We Love the Internet 2022/30: The TVs are too good now edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• TVs Are Too Good Now
• The Perils of Audience Capture
• Dall-E, make me another Picasso please
• I’m a VFX Artist, and I’m Tired of Getting ‘Pixel-F–ked’ by Marvel
• The Duffer brothers’ plans to retroactively edit episodes of Stranger Things could be the beginning of a worrying TV trend

Reference points:

• Things you’re allowed to do
• Amazon is giving Prime Video its biggest redesign in years

Longer reads:

• Ray Jay Johnson And Other People I Know Only From ‘The Simpsons’
• Meet the Lobbyist Next Door
• The weird analog delights of Foley sound effects

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Metroverse
• playing “running up that hill” while running up a hill
• how twitter verification works
• How The U.S. Ruined Bread
• Did People Used To Look Older?

Things to look at/read:

• I Will Not Rest Until I’ve Uncovered the Meaning Behind My Favorite Band’s Outfits

Animal corner:

• Monkey hired to carry towels for tennis players resigns on first day of work!
• Run!!!

Tweets of the week:

• walter white seeing people hate his wife for being a normal person while hes the worst person ever
• This pub has brought my salad in a fish bowl, wtf
• could i make it any more obvious?
• absolutlely despise when a recipe tells me to add 2 cups of onion. they don’t come in cups. they come in onions
• Old Hollywood bloopers are a thing of beauty
• Me when an email finds me well x
• “Drum and Bass isn’t ‘back’, it just never went away. We were still filling clubs and festival stages around the world, but the mainstream music media stopped covering it. I’m still as motivated as I was 20 years ago”

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How ‘Baby Al Capone’ Pulled Off a $24 Million Crypto Heist
• The Most Important Emo Song of Every Year
• The Antihero’s Last Gasp
• Retirement the Margaritaville Way
• Final Girl, Terrible Place

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