We Love the Internet 2023/52: The Common errors in English usage edition
2 min readDec 29, 2023
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- What’s the Point of “Pretendian” Investigations?
- A Lady Tweeted About Her Dog. The Internet Exploded. Here’s Why
- Who Is @BasedBeffJezos, The Leader Of The Tech Elite’s ‘E/Acc’ Movement?
- How a toilet-themed YouTube series became the biggest thing online
- Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore
- The Year Millennials Aged Out of the Internet
Reference points:
- Common Errors in English Usage
- What I Wish I’d Known Before Launching My Newsletter
- Jealousy list 2023
- 52 things I learned in 2023
Longer reads:
- Content creators surge past legacy media as news hits a tipping point
- How China took over the world’s online shopping carts
- A coder considers the waning days of the craft
- The First Guy to Break the Internet
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- I tricked Alex Jones into talking with a Parkland Parent
- How The Conjuring became the Marvel of horror
- Iconic alphabet
- My christmas present to myself this year
Things to look at/read:
- How This 2011 Student Film Became Gen Z’s Rosetta Stone for the Incel Mindset
- How to Hijack a Quarter of a Million Dollars in Rare Japanese Kit Kats
- Who chooses the world’s Color of the Year?
- Internet Sleuths Want to Track Down This Mystery Pop Song. They Only Have 17 Seconds of It
- The Final Frontier for Helicopter Parents
Animal corner:
- A very dramatic little chonk
- all i want for Christmas is sprinkles
- POV: Your rescue has no eyes but loves playing fetch.
Tweets of the week:
- dream blunt rotation
- jk simmons on his way to scream at miles teller
- “Feliz Navidad? T’riffic little player”
- Shared from Facebook: The last 25 years of “what’s on TV” covers at Christmas.
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- The Great Cajun Turtle Heist
- The Secrets of the JFK Assassination Archive
- The End of Retirement
- The billionaire problem
- To catch a catfish
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