We Love the Internet 2023/06: The Jelly is ready for its redemption arc edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why Are You Seeing So Many Bad Digital Ads Now?
• TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral
• Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count
• The Work-From-Anywhere War Is Beginning

Reference points:

• FindThatMeme
• The Future 100: 2023
• What the Great Netflix Password Crackdown Means for You
• Meet the TikTok Creators to Watch in 2023

Longer reads:

• Linus Lee Is Living With AI
• Far-Right Superstars Are Failing on Rumble. Who’s Winning?
• CES 2023 — More Business, Less Spectacle

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Simpsons as an 80’s Sitcom
• How to cook Healthy Meals and never run out of ideas.

Things to look at/read:

• Jelly Is Ready for Its Redemption Arc
• MrBeast Built A YouTube Empire On Being Mr. Nice Guy, But His Stunt Helping 1,000 Blind People Divided Viewers, Who Called It “Demonic”
• You Don’t Know How Bad the Pizza Box Is
• I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months — in Manhattan

Animal corner:

• When I let our clingy dog off the lead…
• Unsmooshed. It’s a miracle!
• Stanley showing his teefs
• Still learning about the world and his body
• Zofi blooper, slo-mo Zofi with EvIL laughter mwooohahaha…

Tweets of the week:

• When I complained to Amazon about a missing parcel and they asked me to send photographic evidence.
• cronenberg or lynch or fincher could never
• if my girl got kidnapped by bowser, i would NOT be yelling “wahoo!” no matter how exhilarating my jump was
• I have 4 words that will make your day:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The frictionless charms of the Ferrante cinematic universe
• It’s Europe’s most successful new neighbourhood. So why is there so much tension?
• A 4-Year-Old Trapped in a Teenager’s Body

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