We Love the Internet 2024/15: The State of the Culture, 2024 edition
2 min readApr 12, 2024
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- The State of the Culture, 2024
- How Vice lost the future
- ‘I’ve Never Seen It This Bad:’ Game Developers Explain the Huge Layoffs Hitting Riot, Epic, and More
- They are TV’s ghosts — networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
- Axios Sees A.I. Coming, and Shifts Its Strategy
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- HBO Shows on Netflix. Xbox Games on PlayStation. Is Exclusivity Over?
- Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?
- Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?
- The “Disney adult” industrial complex
- Why ‘Shogun’ (and the Rest of TV) Is Slightly Out of Focus
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- The Expert Behind Google’s Secret A.I. Writing Tool
- Why the era of cheap streaming is over
- How English Sounds to Japanese People
- I put 4 Million Suns in a Black Hole over New York
- This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!
- How to Create Kids Musical Videos Using AI
Things to look at/read:
- Meet the family
- No, Your Honor, You Can’t Call Yourself ‘High Justice’ on the Ballot in Chinese
- Gen Alpha says names like Amanda, Ashley, and Erica are the new ‘old people’ names
- This 1,700 Year Old Egg Never Broke — And Now It’s Further Stunning Scientists
- What to Do When You’ve “Got the Morbs”
Animal corner:
- When no one gives you belly rubs so you have to do it yourself…
- My poor baby
- His 👀 at the end
- Honestly…same.
- More OOGA
Tweets of the week:
- I think this will forever be the funniest message I have ever received
- Wait a minute
- Donald Duck when he falls in a puddle:
- RIP Joe Kinnear, the man who held one of the greatest press conferences in history
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
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