We Love the Internet 2022/49: The Growing old online edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Growing Old Online
• What if failure is the plan?
• This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it.
• TikTok Is Changing the Way We Talk About ADHD — For Better and Worse
• At the Athletic and New York Times, a marriage with promise and tension

Reference points:

• 52 things I learned in 2022
• “The Curse of ITV”: A Deeper Dive

Longer reads:

• Tech futurism’s blind spot
• Two minutes of the Simpsons

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Most Popular Social Networks 2003–2022
• Abraham got to meet Jack Black and sign his favorite part to his Favorite movie “School of Rock”

Things to look at/read:

• Hacked to bits
• Why Are Kids So Sad?
• The Good Morning America anchors made cheating scandals fun again
• Your Section-by-Section Guide to Storing Foods in the Fridge, From the Upper Shelves to the Crisper Drawers

Animal corner:

• never change
• Excuse me ??
• We’re gonna share our daily Pidge wrangling
• Don’t think their new sweaters are going to work out

Tweets of the week:

• FINALLY found the commemorative manhole cover celebrating the defeat of the Whitechapel fatberg, after 5 years of looking for it.
• boss makes a dollar i make a dime thats why i make babybel cheese wax crab on company time
• Mind games already won ahead of the quarter-final here
• If you haven’t seen this yet, great Christmas movie for the whole family
• hereditary (2018)
• Bruh Stephen a smith & Michael Irvin got me crying on first take
• SEND THEM TO THE HAGUE
• Europe, 1918–23:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Rod McKuen Was the Bestselling Poet in American History. What Happened?

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