We Love the Internet 2024/08: The Diva score edition
2 min readFeb 23, 2024
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
- The Duolingo effect: How keeping the ‘streak’ is changing people’s behavior
- Instagram’s Uneasy Rise as a News Site
Reference points:
- Diva score
- The Unpredictable But Entirely Possible Events That Could Throw 2024 Into Turmoil
- ‘True Detective: Night Country’ and the Curse of the Six-Episode Season
Longer reads:
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
Things to look at/read:
- There’s a Reason McDonald’s Coke Tastes Better Than All Others
- No One Is Safe From a Dakota Johnson Press Tour
- The Barcode Engineered Its Own Downfall
Animal corner:
- Baby Rosco trying to steal a whole bag of frozen chicken
- Everyone needs a self emptying trash can
- When you fail the start on mario kart
- ask and you shall reciece
- Another day of Orange cat activities
- the moment he realizes he was caught
Tweets of the week:
- Had the audacity to deviate from my usual black clothing and wear a grey knitted tunic and just got asked how the Crusades went.
- See you in court buddy
- This is the Hilarious Ross Matthews.
- Can you imagine being called Pontius, becoming a Pilates instructor and NOT calling your business Pontius Pilates? Inexplicable.
- Mick Harford giving Harry Styles a Trebor Extra Strong mint before kickoff is the most Kenilworth Road thing I’ve ever seen
- They should have these at the club for guys like me who don’t know how to dance good
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- How to Build an Empire (Taylor’s Version)
- Multigenerational Living Often Makes Sense. That Doesn’t Make It Easy
- My Life Cleanse: One Month Inside L.A.’s Cult of Betterness
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