We Love the Internet 2023/37: The Journalist and the billionaire edition
2 min readSep 15, 2023
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- How the software industry will change when development cost nears zero (who will still make money?)
- Charter-Disney Winners and Losers
- I was wrong about trigger warnings
- AI comes for YouTube’s thumbnail industry
- From $1 Billion to Almost Worthless: FaZe Clan Runs Out of Hype
- Next slide, please: A brief history of the corporate presentation
Reference points:
- The Poetry of Pricing
- From me to your inbox: 33 of the best Substack newsletters
- Esports in the UK is fragmented — but the potential is massive
Longer reads:
- The Journalist and the Billionaire
- How Barstool Built an Empire by Swiping Sports Highlights
- Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his ‘maniacal sense of urgency’ at X, formerly Twitter
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
- Psycho and the End of the Continuously Showing Movie
- Joe Jonas — and the celebrity PR machine — isn’t fooling us anymore
- The Joy of Headbanging, in Photos
Animal corner:
- Scary dog
- It’s kitney bitch
- I told her that she will get glasses if she watches so closely but she’s not listening to me
- “ruuuuunnnn”
- I CANT
- Just one of her hobbies!
Tweets of the week:
- screaming
- I’d rather die alone
- i know their PR team told them to sit in front of an innocuous normal-person looking wall
- we’re all the person at the next table
- Jed, I’ll level with you. I’m really scared.
- Not the crossover we wanted, but the crossover we deserved
- olivia rodrigo singing about getting drunk at the club… girl where, CHUCK E CHEESE???
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- She Invented Being an Influencer — And Was Vilified for It
- Martin Scorsese Still Has Stories to Tell
- Thank You for the Music: An Oral History of Mamma Mia!
- The Instagram Account That Shattered a California High School
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