We Love the Internet 2023/40: The Lies, damned lies, and social-media metrics edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Social-Media Metrics
• See you later, aggregator, Amazon bursts the bubble

Reference points:

• From ‘Suits’ To Nuts, Streaming Residuals Explained

Longer reads:

• What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
• Confessions of a Viral AI Writer

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• How cheap’s your local Spoons?
• Martin Scorsese Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films
• Here’s my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, his 3rd time on the podcast

Things to look at/read:

• The Outsiders: Why Black Audiences Love Italian American Screen Icons
• Ice Spice’s Red Hot Rise: The Rapper on Being a ‘Marketing F — ing Genius,’ Her Debut Album and Becoming BFFs With Taylor Swift & Nicki Minaj
• The whole Taylor Swift-NFL cross-promotion thing is starting to feel icky

Animal corner:

• He jumps in with them everyday from 3 pounds to 300+ pounds they are his besties
• Elegance isn’t always Cabbage’s forte
• I’m going to need a new ipad
• Soggy ahh cat (he actually likes the oat milk in the latte @Oatly yall should sponsor benji)
• Henry truly is the king of this castle.
• Baby that bear CLEARED the table

Tweets of the week:

• I think we can agree he ensures all women are dry
• 10yo me at the School Book Fair
• This. Is. Phenomenal. Corrie characters aghast at “London?”
• leonardo dicaprio has announced he’s switching to bing
• And seemingly… ranch
• that one onion ring in your bag of fries

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The insider: how Michael Lewis got a backstage pass for the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
• Fast Times on America’s Slowest Train

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