We Love the Internet 2023/12: The age of average edition
2 min readMar 24, 2023
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- What the NBA Can Learn From Formula 1
- How the Great Recession paved the way for influencers to inherit the earth
- Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
- A 24/7 Twitch Stream of AI-Generated Celebrities Is Even Weirder Than It Seems
Reference points:
Longer reads:
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- Weezer’s Blue Album but it’s me and my friend trying to sing everything from memory
- how i found the ‘so no head’ vine road in 15 minutes
- The Assassin’s Teapot Is Weird
- Banknote Reconstructed
- Kitbull
Things to look at/read:
- Euthanasia Coaster
- The Case For Shunning
- The puzzling gap between how old you are and how old you think you are
Animal corner:
- Have you ever seen a dog enjoy the hot tub this much?
- Please don’t play with me rn
- Nala loves her KFC
- My derpy dog
Tweets of the week:
- you could fit ten, fifteen henchmen in this bad boy. easy
- First two international goals. Remember the name.
- DO NOT DRINK THE TUDOR MILK I REPEAT DO NOT DRINK THE TUDOR MILK
- This is officially the whitest trial of all time
- “Your Honor, my client’s just a normal man. He-he’s just an innocent man!”
- I found these AI generated “women laughing with salad” posted on FB and they are clearly the pinnacle of the genre (1/2)
- the average french workday this week
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- ‘The stuff was illegally dug up’: New York’s Met Museum sees reputation erode over collection practices
- The impossible job: inside the world of Premier League referees
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