We Love the Internet 2022/37: The Great landing page edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Animators say they’re “clueless” and “confused” about HBO Max cancellations
• We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting
• Social Media Was a C.E.O.’s Bullhorn, and How He Lured Women

Reference points:

• Great Landing Page Copy
• Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat
• Who owns what in Big Media today

Longer reads:

• $10,000 for one Instagram post? How food influencers can make or break restaurants
• Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids
• We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Interpretive ringtone dances!!

Things to look at/read:

• Guy Fieri Is Saving the Country, One Slider at a Time

Animal corner:

• when i use behooves in a sentence
• As if you guys didn’t already know
• When someone walks in front of the TV when the game is on….
• Just lemme watch cartoons all day
• Heading to the park like…
• So many water monitors

Tweets of the week:

• Me watching ppl watch the movies I picked out for them
• this is the future of esports
• Whats wrong babe? You haven’t touched your beana colada
• do you think my dad likes my new tattoo?
• asking your bf to take your pic vs asking your gf to take your pic
• i rediscovered this phoenix wright video i made of a conversation from a group chat and its absolutely wonderful
• Thanks for the push notification, Siri — that’s exactly what I needed in that moment

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The reluctant prophet of effective altruism
• That’s Life in the Theater
• How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay?
• The architect who became the king of bank robberies
• Will This Be the First Country Bankrupted by Crypto?

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