We Love the Internet 2023/42: The Being 13 edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• In A Sea Of Disposable Content, Video Essays Offer A Reprieve
• Confessions of a Viral AI Writer

Reference points:

• The Ultimate Book List 2023.
• Don’t try to be interesting. DO interesting
• Proust, ChatGPT and the case of the forgotten quote
• I tried that instant AI translation tool and it’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

Longer reads:

• Being 13
• Get a rabbit
• Maria Bamford’s New York Fantasy Camp
• How Chuck Norris Facts gave birth to the modern meme

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The 5 minute baguette
• Champion-level Drone Racing using Deep Reinforcement Learning
• What’s the deal with juggling in animation?

Things to look at/read:

• How birthdays became week-long blowouts
• Who the hell are 2girls1bottl3?
• The Oral History of Das Racist’s “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”
• How child-free ‘Disney adults’ are transforming the company’s theme parks as Disney pours $60 billion into the division
• Are any words the same in all languages?
• Best foot forward

Animal corner:

• If Cats Sounded Like Arnold Schwarzenegger
• The change of season brings out the cutest and funniest outfits we’ve ever worn
• Just woke up
• Chicken is a survivor of neglect and abuse
• Break from normal content to showcase my Boxer Cali clearly wanting to be Hulk
• For first time in La Liga history, Espanyol walked onto the field with 11 dogs who are up for adoption yesterday!

Tweets of the week:

• It’s the 51st birthday of both Eminem and Emmerdale which makes it Eminemmerdale Day, which is always fun to say.
• She laid up with Tony Soprano
• When a Chief Exec who is “committed to diversity” announces his successor
• why does the train look like taika waititi for a second

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Who Deserves to Eat at Noma?
• Adorable Little Detonators
• Orange Is the New Yolk
• American Oligarchy
• Olivia Rodrigo Is So Over Heartbreak

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