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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

yeah they seem to be working in tandem for certain. and, i suppose in fairness it really does work in that it can foster a genuine sense of hopelessness

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

something that really struck me in the days after kirk’s death was how maga folks were adamant that people need to watch grisly footage of him dying. there seems to be broad encouragement there of desensitizing ones self to watching people die

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

there’s long been been places online to watch people die but it is genuinely something different when a moderately popular social network morphs into becoming an algorithmic purveyor of snuff films
bsky.app/profile/hard...

Brandon Hardin @hardin.bsky.social · 1d

I logged on a bit ago and the first post in my for you feed, from an account I don’t follow, was HEY WANNA WATCH A DUDE DIE

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

i mean, this behavior follows naturally for a platform whose algorithm is constantly showing violence/gore right alongside weird memes and in-jokes. it all ends up fusing together for some users but the end result is largely numbing and dehumanizing

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

saw this post (that uses the last moment of kirk’s life as a reaction gif) bouncing around x this weekend & it feels like a perfect encapsulation of how irony poisoned/detached the dominant culture of that platform has become. at the risk of seeming like a dweeb i find it genuinely chilling/alarming

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Example

Tweet: Ben Panko
@btpanko
They tried so hard to make this man a demigod that they ended up making him a meme
Quoting: @PTAShill • 3d
just spent $20 to get Wendy's delivered

Image is Charlie Kirk right before being shot

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

ladies and gentlemen…the weekend, etc.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

there's another that is similarly wonderful www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTbI...

Fred again.. - Actual Life 3 Piano Live (22 December 2022)

YouTube video by Fred again . .

www.youtube.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

the way the sun slowly sets throughout the set and the stillness of it all is just lovely.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

in the spirit of sharing good things here too: this is one of my favorite pieces of music that (despite what the title says) feels like a fall evening to me. something to float away on. it's gorgeous and moving. www.youtube.com/live/XpBRuwK...

Fred again.. - Actual Life 2 Piano Live (20 March 2022)

YouTube video by Fred again . .

www.youtube.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

like, i don't really know how to adequately express the anger that i feel watching this video. not showing your face, lazily teargassing random people on a neighborhood street without getting out of your car - the image says more about these goons than i could articulate bsky.app/profile/clan...

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 4d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

oh, and fear...there's also a good bit of fear here too. cowardice and fear.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

asking for a friend: is it good if you use the phrase 'algorithmic assisted suicide of the american experiment' in your self-performance review?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

i feel like the journalism industry needs to invent a category for this post and give a prize to it in perpetuity

Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 4d

probably the most fun i've had reading something online in weeks

defector.com/name-a-28-ye...

Name A 28-Year-Old | Defector

Here is the challenge before you: Name a famous person who is 28 years old. Go ahead. No cheating, no looking it up. Off the dome. Pure, uncut 28-year-old naming. I bet you can’t do it. Zendaya? 29. ...

defector.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

i think its a very open question as to whether the president knows that he's not actually in the slop videos of himself he's posting

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4d

literally the second line of the piece

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/qpU61qb0024?...

Goose - Help/Slip Franklins - Goosemas Bingo 2024

YouTube video by Goose

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 5d

one man’s opinion but as a society we don’t talk enough about how good this goose cover is www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUL...

Goose - Amongster - 6/20/25 Cleveland, OH

YouTube video by Goose

www.youtube.com

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 6d

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks

Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.

www.rollingstone.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6d

Basically:

In her best-selling memoir this year, the former Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams wrote of the company’s executives that “the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become.” These words are also as good an epigraph for the Trump era as any. Rereading them in light of Big Tech’s full capitulation to the current administration makes clear that, although these about-faces are politically convenient, they reflect a broader harmony between the tech platforms and the MAGA movement. So much of Trump’s core appeal to his supporters is that he offers permission to behave in his image—to live shamelessly but also to enjoy a life of impunity and operate without having to realize that one’s actions have broader consequences for others. It is, in other words, an invitation to simultaneously grow more powerful and less responsible.

Big Tech’s MAGA pivot is cynical, cowardly, and self-serving. It is also a perfect match.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6d

wrote a quick one about the tech companies settling lawsuits with Trump. Yes, it’s cowardice. But it’s also an excuse to behave the way they’ve always wanted to (irresponsibly, with no regard for the consequences of their actions). Which, actually makes them a perfect part of the MAGA coalition

YouTube Bends the Knee

Welcome to the era of Big-Tech capitulation.

www.theatlantic.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6d

on X the fyp i looked at is just like clogged with sora stuff but also a bunch of ppl jokingly posting non sora edits and real vids and saying its AI. basically on day 2 it's already a bit of a nightmare for people who are *participating in the discourse* normies bout to get rockedddd

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6d

All hell is about to be unleashed on people utterly unprepared to discern truth from falsehood.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6d

I told OpenAI's Sora to make a video showing "Body cam footage of cops arresting a dark skinned man in a department store." It took less than a minute.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6d

pretty wild how fast they've adopted slop as mainstream political messaging. these suckers were back to back in x feed

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6d

proud of u

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