We Love the Internet 2022/52: The Most people names for dogs edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How Reality TV Got Meta
• How TikTok warped the fame game in 2022
• A community isn’t a garden, it’s a bar.
• Instagram Is Over
• The Most Vulnerable Place on the Internet
• AI
• A24 Did Right By Gen Z in 2022

Reference points:

• Why the super rich are inevitable
• my favorite trends of the year!
• Jealously list 2022
• How DALL-E works, plain English, no math
• 99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2022

Longer reads:

• Web3, the Metaverse, and the Lack of Useful Innovation
• Becoming a chatbot: my life as a real estate AI’s human backup
• ‘Made My Blood Run Cold’: Unmasking a TikTok Creator Who Doesn’t Really Exist

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Spotify’s Mathematical System For Determining Your Music Taste

Things to look at/read:

• Why Hot Wheels are one of the most inflation-proof toys in American history

Animal corner:

• The most people names for dogs
• Noodle, The Pug Who Went Viral For “No Bones” Days, Has Died
• This went on for a while. Our cheeks hurt from laughing so much
• You guys asked to see the dogs getting on the bus
• Lmaoo this cat

Tweets of the week:

• I watch a lot of TikToks (you might have noticed). Here are my favourite ten from the year
• Happy 6th birthday to the time my parents brought over wine in a plastic box because Mum was “increasingly wary of glass”.
• Getting ready to tackle the 5th Yorkshire pudding of the day
• what if we pronounced bob iger like we pronounce bon iver
• 🚨🚨 #DHOTYA2022 Entry & Group Stage Draw Announcement 🚨🚨
• 2 multiplied by 10 plus 1..
• Andrew Tate’s Wikipedia has been updated …

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The despair of generation “Notti Bop”
• The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies
• Nicolas Cage and John Carpenter are cinema’s most studious eccentrics
• The enduring metal genius of Metallica
• Quinta Brunson Missed the Quiet-Quitting Memo

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