We Love the Internet 2022/40: The 90’s cursor effects edition
2 min readOct 7, 2022
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Instagram Stumbles in Push to Mimic TikTok, Internal Documents Show
- Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should
- Why Did Billy Eichner’s ‘Bros’ Bomb at the Box Office? Straight People Aren’t Entirely to Blame
- As Trevor Noah Exits, Comedy Central Finds Itself In Crisis Mode
- Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- Politico’s new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media
- The Professional Try-Hard Is Dead, But You Still Need to Return to the Office
- I tried to recreate a comic book using DALL-E and Alan Moore’s script
- Why the multiverse is the movie fantasy for our times
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- breakfast at tiffanys but it’s other six syllable movies
- Working A Shift At A Classic New York Pizzeria
- The Making of Arrested Development was a Sh*t Show
- Titanic with a Cat
- A Plan Is Not a Strategy
Things to look at/read:
- Do Any Women in Gen Z Really Lust After Leonardo DiCaprio?
- The anti-inflation strategy: Prices for these things haven’t gone up in decades
- The Curry Trap: How a Continent’s Worth of Food Got Mashed Into One Word
Animal corner:
- Apparently, she can’t just…get in bed — she has to BOUNCE in
- wish there was sound so we could hear his slam poetry
Tweets of the week:
- Remember what they took from us
- It is October, it is time for me to past this alltime classic yet again.
- Denmark
- You wouldn’t
- I think about this at least 17 times a week
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
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