We Love the Internet 2023/04: The Why do British people love to abbreviate things edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The ‘Tumblrification’ of social media
• Netflix’s New Chapter

Reference points:

• 5 numbers that will come to define the music business in 2023
• 2022: The year in weird and stupid futures

Longer reads:

• The Volume of News
• “We Had to Learn Everything Over Again”: How FX Survived the Streaming Wars

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Correct the internet
• Spielberg in 30 Shots
• I made this to explain the Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Joey King cheating rumor scandal to my friends. Hope it helps!
• This TikTok deserves to be in the Oscars

Things to look at/read:

• Why do British people love to abbreviate things? An investy g
• American Nepo Babies Have Nothing on the British
• How Many Clothes Should We Own, Exactly?
• The warm glow of the blog rock era
• A brief history of horrific things space travel does to the human body

Animal corner:

• she goes 0 to 100 real quick
• We were not expecting that!!

Tweets of the week:

• I got to the Airbnb where I’m staying in Vienna this week, and found a framed print out of my profile picture in the bedroom
• incredible how the french have truly *perfected* the art of striking
• Named after your dad attempting to order a large beer on holiday.
• What they would have wanted..
• Photoshop paddington into a movie, game, or TV show until I forget: Day 686
• Shakira’s jam watching Piqué’s mistress reach for the jar
• Senators to tech bosses: “What is internet?” Senators to Ticketmaster:
• Stephanie Hsu will forever go down in history as the first original cast member of The Spongebob Squarepants Musical to be nominated for an Academy Award

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The boring journey of Matt Yglesias
• Negative Equivalent

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We Love the Internet 2023/03: The Extremely hardcore edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• A Writer Used AI To Plagiarize Me. Now What?
• Television Is Going Exactly the Wrong Direction. I Know the Solution.
• Keep It Real or Lose Gen Z
• The internet
• Twitter officially bans third-party clients with new developer rules

Reference points:

• The Best Opening Title Sequences of 2022
• A WIRED compendium

Longer reads:

• Extremely Hardcore
• The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• 10 typos
• Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste
• Magnetic Accelerators
• FPV Dive Burj Khalifa Top to Bottom

Things to look at/read:

• Writing wrongs: how true crime authors can fall victim to tragedy
• The Year We Wanted to Be Fancy Little Bitches

Animal corner:

• “This is the life” – PuppyYoga in Toronto
• Oh Rocky
• Just a dog walking up a ladder!
• Weekend ready

Tweets of the week:

• Danny Ings with Claret & Blue clubs
• Wait a minute…
• “Now we all are aware that her hips don’t lie, and clearly … neither does the jam.”
• I am BEGGING you to watch this TikTok a dude has rarely rocked even half this hard
• I’ve got my eye on you M’threegan
• There’s nothing funnier than a fully grown man carrying a rucksack. Got all your little things in there have you mate? Grow up

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Violent delights
• Last orders: how we fell out of love with alcohol

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We Love the Internet 2023/02: The How much Netflix can the world absorb edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• I open the book with trepidation. My name is on it, but I didn’t write it
• India cinema-goers’ pivot to streaming films online instead: ‘a disaster for Bollywood’?
• The Instagram reels gold rush
• How TikTok Has Changed What Fans Expect From Pop Stars
• Streaming Changed TV. Is TV Changing Streaming Back?
• AI’s Islamophobia problem

Reference points:

• What each streaming service has up its sleeve in 2023
• Sports events account for all but six of the top 100 telecasts of 2022

Longer reads:

• How much Netflix can the world absorb?
• Your stuff is actually worse now

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Jerry Seinfeld in Pulp Fiction

Things to look at/read:

• British Drinking Culture, Meet Cost of Living Crisis
• How the Music Community Is Fighting the Drug Overdose Epidemic
• Here’s How Author James Patterson Writes 31 Books at the Same Time

Animal corner:

• She be on Vibrate
• Pinche firulais

Tweets of the week:

• ITS TOPHER
• This is a frightening visual for me.
• Wout Wout It’s the sound of the set piece
• presenting the Idea Title Slide

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Education of X González
• The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything

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We Love the Internet 2023/01: The Why does Taylor Swift hold her pen like that edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround?
• Last Year Was Brutal for Hollywood. Will 2023 Be Any Better?

Reference points:

• 9 Forecasts for The Near Future, With Implications
• 6 reasons for optimism about media in 2023
• 10 Lessons From 10 Years in Email

Longer reads:

• A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• I Spent 3 Years Alone Building A Log Cabin
• The 2022 Food Trends We Never Need to See Again

Things to look at/read:

• Why Does Taylor Swift Hold Her Pen Like That?
• Forget the World Cup: The Darts Are the Ultimate Sporting Event
• Why do the rich get richer — even during global crises?
• The Crying Game

Animal corner:

• I love my dog
• Orange?
• Benny enjoying his first cinnamon roll
• Just a reminder ladies, if he wanted to he would.
• Our Frenchie helping my husband hammer

Tweets of the week:

• very likely the most cursed thing I will see all 2023
• bro what is tom brady on these days
• Dunkin’ Donuts near me in Cumming Georgia
• it’s nearly that time
• guy in the airport has a henry hat like the hoover

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Cheesecake Factory knows what you want
• Why Not Mars

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