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Galaxy Brain

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 week, Galaxy Brain and its host Charlie Warzel invite you into conversations to make sense of the online fire hose. Is AI destroying our ability to think? Do your grandparents have a screen-time problem? Galaxy Brain looks beyond the algorithm and anchors you to the real—however stran...

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 52 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Galaxy Brain

“We have lived through a period where you have been able to assume that if you use a service, that your data is going to be safe. That assumption was never correct, it turns out. These systems were never safe. It's just that we lacked the number of skilled attackers to take advantage of the fundamental insecurity of these systems.” — Alex Stamos, Galaxy Brain
Alex Stamos · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Skills like taking a patch from Microsoft and reverse engineering it and turning it into exploit code, maybe 150, 200 people used to be able to do that five years ago. Now a 19-year-old in St. Petersburg can do that with a M5 Mac Ultra.” — Alex Stamos, Galaxy Brain
Alex Stamos · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Certainly what we're doing right now is not working. I think it's total malpractice to write anything in C and C++. Any company that is shipping code that is written in C in 2027 is, from my perspective, just completely inappropriate.” — Alex Stamos, Galaxy Brain
Alex Stamos · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I don't think we have ever had as much of the global economy based on a bet of something that is supposedly about to happen, but that doesn't line up at all with the product that is actually being sold, right? So that sort of sense of living in the about to, living in the imminence, I don't think we've ever been so sort of not where we are, but in the about to be. And that does feel quite religious.” — Naomi Klein, Galaxy Brain
Naomi Klein · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think it's incredible how we've gotten to real controversies meaning so little and fake controversies meaning so much.” — Chris Plante, Galaxy Brain
Chris Plante · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's not that Bitcoin has no marketing department. It's that crypto is only marketing. That's all it is, is marketing, really.” — Ben McKenzie, Galaxy Brain
Ben McKenzie · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“As soon as you pause, they go, well, thank God that problem's solved. And they will wait until we unpause and then they'll go, oh my God, there's a threat again. The urgency is not going to be felt.” — Zach Corman, Galaxy Brain
Zach Corman · 2 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Galaxy Brain is hosted by Charlie Warzel .

Recent Episodes

  1. 30 Oct 2026

    Is It Time To Rebuild the Internet?

    With Alex Stamos

  2. 23 Oct 2026

    The Armageddon Economy

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  3. 16 Oct 2026

    What ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Tells Us About America

    With Chris Plante

  4. 9 Oct 2026

    Is Crypto Dead? Or More Influential Than Ever?

    With Ben McKenzie

  5. 2 Oct 2026

    An Argument Against AI Doom

    With Zach Corman

  6. 25 Sep 2026

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

    With Mia Sato

  7. 18 Sep 2026

    Lina Khan on the AI-Safety Panic

    With Lina Khan

  8. 11 Sep 2026

    Is AI Writing Inevitable?

    With Elizabeth Spires and Teddy Brown

  9. 7 Sep 2026

    The Singularity Is Not What It Seems

  10. 4 Sep 2026

    Why So Many Men Are Unraveling

    With Jon Ronson

  11. 28 Aug 2026

    Welcome to the Scrolling Backlash

    With Jenny Odell , Natalie Brennan and Julie Beck

  12. 7 Aug 2026

    How Social Media Makes Our Lives Smaller

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Guests

Will Knight , Ian Bogost , Max Spero , Max Read , Mia Sato , Adrienne LaFrance , Melissa Nightingale , Josh Owens , Ben Tarnoff , Quinn Slobodian , Jon Ronson , Anil Dash , and 49 more.