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A newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology, media, politics, and big ideas. Sign up here.
A newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology, media, politics, and big ideas. Sign up here.
Dead-tree media: good. VC business model: bad.
It’s a trap.
Social media isn’t dying; it’s changing.
An era of brute-forcing innovation (or why AI art is different than Web3)
‘Coin’ is the latest frontier in corporate propaganda
Welcome to the vibes-based political culture
How I fell in love with the “big metal fart-maker”
Living in an exhausting world of obsolescence.
What feels like magic is actually incredibly complicated and ethically fraught.
The scourge of business-dude lorem ipsum
A theory for resisting information overload
A few lessons from my mistake
Watching the Alex Jones trial with an ex-Infowars staffer.
If tools like DALL-E 2 really are the next great leap, it’s worth thinking about who owns that future, and what we want it to look like.
Kate Lindsay on TikTok, the influencer trickle-down, and what social media breaks in our brains
He’s just bored, mad, and posting like a Facebook Boomer.
My unexpected obsession with rapid testing
Behind all the Web3 bluster is just “hollow abstraction.”
It's not what Google helps you find—it’s what it allows to flourish.
Dispatches From the Elon Musk School of Management