We Love the Internet 2024/09: The How the media industry keeps losing the future edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future
• How Twitch lost its way
• Do Nielsen Ratings Really Reflect What People Want From Streamers?
• Shane Smith and the Final Collapse of Vice News

Reference points:

• 50 Years Later: Remembering How the Future Looked in 1974

Longer reads:

• Coming of age at the dawn of the social internet
• Is AI the death of IP?
• The Tremendous Yet Troubled State of Gaming in 2024

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• Election guessr
• The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time

Things to look at/read:

• 20 Types Of Pizza Around The World
• These Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there’s a 43-year waitlist
• Playing the Pretty Boy: Ryan Gosling, Jacob Elordi, and More Redefine the Himbo

Animal corner:

• Such a good boy
• I almost lost an eye for this pup cup
• Always orange cat
• Why sit like a cat when you can sit like a human?

Tweets of the week:

• what did they mean by this
• Me liking all the Willy Wonka and Kate Middleton tweets
• Does Wes Anderson know about this?
• One of the absolute hardest dabs in cinema history.
• when you hear the code word that was implanted during brainwashing & must kill the President
• When you successfully win a game of solitaire on Windows 98:
• Ah yes the two genders: secret service agent or vampire

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
• A Brief History of the United States’ Accents and Dialects
• The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave

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