We Love the Internet 2023/33: The Sample breakdown edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Disney’s Taylor Swift Era
• CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search
• The Case Against AI Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
• How two pop culture Twitter accounts turned into the internet’s wire service
• LG now sells this bizarre TV in a suitcase, and I must have it
• What happened to Semper Fortis Esports? The history of an ill-fated journey through esports

Reference points:

• Employees in Asia are spending the most time looking busy at work, says Slack report

Longer reads:

• Think You’re a Good Person? That’s Up to the Cart Narc and His Camera.

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Sample Breakdown: The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year
• VTubers are weird and I love them
• Explosive Bat: crushing MLB records

Things to look at/read:

• Competitive Litter-Picking: The SpoGomi World Cup
• Barbie and Ken and Nothing in Between
• Mullet champ — kids top 25

Animal corner:

• our sweet archie giving kisses
• Relish in the moment…

Tweets of the week:

• Psycho Killer
• We didn’t start the fire update
• Did you know that if you hold CTRL it will pause Task Manager updating, which means the process names don’t move around and are easier to select when you’re sorted by resource usage?
• Insane levels of Shutterstock energy here
• This will break Etsy
• How has he not been caught?
• it’s so late 2000s, like tell me this doesn’t look like something from an old facebook album

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’
• “It’s My Story To Tell”: Coleen Rooney Speaks Exclusively To Vogue About The Wagatha Christie Saga
• Whoever Starves Least, Wins

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