We Love the Internet 2022/38: The How platforms turn boring edition
1 min readSep 27, 2022
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- How platforms turn boring
- Why Japan Stopped Innovating
- ‘Becoming a meme totally helps a show’: is TV being written with epic gifs in mind?
- As The Debate Over AI Rages, Artists Are Already Using It To Illustrate Entire Comics
- Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- Has streaming made it harder to discover new music?
- Tools Of The Trade: Gabe Swarr On Making A Video Game With GB Studio
- The Twisted Life of Clippy
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
- The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier
- The Rise of Pumpkin Spice
- The Baffling World of MAGA Rap
- Bambi’s mum had to die
Animal corner:
Tweets of the week:
- This airport has a snake-telling-off room
- Car boot…they selling lost parcels for £2
- This might be the greatest paragraph ever written
- i’ve been taking some notes
- Confirmed. How QR codes are made.
- since mercury is in retrograde I have to bring back this text from my mom
- Let’s get it
- Me rushing back from the bathroom at 3 am so I dont lose any tiredness:
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
sk