We Love the Internet 2023/35: The End of the googleverse edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• What CNN (Sort of) Heading to Max Means for Both CNN and Max
• Is the AI boom already over?
• Generative AI and intellectual property
• Web Scraping for Me, But Not for Thee

Reference points:

• Fish doorbells! Historic sandwiches! 50 of the weirdest, most wonderful corners of the web — picked by an expert

Longer reads:

• The end of the Googleverse
• Pixel equality: The representation of women’s sport in video games and why it matters
• How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen — Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs — Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• A clock where the time is mentioned on YouTube
• The Tiny Worlds Inside of Puddles
• A striking look at marble quarrying in the Italian Alps

Things to look at/read:

• He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out

Animal corner:

• Waking him up impossible
• Blud just took off
• I don’t like Taylor Swift, but I do like trends involving cats
• The zoomies after this video was unreal
• Parkour
• I just found this old video from when Marley was first meeting our foster Myah and I’m dying at his faces

Tweets of the week:

• a true visionary
• Bet the big man is having a proper bank holiday session without those dweebs cramping his style

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Naomi Klein on following her ‘doppelganger’ down the conspiracy rabbit hole — and why millions of people have entered an alternative political reality
• The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge

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