We Love the Internet 2023/26: The AI canon edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button
• AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born
• Is the Air Coming Out of Harry and Meghan’s Content Balloon?
• Confused, uncool, and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me
• Reddit’s head of global foresight says ‘trends have lost all meaning’
• Soccer players demand change for rampant online racist abuse, turn to AI for protection
• Netflix turns to South Korean writers and crews as Hollywood strikes. But they feel exploited too

Reference points:

• AI canon
• What Is a Bottle Episode?
• The 100 Hardest Video-Game Levels of All Time
• The Ultimate Summer 2023 Reading List

Longer reads:

• Undercooked: The Curious Case of TV’s Ur–Chef Show ‘Kitchen Confidential’
• Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’
• How the Marvel Cinematic Universe swallowed Hollywood

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• This Ball is Impossible to Hit
• Hyper Dimensional Clown Wrestling

Things to look at/read:

• The Jennifer Lawrence ‘Hot Ones’ Proves the Show Is Starting to Feel Lukewarm
• If You Post a Delicious Bagel Sandwich on the Internet, Do You Have to Say Where You Got It?
• The Doughnut Wars Are Here
• 20 Years On: The Rise and Fall of the Hipster
• What It Takes to Become a Coffee ‘Sommelier’
• Between Triumph and Disaster — The Joy of Pub Crawls

Animal corner:

• Owning a dog is like having kids. When they’re being quiet you know they’re causing trouble…
• he takes medicine dw but LOLL
• how it allllll began!!
• Denali watches the festivities
• the papas party took a lot out of him, he needed a refreshment
• Meanwhile Frank is just…doing this
• Not today, Satan

Tweets of the week:

• i haven’t listened to a podcast in years but it’s time
• the 4 genders
• can’t believe two of the most critical elements of any press cycle now involve eating chicken
• people keep getting the north/south divide wrong and it’s time to set the record straight
• the oppenheimer pr team, realizing they could do the funniest thing ever

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How to hire a pop star for your private party
• Kid Cop Returns (Again and Again)
• ‘People are like, Wow!’: the man trying to make condoms sexy
• The Untold Tale of the Artichoke Parm, the Most Mysterious Sandwich in Brooklyn
• What happened to Heather Mayer?

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