We Love the Internet 2023/47: The Priceless junk edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• The Strange $55 Million Saga of a Netflix Series You’ll Never See
• Even Cinematographers Think TV Is Too Dark
• Tumblr is betting big on going small

Reference points:

• CQK Is The First Unused TLA
• Why Horror Films are Hollywood’s Best Investment: A Statistical Analysis

Longer reads:

• OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain
• What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?
• How to fix the internet
• Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Today we honor the finest cultural moment of the 21st century.

Things to look at/read:

• Priceless Junk
• Why influencers with 7, 8, or 10 kids are having a moment
• What does the future hold for craft beer’s ‘second wave’?
• Confessions of a Tableside Flambéur

Animal corner:

• Capy piggy backs are the best
• Thanksgiving

Tweets of the week:

• “What’s the charge? Suffering financial losses? Five years of financial losses?”
• Never thought I’d say this but I think ‘he’s 28 until he’s 29’ has just been surpassed.
• remains one of the most baffling photos i’ve ever seen
• I have watched this at least 50 times this morning
• I was in the 212
• James Fixed-Rate Bond
• Behold the glory of mankind’s structures dedicated to the worship of God

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• In the dog house: why are so many of Britain’s dogs behaving badly?
• The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole — and lost — more than $3 billion

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