We Love the Internet 2022/47: The Disney Channel’s theme: A history mystery edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why can’t pollsters reach Gen Z?
• Mastodon’s Eternal September begins
• Twitter king Dril on Musk’s chaotic reign
• Last.fm turns 20 and now has a following on Discord

Reference points:

• Twitter’s Worst-Ever Tweets, According To Twitter
• World population to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022
• Ten trends to watch in the coming year
• Media Trends and Predictions 2023

Longer reads:

• Narratives
• The unbearable lightness of BuzzFeed
• The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Disney Channel’s Theme: A History Mystery
• Can A.I. Generate the Perfect Thanksgiving?
• Being Black in ‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’
• ASMR [Un] Chopping Tomatoes
• Howling
• I’ve always wanted to put Kevin Webster from Coronation Street punching people to The Beastie Boys.

Things to look at/read:

• From Hong Kong to a peeling suburban apartment block: How American candy stores took over London’s Oxford Street
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever unearthed deep colorism within Latino communities
• Gayle, and the rise of meta pop

Animal corner:

• There was a baby chimp born at The Sedgwick County Zoo, the baby had to be put on oxygen for a few days. This is a clip of it being reintroduced to its mother for the first time.
• today mr jingles is with his friend row
• Cat vs m&m’s
• Did i just induce an eating dream?!
• Ava with the no-bounce catch and Penny still doesn’t care
• Help me up

Tweets of the week:

• Times are hard and friends are few.
• Iran bringing on Hariq Mahguire
• bless her little heart
• viewing the Chinese McDonald’s menu through Google Translate produces some of the best fast food names i’ve ever seen
• TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY’RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU-
• What a flex
• Only one ‘Van’ in the whole list, game’s gone
• My job gave me this

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles at 35: An Oral History of One of the Most Beloved Road Movies Ever Made
• Bed habits
• ‘The more we pulled back the carpet, the more we saw’: what I learned when I bought a house with a dark past
• The Demon River

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