We Love the Internet 2023/15: The Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession drama edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die
• Big Tech’s big downgrade
• At PayPal, I once wasted $1M on a marketing segmentation to build personas
• What TikTok’s confessional GRWM videos say about our culture of oversharing
• Influencer Parents and The Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content
• Why Every App Now Feels Like TikTok, But Worse

Reference points:

• Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence.
• How 16 Companies are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results
• Why Are All Action Heroes Named Jack, James, or John?

Longer reads:

• Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama
• You are not a parrot
• Interview: Kevin Kelly, editor, author, and futurist
• Welcome to the Kings League, Gerard Piqué’s New Soccer ‘Circus’ Going Viral on Twitch
• Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of Apple
• Protect Elders! Ban Television!!

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A.I. Tom Brady Standup Comedy
• HIDARI (Pilot Film) — The Stop-Motion Samurai Film

Things to look at/read:

• Millennials are hitting middle age — and it doesn’t look like what we were promised.
• Organised fun: who’s it all for?

Animal corner:

• Why are they snitching
• guess she didnt like that pint
• Play time with baby brother
• Cant turn my back for 5 seconds!!!
• Sorry go to go
• Mama said im a weirdo but i just really like this chew toy

Tweets of the week:

• Every Bro who paid $20 for GPT-4:
• It’s going to be really awkward when it comes to The Super Mario Bros Movie 2 and Japan gets a totally new movie, whereas the west just gets Despicable Me 2 with the characters replaced

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Public Scrutiny Destroyed Jennifer Lawrence. Now She Wants To Win Us Back.
• The Haunted Life of Lisa Marie Presley
• The Untold Story of Elliott Smith’s Teenage Band
• On the Trail of the Fentanyl King
• Bleeding Green and Yellow: On Football in Brazil
• The case the internet got wrong
• Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act

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