We Love the Internet 2024/07: The In the shadow of Silicon Valley edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• John Landgraf Opens Up About What Led to — and Ultimately Killed — Peak TV
• No, your phone isn’t listening to you: The tech myth has spread far and wide
• Toward a unified taxonomy of text-based social media use
• Google Joins Effort to Help Spot Content Made With A.I.
• Gen Zers are recording themselves getting fired in growing TikTok trend

Reference points:

• The fediverse for media organizations
• Big Fedi, Small Fedi

Longer reads:

• How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse
• TfL’s AI Tube Station experiment is amazing and slightly terrifying

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
• Please let this find the right people

Things to look at/read:

• J-pop group using South Korean savvy to pursue global fame

Animal corner:

• Always orange cat
• Why is this so funny to watch
• Bro raccoons run my apartment complex I can’t even
• Never Let Them know Your Next Move

Tweets of the week:

• hulk hogan is the first person on earth to hit the griddy
• Sadiq Khan unveils new Tubethumping
• Incredible makeup job on Kingsley there

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
• The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger
• Who Was “the Old Kanye,” Anyway?

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