We Love the Internet 2024/05: The Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Google’s New AI-Powered Browser Could Mark the End of the Human Internet
• How Beloved Indie Blog ‘The Hairpin’ Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm
• Cambrinfluencers: Content creators on campus
• Abandoned high school is the comedy playground for American High
• Flanders government looks to force TikTok and YouTube to share revenue
• Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”

Reference points:

• Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
• ASCII Theater

Longer reads:

• A Notorious Pitchfork Reviewer Was My Biggest Musical Influence

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• What’s inside this crater in Madagascar?
• Did The Future Already Happen? — The Paradox of Time
• France: Another Way To Make Movies
• Pong wars

Things to look at/read:

• Are the Politics of Jason Statham’s ‘Beekeeper’ Actually Dangerous?
• Thomas Steeles unearths the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic Sans

Animal corner:

• I am very busy and important!!
• Dog rings doorbell

Tweets of the week:

• Today on Facebook
• god forbid men go for a mental health walk
• me: *trying to conceal tears after learning my wife cheated on me* my 5 year old son in the back of my gmc grand sierra:

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• How Two Single Moms Escaped an Alleged Sex-Trafficking Ring and Ultimately Saved Each Other
• The Potent Pollution Of Noise

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