We Love the Internet 2022/15: The 21st century fake accent matrix edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Game-Defining Rivalry of ‘Elden Ring’ and ‘Horizon Forbidden West’
• ‘I don’t let my wife use it’ — great TV theme tune composers savage ‘skip intro’
• DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content
• Abbott Elementary Is the New Model for Network-Sitcom Success

Reference points

• The 21st Century Fake Accent Matrix

Longer reads:

• Why the past ten years of American life have been uniquely stupid
• What happened to Starbucks? How a progressive company lost its way

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How This Woman Mastered Jump Rope
• Port of Amsterdam — Timelapse
• Why there’s no one inside this Spider-Man suit
• Why London’s “Harrods Of The East” Didn’t Quite Go To Plan

Things to look at/read:

• Yours for $200m: why Warhol is now worth more than Picasso
• 9 ways to imagine Jeff Bezos’ wealth

Animal corner:

• Never fail to cheer me up
• Thinks he’s in the grand national
• Pt. 2 of Goose vs. Orange, who’s the champion?
• Moose is in a race for fastest puppy chow eater in the world against himself
• It gotta be dipped
• Guys in their 40s taking selfies…
• Duck Loves Showers So Much, Her Mom Takes Her To A Real Waterfall

Tweets of the week:

• Man wtf?! I swear nothing surprises me anymore.
• Due to a small hole at my curtains, my room sometimes turns into a camera obscura.
• You out yo mind to think I ain’t learning his dance to do at the next event. He went off
• getting back from the shops and noticing you left the kitchen light on

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The Goodman Experiment

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