We Love the Internet 2024/14: The Against trendbait edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• Against trendbait
• How A.I. Chatbots Become Political
• in defense of the internet culture beat
• Stinge Watching Is the Opposite of Binge Watching
• Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?
• What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
• ‘2018 trend reports read eerily similar to the forecasts for 2024’
• Is “Social” an Enduring Category or Just a Phase?

Reference points:

• Digital 2024: Global overview report
• Global foresight 2024
• 30 Useful Principles
• 15 Games That Revolutionized Video Game Graphics
• Every Best Picture Winner Ranked by How Good a Muppets Version Would Be

Longer reads:

• How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
• Everybody Hates Cocomelon
• My McLuhan lecture on enshittification
• Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’
• Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media
• The text file that runs the internet

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time
• This Woman Deconstructs 100-Year-Old Books To Restore Them

Things to look at/read:

• The dating app paradox: Why dating apps may be worse than ever

Animal corner:

• Cyclist Shares How To Handle Raging Street Dogs Like A Professional
• Good boys but naughty theives.
• Chimps checking out my husbands Prosthetic Leg!!!
• What is that sound??????
• The first watching it on the big screen && I think it made it too real for him

Tweets of the week:

• Matthew 19:26
• tony pulis playing four centre-backs across the backline in the 2010s
• Honestly don’t know how to earn that 5th star
• staying at an airbnb and look at the previous guys search history

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Inventing the Perfect College Applicant For $120,000 a year
• A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld
• The Ballad of Ray Suzuki: The Secret Life of Early Pitchfork and the Most Notorious Review Ever “Written”
• The Lure of Divorce

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