We Love the Internet 2024/16: The Welcome to me mountain edition
2 min readApr 19, 2024
Part 1: For the day job
Things to think about:
- Welcome to Me Mountain
- ‘Very few have balls’: How American news lost its nerve
- Kids Media Is In Its Villain Era
- Billie Eilish Explains the ‘Huge Responsibility’ to Make New Album ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ Her Most Eco-Friendly Yet
- X’s New Video Strategy Is a Pivot to Nowhere
Reference points:
Longer reads:
- The Life and Death of Hollywood
- Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites
- The Difficulties with Exporting Japan’s TV Dramas
Part 2: For the lunch-break
Things to play with/watch/listen to:
- This is a teenager. Let’s track hundreds of teens into adulthood using this huge dataset.
- This Beaver Dam is So Huge, You Can See It from Space
Things to look at/read:
- My Dates Aren’t Worth What They Cost
- William Hanson Is Emily Post for the TikTok Generation
- The Parents in My Classroom
Animal corner:
- The way he took that on his chest then thought i was gonna witness the naughtiest overhead kick there
- My daily chats with pickle
- I think she wants me to play with her bone.
- Trying to eat lunch with Bruce!
- When the thing that is supposed to make your life easier ends up being much harder than anticipated
- The most excited Baby Rolo this morning!
Tweets of the week:
- Update on the 4 lads in jeans just dropped
- Woke up to a larger than usual number of unread emails. Did I sleep through a major live site incident?
- “I hope you had the time of your life” looking ass
- the other toes that didn’t get stubbed
- When I ask for my receipt to be emailed instead of printed
- PUB. GAY PUB. THE MISSING WORD IS PUB.
Part 3: For the weekend
Longer reads:
- From TED To PERNOCTATED, Scrabble’s Best Player Knows No Limits
- Park Chan-wook Gets the Picture He Wants
- The Squatters of Beverly Hills
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