We Love the Internet 2023/13: The girl internet and the boy internet edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Girl Internet and the Boy Internet
• Big Tech’s big downgrade
• Inside the NBA’s Great Generation War
• ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web
• The universal remote is streaming’s most tragic casualty
• The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet
• We Spoke To The Guy Who Created The Viral AI Image Of The Pope That Fooled The World

Reference points:

• 40 Mind-Expanding Concepts
• The Most Difficult TV Shows to Understand
• A Ranking of the Best F-words in ‘Succession’ History

Longer reads:

• Keanu Reeves, explained
• Get Me Risa Heller!
• The battle for the soul of Buy Nothing

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• “Amelie: the real story”
• The Future is a Dead Mall
• Why Soda Cans are Shaped Differently in Hawaii
• Sir Roger Deakins Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films
• AI and Image Generation
• Why is everything getting so expensive?
• How South Koreans got so much taller

Things to look at/read:

• She Didn’t Like Her Nose. So She Went To Turkey For An Ethnic Rhinoplasty.
• Boomer Dads Are Driving Real-Estate Agents Nuts
• Guinness World Records Is Giving The Shaft To The World’s Biggest Dick Pic
• She Built a Following as Taylor Swift’s Doppelgänger. Then the Swifties Came After Her

Animal corner:

• Convinced goldendoodles are humans in costume
• Tik tok said the cat
• Unsatisfying crunch
• I swear she’s the most sensitive and emotional dog
• I found an ad for this kitten on craigslist and he’s something else
• Might have let him drink a little too much

Tweets of the week:

• Big brain business name
• Lou Bega writing Mambo №5
• I didn’t know that Taylor swift was Canadian
• Why I loved Paul O’Grady and why I loved Lily Savage.
• The computers are learning.
• I think I’ll stand

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Saving a life
• Creatures That Don’t Conform
• Why everyone feels like they’re faking it
• ‘Landlords Are a Scum Class’: Everything I’ve Learnt About London Renting
• Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery
• No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lionel Messi of cliff diving’

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