We Love the Internet 2023/49: The 52 things I learned in 2023 edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
• How Jessica Lessin’s The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult
• Saudi Arabia’s plan to become the crown prince of gaming

Reference points:

• 52 things I learned in 2023
• Trends 2024
• The 88x31 GIF Collection
• Pinterest Predicts 2024: Today’s ‘cheat sheet’ for tomorrow’s trends
• Year on TikTok 2023: Scroll back with our community
• 101 hidden gems: the greatest films you’ve never seen

Longer reads:

• The Spy Who Dumped the CIA, Went to Therapy, and Now Makes Incredible Television

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The ultimate

Things to look at/read:

• The French are not happy about ‘Napoleon’
• ‘I thought about that a lot’ is a collection of 24 essays by 24 authors
• Unleash the bololô: Masses of delivery workers set off horns and fireworks at bad customers’ homes

Animal corner:

• First time seeing snow
• Pedro’s finding his little legs after a rough hatch for him
• Our sweet Euro orphan Pippa has reached expert level at jumping into her pouch
• He’d be embarrassed if he knew I was sharing his soft side with the internet

Tweets of the week:

• GoldenEye 007 cosplay done right.
• I will never recover from this student email.
• Working as a janitor and I stop as I see the incomplete lyrics to Blank Space on a chalkboard.
• let’s goooooooo
• I got chiles They’re multiplying
• That is the eeriest ending to a weather forecast I’ve ever seen.
• He looks like he’s tapping out to the Walls of Jericho, hahahahaha

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• ‘How do you reduce a national dish to a powder?’: the weird, secretive world of crisp flavours
• How millennials learned to dread motherhood

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