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1. …not to be a massive downer…yet again…but…the replies to this were interesting?

   I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

   — Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T17:40:32.398Z

   …there’s a good few that rattle off staggeringly awful points of comparison

   more dead than the indonesian genocide; than cambodian genocide, than gaza genocide, than hiroshima and nasgasaki. just difficult to contemplate.

   …or feature projections from a million dead that wouldn’t have been so far up to 14million as soon as 2030…but the atlantic tech guy also said this part

   that's not a criticism of audience, tbh! there is a huge surplus of difficult news to contend with these days. a lot of feedback i've gotten on work in this administration boils down to: 'thank you for writing about this but i dunno if i can stare down yet another awful thing'

   — Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T17:42:40.110Z

   …& the chorus that followed demonstrated a few things, maybe?

   this is broadly what im gettin at. and it makes a lot of sense. (it's also, for the press, a strange dynamic bc when people don't engage it sends a certain signal)

   — Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social) 2026-04-23T17:53:44.796Z

   …anyway…as luck would have it I can’t sit here & blather about it all day…but…I…might think that’s a mechanism that is buttressing a lot of stuff that ought not to be able to support its own weight according to physics…so to speak?

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   • “Flood the zone” is kind of an effective strategy, it’s hard to keep up with the latest outrage/tragedy/genocide. How IS Venezuela these days, anyway?

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