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Galaxy Brain

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The internet has warped public life: Politicians behave like influencers, the economy resembles a casino, and people can no longer agree upon a consensus reality. New conspiracy theories, memes, and main characters seem to pop up every day. A constant war is on for your attention, and it’s easy to feel lost. Each…

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Galaxy Brain

What Do the Tech Overlords Do Now?

Is It Time To Rebuild the Internet?

The Armageddon Economy

What ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Tells Us About America

Is Crypto Dead? Or More Influential Than Ever?

An Argument Against AI Doom

We’re All Being Recorded. What Do We Do About It?

Lina Khan on the AI-Safety Panic

Is AI Writing Inevitable?

The Singularity Is Not What It Seems

Why So Many Men Are Unraveling

Welcome to the Scrolling Backlash

How Social Media Makes Our Lives Smaller

The Former ‘Voice of Google’ Speaks Out

Why AI Is Making Things More Expensive

How the World Cup Finally Won Over America

The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Everything

What Do We Do About Elon Musk?

Why Reading Feels So Hard Now

How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late

Jomboy on Robot Umpires and the Future of Baseball

How to Win Elections in the Attention Economy

Why Everyone Hates AI Data Centers

How Dropout Cracked Internet Comedy

Chris Hayes on Calibrating Your AI Anxiety

Flipping Off Phones

Did a Human Write This?

How Short-Form Clips Took Over the Internet

Breaking Free From Alex Jones

Your Favorite Influencer Might Be AI

Is AI Going to Turn Us All Into Middle Managers?

What Is Twitter’s Legacy, 20 Years Later?

How AI Is Reshaping the Battlefield

Why Is It So Hard to Make a Good Weather App?

Did Netflix Ruin Movies?

What Do the People Building AI Believe?

The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now

King Gizzard, Spotify, and the Future of Music

The Manosphere Breaks Containment

How to Be a Citizen in the Information War (And Stay Sane)

ICE Is Turning Real Conflict Into Viral Content

The Internet Was Built to Objectify Women

Grok’s "Digital Undressing" Crisis and a Manifesto to Build a Better Internet

The New Mainstream Media

Are Your Parents Addicted to Their Screens?

Bonus Episode: Reacting to the Epstein Files’ Release

Prediction Markets and the ‘Suckerifcation’ Crisis With Max Read

How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV, With Rachel Martin, Ashley Carman, and Derek Thompson

When Chatbots Break Our Minds, With Kashmir Hill

America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy With Eliot Higgins

Are Sports the Most Valuable Commodity in the World? With Pablo Torre

The Internet Is a Misery Machine With Hank Green