in the embedded tweet here actually is

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

(amazing photos here) https://t.co/e1ylnWQg7r

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

when im posting to all of you on this site this is how i imagine our dynamic

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

@RMac18 we’re gonna be able to port all our google sheets workflows straight into airtable via this baby if mike pence has the courage

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

(also it’s excellent evidence that if your particular ideology becomes ascendant on this hell platform it basically destroys you by misshaping your perception of the world such that you lose touch with reality)

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

having now seen the odyssey, i think the only way to view the reactionary freak out over it is to see it a victory for normal ppl. if you’re so brain poisoned that you can’t enjoy that time at the movies then i think you’ve already lost whatever war you think you’re fighting

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

This, by the BBC, is as good as everyone is saying it is. Till next time, humanity's single greatest event.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

i am really gonna miss Sports Summer™

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a joy to have americas hardest working man, @rogbennett, on the pod

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

This week on Galaxy Brain, @cwarzel talks with the soccer podcaster Roger Bennett about what the World Cup has taught us about national pride, collective memory, and the internet in 2026: https://t.co/UyL5LarOjk

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

i think it’s safe to say that, as a society, we caught em all

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

It has officially been a whole decade since Hillary Clinton launched “Pokemon Go to the Polls” into the zeitgeist in Annandale, VA on July 14, 2016.

Sit with that for a minute.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

@LottaJacarandas the low ceilings are not my fav

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

all respect doing this at one of the most depressing airports in america

[ClevelandGod @ClevelandGod]

This guy is currently running a marathon in the airport terminal. This is the content the people need.